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 women competing at 49 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. The number of women’s tournaments alone ties the all-time record set in 2024.
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.
The first Elite event in 2025 was held in March in Mexico. The Quintana Roo Elite women’s podium was topped by the recently formed Brazilian pairing of Carol Solberg & Rebecca Cavalcanti. Two American teams – Terese Cannon & Megan Kraft and Kristen Nuss & Taryn Brasher – brought home silver and bronze, respectively.
In April, two Elite events were held in Brazil. Thamela Coradello & Victoria Lopes pleased the home crowd in Saquarema with another Brazilian gold. They were joined on the podium by silver medalists Nuss & Brasher and bronze medalists Svenja Muller & Cinja Tillmann of Germany.
Nuss & Brasher made it three Elite podiums in a row by claiming gold in Brasilia. Two Brazilian pairs – Carol & Rebecca and reigning Olympic champions Ana Patricia Ramos & Eduarda Lisboa (Duda) – took silver and bronze.
In late May and early June, the first of three 2025 Elite events in Europe was held in Czechia. Thamela & Victoria triumphed with the Ostrava gold. Latvia’s Tina Graudina & Anastasija Samoilova took silver, while Switzerland’s Anouk Verge-Depre & Zoe Verge-Depre took bronze, their first Elite medal as a team.
Switzerland hosted the Gstaad Elite in July. Nuss & Brasher returned to the podium with another gold, while Tina & Anastasija and Anouk & Zoe once again lined up with silver and bronze.
The second of three 2025 Elite stops in North America brought the Beach Pro Tour to Montreal in mid-August. Paris 2024 Olympic silver medalists Melissa Humana-Paredes & Brandie Wilkerson of Canada delighted the home crowd by defending the Montreal trophy. Muller & Tillmann earned silver, while Ana Patricia & Duda took bronze.
At the Hamburg event in late August, Italy’s Valentina Gottardi & Reka Orsi Toth picked up their first Elite medal as a duo and it was gold. Brazilian pairs completed the podium – Thamela & Victoria with silver and Ana Patricia & Duda with bronze.
The Tour returned to Brazil for two more consecutive Elite events in September. In Joao Pessoa, USA’s Molly Shaw & Kelly Cheng, claimed gold, their first Beach Pro Tour medal together. Cannon & Kraft finished runners-up, while Ana Patricia & Duda once again settled for bronze.
In Rio de Janeiro, Carol & Rebecca, Thamela & Victoria and Cannon & Kraft lined up on the podium.
Nuss & Brasher topped the podium on home sand at October’s Newport Beach Elite in the United States, after beating another American team in the final – Julia Donlin & Lexy Denaburg, for whom that silver was the first Beach Pro Tour medal as a pair. Meanwhile, Ana Patricia & Duda collected their fifth bronze in a row.
The Beach Pro Tour also visited Africa with an Elite event in Cape Town later in October. Muller & Tillmann snatched gold and were accompanied on the podium by another German pair, Sandra Ittlinger & Anna-Lena Grune. The bronze they picked up was their first Beach Pro Tour hardware as a duo. The silver went to Katja Stam & Raisa Schoon of the Netherlands, their first Elite podium after Stam’s long injury-prompted absence.
For the last Elite stop of the year, the Beach Pro Tour went back to Brazil. The country’s fifth Elite event for 2025 was held in Itapema in early December. It offered an all-Brazilian women’s podium, with Carol & Rebecca, Talita Antunes & Taiana Lima and Thamela & Victoria in the line-up.
Overall, only four female players, or two women’s teams, managed to collect three gold medals on the Beach Pro Tour 2025 (all three categories included). Nuss & Brasher picked up three golds, one silver and one bronze, while Carol & Rebecca finished the year with three gold and one silver, all at the Elite level.
Challenge
The second category on the Beach Pro Tour offered seven Challenge stops in 2025.
The first one was March’s Yucatan Challenge in Mexico and it was won by Italy’s Valentina Gottardi & Claudia Scampoli for their one and only Beach Pro Tour medal as a pair.
In May, a Challenge event was held in Xiamen. USA’s Toni Rodriguez & Kylie Kuyava-De Berg emerged on top of the women’s podium in China, also to claim their one and only Tour medal as a team.
Anouk & Zoe triumphed at June’s Alanya Challenge in Turkiye and celebrated the duo’s first, and so far only, gold on the Beach Pro Tour.
Later in June, the Warmia Mazury Challenge was held in Poland. Ukraine’s Maryna Hladun & Tetiana Lazarenko rejoiced as gold medalists, e precursor to the historic European title they claimed a month later.
The Baden Challenge in Austria took place in August. It was the place where Germany’s Linda Bock & Louisa Lippmann finished in first place to claim their only Beach Pro Tour medal together so far.
Stam & Schoon showed that they were returning to their best shape as they won the Veracruz Challenge in Mexico, held in October.
The last Challenge stop of the year also took place in October, when Finland’s Anniina Parkkinen & Valma Prihti made a surprising run for Nuvali gold in the Philippines, their first Beach Pro Tour medal as a pair.
Futures
The tournaments of the lowest Beach Pro Tour category, Futures, have already proved to serve their intended purpose as a stepping stone for the beach volleyball stars of the future towards the higher international levels of the sport and as a way to further expand the geography of world-level beach volleyball around the globe.
2025 offered a record-high number of 37 Futures stops: 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.
Among the numerous aspiring athletes who earned Futures-level medals, France’s 23-year-old Anouk Dupin stood out as the female player with the highest number of Beach Pro Tour podiums in 2025, all three categories included. In fact, she medaled at all six of her appearances on the Beach Pro Tour during the year (with four different partners) and collected gold medals at the Valencia Futures and the Jurmala Futures, silver medals at the Madrid Futures, the Montpellier Futures and the Brno Futures, and a bronze medal at the Battipaglia Futures.
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