The Paris 2024 Olympics has unveiled the matchups for the upcoming beach volleyball tournament, which will commence in less than a month. The draw took place at the Olympic beach volleyball stadium in Champ-de-Mars Park, set to host matches from July 27 to August 10.
Men’s Beach Volleyball Pools
Pool A: Sweden (David Åhman/Jonatan Hellvig), Italy (Paolo Nicolai/Samuele Cottafava), Qatar (Cherif Younousse/Ahmed Tijan), Australia (Mark Nicolaidis/Izac Carracher)
Pool B: Norway (Anders Mol/Christian Sørum), Netherlands (Matthew Immers/Steven van de Velde), Italy (Alex Ranghieri/Adrian Carambula), Chile (Marco Grimalt/Esteban Grimalt)
Pool C: Germany (Nils Ehlers/Clemens Wickler), Poland (Michal Bryl/Bartosz Łosiak), Australia (Thomas Hodges/Zachery Schubert), France (Julien Lyneel/Rémi Bassereau)
Pool D: Brazil (Andre Loyola/George Wanderley), USA (Andy Benesh/Miles Partain), Cuba (Noslen Diaz/Jorge Alayo), Morocco (Mohammed Abicha/Zouheir Elgraoui)
Pool E: Czechia (Ondrej Perusic/David Schweiner), Brazil (Evandro Gonçalves/Arthur Lanci), Austria (Julian Hörl/Alexander Horst), Canada (Sam Schachter/Dan Dearing)
Pool F: France (Youssef Krou/Arnaud Gauthier-Rat), Netherlands (Stefan Boermans/Yorick de Groot), Spain (Pablo Herrera/Adrián Gavira), USA (Miles Evans/Chase Budinger)
Women’s Beach Volleyball Pools
Pool A: Brazil (Eduarda ‘Duda’ Lisboa/Ana Patrícia Ramos), Italy (Marta Menegatti/Valentina Gottardi), Spain (Liliana Fernández/Paula Soria), Egypt (Doaa Elghobashy/Marwa Abdelhady)
Pool B: USA (Taryn Kloth/Kristen Nuss), China (Chen Xue/Xinyi Xia), Australia (Taliqua Clancy/Mariafe Artacho), Canada (Heather Bansley/Sophie Bukovec)
Pool C: USA (Kelly Cheng/Sara Hughes), Germany (Cinja Tillmann/Svenja Müller), France (Clémence Vieira/Aline Chamereau), Czechia (Barbora Hermannová/Marie-Sára Štochlova)
Pool D: Canada (Brandie Wilkerson/Melissa Humana-Paredes), Latvia (Tina Graudina/Anastasija Samoilova), Switzerland (Esmée Böbner/Zoé Vergé-Dépré), Paraguay (Michelle Valiente/Giuliana Poletti)
Pool E: Brazil (Carol Salgado/Bárbara Seixas), Netherlands (Raisa Schoon/Katja Stam), Lithuania (Monika Paulikiene/Aine Raupelyte), Japan (Miki Ishii/Akiko Hasegawa)
Pool F: France (Alexia Richard/Lézana Placette), Switzerland (Nina Brunner/Tanja Hüberli), Spain (Daniela Álvarez/Tania Moreno), Germany (Laura Ludwig/Louisa Lippmann)
Tournament Format
The tournament will follow the same format as Tokyo 2020, with 24 teams in each gender divided into six pools. Each team will face their three pool opponents once. The top two teams from each pool, along with the two best third-placed teams, will advance directly to the Round of 16. The remaining four third-placed teams will compete in a “lucky loser” round to fill the last two spots in the Round of 16. From there, the tournament will proceed in a single-elimination format through to the medal matches.
