Friday, June 17, 2016

Who Has Qualified For Rio 2016 Olympic Games So Far?


Beach Volleyball at Rio 2016 Olympic Games will be taking place on the sands of  Coppacabana on August 06-18. 24 men and 24 women teams will be playing at this iconic beach for gold medal.

According the Olympic qualification system approved by the IOC,  the 18 team of 24 per gender is clear by the 13 th of June.

1 team Host Country Vacancy (Brasil)
1 team Vacancy for 2015 World Champions (Brasil)
15 teams according the World Tour Rankings by 13th of June respecting the max. of 2 (two) quota per country, per gender.
1 team winners of CAVB Continental Cup per gender (Tunisia men and Egypt women teams)

You can see the teams who qualified for Rio 2016 by World Tour rankings, in the below or by clicking here for men or for women ;

Olympic Rankings for Women as of 13 th of June

Olympic Rankings for Men as of 13 th of June

I want to add my photos and video for the last two country's who have qualified according the World Tour Rankings,

For Women's side ; 

16 - Gallay/Klug (ARG)


Team Gallay/Klug (Argentina) during FIVB Antalya Open 2016


17- Wang/Yue (CHN)

Team Wang/Yue (China) during FIVB World Championships 2015





For Men's side ; 

16 - Schalk/Saxton (CAN)

Team Schalk/Saxton (Canada) during FIVB World Championships 2015

17 - Virgen/Ontiveros (MEX) 

Team Virgen/Ontiveros (Mexico) during FIVB World Championships 2015

The other 4 teams per gender will be determined after Beach Volleyball Continental Cup (Continental Final) on June 22-26

The last 2 teams per gender will be clear after FIVB World Continental Cup (Olympic Qualification) on 06-10 June 2016 at Sochi.





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