Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics explained

Event:	Volleyball
Games:	2020 Summer
Venue:	Ariake Arena (indoor) Shiokaze Park (beach)
Dates:	24 July – 8 August 2021
Competitors:	382
Nations:	31
Num Events:	4
Prev:	2016
Next:	2024

The volleyball tournaments at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were played between 24 July and 8 August 2021. 24 volleyball teams and 48 beach volleyball teams participated in the tournament. The indoor volleyball competition took place at Ariake Arena in Ariake, and the beach volleyball tournament at Shiokaze Park,^{[1] [2]} in the temporary Shiokaze Park Stadium.

It was originally scheduled to take place in 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the IOC and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee announced on 24 March 2020 that the 2020 Summer Olympics would be delayed to 2021.^[3]

Schedule

^[4] ^[5] ^[6]	Sat 24	Sun 25	Mon 26	Tue 27	Wed 28	Thu 29	Fri 30	Sat 31	Sun 1	Mon 2	Tue 3	Wed 4	Thu 5		Fri 6		Sat 7		Sun 8
Men's indoor	P		P		P		P		P		¼		½				B	F
Women's indoor		P		P		P		P		P		¼			½				B	F
	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	⅛	⅛		¼	½				B	F
	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	⅛	⅛	¼		½		B	F

Medal summary

Medalists

Beach volleyball

Men's beach	Anders Mol Christian Sørum	Viacheslav Krasilnikov Oleg Stoyanovskiy	Cherif Younousse Ahmed Tijan
Women's beach	April Ross Alix Klineman	Taliqua Clancy Mariafe Artacho del Solar	Joana Heidrich Anouk Vergé-Dépré

Indoor volleyball

Men's indoor	Barthélémy Chinenyeze Jenia Grebennikov Jean Patry Benjamin Toniutti Kevin Tillie Earvin N'Gapeth Antoine Brizard Stephen Boyer Nicolas Le Goff Daryl Bultor Trévor Clévenot Yacine Louati	Yaroslav Podlesnykh Artem Volvich Dmitry Volkov Ivan Iakovlev Denis Bogdan Pavel Pankov Viktor Poletaev Maxim Mikhailov Egor Kliuka Ilyas Kurkaev Igor Kobzar Valentin Golubev	Matías Sánchez Federico Pereyra Cristian Poglajen Facundo Conte Agustín Loser Santiago Danani Sebastián Solé Bruno Lima Ezequiel Palacios Luciano De Cecco Nicolás Méndez Martín Ramos
Women's indoor	Micha Hancock Jordyn Poulter Justine Wong-Orantes Jordan Larson Annie Drews Jordan Thompson Michelle Bartsch-Hackley Kimberly Hill Foluke Akinradewo Haleigh Washington Kelsey Robinson Chiaka Ogbogu	Carol Gattaz Rosamaria Montibeller Macris Carneiro Roberta Ratzke Gabriela Guimarães Tandara Caixeta^[7] Natália Pereira Ana Carolina da Silva Fernanda Garay Ana Cristina de Souza Camila Brait Ana Beatriz Corrêa	Bianka Buša Mina Popović Slađana Mirković Brankica Mihajlović Maja Ognjenović Ana Bjelica Maja Aleksić Milena Rašić Silvija Popović Tijana Bošković Bojana Milenković Jelena Blagojević

Qualification summary

This qualification pathways were confirmed by the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball on 23 September 2018.^[8]

Men's volleyball

See main article: Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification.

Women's volleyball

See main article: Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification.

Men's beach volleyball

See main article: Beach volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification.

Women's beach volleyball

See main article: Beach volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification.

Men's indoor tournament

See main article: Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament.

Final standings

Women's indoor tournament

See main article: Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament.

Final standings

Men's beach volleyball competition

See main article: Beach volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament.

Final standings

Women's beach volleyball competition

See main article: Beach volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament.

Final standings

See also

• Volleyball at the 2018 Asian Games
• Volleyball at the 2019 Pan American Games
• Sitting volleyball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

External links

• Results book – Beach Volleyball
• Results book – Volleyball

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ariake Arena confirmed as volleyball venue for Tokyo 2020 . 16 December 2016 . . 13 January 2020.
2. Web site: Olympic Sports : Volleyball . tokyo2020.org . 13 January 2020.
3. Web site: Joint Statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee . 24 March 2020 . . 28 March 2020.
4. Web site: Schedule – Volleyball Tokyo 2020 Olympics . Olympian Database . 17 March 2020.
5. Web site: Beach Volleyball Competition Schedule . Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. 17 March 2020.
6. Web site: Volleyball Competition Schedule . . 17 March 2020.
7. Web site: Volleyball (women): Medallists . Olympics.com . 8 August 2021 . 9 August 2021 . 8 August 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210808064422/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/VVO/OG2020-_VVO_C92C_VVOWTEAM6-------------------------.pdf . dead .
8. Web site: Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Tokyo 2020. fivb.org. 23 September 2018.