Paris 2024: Women’s volleyball draw known as Brazil, No. 1 in the world, leads Pool B

The draw for the women’s volleyball event of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games has been announced.

The single round-robin pools for the preliminary phase of the tournament were drawn on Wednesday, June 19 in Bangkok, Thailand.

The twelve qualified countries were divided into three groups of four.

World No. 1 Brazil, which went undefeated 12-0 in the preliminary round of the 2024 Volleyball Nations League (VNL), has been placed in Pool B. There it will face fourth-place Poland seventh place. Japan and Kenya in 20th place.

Meanwhile, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics gold medalist and world No. 1. 5 The US leads Pool A, where it will face sixth-placed China, ninth-place Serbia, and hosts France, which is 19th in the global rankings.

Pool C is just as competitive, with Italy ranked second in the world and Turkey third, alongside the Netherlands eighth and the Dominican Republic eleventh.

The three round-robin groups of four is a new format for the volleyball event at the Olympic Games.

In this setup, the winners of each pool, along with the runners-up and the two highest-ranked third-place teams, advance to the quarter-finals.

From there, the remaining countries will compete in a single elimination round leading to the semi-finals and ultimately the medal matches to determine the podium.

In the past, the preliminary round consisted of just two groups of six teams each, with the top four teams from each group advancing to the knockout stages.

The Paris 2024 volleyball event will be held at the South Paris Arena from July 27 to August 11.

Summary of the story:

• The draw for the women’s volleyball event at the 2024 Paris Olympics took place in Bangkok, Thailand, with twelve qualified countries divided into three groups of four teams each.
  
• Defending gold medalists USA, ranked fifth in the world, lead Pool A alongside China, Serbia and hosts France (ranked 19th), promising fierce competition from the start.
• World number 1 Brazil leads Pool B, along with Poland, Japan and Kenya, while Pool C features a showdown between world number 2 Italy, Turkey, the Netherlands and the Dominican Republic (in eleventh place).
• This year’s tournament introduces a new format with round-robin pools. The top teams from each pool, along with the runners-up and the two highest-ranked third-place teams, will advance to the quarterfinals, followed by a single elimination round to determine the medalists.

(Editor’s note: This article was written by a member of the One Sports Digital team. The summary was generated by AI and then staff-reviewed to ensure accuracy.)