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Players: 13650 10630 24280
Tournaments: 2239 1806 4045
 
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Claire Stewart 59
Joe Goodwin 57
Marisol Paccieri Quiroga 57
Gianluca Pozzato 57
Roland Haefliger 57
Judith Kern 57
Boris Kostresevic 57
Cody Cowell 57
Scott Brinser 56
Serhat Tokel 55
Anne McArthur 55
Daniela Raddatz 53
Claudio Semadeni 51
Hamzeh Mirvat 49
Elsa Binder 49
Tarou Suzuki 48
Prisca Simon 47
Ryan Lundquist 47
Marino Muccioli 43
Diana Castano 43
Anna Asberg 43
Michiel Boudewijn 42
Alejandro Ronconi 42
Diana Malinova 42
Volha Rakhman 41
Timothy Davis 41
Zarko Kisic 40
Lilly Raney 40
Amir Winogradove 39
Fabio Berta 38
Simone Head 38
Jordan Johnson 37
Pi Hsin Liu 37
Hitoshi Murakami 37
Kiang Yao Beh 37
Matt Wallace 37
Shawn Radloff 36
Igor Holka 35
Terranova Francesco 34
Malin Bergholm 33
Ksenia Khakimzanova 32
Breana Edwards 31
Ana Luiza 31
Anastasiya Kazachenka 30
Pontus Nilsson 30
Raul Marcelino 29
Lotte Vandendriessche 29
Josh McDonald 29
Oscar Saether 28
Luis Corro 28
Vladislav Mikhalev 27
Blanca Colato 27
Jeremie Doyon 26
Claudia Scampoli 26
Nathan Broch 26
Abdulmajid Mokhammad 26
Amanda Recart 25
Rasmus Meius 24
Laura Valionyte 23
Xiaochen Li 22
Martin Etcheberry 22
Sacit Kurt 22
Pinja Jokela 21
Xiomara Becerra 19
Jordyn Scribner 18
 
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Beach Volleyball History
In 1987
Mike Dodd and Karch Kiraly won the AVP Jose Cuervo Miami Beach.  It was the 30th win for Mike Dodd, the 26th win for Karch Kiraly, and the 3rd win for the team.
In 1998
Adam Johnson and Karch Kiraly won the AVP Miller Lite Tucson Open.  It was the 32nd win for Adam Johnson, the 130th win for Karch Kiraly, and the 5th win for the team.
In 2009
Anthony Medel and Hans Stolfus won the NORCECA Guatemala.  It was the 1st win for Anthony Medel, the 2nd win for Hans Stolfus, and the 1st win for the team.
In 2009
Kirenia Ballar and Nirian Sinal won the NORCECA Guatemala.  It was the 2nd win for Kirenia Ballar, the 4th win for Nirian Sinal, and the 2nd win for the team.
 
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4/3/2026
Two Hungarian duos join American winners Basey & Hurst on Tahiti Futures podium
Gage Basey & Thomas Hurst of the United States earned their first Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour gold at the Tahiti Futures in French Polynesia. Two Hungarian teams – Bence Tari & Lukas Niemeier and Domonkos Doczi & Akos Veress – completed the podium at the single-gender stop with silver and bronze, respectively.

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3/31/2026
World Ranking update: Cottafava & Dal Corso reach top 25 for the first time
Italy’s leading men’s beach volleyball duo – Samuele Cottafava & Gianluca Dal Corso – who won last week’s Nayarit Challenge on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour, reached the top 25 of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking for the first time. Cottafava & Dal Corso earned 800 ranking points with their Challenge gold in Mexico last week.

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3/29/2026
Cottafava & Dal Corso celebrate duo’s first Challenge gold
Top-seeded Samuele Cottafava & Gianluca Dal Corso lived up to their status and triumphed as Nayarit Challenge winners at the 2026 Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour event in Mexico. The Nayarit gold was the team’s first at the Challenge level. Previously, they had one silver at the Futures level. Netherlands’ Leon Luini & Matthew Immers settled for silver.

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Yan & Xia win Nayarit to bring home first Beach Pro Tour gold together
The Chinese pairing of two-time Olympian Xia Xinyi with Yan Xu brought home its first Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour medal since they teamed up for their international debut at the Adelaide 2025 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships. Seeded fourth in the Nayarit Challenge women’s main draw, Yan & Xia made a solid run of six consecutive wins in Mexico and grabbed gold.

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Verena & Thainara and Yan & Xia in Nayarit Challenge gold medal showdown
Three-set semifinal battles on Saturday propelled Brazil’s Verena Figueira & Thainara Feitosa and China’s Yan Xu & Xia Xinyi to Sunday’s women’s final at the Nayarit Challenge on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. For each of the two pairs, it will be the first final at their third appearance on the Beach Pro Tour as such. The bronze medal playoff in Mexico will set...

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Cottafava & Dal Corso v Elazar & Cuzmiciov, Capogrossos v Luini & Immers in Nayarit semis
Israel’s Eylon Elazar & Kevin Cuzmiciov will take on top-seeded Italians Samuele Cottafava & Gianluca Dal Corso in one of Sunday’s men’s semifinals at the Nayarit Challenge on the 2026 Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. In the other, second-seeded Argentinean brothers Tomas Capogrosso & Nicolas Capogrosso will face Netherlands’ Leon Luini & Matthew Immers.

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3/28/2026
Hungary’s Doczi & Veress crown duo’s debut with Rarotonga Futures gold
Hungary’s Domonkos Doczi & Akos Veress crowned their Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour debut as a team with Rarotonga Futures gold. Charles Siragusa & Alex Ukkelberg of the United States and Steven Abrams & Cameron Chadwick of Canada completed the podium at the men’s stop in the Cook Islands with silver and bronze, respectively.

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Spain’s Vergara & Gonzalez on to Nayarit quarterfinals after fourth tie-breaker in Mexico
Spain’s Ana Vergara & Sofia Gonzalez have played four matches at the Nayarit Challenge on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour so far and had to grind through tie-breakers in all four of them. On Friday, they were successful in both the sixteenthfinals and the eighthfinals to push through to the women’s quarterfinals on Saturday.

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Mexican home favorites to challenge top seeds in Nayarit Challenge eighthfinals
The men’s main draw action at the Nayarit Challenge on the 2026 Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour unfolded in full swing on Friday – the second leg of pool play and the sixteenthfinal elimination round were held – to shape the match-ups for Saturday’s eighthfinals, in which the eight pool winners will be challenged by teams that pushed through the first knockouts.

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3/27/2026
USA v Canada and Australia v Hungary in Rarotonga Futures semis
Pairs from Australia, Canada, Hungary and the United States progressed to the semifinals of the men’s Rarotonga Futures on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour taking place this week in the Cook Islands. The semis and the medal matches on Friday, March 27 will be streamed live on the Beach Volleyball World YouTube channel.

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