USA’s Patricia Salvatore will officiate at her fourth Olympic Games
Egypt’s Amina Elsergany is the first female referee from Africa for either volleyball and the first representative from Africa for beach volleyball. For the first time in the FIVB’s history, a total of five women will officiate at the Olympics in volleyball after three officiated in Beijing and two in Athens where Patricia Salvatore and Karin Zahorcova became the first female referees to officiate volleyball at an Olympic Games.