Canada mixes up women’s beach volleyball pairings ahead of Paris podium pursuit | CBC Sports

By Charlie On Oct 21, 2022

Two-time Olympian Sarah Pavan will team up with world silver medallist Sophie Bukovec in a quest for a medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Melissa Humana-Paredes will play with Brandie Wilkerson.

Pavan and Humana-Paredes, who won the world title in 2019, announced in August they were splitting up after five years together.

“We are thrilled to see these top athletes, who have worked so hard at the highest level and know what it takes to reach the podium, form new teams as the world looks ahead to Paris 2024,” Volleyball Canada president and CEO Mark Eckert said in a statement. “It will be very exciting to watch.”

Pavan, from Kitchener, Ont., and Toronto’s Humana-Paredes also captured their second Commonwealth Games gold medal this past summer in Birmingham, England, and have climbed the World Tour podium numerous times. They were eliminated in the quarter-finals at last year’s Tokyo Olympics.

Toronto’s Wilkerson finished fifth in Tokyo with previous partner Heather Bansley and won silver with Bukovec, from Toronto, at the 2022 world championships.

WATCH | Wilkerson, Bukovec team for silver at worlds:

Canada falls to Brazil in beach volleyball world championship final

Brazil’s Eduarda Santos Lisboa and Ana Patricia Silva Ramos defeated Canada’s Sophie Bukovec and Brandie Wilkerson in straight sets to win the gold medal at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championship in Rome.

Countries can send only two teams per gender to the Games. The Olympic ranking qualification period for the Paris Games runs from Jan. 1, 2023 to June 9, 2024, with the best 12 events per team counting toward ranking.

The winner of the 2023 world championships earn an automatic Olympic berth.

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