Volleyball competitions at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru are scheduled to be held from August 2 to 11. The venue for the competition is the Sports Centre VRDC located at the Villa Deportiva Regional del Callao cluster.[1] The venue will also host the taekwondo competitions. A total of eight men's and eight women's teams (each consisting up to 12 athletes) competed in each tournament. This means a total of 192 athletes are scheduled to compete.[2]
Qualification
A total of eight men's teams and eight women's team qualified to compete at the games in each tournament. The host nation (Peru) received automatic qualification in both tournaments. All other teams qualified through various tournaments.[2] The North and South American qualification tournaments were held with teams competing (and not qualifying) at the respective Pan American Cups, plus any possible invited teams. The last slot could also be awarded to a team.[2]
^"Pan American Schedule"(PDF). www.lima2019.pe. Lima Organizing Committee for the 2019 Pan and Parapan American Games (COPAL). 13 June 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
^"Puerto Rico reaches semifinals and qualifies to Pan Am Games". NORCECA. 31 August 2018. Retrieved 1 September 2018. Puerto Rico needed almost two hours (1:53) to subdue the host in a heated match to reach the semifinals of the competition, in addition to the feat of qualifying to the 2019 Lima Pan American Games along with Brazil, Argentina and Cuba.