Canada’s Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan received girls’s gold at Gold Coast 2018 ©Getty Images
Beach volleyball is ready to feature on the Commonwealth Games for the second one time.
The line-up for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games beach volleyball tournaments has been showed, with 24 groups set to compete throughout the men’s and women’s occasions.
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Gambia and Rwanda secured direct qualification to the men’s event due to their global rankings.
England will compete as the host Commonwealth Games Association, with South Africa, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Cyprus, Sri Lanka and Tuvalu securing continental berths.
Maldives completes the sector for the guys’s event after being granted a bipartite invitation.
Canada, Australia, Vanuatu, New Zealand and Cyprus secured the five direct qualification spots for the ladies’s event, with England additionally set to compete.
Scotland, Trinidad and Tobago, Sri Lanka, Solomon Islands and Ghana earned continental quotas, with Kenya receiving the bipartite spot.
Ghana, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, South Africa and Gambia will compete in seashore volleyball opposition on the Games for the primary time.
Birmingham 2022 will mark the second one look of seaside volleyball on the Commonwealth Games, following the sport’s debut at Gold Coast 2018.
“I am excited to look this sort of broad and proficient institution of teams representing seashore volleyball in Birmingham this summer time in their pursuit of Commonwealth gold,” stated Ary Graça, International Volleyball Federation President.
“The Commonwealth Games is a key multi-sport event inside the global carrying calendar, and I have no doubt the seashore volleyball competition will showcase the very exceptional of our recreation.
“The array of country wide teams representing our game at the event is testament to the global appeal of beach volleyball and the effect of our efforts to develop the sport international.
“We will even see even more international locations represented in seaside volleyball at Birmingham 2022 than at the sport’s debut at Gold Coast 2018.”
Australia’s Chris McHugh and Damien Schumann gained the men’s occasion in the front of a domestic crowd at Gold Coast 2018.
The pair overcame Canada’s Sam Pedlow and Sam Schacter 21-19, 18-21, 18-sixteen in the gold medal in shape.
New Zealand’s Ben and Sam O’Dea were the bronze medallists.
Canada’s Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan received the girls’s very last 21-19, 22-20 towards Australia’s Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy.
Vanuatu’s Linline Matauatu and Miller Pata gained bronze.
Beach volleyball was protected as an optionally available sport via Birmingham 2022 organisers, with the occasion taking location at Smithfield.
“Congratulations to 24 notable teams who’ve certified for the men’s and ladies’s seashore volleyball competitions on the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games,” said Dame Louise Martin, Commonwealth Games Federation President.
“We are set for an thrilling event at Smithfield, proper inside the coronary heart of Birmingham’s city centre, and I realize the sector magnificence athletes competing will exhibit the very high-quality of Commonwealth game.”
Beach volleyball competition is scheduled to take area at the Games from July 30 to August 7.
By Michael Pavitt
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