A recap of beach volleyball national tours in Europe – FIVB

ESTONIA

Top-seeded Maret Kuuse & Laura Liisa Maiste earned the women’s gold at the Paide stop on Estonia’s Rannavolle Suvetuur. They claimed a hard-fought 2-1 (21-19, 18-21, 15-11)     victory over Lithuania’s Vlada Oganauskiene & Lilija Firinovic in the final. The bronze went to Raili Hunt & Marie Pohlak, who achieved a 2-0 (21-14, 21-16) upset of third-seeded Keira Liina Lukas & Sandra Lepp in the third-place match.

Women’s results and standings

Men’s bracket leaders Kusti Nolvak & Rasmus Meius also celebrated gold in Paide after a 2-1 (22-20, 17-21, 15-10) win over second-seeded Urmas Piik & Sander Steinberg in the final. Wild cards Kristo Kollo & Karl Jaani took a 2-0 (21-17, 21-14) victory over Joosep Poldma & Rauno Tamme in the bronze medal game.

Men’s results and standings

FRANCE

Saintes welcomed a women’s stop on the France Beach Volley Series. Julie De Vathaire & Faustine Blondeau topped the podium after a 2-0 (21-16, 21-16) upset of top-seeded Naty Molinos & Lucile Colin in the final. In the third-place match, the mixed Polish-American pairing of Aleksandra Wachowicz & Violeta Slabakova defeated second-seeded Maeva Guignan & Emere Maau-Boutry by a hard-fought 2-1 (21-16, 23-25, 16-14) to snatch the bronze.

Women’s results and standings

GERMANY

Munich hosted a stop on the 2025 German Beach Tour. Second-seeded Hanna-Marie Schieder & Karla Borger grabbed the women’s gold. In the first-place match, they managed a 2-1 (21-18, 15-21, 15-12) victory over Mareet Maidhof & Paula Schurholz. Third-seeded Tabea Schwarz & Chenoa Christ and bracket leaders Lea Kunst & Melanie Paul, who lost the semifinals, shared the third place in the final standings.

Women’s results and standings

In the men’s final in Munich, David Poniewaz & Luis Kubo (pictured in the main photo; credits: Justus Stegemann / volleyball-verband.de) squeezed out a 2-1 (20-22, 21-14, 15-7) victory over qualifiers Yannick Bibelriether & Valentin Schneckenburger. The third place was jointly occupied by Austrian qualifiers Mathias Seiser & Laurenc Grossig and third-seeded Momme Lorenz & Tilo Rietschel.

Men’s results and standings

GERMANY (ROCK THE BEACH)

The ROCK the BEACH tour also held its first event of the year last week in Sankt Peter-Ording. Top-seeded Yannik Ahr & Luis Henrichs lived up to their status and won the men’s gold after a 2-1 (21-11, 21-23, 15-8) victory over Georg Wolf & Peter Wolf in the final. A three-set third-place match determined the third-seeded mixed German-Slovenian pairing of Jonathan Erdmann & Nejc Zemljak as the bronze medalists. They beat Tilo Backhaus & Lukas Salimi by 2-1 (21-15, 13-21, 15-13).

Men’s results and standings

Second-seeded Leonie Klinke & Elea Beutel mastered a 2-0 (21-13, 21-16) upset of top-seeded Christine Aulenbrock & Lisa-Sophie Kotzan in the women’s gold medal match, and in the bronze medal game, third-seeded Nina Interwies & Larissa Claassen delivered a 2-1 (17-21, 21-18, 15-6) win over the German-Croatian team of Sophie Apel & Maja Rosko.

Women’s results and standings

GREECE

Wild cards Elisavet Triantafillidi & Dimitra Manavi topped the women’s standings at the Piraeus stop on the Hellenic Beach Volleyball National Tour in Greece. They battled it out for a 2-1 (21-17, 14-21, 15-13) victory over second-seeded Konstantina Tsopoulou & Mirto Kalamaridou in the gold medal showdown. The teams that lost the semifinals – Maria Polonyfi & Zina (Georgia) Sotiropoulou and Anastasia Shirinina & Paraskevi Zafeiriou – shared the third place.

Women’s results and standings

The men’s gold went to Dimitrios Chatzinikolaou & Stavros Ntallas, who put together a 2-0 (21-18, 21-19) sweep of the final against Panagiotis Semitekolos & Christos Tsigaridas. Spyros Kaloudis & Triantafyllos Restemis and second-seeded Antiol Kola & Evangelos Sideris finished jointly in third place.

Men’s results and standings

ITALY

The Marina di Ravenna men’s gold at last week’s Fonzies Absolute Italian Beach Volleyball Championship tour stop was conquered by second-seeded Carlo Bonifazi & Raoul Acerbi. In the final, they hammered out a 2-0 (21-16, 21-19) victory over Daniele Travi & Nicolo Siccardi. Simone Podesta & Edoardo Pizzileo earned bronze after a 2-0 (21-15, 21-18) shutout of Alessandro Carucci & Alessandro Preti in the third-place game.

Men’s results and standings

Third-seeded Giada Benazzi & Erika Ditta triumphed in the women’s tournament. They produced a hard-fought 2-0 (23-21, 21-18) straight-setter in the final against Camilla Sanguigni & Sofia Balducci. Aurora Mattavelli & Margherita Tega completed the podium. In the bronze medal match, they beat Sharin Rottoli & Oriola Shpuza by a convincing 2-0 (21-15, 21-16).

Women’s results and standings

JAPAN

Bracket leaders Sakura Ito & Mayu Sawame celebrated women’s gold at the Yokohama event on the Japan Beach Volleyball Tour. They delivered a 2-0 (21-17, 23-21) win over third-seeded Ren Matsumoto & Non Matsumoto in the final. These two teams won their semifinals against Harumi Sakai & Shion Tsubouchi and second-seeded Asami Shiba & Reika Murakami, who shared the third place in the final standings.

Women’s results and standings

In the men’s final, third-seeded Hiroki Dylan Kurokawa & Yoshiumi Hasegawa managed a 2-1 (21-15, 20-22, 15-12) upset of top-seeded Takumi Takahashi & Jumpei Ikeda. The third place was jointly occupied by Yu Takuma & Yuta Nagai  and qualifiers Yusuke Ishijima (Gottsu) & Shoki Ueda.

Men’s results and standings

NETHERLANDS

In the men’s final of the Utrecht stop on the Eredivisie Beach national tour of the Netherlands, second-seeded Cain van Hal & Mart van Werkhoven beat third-seeded Quinten Groenewold & Joran Maurice by 2-0 (21-16, 21-16). The bronze medal game was more competitive and was decided in the tie-breaker – 2-1 (19-21, 25-23, 15-13) Gijs Dikken & Elwin Oskam’s way over Tim van Adrichem & Max van Straten.

Men’s results and standings

Bracket leaders Mila Konink & Raisa Schoon beat second-seeded Lisa Luini & Desy Poiesz by a convincing 2-0 (21-11, 21-17) in the women’s final. In the third-place match, however, third-seeded Jill de Groot & Leanne van Vegten suffered a 2-1 (21-18, 22-24, 15-10) upset at the hands of Serena van der Made & Rianne Stok, who completed the podium with bronze.

Women’s results and standings

POLAND

Poland’s Orlen Beach Volley Tour paid a visit to Leba, where second-seeded Aleksandra Zdon & Justyna Lukaszewska conquered the women’s gold after a 2-0 (21-11, 22-20) victory over Tereza Pluharova & Michaela Kubickova in the final. Agnieszka Woloszyn & Aleksandra Chyla beat third-seeded Patrycja Jundzill & Julia Gierczynska by a narrow 2-0 (24-22, 21-19) for the bronze.

Women’s results and standings

Jedrzej Brozyniak & Piotr Janiak lived up to their ranking as bracket leaders and brought home the men’s gold. In the first-place game, they achieved a 2-0 (21-19, 21-13) win over qualifiers Piotr Lukasik & Kacper Taudul. A 2-1 (21-18, 18-21, 15-10) three-setter decided the bronze in favor of qualifiers Jakub Zdybek & Pawel Lewandowski over second-seeded Piotr Groszek & Igor Ciemachowski.

Men’s results and standings

SLOVAKIA

Adrian Petruf & Richard Petruf topped the men’s podium at the Strazke stop on Slovakia’s 2025 Nike Summer Beach Tour. The bracket leaders put together a 2-0 (21-16, 21-18) shutout of Lukas Nesticky & Martin Petras in the gold medal match. Second-seeded mixed Slovakian-Czech duo of Kamil Pavlinsky & Jarosik Jakub settled for bronze after claiming a 2-1 (21-18, 19-21, 15-8) win over another Slovakian-Czech combo, third-seeded Ivan Povraznik & Michal Borski, for the third place.

Men’s results and standings

The women’s gold was clinched by second-seeded Michaela Panekova & Veronika Podhradska, who took a 2-0 (21-16, 23-21) victory over Ema Matasova & Ema Palkovicova in the final. Karolina Majernikova & Andrea Spevarova hammered out a sweeping 2-0 (21-9, 21-14) win over Linda Margetiakova & Kristina Chovancova to earn bronze.

Women’s results and standings