— Published on August 5, 2019

Seven places are taken

Volleyball

With a year less a few days to go before the event, the women's volleyball tournament at the Tokyo 2020 Games is already taking shape. After Japan, automatically qualified as host country, and Brazil, which ensured its qualification on Saturday August 3, five new teams won their ticket during the Olympic qualifying tournaments: Serbia, champion of Europe, China, gold medalist at the Rio 2016 Games, the United States, reigning world champions, Russia and Italy. There are only five places left to be allocated for the women's tournament at the Tokyo 2020 Games.