Beach volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

The qualification for the 2016 Women's Olympic beach volleyball tournament was held from 26 June 2015 to 26 June 2016. A maximum of two teams per country were allowed to qualify. 24 teams from 17 countries qualified.

Qualification summary


Host country
FIVB reserved a vacancy for the Olympics host country to participate in the tournament.
 * , represented by Larissa França & Talita Antunes

2015 World Championships
The winners from 2015 Beach Volleyball World Championships qualified for the Olympics.

The World Champions were:
 * 🇧🇷 Ágatha Bednarczuk & Bárbara Seixas

Ranking
15 teams qualified from the Olympic Ranking.

Continental Cup
One winner from each Continental Cup qualified for the Olympics. Two teams qualified from the World Continental Cup.

Africa
Final standing:
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 * selected Doaa Elghobashy & Nada Meawad to compete in the Olympics.
 * and qualified to the World Continental Cup, but neither played there.

Asia and Oceania
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 * selected Mariafe Artacho & Nicole Laird to compete in the Olympics.
 * and qualified to the World Continental Cup.

Europe
Final standing:
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 * selected Jantine van der Vlist & Sophie van Gestel to compete in the Olympics.
 * , and  qualified to the World Continental Cup.

North America
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 * selected Nathalia Alfaro & Karen Cope to compete in the Olympics.
 * and qualified to the World Continental Cup, but Cuba did not play there.

South America
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 * selected Norisbeth Agudo & Olaya Pérez Pazo to compete in the Olympics.
 * and qualified to the World Continental Cup.

World Continental Cup
Winners:
 * , who selected Barbora Hermannová & Markéta Sluková
 * , who selected Ekaterina Birlova & Evgenia Ukolova