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Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour
Olympic Games Paris 2024
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 Stadium Court 22:30

Match #14: Pool B

(2) Anders Mol/Christian Sorum, Norway
vs.
(14) Adrian Carambula/Alex Ranghieri, Italy

Anders Berntsen Mol
Norway

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Jul 2, 1997 (27 yrs old)

Home Town:

Stord

Height:

201 cm (6'7")

Weight:

90 kg (198 lb)

Seasons:

9

Tournaments:

69

Career Wins:

25

Career Winnings:

US$748,384.94

Christian Sandlie Sørum
Norway

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Dec 3, 1995 (28 yrs old)

Home Town:

Oslo

Height:

192 cm (6'4")

Weight:

89 kg (196 lb)

Seasons:

12

Tournaments:

85

Career Wins:

24

Career Winnings:

US$756,781.89

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	25	Money
FIVB	60	24	6	8	1	9	0	6	3	2	1	US$1,478,500.00

Previous Paris Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2022	Christian Sorum - 1st	Anders Mol - 1st

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	7/10-14/2024	Elite16 Vienna	2	1st	1200	US$30,000.00
FIVB	7/3-7/2024	Elite16 Gstaad	3	3rd	1000	US$14,000.00
FIVB	6/5-9/2024	Elite16 Ostrava	3	4th	900	US$10,000.00
FIVB	3/5-9/2024	Elite16 Doha	3	3rd	1000	US$14,000.00
FIVB	12/6-9/2023	BPT Finals Doha 2023	2	2nd	0	US$80,000.00
FIVB	10/6-15/2023	Beach Volleyball World Championships	1	5th	960	US$18,000.00
FIVB	8/16-20/2023	Elite16 Hamburg	1	3rd	1000	US$14,000.00

Olympic Games Paris 2024 Matches

Date

Bracket

Opponent

Score

Time

Sun, 7/28/2024

Pool B

Esteban Grimalt / Marco Grimalt, Chile (23)

Won 21-14, 21-16

0:37

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Anders Mol	Total	14	10	3	0.500	3	0	0	4
	1	8	5	2	0.375	1	0	0	2
	2	6	5	1	0.667	2	0	0	2
Christian Sorum	Total	20	18	0	0.900	0	9	1	1
	1	9	8	0	0.889	0	6	1	1
	2	11	10	0	0.909	0	3	0	0

Wed, 7/31/2024

Pool B

Adrian Carambula / Alex Ranghieri, Italy (14)

Won 21-12, 21-15

0:36

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Anders Mol	Total	13	11	2	0.692	4	1	2	2
	1	5	4	1	0.600	2	1	0	1
	2	8	7	1	0.750	2	0	2	1
Christian Sorum	Total	25	17	1	0.640	0	9	1	0
	1	12	8	1	0.583	0	6	1	0
	2	13	9	0	0.692	0	3	0	0

Fri, 8/2/2024

Pool B

Matthew Immers / Steven van de Velde, Netherlands (11)

Won 21-16, 21-19

0:37

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Anders Mol	Total	14	8	1	0.500	5	3	2	4
	1	6	4	0	0.667	4	1	2	2
	2	8	4	1	0.375	1	2	0	2
Christian Sorum	Total	30	16	5	0.367	0	6	1	0
	1	14	7	3	0.286	0	2	0	0
	2	16	9	2	0.438	0	4	1	0

Mon, 8/5/2024

Winner 1

Chase Budinger / Miles Evans, United States (19)

Won 21-16, 21-14

0:36

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Anders Mol	Total	19	11	3	0.421	6	1	3	4
	1	6	2	2	0.000	6	1	1	1
	2	13	9	1	0.615	0	0	2	3
Christian Sorum	Total	21	11	2	0.429	0	6	1	0
	1	11	5	1	0.364	0	2	1	0
	2	10	6	1	0.500	0	4	0	0

Wed, 8/7/2024

Winner 2

Adrian Gavira / Pablo Herrera, Spain (18)

Won 21-16, 21-17

0:35

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Anders Mol	Total	12	10	0	0.833	5	1	1	5
	1	5	4	0	0.800	3	0	1	2
	2	7	6	0	0.857	2	1	0	3
Christian Sorum	Total	31	19	2	0.548	0	7	0	1
	1	17	11	2	0.529	0	2	0	0
	2	14	8	0	0.571	0	5	0	1

Thu, 8/8/2024

Semi-Finals

Nils Ehlers / Clemens Wickler, Germany (3)

Lost 13-21, 21-17, 13-15

0:53

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Anders Mol	Total	16	9	2	0.438	6	1	2	4
	1	6	3	1	0.333	0	0	0	2
	2	4	2	1	0.250	3	0	1	0
	3	6	4	0	0.667	3	1	1	2
Christian Sorum	Total	38	11	11	0.000	0	9	1	1
	1	11	3	6	-0.273	0	0	0	1
	2	14	4	4	0.000	0	7	1	0
	3	13	4	1	0.231	0	2	0	0

Sat, 8/10/2024

Bronze Medal

Ahmed Tijan / Cherif Younousse, Qatar (13)

Won 21-13, 21-16

0:32

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Anders Mol	Total	11	7	3	0.364	7	0	4	5
	1	3	2	1	0.333	1	0	3	3
	2	8	5	2	0.375	6	0	1	2
Christian Sorum	Total	19	13	2	0.579	0	3	0	1
	1	12	8	1	0.583	0	3	0	0
	2	7	5	1	0.571	0	0	0	1

Overall Tournament Stats
Player	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Anders Mol	99	66	14	0.525	36	7	14	28
Christian Sorum	184	105	23	0.446	0	49	5	4
Total	283	171	37	0.473	36	56	19	32
Opponents	310	158	62	0.310	22	52	3	40

Olympic Games, World Championships, World Tour Finals Results

Year	Event	Location	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2018	World Tour Finals	Hamburg	Christian Sorum - 1st	Anders Mol - 1st
2019	World Championships	Hamburg	Christian Sorum - 3rd	Anders Mol - 3rd
2019	World Tour Finals	Rome	Christian Sorum - 3rd	Anders Mol - 3rd
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo	Christian Sorum - 1st	Anders Mol - 1st
2021	World Tour Finals	Cagliari	Christian Sorum - 1st	Anders Mol - 1st
2022	World Championships	Rome	Christian Sorum - 1st	Anders Mol - 1st
2022	World Tour Finals	Doha	Christian Sorum - 1st	Anders Mol - 1st
2023	World Championships	Tlaxcala	Christian Sorum - 5th	Anders Mol - 5th
2023	World Tour Finals	Doha	Christian Sorum - 2nd	Anders Mol - 2nd

Adrian Ignacio Carambula Raurich
Italy

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Mar 16, 1988 (36 yrs old)

Home Town:

Montevideo, Uruguay

Height:

183 cm (6'0")

Weight:

84 kg (185 lb)

Seasons:

10

Tournaments:

83

Career Wins:

2

Career Winnings:

US$258,125.00

Alex Ranghieri
Italy

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Jun 18, 1987 (37 yrs old)

Home Town:

Pordenone

Height:

198 cm (6'6")

Weight:

88 kg (194 lb)

Seasons:

15

Tournaments:

109

Career Wins:

3

Career Winnings:

US$297,640.15

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	19	21	25	33	Money
FIVB	49	2	1	4	3	9	0	13	4	5	1	3	3	1	US$362,500.00

Previous Paris Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2022	Enrico Rossi - 17th	Did not play
2023	Alex Ranghieri - 13th	Adrian Carambula - 13th

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	7/10-14/2024	Elite16 Vienna	Q13	21st	340	US$0.00
FIVB	6/5-9/2024	Elite16 Ostrava	Q11	21st	340	US$0.00
FIVB	5/30-6/2/2024	Challenge Stare Jablonki	11	9th	460	US$2,500.00
FIVB	5/22-26/2024	BPT Elite16 Espinho	Q5	21st	340	US$0.00
FIVB	4/17-21/2024	Elite16 Tepic	10	13th	460	US$5,000.00
FIVB	4/11-14/2024	Challenge Guadalajara	4	9th	460	US$2,500.00
FIVB	12/6-9/2023	BPT Finals Doha 2023	6	9th	0	US$7,500.00
FIVB	10/6-15/2023	Beach Volleyball World Championships	5	9th	800	US$11,000.00
FIVB	9/27-10/1/2023	Elite16 Paris	5	13th	460	US$5,000.00
FIVB	8/16-20/2023	Elite16 Hamburg	7	13th	460	US$5,000.00

Olympic Games Paris 2024 Matches

Date

Bracket

Opponent

Score

Time

Sun, 7/28/2024

Pool B

Matthew Immers / Steven van de Velde, Netherlands (11)

Won 22-20, 19-21, 15-13

0:57

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Adrian Carambula	Total	25	13	6	0.280	0	6	0	2
	1	10	4	4	0.000	0	2	0	1
	2	9	5	2	0.333	0	2	0	0
	3	6	4	0	0.667	0	2	0	1
Alex Ranghieri	Total	30	16	6	0.333	5	0	0	5
	1	13	7	3	0.308	2	0	0	2
	2	14	7	3	0.286	1	0	0	2
	3	3	2	0	0.667	2	0	0	1

Wed, 7/31/2024

Pool B

Anders Mol / Christian Sorum, Norway (2)

Lost 12-21, 15-21

0:36

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Adrian Carambula	Total	19	10	0	0.526	0	6	0	2
	1	6	3	0	0.500	0	2	0	1
	2	13	7	0	0.538	0	4	0	1
Alex Ranghieri	Total	23	9	6	0.130	1	0	1	2
	1	14	4	4	0.000	1	0	1	2
	2	9	5	2	0.333	0	0	0	0

Fri, 8/2/2024

Pool B

Esteban Grimalt / Marco Grimalt, Chile (23)

Lost 15-21, 21-23

0:39

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Adrian Carambula	Total	7	4	1	0.429	0	4	1	1
	1	4	2	1	0.250	0	2	1	1
	2	3	2	0	0.667	0	2	0	0
Alex Ranghieri	Total	37	22	7	0.405	0	0	2	4
	1	16	6	5	0.063	0	0	1	1
	2	21	16	2	0.667	0	0	1	3

Overall Tournament Stats
Player	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Adrian Carambula	51	27	7	0.392	0	16	1	5
Alex Ranghieri	90	47	19	0.311	6	0	3	11
Total	141	74	26	0.340	6	16	4	16
Opponents	141	89	23	0.468	15	25	6	15

Olympic Games, World Championships, World Tour Finals Results

Year	Event	Location	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro	Alex Ranghieri - 9th	Adrian Carambula - 9th
2016	World Tour Finals	Toronto	Alex Ranghieri - 9th	Adrian Carambula - 9th
2017	World Championships	Vienna	Alex Ranghieri - 17th	Adrian Carambula - 17th
2019	World Championships	Hamburg	Enrico Rossi - 5th	Marco Caminati - 33rd
2019	World Tour Finals	Rome	Enrico Rossi - 9th	Did not play
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo	Enrico Rossi - 19th	Did not play
2021	World Tour Finals	Cagliari	Enrico Rossi - 7th	Did not play
2022	World Championships	Rome	Enrico Rossi - 17th	Daniele Lupo - 9th
2022	World Tour Finals	Doha	Alex Ranghieri - 5th	Adrian Carambula - 5th
2023	World Championships	Tlaxcala	Alex Ranghieri - 9th	Adrian Carambula - 9th
2023	World Tour Finals	Doha	Alex Ranghieri - 9th	Adrian Carambula - 9th

Head to Head Results
Mol/Sorum lead the series 3-1

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
7/31/24	FIVB	Olympic Games Paris 2024	Pool B	Mol/Sorum	2	Carambula/Ranghieri	14	21-12, 21-15	0:36
12/7/23	FIVB	BPT Finals Doha 2023	Pool B	Mol/Sorum	2	Carambula/Ranghieri	6	21-15, 22-20	0:37
2/5/23	FIVB	Doha Elite16	Semi-Finals	Mol/Sorum	1	Carambula/Ranghieri	12, Q1	21-16, 18-21, 15-12	0:45
7/7/17	FIVB	Gstaad Major Five Star	Pool E	Carambula/Ranghieri	28, Q11	Mol/Sorum	21, Q3	27-25, 16-21, 16-14	0:54