Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's African qualification explained

Competition:Men's African Olympic Qualification Tournament
Continent:Africa
Year:2020
City:Cairo
Dates:7–11 January
Teams:5
Confederations:1
Venues:1
Cities:1
Champions:TUN
Title Number:4
Second:EGY
Third:ALG
Fourth:CMR
Matches:6
Website:FIVB
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The African Qualification Tournament for the 2020 Men's Olympic Volleyball Tournament was a volleyball tournament for men's national teams held in Cairo, Egypt from 7 to 11 January 2020. 5 teams played in the tournament and the winners Tunisia qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics.[1]

Qualification

Seven CAVB national teams which had not yet qualified to the 2020 Summer Olympics entered qualification.[2] But, Botswana and Niger later withdrew. In addition, Ghana were disqualified for not arriving in Cairo until just before the beginning of the tournament. All of Ghana's matches were forfeited and Ghana were ranked in last place in the final standing.

Venue

Pool standing procedure

  1. Number of matches won
  2. Match points
  3. Sets ratio
  4. Points ratio
  5. Result of the last match between the tied teams

Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser

Round robin

Final standing

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width=10px bgcolor=#ccffccQualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics

Qualifying team for Summer Olympics

TeamQualified ondata-sort-type="number"Previous appearances in Summer Olympics
6 (1972, 1984, 1988, 1996, 2004, 2012)

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Drawing of lots for Volleyball Olympic qualifiers done . 17 December 2019 . . 29 December 2019.
  2. Web site: Last stop on Road to Tokyo 2020 all set up . 23 October 2019 . . 29 December 2019.