The 2025 Beach Pro Tour offered one the most extensive annual beach volleyball calendars of world-level events in history, second only to the one of the Olympic 2024 season, when just one more men’s tournament was held than in 2025. During the fourth season of the tour, as many as 56 different stops were held, with male athletes competing at 48 of them. Such a large number of separate events have never been held within one calendar year in the past, either on the Beach Pro Tour, or on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour.
Despite suffering some injuries during the season and appearing at only seven 2025 Beach Pro Tour stops, Cherif Younousse & Ahmed Tijan of Qatar were the only team that managed to collect four gold medals during the year. They triumphed at the Elite events in Gstaad, Rio de Janeiro and Newport Beach, and at the Challenge event in Xiamen.
Stefan Boermans & Yorick de Groot of the Netherlands, on the other hand, were the pair with the highest number of Beach Pro Tour podiums during the year – a total of six, all at the Elite level. They took gold in Brasilia and as many as five bronze medals – in Saquarema, Gstaad, Hamburg, Joao Pessoa and Rio de Janeiro.
Another two men’s duos finished the year with five medals each. Norway’s Anders Mol & Christian Sorum picked up five Elite-level medals – three gold in Saquarema, Montreal and Hamburg, one silver in Ostrava and one bronze in Brasilia. Rising Swedish stars Jacob Holting Nilsson & Elmer Andersson earned gold at the Malmo Futures, the Baden Challenge and the Cape Town Elite, and two Elite silvers in Gstaad and Montreal.
Elite
As many as 12 double-gender Beach Pro Tour events of the highest category were held during 2025 and this is two more than the previous record of 10, set in 2024. A new format was introduced, with 24 teams per gender, instead of the previous 16, competing in the main draw. Hence, the category was also renamed from Elite16 to just Elite.
It all started in March with the Quintana Roo Elite in Mexico. Cuba’s Noslen Diaz & Jorge Alayo snatched their first Beach Pro Tour gold. Argentina’s Tomas Capogrosso & Nicolas Capogrosso took silver, while USA’s Chaim Schalk & James Shaw finished third to make it to their first Tour podium as a team.
April’s Saquarema Elite in Brazil decorated Tokyo 2020 Olympic champions Mol & Sorum with gold and Paris 2024 Olympic champions David Ahman & Jonatan Hellvig of Sweden with silver, while Boermans & De Groot picked up their first bronze of the year.
The following week in Brasilia, Boermans & De Groot and Mol & Sorum switched their places on the podium, while the silver went to Brazilian standouts Evandro Oliveira & Arthur Mariano Lanci.
Ahman & Hellvig, who eventually earned the World Championship title as well, snatched their only gold and last medal on the 2025 Beach Pro Tour at the Ostrava Elite in Czechia, held in late May and early June. Mol & Sorum claimed silver, while the bronze went to home favorites Ondrej Perusic & David Schweiner, still reigning world champions at the time.
July’s Gstaad Elite in Switzerland was where Cherif & Ahmed grabbed their first Elite gold of the season (pictured in the main photo). Holting Nilsson & Andersson took silver, the first Elite medal of their careers. Boermans & De Groot collected another bronze.
In mid-August, the Beach Pro Tour returned to North America for an Elite stop in Montreal, where Mol & Sorum, Holting Nilsson & Andersson and Perusic & Schweiner lined up on the men’s podium.
Returning to Europe, Mol & Sorum topped the Hamburg Elite podium in late August. In Germany, Polish standouts Michal Bryl & Bartosz Losiak picked up silver, their only Elite-level medal during the year, while Boermans & De Groot got another third-place finish.
Brazil hosted the next two Elite tournaments in September. Evandro & Arthur Lanci delighted the home crowd in Joao Pessoa with gold. France’s Remi Bassereau & Calvin Aye claimed silver, the pair’s first, and so far only, Elite-level medal. The bronze went to, guess who…, Boermans & De Groot.
The Dutch duo collected their fifth bronze and sixth medal of the year a week later, at the Rio de Janeiro Elite. In the final, Cherif & Ahmed defeated Diaz & Alayo.
The Qatari pair followed up with a back-to-back gold at October’s Newport Beach Elite in the United States. Evandro & Arthur Lanci earned silver, while Chile’s Marco Grimalt & Esteban Grimalt achieved their only podium finish of the Beach Pro Tour season, finishing in third place.
Holting Nilsson & Andersson won their first Elite gold later in October, when the Tour visited Cape Town. The silver in South Africa was claimed by another pair of rising stars, Timo Hammarberg & Tim Berger of Austria. It was the first Elite podium for them. The same applies for Norway’s Hendrik Mol & Mathias Berntsen, who took bronze.
The last Elite stop of the year was held in Itapema, Brazil in December and produced the most sensational winners of the year. France’s Elouan Chouikh-Barbez & Joadel Gardoque triumphed with the gold medals, reaching their first-ever Elite podium at only their second appearance at a tournament of such a high category. Their only previous Beach Pro Tour hardware was gold at the Futures level. Martins Plavins & Kristians Fokerots of Latvia took silver, their best achievement so far at the Elite level. Evandro & Arthur Lanci shined in the home sand again and grabbed bronze.
Challenge
The second category on the Beach Pro Tour offered seven Challenge stops in 2025.
Czechia’s Perusic & Schweiner were the only team to have won two Challenge tournaments in 2025. They topped the podiums at the first one in March – the Yucatan Challenge in Mexico – and the third one in June – the Alanya Challenge in Turkiye.
In between, Cherif & Ahmed triumphed at May’s Challenge stop in Xiamen, China.
The Warmia Mazury Challenge held in late June in the iconic Stare Jablonki in Poland was won by Switzerland’s Marco Krattiger & Leo Dillier. It was the team’s first ever gold on the Beach Pro Tour.
Holting Nilsson & Andersson won the next Challenge event, held in August in Baden, Austria.
In October, George Wanderley & Saymon Barbosa of Brazil topped the men’s podium at the Veracruz Challenge in Mexico. It was their first Beach Pro Tour gold together.
The last Challenge stop of the year also took place in October, when Spain’s Adrian Gavira & Alejandro Huerta celebrated their first Beach Pro Tour medal as a duo after topping the Nuvali podium in the Philippines.
Futures
2025 offered a record-high number of 37 Futures stops of the lowest Beach Pro Tour category: 20 combined events for both genders, eight for women and another seven for men. As many as 22 different countries from four different continental confederations organized Futures events this year: Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cape Verde, China, Czechia, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Korea, Latvia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkiye and the United States.
A wide range of teams and players made the men’s podiums at the various Futures stops in 2025. Austrian veterans Robin Seidl & Alexander Huber were the only players and the only team to collect four Futures medals during the year, earning silver in Songkhla and Montpellier, and bronze in Battipaglia and Ios.
Slovakia’s Lubos Nemec & Adrian Petruf, Belgium’s Louis Vandecaveye & Gilles Vandecaveye and Israel’s Eylon Elazar & Kevin Cuzmiciov were the men’s pairs that managed to claim two Futures gold medals each during the year. New Zealand’s Ben O’Dea also topped two Futures podiums, but with different partners.
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