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The women's beach volleyball tournament at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, took place at the Copacabana Stadium. The competition was held from 6 to 17 August 2016. Twenty four teams with 48 athletes around the world competed for the gold medal.
Beach volleyball was a demonstration sport at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, at which Sinjin Smith and Randy Stoklos won the men's tournament, and Karolyn Kirby and Nancy Reno won the women's. Beach volleyball was introduced as an official Olympic sport in 1996. A total of 24 teams take part in each beach volleyball Olympic tournament.
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.
Canada’s Brandie Wilkerson and Brazil’s Ana Patrícia got into a finger-pointing shouting match across the net in the tiebreaking third set of the beach volleyball final of the Paris Olympics ...
The song took center stage at the 2024 Paris Olympics when a DJ played it to ease tensions between Brazil and Canada's respective teams at the women's beach volleyball final on Aug. 9.
A National Olympic Committee is permitted to enter two teams in the beach volleyball tournament; a rule that allowed the United States and Brazil to win both gold and silver in men's and women's beach volleyball respectively that year. [10] [11] Atlanta also saw the Dutch men's indoor team improve their Barcelona silver to a gold.
Meanwhile, Olympic champions beach volleyball players Ana Patrícia Ramos and Duda Lisboa were the country's flagbearers during the closing ceremony. Brazil was represented by more female than male athletes for the first time in the Summer Olympics (123 men and 154 women). The female athletes also won more medals and all the gold medals.
Eduarda "Duda" dos Santos Lisboa (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [eduˈaʁdɐ ˈdudɐ dus ˈsɐ̃tus lizˈboɐ]; born 1 August 1998) is a Brazilian beach volleyball player. She is the gold medalist at the 2024 Summer Olympics. [1] She is also a two-time U21 World champion (2016, 2017) and three-time U19 World champion (2013, 2014, 2016).