The FIVB and CGF have announced the 12 guys’s and 12 women’s country wide teams that have qualified for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games which might be set to take vicinity this summer time from 30 July to 7 August.
Birmingham 2022 will mark beach volleyball’s 2d look at the Commonwealth Games after the sport made its a hit debut on the multi-recreation competition 4 years in the past inside the Gold Coast, Australia.
The movement will take region in the coronary heart of the metropolis and will see the 12 groups in keeping with gender striving to emulate the success of Australia’s Chris McHugh and Damien Schumann and Canada’s Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan who took the top spot at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.
The certified groups constitute all five continents and are as follows:
Men’s seaside volleyball
CGAsQualification Pathway1CanadaDirect Qualification – World Ranking2AustraliaDirect Qualification – World Ranking3New ZealandDirect Qualification – World Ranking4GambiaDirect Qualification – World Ranking5RwandaDirect Qualification – World Ranking6EnglandHost CGA7South AfricaContinental Representation -CAVB 8Saint Kitts and NevisContinental Representation -NORCECA/CSV9CyprusContinental Representation – CEV 10Sri LankaContinental Representation – AVC 11TuvaluContinental Representation -Oceania12MaldivesBipartite Invitation
Women’s seaside volleyball
CGAsQualification Pathway1CanadaDirect Qualification – World Ranking2AustraliaDirect Qualification – World Ranking3VanuatuDirect Qualification – World Ranking4New ZealandDirect Qualification – World Ranking5EnglandHost6CyprusDirect Qualification – World Ranking7ScotlandContinental Representation – CEV8Trinidad and TobagoContinental Representation -NORCECA/CSV 9Sri LankaContinental Representation – AVC10Solomon IslandsContinental Representation – Oceania11GhanaContinental Representation – CAVB12KenyaBipartite Invitation
The competition is ready to be fierce with Australia and Canada renewing their rivalry having battled it out in each the guys’s and women’s Gold Coast 2018 finals, New Zealand and Vanuatu trying to upload to their Commonwealth bronze medals and the addition of newcomers Ghana, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, South Africa and Gambia.
Commonwealth Games Federation President Dame Louise Martin said:
“Congratulations to 24 great groups who have qualified for the men’s and women’s beach volleyball competitions at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. We are set for an interesting event at Smithfield, right in the coronary heart of Birmingham’s city center, and I realize the world-elegance athletes competing will show off the very first-rate of Commonwealth Sport.”
FIVB President Dr Ary S. Graça F° stated:
“I am excited to peer this type of broad and proficient group of teams representing beach volleyball in Birmingham this summer season in their pursuit of Commonwealth gold.
“The Commonwealth Games is a key multi-game occasion in the international sporting calendar, and I don’t have any doubt the seaside volleyball opposition will show off the very fine of our sport. The array of countrywide teams representing our game on the occasion is a testomony to the worldwide attraction of beach volleyball and the effect of our efforts to expand the sport global. We will even see even more nations represented in seaside volleyball at Birmingham 2022 than at the game’s debut at Gold Coast 2018.”
