The women's beach volleyball tournament at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, took place at the Shiokaze Park. The competition was held from 24 July to 6 August 2021. It was originally scheduled to take place from 25 July to 8 August 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the IOC and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee announced on 24 March 2020 that the 2020 Summer Olympics would be delayed to 2021. Because of this pandemic, the games were played behind closed doors. Twenty-four teams with 48 athletes from around the world competed for the gold medal.
April Ross and Alix Klineman won the gold medal, defeating Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho del Solar in the final, while Joana Heidrich and Anouk Vergé-Dépré won the bronze medal.
The medals for the competition were presented by Mustapha Berraf, Algeria; IOC Honorary Member, and the medalists' bouquets were presented by Ary Graça, Brazil; FIVB President.
Qualification
Teams
Twenty four teams were drawn in six pools of four teams.
Draw
The draw was made on 5 July 2021.
Referees
The following referees were selected for the tournament.
Osvaldo Sumavil
Mário Ferro
Wang Lijun
Juan Carlos Saavedra
Charalampos Papadogoulas
Mariko Satomi
Davide Crescentini
Agnieszka Myszkowska
Rui Carvalho
Roman Pristovakin
Giovanni Bake
José María Padrón
Brig Beatie
Preliminary round
All times are local (UTC+9).
Pool A
Pool B
Pool C
Pool D
Pool E
Pool F
Lucky losers
The table below shows the ranking of third-placed teams in the preliminary round. The top two teams advanced to next round automatically. The other teams competed for the two remaining spots. The third-ranked team played against the sixth-ranked team, and the fourth-ranked team played against the fifth-ranked team.
Lucky loser playoffs
Knockout stage
The round of sixteen pair ups were determined by a draw following the group stage.