Sweden’s Beach Success Explained
Swedens men's beach volleyball recently won gold and silver in the World Championships in November 2025. Prior to that gold in the 2024 Olympics and gold in the 2023 and 2022 European Championships.
What happened in Sweden? How come this country so far north has started dominating the world of beach volleyball? Sweden is now known for "The Swedish Jumpset", but the truth goes deeper than that.
Ulric Svensson, a former national head coach and now director of the top volleyball school of Sweden which fostered recent World Champion Jonatan Hellvig and World Champion runner-up Elmer Andersson, explains how it all started and what happened along the way that led to this massive success.
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