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Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour
Olympic Games Paris 2024
Monday, July 29, 2024 Stadium Court 16:00

Match #6: Pool F

(6) Arnaud Gauthier-Rat/Youssef Krou, France
vs.
(19) Chase Budinger/Miles Evans, United States

Arnaud Gauthier-Rat
France

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Oct 22, 1996 (27 yrs old)

Home Town:

Saint Maurice

Height:

196 cm (6'5")

Weight:

90 kg (198 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

Career Wins:

Career Winnings:

US$91,563.58

Youssef Krou
France

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Jun 19, 1989 (35 yrs old)

Home Town:

Agadir, Morocco

Height:

190 cm (6'3")

Weight:

96 kg (211 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

Career Wins:

Career Winnings:

US$154,118.60

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	19	21	25	37	Money
FIVB	28	1	2	1	0	3	0	10	2	4	2	1	1	1	US$118,947.00

Previous Paris Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2022	Youssef Krou - 9th	Arnaud Gauthier-Rat - 9th
2023	Youssef Krou - 9th	Arnaud Gauthier-Rat - 9th

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	7/10-14/2024	Elite16 Vienna	Q3	17th	400	US$0.00
FIVB	6/5-9/2024	Elite16 Ostrava	14, Q9	13th	460	US$5,000.00
FIVB	5/30-6/2/2024	Challenge Stare Jablonki	20, Q5	9th	460	US$2,500.00
FIVB	5/1-5/2024	Elite16 Brasília	Q8	21st	340	US$0.00
FIVB	4/25-28/2024	Challenge Xiamen	21	2nd	760	US$8,000.00
FIVB	4/17-21/2024	Elite16 Tepic	Q12	17th	400	US$0.00
FIVB	4/11-14/2024	Challenge Guadalajara	Q4	25th	220	US$0.00
FIVB	10/19-22/2023	Challenge Goa	5	19th	300	US$1,000.00
FIVB	10/6-15/2023	Beach Volleyball World Championships	22	37th	160	US$3,400.00
FIVB	9/27-10/1/2023	Elite16 Paris	4	9th	600	US$6,000.00

Olympic Games Paris 2024 Matches

Date

Bracket

Opponent

Score

Time

Mon, 7/29/2024

Pool F

Chase Budinger / Miles Evans, United States (19)

Lost 14-21, 11-21

0:30

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Arnaud Gauthier-Rat	Total	12	4	8	-0.333	0	3	0	2
	1	5	2	3	-0.200	0	2	0	0
	2	7	2	5	-0.429	0	1	0	2
Youssef Krou	Total	19	8	5	0.158	0	0	3	1
	1	11	4	2	0.182	0	0	2	1
	2	8	4	3	0.125	0	0	1	0

Tue, 7/30/2024

Pool F

Adrian Gavira / Pablo Herrera, Spain (18)

Lost 21-23, 23-21, 8-15

1:09

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Arnaud Gauthier-Rat	Total	21	12	4	0.381	0	7	2	5
	1	10	6	2	0.400	0	2	1	1
	2	7	3	2	0.143	0	3	1	2
	3	4	3	0	0.750	0	2	0	2
Youssef Krou	Total	48	24	11	0.271	5	4	0	0
	1	20	9	3	0.300	1	3	0	0
	2	16	12	2	0.625	4	1	0	0
	3	12	3	6	-0.250	0	0	0	0

Fri, 8/2/2024

Pool F

Stefan Boermans / Yorick de Groot, Netherlands (7)

Lost 15-21, 16-21

0:38

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Arnaud Gauthier-Rat	Total	15	9	3	0.400	0	7	1	5
	1	9	4	3	0.111	0	4	0	2
	2	6	5	0	0.833	0	3	1	3
Youssef Krou	Total	28	11	4	0.250	4	1	0	1
	1	13	4	2	0.154	3	0	0	1
	2	15	7	2	0.333	1	1	0	0

Overall Tournament Stats
Player	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Arnaud Gauthier-Rat	48	25	15	0.208	0	17	3	12
Youssef Krou	95	43	20	0.242	9	5	3	2
Total	143	68	35	0.231	9	22	6	14
Opponents	130	82	18	0.492	13	28	7	15

World Championships, World Tour Finals Results

Year	Event	Location	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2015	World Championships	The Hague	Did not play	Edouard Rowlandson - 17th
2019	World Tour Finals	Rome	Quincy Aye - 9th	Did not play
2022	World Championships	Rome	Youssef Krou - 17th	Arnaud Gauthier-Rat - 17th
2023	World Championships	Tlaxcala	Youssef Krou - 37th	Arnaud Gauthier-Rat - 37th

Chase Budinger
United States

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

May 22, 1988 (36 yrs old)

Home Town:

Encinitas, CA

Height:

201 cm (6'7")

Weight:

94 kg (207 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

Career Wins:

1 (FIVB Haikou 2023)

Career Winnings:

US$77,625.00

Miles Evans
United States

Photo: FIVB

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Nov 12, 1989 (34 yrs old)

Home Town:

Santa Barbara, CA

Height:

193 cm (6'4")

Weight:

81 kg (178 lb)

Seasons:

Tournaments:

Career Wins:

Career Winnings:

US$80,232.20

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	19	21	25	Money
FIVB	25	1	1	1	2	5	0	7	1	3	1	2	1	US$99,250.00

Previous Paris Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2022	Did not play	Andy Benesh - 17th
2023	Miles Evans - 21st	Chase Budinger - 21st

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
FIVB	7/3-7/2024	Elite16 Gstaad	7	9th	600	US$6,000.00
FIVB	6/5-9/2024	Elite16 Ostrava	Q1	17th	400	US$0.00
FIVB	5/30-6/2/2024	Challenge Stare Jablonki	4	5th	600	US$3,750.00
FIVB	5/22-26/2024	BPT Elite16 Espinho	13, Q1	5th	760	US$8,000.00
FIVB	5/1-5/2024	Elite16 Brasília	9	5th	760	US$8,000.00
FIVB	4/25-28/2024	Challenge Xiamen	4	4th	680	US$6,000.00
FIVB	4/17-21/2024	Elite16 Tepic	Q3	17th	400	US$0.00
FIVB	4/11-14/2024	Challenge Guadalajara	7	9th	460	US$2,500.00
FIVB	3/28-31/2024	Challenge Saquarema	3	5th	600	US$3,750.00
FIVB	3/21-24/2024	Challenge Recife	5	4th	680	US$6,000.00
FIVB	3/5-9/2024	Elite16 Doha	13, Q3	13th	460	US$5,000.00
FIVB	11/30-12/3/2023	Challenge Nuvali	1	5th	600	US$3,750.00
FIVB	11/16-19/2023	Challenge Chiang Mai	3	3rd	720	US$7,000.00
FIVB	11/2-5/2023	Challenge Haikou	5	1st	800	US$10,000.00
FIVB	10/19-22/2023	Challenge Goa	9	9th	460	US$2,500.00
FIVB	10/6-15/2023	Beach Volleyball World Championships	45	17th	640	US$7,000.00
FIVB	9/27-10/1/2023	Elite16 Paris	Q14	21st	340	US$0.00

Olympic Games Paris 2024 Matches

Date

Bracket

Opponent

Score

Time

Mon, 7/29/2024

Pool F

Arnaud Gauthier-Rat / Youssef Krou, France (6)

Won 21-14, 21-11

0:30

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Chase Budinger	Total	11	6	2	0.364	4	1	3	2
	1	7	3	1	0.286	0	1	2	1
	2	4	3	1	0.500	4	0	1	1
Miles Evans	Total	18	13	3	0.556	2	6	0	3
	1	11	8	2	0.545	2	6	0	1
	2	7	5	1	0.571	0	0	0	2

Tue, 7/30/2024

Pool F

Stefan Boermans / Yorick de Groot, Netherlands (7)

Lost 13-21, 15-21

0:34

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Chase Budinger	Total	20	11	5	0.300	0	1	1	1
	1	13	7	3	0.308	0	1	0	1
	2	7	4	2	0.286	0	0	1	0
Miles Evans	Total	19	10	5	0.263	0	0	1	5
	1	10	4	4	0.000	0	0	0	1
	2	9	6	1	0.556	0	0	1	4

Fri, 8/2/2024

Pool F

Adrian Gavira / Pablo Herrera, Spain (18)

Lost 18-21, 11-21

0:36

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Chase Budinger	Total	13	6	3	0.231	1	0	1	1
	1	5	3	1	0.400	0	0	1	1
	2	8	3	2	0.125	1	0	0	0
Miles Evans	Total	26	11	8	0.115	0	3	2	2
	1	16	7	4	0.188	0	2	1	1
	2	10	4	4	0.000	0	1	1	1

Sat, 8/3/2024

Lucky Loser

Thomas Hodges / Zachery Schubert, Australia (15)

Won 21-19, 21-17

0:38

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Chase Budinger	Total	20	13	3	0.500	4	3	0	3
	1	13	7	3	0.308	3	1	0	2
	2	7	6	0	0.857	1	2	0	1
Miles Evans	Total	11	10	0	0.909	0	1	1	7
	1	7	7	0	1.000	0	0	0	2
	2	4	3	0	0.750	0	1	1	5

Mon, 8/5/2024

Winner 1

Anders Mol / Christian Sorum, Norway (2)

Lost 16-21, 14-21

0:36

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Chase Budinger	Total	17	8	4	0.235	4	3	0	2
	1	6	3	2	0.167	2	1	0	1
	2	11	5	2	0.273	2	2	0	1
Miles Evans	Total	26	12	7	0.192	0	9	0	2
	1	16	8	6	0.125	0	5	0	2
	2	10	4	1	0.300	0	4	0	0

Overall Tournament Stats
Player	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Chase Budinger	81	44	17	0.333	13	8	5	9
Miles Evans	100	56	23	0.330	2	19	4	19
Total	181	100	40	0.331	15	27	9	28
Opponents	173	99	32	0.387	16	22	14	22

World Championships Results

Year	Event	Location	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2023	World Championships	Tlaxcala	Miles Evans - 17th	Chase Budinger - 17th

Head to Head Results
Gauthier-Rat/Krou lead the series 3-2

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
7/29/24	FIVB	Olympic Games Paris 2024	Pool F	Budinger/Evans	19	Gauthier-Rat/Krou	6	21-14, 21-11	0:30
6/5/24	FIVB	Elite16 Ostrava	Qualifier 2	Gauthier-Rat/Krou	14, Q9	Budinger/Evans	Q1	21-17, 25-23	0:37
4/28/24	FIVB	Challenge Xiamen	Semi-Finals	Gauthier-Rat/Krou	21	Budinger/Evans	4	21-18, 21-18	0:39
4/26/24	FIVB	Challenge Xiamen	Pool D	Gauthier-Rat/Krou	21	Budinger/Evans	4	21-9, 21-18	0:35
7/27/23	FIVB	Elite16 Montréal	Pool A	Budinger/Evans	16, Q13	Gauthier-Rat/Krou	9	15-21, 21-18, 15-10	0:42