Volleyball at the Paris 2024 Olympics
France won the men's volleyball gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics
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Here's all you need to know about volleyball at Paris 2024.
Volleyball schedule and venue at Paris 2024
The volleyball matches run from 27 July to 11 August. The competition will take place at the South Paris Arena.
South Paris Arena – or Paris Expo Porte de Versailles as it’s known outside of the Olympics – is one of France’s biggest exhibition centres and was built 101 years ago to host the annual Paris Fair. Volleyball takes place in Hall 1, with a capacity for 12,000 spectators.
The medal matches for both the men’s and women’s events are from 9 to 11 August.
How many players are in a volleyball team?
There are six players in a volleyball team.
Scoring and rules in volleyball
Blisteringly fast and full throttle, volleyball will be one of the most popular sports in Paris as France’s men are defending champions.
Each team can touch the ball (with any part of their body) up to three times before returning it over the net. Matches are best-of-five sets, with 25 points needed to win a set – or 15 in a deciding fifth set.
The top two in each pool, plus the two best third-placed teams, advance to the last eight.
The round-robin phase is now three pools of four instead of two pools of six, with fewer matches designed to keep the players fresh.
A new ranking system to determine the quarter-final seedings has been introduced. A non-competing 13th player can be used for medical/injury reasons.
When did volleyball become an Olympic sport?
Volleyball has been an Olympic sport since the 1964 Games in Tokyo.
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Have Team GB qualified for Olympic volleyball in 2024?
Team GB have not qualified for Paris 2024. Their only Olympic appearance in the sport came at London 2012, where the women's finished ninth and the men 11th.
Who has won the most medals in Olympic volleyball?
France and USA won gold in the men's and women's events at the Tokyo Games.
Brazil, the Soviet Union and Italy have won the most medals in men's Olympic volleyball (six each), with Brazil topping the table with three golds and three silvers.
In women's Olympic volleyball, six countries have won gold with the Soviet Union leading the overall medals table with six (four golds and two silvers).
Great Britain have never won an Olympic volleyball medal.