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 30 Rankings as of May 2, 2016.[1]
Rank Pair Points
1 Brazil Alison Cerutti & Bruno Oscar Schmidt 4,700
2 United States Jake Gibb & Casey Patterson 3,320
3 United States Nicholas Lucena & Phil Dalhausser 3,220
4 Brazil Pedro Solberg Salgado & Evandro Oliveira Júnior 3,170
5 Netherlands Reinder Nummerdor & Christiaan Varenhorst 3,160
6 Netherlands Alexander Brouwer & Robert Meeuwsen 3,090
7 Austria Clemens Doppler & Alexander Horst 2,920
8 United States Nicholas Lucena & Theo Brunner 2,850
9 Canada Ben Saxton & Chaim Schalk 2,840
10 Spain Pablo Herrera & Adrián Gavira 2,780
11 United States John Hyden & Tri Bourne 2,770
12 Latvia Aleksandrs Samoilovs & Jānis Šmēdiņš 2,740
13 Italy Alex Ranghieri & Adrian Carambula 2,730
14 Poland Grzegorz Fijałek & Mariusz Prudel 2,680
14 Poland Bartosz Łosiak & Piotr Kantor 2,680
16 Italy Paolo Nicolai & Daniele Lupo 2,660
17 Mexico Juan Virgen & Lombardo Ontiveros 2,630
18 Russia Konstantin Semenov & Viacheslav Krasilnikov 2,620
19 Germany Jonathan Erdmann & Kay Matysik 2,590
20 Germany Markus Böckermann & Lars Flüggen 2,580
21 Canada Josh Binstock & Sam Schachter 2,480
22 Brazil Álvaro Morais Filho & Vitor Felipe 2,390
23 Chile Esteban Grimalt & Marco Grimalt 2,330
23 United States Phil Dalhausser & Sean Rosenthal 2,330
25 France Youssef Krou & Édouard Rowlandson 2,310
26 Australia Isaac Kapa & Christopher McHugh 2,292
27 Brazil Ricardo Santos & Álvaro Morais Filho 2,285
27 Latvia Mārtiņš Pļaviņš & Jānis Šmēdiņš 2,285
27 Latvia Aleksandrs Samoilovs & Mārtiņš Pļaviņš 2,285
30 Italy Alex Ranghieri & Marco Caminati 2,231

Women

Top 30 Rankings as of May 2, 2016.[2]
Rank Pair Points
1 Brazil Bárbara Seixas & Ágatha Bednarczuk 3,960
2 Brazil Larissa França & Talita Antunes 3,900
3 United States April Ross & Kerri Walsh Jennings 3,600
4 Germany Laura Ludwig & Kira Walkenhorst 3,400
5 Brazil Taiana Lima & Fernanda Alves 3,325
6 Canada Heather Bansley & Sarah Pavan 3,320
7 Brazil Juliana Silva & Taiana Lima 3,300
8 Netherlands Madelein Meppelink & Marleen van Iersel 3,190
9 Brazil Maria Antonelli & Juliana Silva 3,125
10 Australia Louise Bawden & Taliqua Clancy 2,980
11 Germany Karla Borger & Britta Büthe 2,920
12 Poland Kinga Kołosińska & Monika Brzostek 2,880
13 United States April Ross & Jennifer Fopma 2,790
14 United States Lauren Fendrick & Brooke Sweat 2,730
15 Switzerland Isabelle Forrer & Anouk Vergé-Dépré 2,630
16 Germany Laura Ludwig & Victoria Bieneck 2,544
17 Brazil Eduarda Lisboa & Elize Maia 2,515
18 Brazil Maria Antonelli & Liliane Maestrini 2,490
18 Italy Marta Menegatti & Viktoria Orsi Toth 2,490
20 Canada Jamie Lynn Broder & Kristina Valjas 2,460
21 Switzerland Nadine Zumkehr & Joana Heidrich 2,340
22 Argentina Ana Gallay & Georgina Klug 2,330
23 Spain Liliana Fernández & Elsa Baquerizo 2,300
24 Vanuatu Miller Pata & Linline Matauatu 2,280
25 United States Whitney Pavlik & April Ross 2,213
26 Germany Katrin Holtwick & Ilka Semmler 2,190
27 United States Emily Day & Jennifer Kessy 2,180
28 Germany Chantal Laboureur & Julia Sude 2,120
29 Australia Mariafe Artacho & Nicole Laird 2,090
30 Brazil Maria Clara Salgado & Carolina Solberg Salgado 2,040
30 Canada Melissa Humana-Paredes & Taylor Pischke 2,040

See also

Notes and references

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