Teams supported by the FIVB Volleyball Empowerment Programme won five of the six available medals at the fifth and final stop of the 2026 CAVB Zone VI Beach Volleyball Tour held in Maputo, Mozambique from 23-25 September.
With Empowerment support, Angola’s Carlos Muondo & Eduardo Afonso won gold in the men’s competition while Mozambique’s Jorge Monjane & Osvaldo Mungoi settled for bronze. The silver medal went to Botswana’s Jack Sekao & George Chiswaniso.
Mozambique completed a podium sweep in the women’s competition with Ana Sinaportar & Vanessa Muianga claiming gold, Nadia Bango & Veronica Carlos clinching the silver while Alaina Mahumane & Celia Nelson Machava got the bronze.
Norwegian expert Jorre Kjemperud leads Angola’s senior and junior men’s beach volleyball teams in a Coach Support project worth 84,000 USD. On the other hand, Dutch coach Han Abbing is in charge of Mozambique’s senior men and women national teams in a Coach Support project worth 84,000 USD.
Angola’s Carlos & Afonso cruised through the preliminary round and quarterfinals on a perfect 3-0 win-loss record to book the Krafft brothers, Max and Jura, of Namibia in the semifinals.
A 2-1 (21-19, 19-21, 15-12) win over the Krafft brothers qualified Carlos & Afonso to the final where they edged out Botswana’s Jack & Chiswaniso by a similar margin (23-21, 19-21, 15-08) to emerge men’s champions.
Mozambique’s Monjane & Mungoi also reached the semifinals on a flawless 3-0 record. It’s in the semifinals where they suffered their first and only defeat of the competition; losing in straight sets (11-21, 17-21) to Botswana’s Jack & Chiswaniso. However, they bounced back in the third place match with a convincing 2-0 (21-14, 21-14) sweep of the Krafft brothers to claim the bronze medal.
The men’s podium at the fifth and final stop of the 2026 CAVB Zone VI Beach Volleyball Tour held in Maputo. (Photo credits: FMV)
The hosts Mozambique dominated the women’s competition with four pairs qualifying for the semifinals. Champions Sinaportar & Vanessa remarkably won the gold medal without dropping a set. They had qualified for the final on a perfect 4-0 streak that featured a 2-0 (21-07, 21-05) rout of Welaci Florência Nuvunga & Sana João Fastudo in the semifinals. Sinaportar & Vanessa completed the job with a 2-0 (21-16, 21-10) sweep of compatriots Nadia & Veronica in the final.
Enroute their silver medal feat, Nadia & Veronica lost only one match, the 0-2 defeat in the final, to finish with a 4-1 win-loss record that included a 2-1 (19-21, 21-19, 15-09) victory over Alaina & Celia in the semifinals.
Alaina & Celia picked themselves up in the third place match to beat Welaci & Sana in straight sets (21-08, 21-12) and clinch the bronze medal.
12 men’s duos and eight women’s pairs from Mozambique, Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, South Africa, Namibia and Lesotho took part in the fifth stop of the CAVB Zone VI Beach Volleyball Tour in Maputo.
