2003 Beach Volleyball World Championships

These page shows the results of the IV Beach Volleyball World Championships, held from October 7 to October 12, 2003 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was the fourth official edition of this event, after ten unofficial championships (1987–1996) all held in Rio de Janeiro.

Men's competition[]

Final ranking[]

Rank	Athletes	Seed
	Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos (BRA)	1
	Dax Holdren and Stein Metzger (USA)	15
	Márcio Araújo and Benjamin Insfran (BRA)	2
4.	João Brenha and Miguel Maia (POR)	13
5.	Martin Laciga and Paul Laciga (SUI)	3
	Patrick Heuscher and Stefan Kobel (SUI)	6
	Dain Blanton and Jeff Nygaard (USA)	7
	and  (BRA)	32
9.	Christoph Dieckmann and Andreas Scheuerpflug (GER)	9
	Harley Marques and Franco Neto (BRA)	11
	Vegard Høidalen and Jørre Kjemperud (NOR)	16
	Eric Fonoimoana and Kevin Wong (USA)	20
	Björn Berg and Simon Dahl (SWE)	21
	Julien Prosser and Mark Williams (AUS)	26
	David Klemperer and  (GER)	35
	Ramón Hernández and Raúl Papaleo (PUR)	36
17.	Markus Dieckmann and Jonas Reckermann (GER)	4
	Markus Egger and Sascha Heyer (SUI)	5
	Nikolas Berger and Clemens Doppler (AUT)	8
	Mariano Baracetti and Martín Conde (ARG)	17
	Francisco Álvarez and Juan Rossell (CUB)	18
	Iver Horrem and Bjørn Maaseide (NOR)	23
	Jody Holden and Conrad Leinemann (CAN)	24
	Fábio Luiz Magalhães and  (BRA)	25
	and  (ESP)	27
	Javier Bosma and Pablo Herrera (ESP)	28
	and Dmitri Barsouk (RUS)	29
	Pedro Cunha and Tande Ramos (BRA)	30
	Rogério Ferreira and  (BRA)	31
	Jörg Ahmann and Axel Hager (GER)	39
	and  (NED)	40
	and  (ITA)	46
33.	Todd Rogers and Sean Scott (USA)	12
	Jefferson Bellaguarda and  (BRA)	17
	and  (FRA)	38
	Katsuhiro Shiratori and Satoshi Watanabe (JPN)	43
37.	and  (AUT)	14
	Stéphane Canet and Mathieu Hamel (FRA)	19
	and Raul Mesa (ESP)	22
	Peter Gartmayer and Robert Nowotny (AUT)	33
	John Child and Mark Heese (CAN)	34
	and Emiel Boersma (NED)	37
	Kristjan Kais and Rivo Vesik (EST)	41
	and  (FRA)	42
	Kentaro Asahi and Koichi Nishimura (JPN)	44
	and  (SWE)	45
	Pavlos Beligratis and Thanassis Michalopoulos (GRE)	47
	and  (ANG)	37

Women's competition[]

Final ranking[]

Rank	Athletes	Seed
	Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh (USA)	1
	Shelda Bede and Adriana Behar (BRA)	3
	Natalie Cook and Nicole Sanderson (AUS)	5
4.	Annett Davis and Jenny Johnson Jordan (USA)	7
5.	Ana Paula Connelly and Sandra Pires (BRA)	2
	Holly McPeak and Elaine Youngs (USA)	6
	Simone Kuhn and Nicole Schnyder-Benoit (SUI)	8
	and Renata Ribeiro (BRA)	41
9.	Eva Celbová and Sona Novaková (CZE)	12
	Dianne DeNecochea and  (USA)	13
	Stephanie Pohl and Okka Rau (GER)	14
	Wang Lu and You Wenhui (CHN)	24
	Lina Yanchulova and Petia Yanchulova (BUL)	30
	Guylaine Dumont and Annie Martin (CAN)	35
	and  (GER)	40
	Juliana Silva and Jackie Silva (BRA)	9
17.	Tian Jia and Wang Fei (CHN)	4
	Vasso Karadassiou and Efi Sfyri (GRE)	9
	Susanne Lahme and Danja Müsch (GER)	10
	Dalixia Fernández and Tamara Larrea (CUB)	11
	Vassiliki Arvaniti and Efthalia Koutroumanidou (GRE)	15
	Leigh-Ann Naidoo and Julia Willand (RSA)	16
	Rebekka Kadijk and Marrit Leenstra (NED)	18
	and  (BRA)	19
	Mayra García and Hilda Gaxiola (MEX)	17
	and Jana Vollmer (GER)	21
	Angela Clarke and  (AUS)	22
	Nila Håkedal and Ingrid Tørlen (NOR)	23
	Chiaki Kusuhara and  (JPN)	28
	and  (CAN)	34
	and  (FRA)	44
	Larissa França and Ana Richa (BRA)	47
33.	Daniela Gattelli and Lucilla Perrotta (ITA)	25
	and  (CAN)	31
	and  (AUT)	32
	Mônica Rodrigues and  (BRA)	36
37.	and Wanda Guenette (CAN)	17
	Milagros Crespo and Imara Esteves (CUB)	26
	and  (FRA)	27
	Susanne Glesnes and Kathrine Maaseide (NOR)	6
	Krisztina Nagy and  (HUN)	33
	Laura Bruschini and Annamaria Solazzi (ITA)	37
	and Cati Pol (ESP)	38
	Katerina Nikolaidou and Maria Tsiartsiani (GRE)	39
	and  (NOR)	42
	and Angelica Ljungquist (SWE)	43
	Rii Seike and  (JPN)	45

References[]

• Beach Volleyball Results