Beach volleyball at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Women's tournament

Beach Volleyball – Women's tournament
at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Beach Volleyball – Women's tournament ; at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Coolangatta Beachfront
Dates	6–12 April 2018
Competitors	24 from 12 nations
Medalists
	2022 →

The women's beach volleyball tournament at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held on the Gold Coast, Australia from April 6 to 12. The beach volleyball competition was held at Coolangatta Beachfront. This was the first time that beach volleyball was held at the Commonwealth Games.^[1] A total of twelve women's teams competed (24 athletes, at 2 per team).

Competition schedule

The following is the competition schedule for the women's tournament:^[2]

P	Pool stage	¼	Quarter-finals	½	Semi-finals	B	Bronze medal match	G	Gold medal match

Event↓/Date →	Fri 6	Sat 7	Sun 8	Mon 9	Tue 10	Wed 11	Thu 12
Women	P	P	P	P	1⁄4	1⁄2	B	G

Qualification

A total of 12 men's teams qualified to compete at the games.^[3]

Event	Date	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Nation	—	—	1	Australia
FIVB Beach Volleyball World Rankings	31 October 2017	—	4	Canada New Zealand Vanuatu England
European Qualification Tournament	15–16 September 2017	Larnaca	1	Cyprus
AVC Beach Tour 2017	8 April – 28 October 2017	Various	1	Singapore
African Qualification Tournament	27–29 October 2017	Freetown	1	Rwanda
NORCECA Beach Volleyball Tour 2017	7 April – 13 November 2017	Various	1	Trinidad and Tobago
Oceania Qualification Tournament	6–8 December 2017	Port Villa	1	Fiji
FIVB/CGF Invitation	TBD	—	2	Scotland^[4] Grenada
Total			12

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Women's tournament	Canada (CAN) Melissa Humana-Paredes Sarah Pavan	Australia (AUS) Mariafe Artacho del Solar Taliqua Clancy	Vanuatu (VAN) Linline Matauatu Miller Pata

Pools composition

The 12 teams would be split into three groups of four, with the top two teams in each group along with the two best third place teams advancing to the knockout round. Canada was the top ranked nation, followed by Australia, New Zealand and Vanuatu. These four were placed in the three pools in a snake pattern. The remaining eight teams were randomly drawn among the other three pools.^[5]

Preliminary round

All times are AEST (UTC−10:00).

Pool A

	PLD	W	L	SW	SL	SR	P
Artacho del Solar – Clancy (AUS)	3	3	0	6	0	MAX	6
Konstantinou – Angelopoulou (CYP)	3	2	1	4	2	2.000	5
Beattie – Coutts (SCO)	3	1	2	2	4	0.500	4
Stafford – Williams (GRN)	3	0	3	0	6	0.000	3

	Qualified for the quarterfinals

6 April 2018 12:30	Beattie – Coutts (SCO)	2–0	Stafford – Williams (GRN)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	21–8, 21–11 Report

6 April 2018 15:00	Artacho del Solar – Clancy (AUS)	2–0	Konstantinou – Angelopoulou (CYP)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	21–14, 21–9 Report

7 April 2018 17:00	Artacho del Solar – Clancy (AUS)	2–0	Stafford – Williams (GRN)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	21–2, 21–11 Report

7 April 2018 19:30	Beattie – Coutts (SCO)	0–2	Konstantinou – Angelopoulou (CYP)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	8–21, 16–21 Report

8 April 2018 21:30	Artacho del Solar – Clancy (AUS)	2–0	Beattie – Coutts (SCO)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	21–9, 21–9 Report

9 April 2018 10:30	Stafford – Williams (GRN)	0–2	Konstantinou – Angelopoulou (CYP)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	3–21, 14–21 Report

Pool B

	PLD	W	L	SW	SL	SR	P
Humana-Paredes – Pavan (CAN)	3	3	0	6	0	MAX	6
Grimson – Palmer (ENG)	3	2	1	4	2	2.000	5
Blackman – Grant (TTO)	3	1	2	2	4	0.500	4
Ratudina – Nima (FIJ)	3	0	3	0	6	0.000	3

	Qualified for the quarterfinals

6 April 2018 19:30	Humana-Paredes – Pavan (CAN)	2–0	Ratudina – Nima (FIJ)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	21–5, 21–8 Report

6 April 2018 20:30	Grimson – Palmer (ENG)	2–0	Blackman – Grant (TTO)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	21–16, 21–12 Report

8 April 2018 10:30	Humana-Paredes – Pavan (CAN)	2–0	Blackman – Grant (TTO)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	21–7, 21–8 Report

8 April 2018 11:30	Grimson – Palmer (ENG)	2–0	Ratudina – Nima (FIJ)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	21–9, 21–7 Report

9 April 2018 20:30	Blackman – Grant (TTO)	2–0	Ratudina – Nima (FIJ)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	21–18, 24–22 Report

9 April 2018 21:30	Humana-Paredes – Pavan (CAN)	2–0	Grimson – Palmer (ENG)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	21–6, 21–6 Report

Pool C

	PLD	W	L	SW	SL	SR	P
Wills – Polley (NZL)	3	3	0	6	0	MAX	6
Matauatu – Pata (VAN)	3	2	1	4	2	2.000	5
Nzayisenga – Mutatsimpundu (RWA)	3	1	2	2	4	0.500	4
Lau – Ong (SGP)	3	0	3	0	6	0.000	3

	Qualified for the quarterfinals

7 April 2018 11:30	Matauatu – Pata (VAN)	2–0	Lau – Ong (SGP)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	21–9, 21–12 Report

7 April 2018 12:30	Wills – Polley (NZL)	2–0	Nzayisenga – Mutatsimpundu (RWA)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	21–14, 21–16 Report

8 April 2018 16:00	Wills – Polley (NZL)	2–0	Lau – Ong (SGP)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	21–16, 21–5 Report

8 April 2018 17:00	Matauatu – Pata (VAN)	2–0	Nzayisenga – Mutatsimpundu (RWA)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	21–15, 21–10 Report

9 April 2018 15:00	Lau – Ong (SGP)	0–2	Nzayisenga – Mutatsimpundu (RWA)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	11–21, 20–22 Report

9 April 2018 16:00	Wills – Polley (NZL)	2–0	Matauatu – Pata (VAN)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	21–17, 21–16 Report

Knockout round

Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Gold medal match

Artacho del Solar – Clancy (AUS)	21	21
Nzayisenga – Mutatsimpundu (RWA)	9	8		Artacho del Solar – Clancy (AUS)	21	16	15
Matauatu – Pata (VAN)	23	21	15	Matauatu – Pata (VAN)	19	21	9
Grimson – Palmer (ENG)	25	19	12					Artacho del Solar – Clancy (AUS)	19	20
Wills – Polley (NZL)	10	17						Humana-Paredes – Pavan (CAN)	21	22
Konstantinou – Angelopoulou (CYP)	21	21		Konstantinou – Angelopoulou (CYP)	7	12
Beattie – Coutts (SCO)	9	9		Humana-Paredes – Pavan (CAN)	21	21
Humana-Paredes – Pavan (CAN)	21	21						Bronze medal match

								Matauatu – Pata (VAN)	21	21
								Konstantinou – Angelopoulou (CYP)	14	10

Quarterfinals

10 April 2018 15:00	Matauatu – Pata (VAN)	2–1	Grimson – Palmer (ENG)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	23–25, 21–19, 15–12 Report

10 April 2018 16:00	Artacho del Solar – Clancy (AUS)	2–0	Nzayisenga – Mutatsimpundu (RWA)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	21–9, 21–8 Report

10 April 2018 20:30	Wills – Polley (NZL)	0–2	Konstantinou – Angelopoulou (CYP)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	10–21, 17–21 Report

10 April 2018 21:30	Beattie – Coutts (SCO)	0–2	Humana-Paredes – Pavan (CAN)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	9–21, 9–21 Report

Semifinals

11 April 2018 19:30	Konstantinou – Angelopoulou (CYP)	0–2	Humana-Paredes – Pavan (CAN)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	7–21, 12–21 Report

11 April 2018 20:30	Artacho del Solar – Clancy (AUS)	2–1	Matauatu – Pata (VAN)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	21–19, 16–21, 15–9 Report

Bronze medal match

11 April 2018 19:30	Matauatu – Pata (VAN)	2–0	Konstantinou – Angelopoulou (CYP)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	21–14, 21–10 Report

Gold medal match

12 April 2018 20:30	Artacho del Solar – Clancy (AUS)	0–2	Humana-Paredes – Pavan (CAN)	Coolangatta Beachfront
	19–21, 20–22 Report

References

^ "Beach volleyball added to 2018 Commonwealth Games". FIVB.org. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
^ "Beach Volleyball Schedule" (PDF). www.gc2018.com/. Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
^ "Athlete Allocation System" (PDF). www.triathlon.org/. International Triathlon Union. 15 March 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
^ Butler, Nick (7 January 2018). "Beattie and Coutts secure final beach volleyball spot at Gold Coast 2018". Insidethegames.biz. Dunsar Media. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
^ "Gold Coast 2018 beach volleyball competition pools announced". www.fivb.org/. Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB). 23 January 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2018.

[1] "Beach volleyball added to 2018 Commonwealth Games". FIVB.org. Retrieved 22 September 2017.

[2] "Beach Volleyball Schedule" (PDF). www.gc2018.com/. Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation. Retrieved 5 March 2018.

[qualification-3] "Athlete Allocation System" (PDF). www.triathlon.org/. International Triathlon Union. 15 March 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2017.

[4] Butler, Nick (7 January 2018). "Beattie and Coutts secure final beach volleyball spot at Gold Coast 2018". Insidethegames.biz. Dunsar Media. Retrieved 7 January 2018.

[5] "Gold Coast 2018 beach volleyball competition pools announced". www.fivb.org/. Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB). 23 January 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2018.

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