Canada mixes up girls’s seaside volleyball pairings forward of Paris podium pursuit
Two-time Olympian Sarah Pavan will workforce up with world silver medallist Sophie Bukovec in a quest for a medal on the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Melissa Humana-Paredes will play with Brandie Wilkerson.
Pavan and Humana-Paredes, who received the world title in 2019, introduced in August they have been splitting up after 5 years collectively.
Pavan, from Kitchener, Ont., and Toronto’s Humana-Paredes additionally captured their second Commonwealth Video games gold medal this previous summer season in Birmingham, England, and have climbed the World Tour podium quite a few instances. They have been eradicated within the quarter-finals eventually 12 months’s Tokyo Olympics.
Toronto’s Wilkerson completed fifth in Tokyo with earlier accomplice Heather Bansley and received silver with Bukovec, from Toronto, on the 2022 world championships.
WATCH | Wilkerson, Bukovec workforce for silver at worlds:
Brazil’s Eduarda Santos Lisboa and Ana Patricia Silva Ramos defeated Canada’s Sophie Bukovec and Brandie Wilkerson in straight units to win the gold medal on the FIVB Seashore Volleyball World Championship in Rome.
Nations can ship solely two groups per gender to the Video games. The Olympic rating qualification interval for the Paris Video games runs from Jan. 1, 2023 to June 9, 2024, with one of the best 12 occasions per workforce counting towards rating.
The winner of the 2023 world championships earn an automated Olympic berth.