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Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

The women's tournament in volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics was the 15th edition of the event at an Olympic Games, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB, in conjunction with the IOC. It was held in Tokyo, Japan from 25 July to 8 August 2021. It was originally scheduled to take place from 26 July to 9 August 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.[1] Because of this pandemic, the games were played behind closed doors.[2]

The United States won their first gold after finishing runners-up three times with a 3–0 win over Brazil.[3] Serbia won the bronze medal with a victory over South Korea.[4]

The medals for the competition were presented by Nenad Lalović, IOC Executive Board Member; Serbia, and the medalists' bouquets were presented by Ary Graça, FIVB President; Brazil.

Competition schedule

Qualification


Pools composition

Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 29 September 2019.[6] FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 7th.

Rosters

Venue

Format

The preliminary round was a competition between the twelve teams divided into two pools of six teams. The teams competed in a single round-robin format. The four highest ranked teams in each group advanced to the knockout stage (quarter-finals). The sixth placed teams in each pool were ranked eleventh in this competition. The fifth placed teams in each pool were ranked ninth.[7]

The knockout stage followed the single-elimination format. The losers of the quarter-finals were eliminated and ranked fifth. The quarterfinal winners played in the semi-finals. The winners of the semi-finals competed for gold medals and the losers played for bronze medals.[7]

Pool standing procedure

In order to establish the ranking of teams after the group stage, the following criteria should be implemented:[8]

  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

Referees

The following referees were selected for the tournament.[9]

Preliminary round

Pool A

Source: Tokyo 2020 and FIVB
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Host

Pool B

Source: Tokyo 2020 and FIVB
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Knockout stage

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Tandara Caixeta of Brazil was suspended from the semi-final match against South Korea after a positive out-of-competition drug test for Enobosarm.[12]

Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Statistics leaders

Final standing

Medalists

Awards

The awards were announced on 8 August 2021.[16]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Joint Statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee". olympic.org. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  2. ^ "Tokyo Olympics to be held without fans after new COVID-19 state of emergency declared". usatoday.com. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Drews shines as USA strike gold in Tokyo". FIVB. 8 August 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  4. ^ "Boskovic's 33 bags bronze for Serbia". FIVB. 8 August 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  5. ^ "Host city election for the Olympic Summer Games 2020". IOC. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  6. ^ "FIVB Senior World Ranking – Women (as of 29 September 2019)". FIVB. 29 September 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  7. ^ a b c "Formula". FIVB. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  8. ^ "Pools Ranking Criteria". FIVB. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  9. ^ "Competition Officials" (PDF). olympics.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  10. ^ "Tokyo 2020 schedule confirmed for 2021". FIVB. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  11. ^ "Draw decides women's volleyball quarterfinal pairings". volleyballworld.com. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  12. ^ "Volleyball player claims innocence over positive drug test". reuters.com. 7 August 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
  13. ^ "Tournament Summary" (PDF). olympics.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  14. ^ "Volleyball Olympic Games Tokyo 2020". volleyballworld.com. Retrieved Aug 8, 2021.
  15. ^ "Volleyball (women): Medallists" (PDF). Olympics.com. 8 August 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 August 2021. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  16. ^ "Larson leads women's Tokyo 2020 Dream Team". FIVB. 8 August 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2021.

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