The men's
beach volleyball
Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two or more players on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side of the ...
tournament at the
2020 Olympic Games
The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July.
Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ...
in
Tokyo
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, Japan, took place at the
Shiokaze Park
Shiokaze Park is a public park and was a temporary beach volleyball sport venue for the 2020 Summer Olympics, located in Tokyo, Japan.
History
Shiokaze Park opened on June 1, 1974. It is located in Odaiba Island in Tokyo and has a view of th ...
. The competition was held from 24 July to 7 August 2021. It was originally scheduled to take place from 25 July to 8 August 2020, but due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identif ...
, the IOC and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee announced on 24 March 2020 that the 2020 Summer Olympics would be delayed to 2021. Because of this pandemic, the games were played
behind closed doors. Twenty four teams with 48 athletes around the world competed for the gold medal.
Anders Mol
Anders Berntsen Mol (born 2 July 1997) is a Norwegian beach volleyball player. He won the gold medal at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
Beach career
Mol learned to play beach volleyball as a teenager. His parents introduced him to the sport. Toge ...
and
Christian Sørum
Christian Sandlie Sørum (born 3 December 1995) is a Norwegian beach volleyball player. He won the gold medal at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
Beach career
Sorum has been playing beach volleyball in national and international tournaments since ...
captured the gold medal after defeating
Viacheslav Krasilnikov and
Oleg Stoyanovskiy in the final, while
Cherif Younousse
Cherif Younousse Samba (born May 22, 1995) is a QATARI BORN Olympic beach volleyball player competing for Qatar. In 2018, he alongside Ahmed Tijan clinched the gold medal at the 2018 Asian Games in Palembang, Indonesia.
He competed in the 2016 ...
and
Ahmed Tijan took home bronze.
The medals for the competition were presented by
Kristin Kloster Aasen
Kristin Kloster Aasen (born 4 January 1961) is the former first vice president of Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports from 2015 to 2019. She was the president of the Norwegian Equestrian Federation from 2003 to ...
,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
;
IOC Member, and the medalists' bouquets were presented by
Ary Graça,
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
;
FIVB President.
Qualification
Teams
Twenty four teams were drawn in six pools of four teams.
*Taylor Crabb
Taylor Crabb (born January 26, 1992) is an American beach volleyball player who plays as a left-side defender with his partner Taylor Sander. He has won eight tournaments on the AVP Pro Tour, as well as one gold medal on the FIVB World Tour. ...
of the United States originally qualified to play with Gibb, but was tested positive for
COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei, identified in Wuhan, China, in December ...
and was replaced by Bourne.
Draw
The draw was made on 5 July 2021.
Referees
The following referees were selected for the tournament.
* Osvaldo Sumavil
* Mário Ferro
* Wang Lijun
* Juan Carlos Saavedra
* Charalampos Papadogoulas
* Mariko Satomi
* Davide Crescentini
* Agnieszka Myszkowska
* Rui Carvalho
* Roman Pristovakin
* Giovanni Bake
* José María Padrón
* Brig Beatie
Preliminary round
''All times are local (
UTC+9
UTC+09:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +09:00.
During the Japanese occupations of British Borneo, Burma, Hong Kong, Dutch East Indies, Malaya, Philippines, Singapore, and French Indochina, it was used as a common time with ...
).''
Pool A
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Pool B
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Pool C
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Pool D
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Pool E
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Pool F
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Lucky losers
The table below shows the ranking of third-placed teams in the preliminary round. The top two teams advanced to next round automatically. The other teams competed for the two remaining spots. The third-ranked team played against the sixth-ranked team, and the fourth-ranked team played against the fifth-ranked team.
Lucky loser playoffs
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Knockout stage
The round of sixteen pair up were determined by drawing of lots. The six first ranked teams in the preliminary pools were separated automatically. Then, the lucky loser playoffs winners were drawn. The two best third ranked were drawn next. And, the last drawing belonged to the second ranked teams. The teams from the same pool in the preliminary round could not meet in round of 16.
Bracket
Round of 16
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Quarterfinals
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Semifinals
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Bronze medal game
Gold medal game
Final ranking
See also
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Notes
References
External links
Official website
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2021 in beach volleyball
2020
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Men's events at the 2020 Summer Olympics