Continental Qualification confirm place for Tokyo 2020 Games
What a great weekend of volleyball we have witnessed as the
qualification for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games was complete!
Five of the world’s best volleyball nations secured their
place and now all eyes are on Japan in August.
The men’s national teams of Canada, France, Iran, Tunisia
and Venezuela won their respective pools in the Continental
Tokyo Volleyball Qualification 2020 tournaments.
They will join hosts Japan and the men’s volleyball teams of
Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Poland, Russia and the USA, who
qualified for Tokyo 2020 through the intercontinental
qualification tournaments in August last year.
The women’s national teams of Argentina, the Dominican
Republic, Kenya, Korea and Turkey finished top of their
pools in the women’s event, and will join Brazil, China,
Italy, Russia, Serbia and the USA, who qualified back in
August 2019, alongside Japan as host.
Each team that qualified received a traditional Japanese
Daruma Doll as a symbol of luck and prosperity to accompany
them on their year-long journey to the Japanese capital for
the Olympic Games.
The FIVB digital team were also busy during throughout the
Continental Tokyo Volleyball Qualification tournaments,
providing coverage and highlight clips of the games to
volleyball’s international fanbase.
With the help of the innovative artificial intelligence and
automatic clipping, the FIVB digital team produced over 764
content pieces, which reached over 71 million fans on the
FIVB social media and web channels.
Some of the key highlights from the week of events:
The Final of the AVC Men’s Continental Tokyo Volleyball
Qualification tournament reached over 1 million viewers
through its Facebook live-stream and the FIVB’s YouTube
account.
The highlights of Turkey's victory over Germany at the CEV
Continental Tokyo Volleyball Qualification Tournament
received a total of 1.2 million views on Twitter, becoming
one of the top 5 most viewed posts on the platform within a
24 hour period.
The first match of the CEV Continental Tokyo Volleyball
Qualification match between France and Serbia was one of the
most viewed highlights during the tournaments, with a total
of over 600k views from ether Facebook, YouTube or Twitter.
Congratulation to the winners on taking one step closer to
realising their Olympic dreams, and I wish you all the very
best of luck in their preparations for Tokyo 2020!
What a great weekend of volleyball we have witnessed as the
qualification for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games was complete!
Five of the world’s best volleyball nations secured their
place and now all eyes are on Japan in August.
The men’s national teams of Canada, France, Iran, Tunisia
and Venezuela won their respective pools in the Continental
Tokyo Volleyball Qualification 2020 tournaments.
They will join hosts Japan and the men’s volleyball teams of
Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Poland, Russia and the USA, who
qualified for Tokyo 2020 through the intercontinental
qualification tournaments in August last year.
Yours in sport,
ARY S. GRAÇA F°
FIVB President
