Volleyball At The 2015 Pan American Games
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(Exhibition Centre). Due to naming rights the arena was known as the latter for the duration of the games. A total of eight men's and women's teams competed in each respective tournament. The tournament was affected by the
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which were played at same time.


Competition schedule

The following is the competition schedule for the volleyball competitions:


Medal table


Medalists


Qualification

A total of eight men's teams and eight women's team will qualify to compete at the games. The top three teams in the
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as of December 31, 2014 along with the top four from North, Central America and The Caribbean will qualify for each respective tournament. The host nation (Canada) automatically qualifies teams in both events. Each nation may enter one team in each tournament (12 athletes per team) for a maximum total of 24 athletes.


Men


Women


Participating nations

A total of ten countries qualified volleyball teams. The numbers in parenthesis represents the number of participants qualified. * * * * * * * * * *


See also

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Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics The volleyball tournaments at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was played between 6 and 21 August. 24 volleyball teams and 48 beach volleyball teams, total 386 athletes, participated in the tournament. The indoor volleyball competitio ...


References

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