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ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT VOLLEYBALL AND BEACH VOLLEYBALL AT PARIS
2024!
Get ready for the sporting action starting on Saturday!
Olympic volleyball and beach volleyball action at the Olympic Games
Paris 2024 starts on 27 July
Here is everything you need to know ahead of catching all the action
You will find all the information on the venues, the formulas, the teams
and the schedules for the competitions.
We are just days away from the start of the Olympic Games Paris 2024,
including some of the most exciting events of the year in both
volleyball and beach volleyball. Action in both sports will get underway
on Saturday, sparking volleyball fever among spectators and fans all
over the world.
VOLLEYBALL
DATES:
The volleyball matches at Paris 2024 will be held from 27 July to 11
August to determine the 16th Olympic volleyball champions in each
gender.
VENUE:
The competitions will be held at the well-known Pavilion 1 of the South
Paris Arena.
FORMAT:
The Olympic volleyball tournaments at Paris 2024 will be conducted under
a new format. The 12 participating teams, representing all five
continental confederations, per gender will be split into three single
round-robin pools of four. The pool winners, the pool runners-up and the
two best ranked third-placed teams will advance to the quarterfinals.
The competition will then progress in a single-elimination format with
the quarterfinals, the semifinals and the medal matches. The Olympic
champion in each gender will be determined after 26 matches, played
within a period of 16 days.
On each competition day through the quarterfinal stage, four matches
will be played starting at 09:00, 13:00, 17:00 and 21:00 local time. The
men’s semifinals will be played on 7 August and the women’s semifinals
will take place on 8 August, at 16:00 and 20:00 local time on each of
the two days. The 9 August program includes a single match, the men’s
bronze medal game at 16:00. The men’s final will start at 13:00 on 10
August, to be followed be the women’s third-place match at 17:15. In the
conclusion of the volleyball events in Paris, the women’s Olympic gold
medalist will be determined in the final on 11 August, starting at
13:00.
For the first time in the history of the Olympic volleyball competition,
each team is entitled to include one alternate player who will be
available for selection in case of illness or injury. This means that
team rosters are increased from 12 to 13 athletes.
USEFUL LINKS:
Paris 2024 participating women’s and men’s volleyball
teams
Paris 2024 full volleyball schedule
Paris 2024 volleyball competition
formula
Paris 2024 volleyball news
Paris 2024 volleyball tickets
BEACH VOLLEYBALL
DATES:
The beach volleyball battles at Paris 2024 will last from 27 July to 10
August.
VENUE:
The competition will unfold at the Eiffel
Tower Stadium in Champ-de-Mars Park at the foot of the French
capital’s most famous landmark. A temporary outdoor arena with an
impressive capacity of more than 14,000 seats will provide an
exceptional setting for participants and spectators alike. It will be
the eighth time beach volleyball has been present at the Olympic Games.
FORMAT:
The format for the beach volleyball tournament at Paris 2024 will remain
the same as in Tokyo 2020. A total of 24 teams per gender from all five
continental confederations will compete at the Olympic Games. They were
split into six single round-robin pools of four for the first stage of
the competition. The six pool winners, the six pool runners-up and the
two best ranked third-placed teams will advance directly to the eighth
finals. The remaining four third-placed teams will move on to a
sixteenth final round, the so-called “lucky loser” playoffs, set to get
the single-elimination-format stage underway. After the eighth final
playoffs, quarterfinal and semifinal rounds will eventually lead to the
medal matches on the last competition days, 9 August for women and 10
August for men. The Olympic champions will be determined after a total
of 108 matches in both genders, played within a period of 15 days.
The first competition day’s program on 27 July will offer a total of six
matches. Six games are also included on the last day of the pool stage
program, 3 August, but the first elimination matches of the sixteenth
final round, will also be played that evening. On each day in between,
10 matches will be contested at the Eiffel Tower Stadium, split into
three sessions – a morning session starting at 09:00 local time and
featuring four consecutive games, an afternoon session starting at 15:00
and featuring three games, and an evening session starting at 20:00 and
featuring three games.
USEFUL LINKS:
Paris 2024 participating women’s and men’s beach
volleyball teams
Paris 2024 full beach volleyball schedule
Paris 2024 beach volleyball competition
formula
Paris 2024 beach volleyball news
Paris 2024 beach volleyball tickets |
