Nuss & Brasher top World Ranking for the first time!

November 25, 205.- The world has a new number one in women’s beach volleyball. Just a day after claiming silver at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championship in Adelaide, Kristen Nuss & Taryn Brasher of the United States emerged on top of the women’s FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking for the first time.

After Monday’s weekly update of the chart, the top seven features three American duos, three Brazilian duos and the newly-crowned world champions Tina Graudina & Anastasija Samoilova of Latvia. Meanwhile, in the men’s World Ranking, Adelaide 2025 silver medalists Jacob Holting Nilsson & Elmer Andersson of Sweden ascended to a new high second place and are now within just 100 points of leaders Anders Mol & Christian Sorum of Norway.

FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking – Women

After many weeks as the world’s number two ranked team in the past, Nuss & Brasher finally surged to the top of the chart after their silver medal finish at the World Championship in Australia. It brought them 1,440 points and, since they had only seven qualifying tournaments on their record before that, the Americans netted the full amount and sky-rocketed five positions to the top on a new total of 8,200 points, or 200 clear of the two Brazilian teams that clashed for the Adelaide 2025 third place. Bronze medalists Carol Solberg & Rebecca Cavalcanti and previous World Ranking leaders Thamela Coradello & Victoria Lopes are now matched on 8,000 ranking points and share the second place in the chart.

Former number one team in the World Ranking and new world champions Tina & Anastasija netted 1,000 of the 1,600 points that came with their title and improved to a new score of 7,880 to get to within 120 points from the Brazilian pairs, in fourth place.

Another Brazilian team – Olympic champions Ana Patricia Ramos & Eduarda Lisboa (Duda) – and two American duos – Terese Cannon & Megan Kraft and Molly Shaw & Kelly Cheng – lined up in the places from fifth to seventh, followed by Germany’s Svenja Muller & Cinja Tillmann, Italy’s Valentina Gottardi & Reka Orsi Toth and Canada’s Melissa Humana-Paredes & Brandie Wilkerson to complete the top 10.

FIVB Beach Volleyball World Ranking – Men

20-year-old Holting Nilsson and 19-year-old Andersson earned 1,440 ranking points with their silver and Australia, but got to keep a net of just 640, after another 800 from their first-ever Challenge-level gold in Chennai on last year’s Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour expired simultaneously. So, the rising Swedish stars improved to a new total of 7,960 points, with which they not only climbed to number two in the World Ranking for the first time, but got to only within 100 points from the world’s number one team Mol & Sorum.

Another 200 below them, in third place, are the new world champions and reigning Olympic champions, their compatriots David Ahman & Jonatan Hellvig. With a couple of one-week interruptions, the Swedish jump-setters reigned on top of the World Ranking for about a year, from April 2024 to April 2025.

Germany’s Nils Ehlers & Clemens Wickler, who finished fourth in Adelaide, regained their place among the top 10 in the world and took number 10 in the chart. The places from fourth to ninth are occupied by Netherlands’ Stefan Boermans & Yorick de Groot, Brazil’s Evandro Oliveira & Arthur Mariano Lanci, Qatar’s Cherif Younousse & Ahmed Tijan, Czechia’s Ondrej Perusic & David Schweiner, Poland’s Michal Bryl & Bartosz Losiak and Cuba’s Noslen Diaz & Jorge Alayo, in that order.

Adelaide 2025 bronze medalists Teo Rotar & Arnaud Gauthier-Rat, who achieved a historic first World Championship podium for France in either gender, gained five positions in the World Ranking and climbed to number 12.