Event: | Goalball |
Games: | 2024 Summer |
Venue: | Stade Pierre de Coubertin (Pierre de Coubertin Stadium) |
Dates: | 29 August – 5 September 2024[1] |
Prev: | 2020 |
Goalball at the 2024 Summer Paralympics will be held in the Stade Pierre de Coubertin (Pierre de Coubertin Stadium) in Paris, France.[2]
Both men's and women's tournaments were used to qualify ten teams each for the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[3] On 19 November 2021, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) announced that during the 2024 Summer Paralympics,all the team sports would only have eight participating teams for both men and women.[4] This reduced the round-robin games of two events from 40 to 24 games.[5]
Means of qualification | Date | Venue | Berths | Qualified | |
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Host country allocation | 1 | ||||
2022 Goalball World Championships[6] | 5 – 17 December 2022 | 2 | |||
IBSA World Games[7] | 18–27 August 2023 | 1 | |||
IBSA Asia-Pacific Championships[8] | 10–19 November 2023 | 1 | [9] | ||
2023 Parapan American Games[10] | 17 – 23 November 2023 | 1 | |||
IBSA European Championships[11] | 6–17 December 2023 | 1 | |||
IBSA Africa Championships[12] | 8–15 December 2023 | 1 | |||
Total | 8 |
Means of qualification | Date | Venue | Berths | Qualified | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Host country allocation | 1 | ||||
5 – 17 December 2022 | 2 | ||||
18–27 August 2023 | 2 | ||||
IBSA Asia-Pacific Championships | 10–19 November 2023 | 1 | |||
17 – 23 November 2023 | 1 | ||||
IBSA European Championships | 6–17 December 2023 | 1 | |||
Total | 8 |
The eight men's teams were divided into two equal groups for a single round robin group stage. The top four teams of each group advanced to the quarter finals. All matches in the second stage were knock-out format.
Group A: Brazil, Iran, USA, France.
Group B: China, Ukraine, Egypt, Japan.[13]
The eight women's teams were divided into two equal groups for a single round robin group stage. The top four teams of each group advanced to the quarter finals. All matches in the second stage were knock-out format.
Group C: Türkiye, Israel, China, Brazil.
Group D: South Korea, Canada, France, Japan.
Men's tournament | ||||
Women's tournament |