FIVB Beach Volleyball World Rankings

The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Rankings is a ranking system for men's and women's national teams in beach volleyball. The teams of the member nations of FIVB, beach volleyball and volleyball's world governing body, are ranked based on their competitions results with the most successful teams being ranked highest.

The rankings are used in international competitions to define the seeded teams and arrange them in pools. Specific procedures for seeding and pooling are established by the FIVB in each competition's formula.

Rankings

Men Top 25 Rankings as of June 24, 2013.[1] Rank Pair Points 1 Jake Gibb & Sean Rosenthal 5,055 2 Pedro Solberg Salgado & Bruno Oscar Schmidt 4,460 3 Sean Rosenthal & Phil Dalhausser 4,420 4 Jānis Šmēdiņš & Aleksandrs Samoilovs 4,032 5 Jake Gibb & Casey Patterson 4,010 6 Grzegorz Fijałek & Mariusz Prudel 3,980 7 Todd Rogers & Phil Dalhausser 3,710 8 Alison Cerutti & Emanuel Rego 3,440 9 Mārtiņš Pļaviņš & Jānis Šmēdiņš 3,429 10 Alexander Brouwer & Robert Meeuwsen 3,308 11 Jonathan Erdmann & Kay Matysik 3,284 12 Aleksandrs Samoilovs & Ruslans Sorokins 3,199 13 Paolo Nicolai & Daniele Lupo 3,170 14 Clemens Doppler & Alexander Horst 3,084 15 Ricardo Santos & Álvaro Morais Filho 2,990 16 Thiago Santos Barbosa & Bruno Oscar Schmidt 2,945 17 Benjamin Insfran & Bruno Oscar Schmidt 2,870 17 Alexandr Dyachenko & Alexey Sidorenko 2,870 19 Michał Kądzioła & Jakub Szałankiewicz 2,826 20 Pedro Solberg Salgado & Márcio Araújo 2,790 21 Ricardo Santos & Vitor Felipe 2,780 22 Sebastian Dollinger & Stefan Windscheif 2,777 23 Jānis Pēda & Aleksandrs Samoilovs 2,741 24 Alexander Huber & Robin Seidl 2,728 25 Alexander Walkenhorst & Kay Matysik 2,365

Women Top 25 Rankings as of June 24, 2013.[2] Rank Pair Points 1 Talita Antunes & Taiana Lima 3,645 2 Talita Antunes & Maria Antonelli 3,560 3 Madelein Meppelink & Sophie van Gestel 3,310 4 Xue Chen & Zhang Xi 3,240 4 Jennifer Kessy & April Ross 3,240 6 Katrin Holtwick & Ilka Semmler 3,160 7 Maria Antonelli & Agatha Bednarczuk 3,040 8 Maria Clara Salgado & Liliane Maestrini 3,000 9 Greta Cicolari & Marta Menegatti 2,960 10 Maria Clara Salgado & Carolina Solberg Salgado 2,870 11 Liliana Fernández & Elsa Baquerizo 2,830 12 Agatha Bednarczuk & Bárbara Seixas 2,800 13 Liliane Maestrini & Bárbara Seixas 2,740 14 Sanne Keizer & Marleen van Iersel 3,730 15 Evgenia Ukolova & Ekaterina Khomyakova 2,620 16 Larissa França & Juliana Silva 2,600 17 Doris Schwaiger & Stefanie Schwaiger 2,330 18 Karla Borger & Britta Büthe 2,280 19 Kristýna Kolocová & Markéta Sluková 2,250 20 Laura Ludwig & Kira Walkenhorst 2,196 21 Ângela Vieira & Maria Clara Salgado 2,172 22 Joana Heidrich & Nadine Zumkehr 2,159 23 Ekaterina Khomyakova & Maria Prokopeva 2,145 24 Evgenia Ukolova & Irina Chaika 2,020 25 Vivian Cunha & Taiana Lima 2,005

See also

• FIVB Beach Volleyball Olympic Ranking for the 2008 Summer Olympics

Notes and references

International beach volleyball FIVB World Ranking Olympic Games World Tour World Championships U23 World Championships U21 World Championships U19 World Championships U17 World Championships Pan American Games Central American and Caribbean Games Asian Games Asian Beach Games Asia and Oceania AVC – Asian Championship Africa CAVB – African Championship North America NORCECA – NORCECA Circuit South America CSV – South American Circuit Europe CEV – European Championships – U22 – U20 – U18