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Olympic history (Pre London 2012)

Volleyball (indoor) for men and women was added to the Olympic Games program in Tokyo in 1964 with the Soviet Union winning the men’s event while Japan won the women’s in front of the home crowd.

Beach volleyball gained Olympic status in Atlanta in 1996.

Summary of past Australian Olympic team results

• Kerri Pottharst and Natalie Cook won Australia’s first ever Olympic Games volleyball medal when they won the bronze in the beach discipline in its debut at Atlanta in 1996.
• Four years later, in Sydney in 2000, Pottharst and Cook won the gold medal before thousands of hometown fans, on Bondi Beach.
• Only one Australian indoor volleyball team, the men in Athens in 2004, has ever qualified to play at an away Olympic Games.

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