--- title: "Nina Coolman and Helene Rousseaux win women’s gold at Chaumont, Belgian Beach Tour; upset of second seeds in final" sdDatePublished: "2026-08-05T08:07:00Z" source: "https://www.fivb.com/es/italy-cup-winners-crowned-belgium-estonia-germany-hungary-latvia-netherlands-poland-russia-spain-switzerland-ukraine-hold-tour-stops/" topics: - name: "sport" identifier: "medtop:15000000" - name: "sport event" identifier: "medtop:20001108" - name: "beach volleyball" identifier: "medtop:20001090" locations: - "Barnaul" - "Utrecht" - "Ventspils" - "Nadvirna" - "Finland" - "Belgium" - "Latvia" - "Hungary" - "Germany" - "Italy" - "Estonia" - "Ukraine" - "Poland" - "Switzerland" - "Russia" - "Spain" - "Netherlands" - "Morocco" - "Greece" - "Faroe Islands" - "Slovakia" - "Bulgaria" - "Austria" - "Turkey" - "France" - "Lithuania" - "Romania" --- Nina Coolman and Helene Rousseaux win women’s gold at Chaumont, Belgian Beach Tour; upset of second seeds in final Italy Cup winners crowned! Belgium, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine hold tour stops Nina Coolman & Helene Rousseaux won the women’s gold at last week’s Chaumont stop on the Belgian Beach Tour. In the final, they put together a 2-0 (21-11, 21-18) upset of second-seeded Stefanie Van Den Broeck & Janne Van Den Eede. Annelore Bex & Marion Beauve took third place after a 2-0 (21-9, 21-14) sweep of the bronze medal playoff against Anna Vermeulen & Denika De Smet. In a nail-biting men’s final, third-seeded Kasper Van de Vijver & Daan Lievens squeezed out a dramatic 2-1 (23-21, 27-29, 16-14) victory over bracket leaders Kyan Vercauteren & Emiel De Vriese to top the podium. The bronze went to second-seeded Casper Willems & Arne Darras, who beat Martin Joguenne & Tristan Mannaert by a narrow 2-1 (21-12, 21-23, 15-13) for the third place. Estonia’s Rannavolle Suvetuur held a stop in Vosu last week. The women’s gold was claimed by top-seeded Heleene Hollas & Liisa Remmelg. They took a 2-0 (21-17, 21-15) win over second-seeded Anniina Parkkinen & Valma Prihti of Finland in the final. Another Finnish duo – third-seeded Sara Sinisalo & Maisa Kyrolainen – completed the podium. They mastered a 2-0 (21-6, 21-9) shutout of Lenna Kuusik & Gerli Gull in the bronze medal match. Mart Tiisaar & Dimitriy Korotkov, the top seeds in the men’s main draw, also lived up to their status and claimed gold. In the final, they came back from a set down to achieve a 2-1 (16-21, 21-15, 15-13) victory over third-seeded Urmas Piik & Armin Kender. Rasmus Meius & Karl Maidle brought home bronze after upsetting second-seeded Siim Ennemuist & Patrik Parijogi in a 2-1 (21-17, 16-21, 15-13) third-place game. An event on Germany’s Rock the Beach tour was held in Sankt Peter-Ording. Third-seeded Mila Jancar & Josefine Schakel lifted the women’s trophy. They claimed a 2-0 (21-17, 22-20) win over Louisa Marunde & Emma Gangey in the gold medal showdown. In the bronze medal playoff, Anna Behlen & Lea Kruse defeated Alexa Kaminski & Ida Burbulla by a narrow 2-0 (21-19, 22-20). A 2-1 (21-11, 15-21, 15-13) men’s final went the way of Richard Peemuller & Jonah Juditzki against Julian Hikel & Ole Sackermann. Second-seeded Jonas Reinhardt & Milan Sievers picked up the bronze after a 2-0 (21-19, 21-15) shutout of Manuel Harms & Bo Hansen in the third-place match. The women’s trophy at the Tata stop on the Telekom Beach Volleyball Hungarian Championship tour was conquered by bracket leaders Stefania Kun & Lilla Villam. They mastered a 2-0 (21-5, 21-16) sweep of the final against third-seeded Hanna Gubik & Emese Kiss-Bertok. Second-seeded Chiara Honti-Majoros & Adrienn Posztos-Szabo took the bronze following a 2-0 (21-12, 21-13) victory over Lilianna Szabo & Flora Zolnai in the third-place match. The men’s gold went to third-seeded Marton Udvarhelyi & Marcel Sarik-Veress. They delivered a 2-0 (21-17, 21-12) win over the mixed Hungarian-French pairing of Zeteny Kosztin-Szamado & Maxime Capet, seeded second, in the final showdown. Tamas Meszlenyi & Izsak Soos came back from a set down to mount a 2-1 (13-21, 21-16, 15-9) upset of bracket leaders Botond Olah & Jamil Ghazal for the bronze. Montesilvano hosted the Italy Cup, one of the events on the Absolute Italian Beach Volleyball Championship tour. Top-seeded Alice Gradini & Federica Frasca (pictured in the main photo; source: Federazione Italiana Pallavolo) grabbed the trophy on the women’s side. They put together a 2-0 (21-19, 21-15) victory over second-seeded Chiara They & Sara Breidenbach in the final. Anna Pelloia & Maria Rachele Mancinelli achieved a 2-0 (23-21, 21-18) win over Camilla Sanguigni & Sofia Balducci in the bronze medal game. Marco Viscovich & Davide Borraccino triumphed in the men’s tournament. They claimed the national cup crown after a 2-0 (21-18, 21-12) sweep of the final against Simone Podesta & Paolo Ingrosso. Marco Caminati & Enrico Rossi earned bronze. They defeated Nicolo Siccardi & Matteo Camozzi by 2-0 (21-17, 21-17) in the third-place playoff. A pair of 16-year-old girls – Paula Krieva & Karlina Berzina – topped the women’s podium at the Ventspils stop on the DEPO Open Latvian Championships national tour. Seeded second in the main draw bracket, they emerged on top of the final standings after a 2-0 (21-17, 21-18) upset of top-seeded Renate Kruklite & Estere Zakite in the gold medal showdown. An epic third-place match decided the bronze. It went 2-1 (23-21, 17-21, 21-19) in favor of Krista Paegle & Marta Vildere against Rezija Puskundze & Kristine Briede. Second-seeded Lithuanians Povilas Piesina & Audrius Knasas won the men’s tournament. In the final, they achieved a 2-0 (21-17, 21-12) shutout of Markuss Maculevics & Aivis Blekte. Bracket leaders Bruno Liepins & Karlis Arturs Miculis settled for bronze. They squeezed out a hard-fought 2-1 (13-21, 21-13, 17-15) victory over Martins Pope & Renars Augusts in the playoff for the third place. Wies Bekhuis & Brecht Piersma brought home the women’s gold at the Utrecht stop on the Robijn Quickwash Eredivisie Beach national tour of the Netherlands. They nailed a 2-0 (21-14, 21-17) win over Lisa Luini & Rianne Stok in the final match. Second-seeded Jill de Groot & Leanne van Vegten picked up bronze after a 2-1 (21-15, 18-21, 15-11) victory over Noa Sonneville & Esmee Radstake in the third-place game. Bracket leaders Ruben Penninga & Mees Sengers topped the men’s podium. In the gold medal showdown, they mastered a 2-0 (21-17, 21-19) victory over second-seeded Quinten Groenewold & Tom Sonneville. The bronze went to Nikita Artamonov & Max Nieuwstad, who managed a 2-0 (21-15, 21-18) win over Jake Anfiloff & Joran Maurice for the third place. Top-seeded Zuzanna Michalska & Maja Kruczek emerged winners of the women’s crown at the Swinoujscie stop on Poland’s Orlen Beach Volley Tour. In the gold medal game, they celebrated a tight 2-1 (21-19, 19-21, 15-13) victory over third-seeded Agnieszka Adamek & Aleksandra Gromadowska. The third-place match was also pushed to a tie-breaker resolution. Magdalena Saad & Malgorzata Vlk (Lech) made the podium with a 2-1 (21-18, 18-21, 17-15) win over Aleksandra Chyla & Nicole Jochym. Men’s bracket leaders Aleksander Czachorowski & Jakub Krzeminski also lived up to their ranking and took the gold. In the final, they beat Michal Korycki & Milosz Kruk by 2-0 (21-15, 21-16). Piotr Kantor & Filip Lejawa defeated third-seeded Szymon Beta & Artem Besarab by 2-0 (21-16, 21-16) for the bronze. Second-seeded Mariia Bocharova & Maria Voronina won first place in the women’s tournament at the Barnaul stop on the Russia Championship Tour. They produced a 2-0 (21-18, 21-17) sweep of the final against Arina Riazhnova & Elizaveta Ludkova. Veronika Plotnikova & Elizaveta Gubina upset top-seeded Ekaterina Khramtsova & Anna Saveleva in a 2-1 (17-21, 21-18, 15-13) third-place match turnaround. The men’s gold went to top-seeded Alexey Gusev & Vladislav Panchenko after their 2-0 (21-12, 21-18) win over Valentin Kanunnikov & Igor Velichko in the final match. Second-seeded Taras Myskiv & Maxim Sivolap settled for bronze. They battled it out for a narrow 2-1 (17-21, 21-15, 18-16) comeback victory over Aleksandr Rukhmanov & Ivan Chuprinov for the third place. La Linea de la Concepcion hosted a stop on the Spanish National Beach Volleyball Circuit. In the women’s gold medal showdown, second-seeded Nazaret Florian & Carolina Fernandez Da Silva came back from a set down to mount a 2-1 (17-21, 21-15, 15-10) victory over third-seeded Daniela Andreu & Elba Paez. In the match for the third place, Aida Perez Gomez & Lorena Cruz Gomez also managed a three-set turnaround to beat the mixed Argentinean-Spanish pairing of Victoria Sancer & Maria Sevillano by 2-1 (11-21, 21-16, 15-6). The Venezuelan-Spanish combination of Hernan Tovar & Llorenc Truyols triumphed in the men’s tournament. A 2-1 (21-17, 13-21, 15-13) win over another international combo – the Slovenian-Spanish pairing of Alan Kosenina & Jeene Dimi Nijkamp – in the final brought them the gold medals. Jose Aba & Manuel Aba collected the bronze after a forfeit win over the Spanish-Ukrainian duo of Isaac Levinson & Sviatoslav Karvatskyi. A German pair – Linda Bock & Lea Sophie Kunst – won the women’s gold at the Lucerne stop on Switzerland’s 2026 OBI Beach Tour. In an emphatic final, they hammered out a 2-0 (21-9, 21-10) shutout of Jasmine Wandeler & Livia Stolz. In a tight bronze medal playoff, second-seeded Muriel Bossart & Linda Abbuhl celebrated a 2-0 (21-19, 23-21) victory over bracket leaders Menia Bentele & Annique Niederhauser. In the men’s final, top-seeded Adrian Heidrich & Yves Haussener defeated second-seeded Leo Dillier & Luc Fluckiger by 2-0 (23-21, 21-11) to top the podium. The bronze went to Czechia’s Donovan Dzavoronok & Jan Hadrava after a 2-0 (21-14, 21-19) sweep of the third-place game against Daniel Allemann & Simon Leffler. Third-seeded Marharyta Vapniar & Mariia Shkurat picked up the women’s trophy at the Nadvirna stop on the Ukrainian National Championship Tour. They achieved a 2-0 (21-18, 21-15) shutout of second-seeded Raisa Rylova & Yulia Chernenko in the final. Diana Avramenko & Anastasiia Boiko upset bracket leaders Ievgenia Shchemeliova & Anastasiia Lypska with a 2-0 (21-18, 21-18) sweep of the bronze medal match. The bracket leaders in the men’s competition – Ivan Datsiuk & Oleksii Bublyk – cruised all the way to the top of the podium crowning their perfect run with a 2-0 (21-18, 21-12) victory over Yurii Bokshan & Illia Tiurin in the gold medal showdown. Third-seeded Dmytro Kozii & Sviatoslav Nahornyi outplayed second-seeded Danyil Zakharchenko & Ihor Polishchuk in a 2-0 (21-19, 21-12) bronze medal playoff. Italy Cup winners crowned! 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