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The women's beach volleyball tournament at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, took place at Eiffel Tower Stadium on the Champ de Mars. The competition was held from 27 July to 9 August 2024. Twenty-four teams consisting of 48 athletes from 17 NOCs competed.
Sara Hughes and Kelly Cheng lost 2-0 to Switzerland's Tanja Hueberli and Nina Brunner on Tuesday, eliminating the remaining American women from the tournament.
Beach volleyball was a demonstration sport at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, at which Sinjin Smith and Randy Stoklos won the men's tournament, and Karolyn Kirby and Nancy Reno won the women's. Beach volleyball was introduced as an official Olympic sport in 1996. A total of 24 teams take part in each beach volleyball Olympic tournament.
May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings, as noted above, won beach volleyball gold medals in 2004, 2008 and 2012. The other is Karch Kiraly, who won gold with the United States men's indoor team in 1984 and 1988 and in beach volleyball in 1996. Kiraly is the only player of either gender to win medals in both indoor and beach volleyball. [15]
The U.S. pair of Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth failed to reach the women's beach volleyball quarterfinals at the Paris Olympics after losing in straight sets to Canada.
USA advances to face Switzerland in the Olympic quarterfinals. ... The pair helped lead USC to the inaugural NCAA beach volleyball championships in 2016 and 2017, including an undefeated 36-0 ...
Summer Olympics record [1] Year U.S. Women's Beach Finishes U.S. Men's Beach Finishes 1996 did not medal Gold (Karch Kiraly and Kent Steffes) Silver (Mike Dodd and Mike Whitmarsh) 2000 did not medal Gold (Dain Blanton and Eric Fonoimoana) 2004 Gold (Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh) did not medal: 2008 Gold (Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh)
Melissa Humana-Paredes has as her cellphone background a picture of herself, as a 3-year-old, holding a bronze medal from the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, when her father coached the Canadian beach ...