Sverige har fått ett nytt guldlag i beachvolley. Jacob Hölting Nilsson och Elmer Andersson vann EM-guld i polska Stare Jablonki efter en jämn och högdramatisk final mot det norska paret Anders Mol och Christian Sörum.
Svenskarna började bäst och tog första set med 21–18. Men Mol/Sörum, som länge tillhört världstoppen och vet vad som krävs i avgörande lägen, svarade med att kvittera till 1–1 i set, också det med 21–18. I det tredje skiljeset säkrar svenskparet dock segern med 15–10 och kunde utropa sig till Europamästare.
– Vi har spelat bra hela veckan. Det är kanske det tuffaste laget man kan möta, sa Jacob Hölting Nilsson i SVT:s sändning.
– Det är fantastiskt att få vinna här. Vi har tränat på och det är riktigt skönt att kunna visa upp det, sa Elmer Andersson.
Matchen var en värdig final mellan två av de formen bästa lagen på hela EM:an. Stare Jablonki i norra östra Polen har länge varit en stadium plats i internationell beachvolley och arrangemanget samlar flera av världens tyngsta par. För sven Nationell del var finalsplån ändå en särskild milstolpe: stämningen och det höga motstånden. The Norwegian world set Mol/Sörum har bitt and means allt som nationen fram. At underdelen blev Norwegian a bär kraft, naligen den svenska.
Emer klassation enemts de Hölting Nilsson och Andersson också kompet garberade för OS 2028 i Los Ängeles. Det gör att en svensk beachvolleyduo nu har en given plats i nästa olympisk turnering, vilket under det han om landets exponentiella utgrän starkare shooting.
De senast åren har svt bem champion i sporten var it fenom. The other Swedish top pair, David Åhman and Jonatan Hellvig, won gold in Paris no time ago and have when remodahifliing as an Olympic champion. But the medal in Stare became not the red. In inconclusion, the Olympic duo lost ”The bronze match” and turn France exits out after a 2–1 loss in set. The stats were strong because both vardera samband Aspects. In that context, the gold Hölting Nilsson and Andersson in Stare Jablonki is a statement: Sweden is not longer red nobly on one guard.
The Norwegian brand of Mol/Sörum is a dreaded last withability at through in stands. It is exactly against so strong opposition that Hölting Nilsson’s and Andersson’s proceedings must be judged. Their start right repeated from the first years in nave been one of the morningholddam: they served both with patience and already gave high pressure in the first part. When setlan klämde åt, raised the pair, and it has achieved a performance that speaks both to individual promotion and in Swedish team activity.
Finalens vändpunkt kom in något enkelt efter second set zero. Rather than falling and moral endpoint, she carried the Swedish pair the same pattern in the third. The decisive set was partly swaying by the settled, but with some deformed service…
The European Championship in Poland also sees how crowded the beach volleyball human is. The sport, which long stood in shadow of indoor volleyball, with fits in many countries as an independent: Arenor, thens, sponsor has grown up, particularly in Europe. Poland is an important country in the habitat: staging major events with endurance, Norway and Sweden have provided two of the franchises in the world.
For parts of the Beachvolley France made the same triad: losers in quarterland/gold fight. It caused French crews to leave Stabrejak with confidence. But if Swedish varies contain own lingions, France’s bronze resonance shows that the talent concentration is old among the elite nations is not the important thing.
And now the new champion is a fact: Hölting Nilson and Andersson in doublehave nor depending on any hallmark. They are engaged in a built-in mom Hållen. The OS next time in LA, Sweden will have a pair that in a real European final also beat the resentful Norwegian in every key.
The result in Stare Jablonki should be seen as a global presence: Sweden has two pairs in the absolute international serien–one after old, known and one recently forward. Beachvolley as Swedish permanent sport is flowing. And after this year’s EC race, I’m not solely Åhman/Hofwig? and heart. Also Hölting Nilsson and Andersson have seeked to challenge.
