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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.
The men's beach volleyball tournament at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, took place at the Copacabana Stadium. The competition was held from 6 to 18 August 2016. Twenty four teams with 48 athletes around the world competed for the gold medal.
A National Olympic Committee is permitted to enter two teams in the beach volleyball tournament; a rule that allowed the United States and Brazil to win both gold and silver in men's and women's beach volleyball respectively that year. [10] [11] Atlanta also saw the Dutch men's indoor team improve their Barcelona silver to a gold.
A beach volleyball match at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Beach volleyball is played on a rectangular sand court. The court is 16 m (52.5 ft) long and 8 m (26.2 ft) wide, surrounded by a clear space, which is at least 3 m (9.8 ft) wide on all sides. The minimum height clearance for beach volleyball courts is 7 m (23.0 ft).
Wilkerson and Humana-Paredes will return to Canada with the country's first beach volleyball medal since the men won bronze at the 1996 Atlanta Games. That team was coached by Humana-Paredes' father.
Beach volleyball: 1 1 1 2004 Athens: 1 0 0 3 2008 Beijing: 0 0 1 2012 London: 0 1 0 Ricardo Santos: M Beach volleyball: 1 1 1 2000 Sydney: 0 1 0 3 2004 Athens: 1 0 0 2008 Beijing: 0 0 1 24 Alison Cerutti: M Beach volleyball: 1 1 0 2012 London: 0 1 0 2 2016 Rio de Janeiro: 1 0 0 Amauri Ribeiro: M Volleyball: 1 1 0 1984 Los Angeles: 0 1 0 2 1992 ...
United States and Brazil have won most of the Olympic medals of beach volleyball. Picture shows then U.S. President George W. Bush with Misty May-Treanor (left) and Kerri Walsh Jennings of the U.S. Women's Beach Volleyball team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The official cut off date for Olympic qualification for beach volleyball was July 20, 2008.
The top six teams from the FIVB beach volleyball Olympic ranking as of 12 June 2016 [2] were seeded at the first row of each pools from pool A to F. The seventh to ninth from the ranking were drawn first in pool F, E, or D. Then, the tenth to twelfth were drawn in pool C, B, or A. The next row was filled by the teams ranked thirteenth to ...