Date | 24 July – 7 August 2021 | |
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Status | Olympic | |
Location | Shiokaze Park Stadium, 1 Higashiyashio, Shinagawa City, Tokyo 135-0092, Japan | |
Participants | 48 from 19 countries | |
Format | Top 16 teams from round-robin pools advanced to the single-elimination tournament. |
At the 2019 FIVB World Championships neither Brazil nor the USA won a men’s medal, with the Europeans dominating and Russia, Germany and Norway taking the medals. The number one ranked Norwegians Anders Mol and Christian Sørum emerged as real challengers since Rio, and they had been playing together since 2016. They won bronze at the 2019 FIVB World Championships in Hamburg. The Brazilians should never be written off in the Olympic beach volleyball tournament, however, and with Alison playing in his third Olympics at the age of 35, there was every chance he would win his third consecutive medal. Alison and Álvaro Morais Filho were ranked No. 4 in the world going into the Games.
Other favourites in the men’s competition were the Qatar duo of Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan and the reigning ROC world champions Vyacheslav Krasilnikov and Oleg Stoyanovsky, ranked Nos. 3 and 2 respectively by the FIVB. The United States’ best chance was with Tri Bourne and Jake Gibb. Bourne came in as a replacement for Taylor Crabb, who tested positive for COVID-19
Ondřej Perušič and David Schweiner of the Czech Republic forfeited their opening match against Latvia because Perušič had earlier tested positive for COVID-19. As a result, the Latvians were awarded the match 2-0. All the leading ranked teams qualified out of their pools and into the knockout stage, but the top two FIVB Olympic ranked teams, Norway (Mol and Sørum) and ROC (Krasilnikov and Oleg Stoyanovsky), both finished second in their respective pools.
The knockout stage got under way with the third ranked Cherif and Ahmed beating the Americans Nick Lucena and Phil Dalhausser, winning the deciding set 15-11. For the two 41-year-old Americans, it pulled down the curtain on their long international careers. The stand-out game of the round of 16 was between the number one pair Mol and Sørum and another fancied pairing of Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen of the Netherlands, ranked six on the FIVB Olympic list. The favourites ran out winners in two sets, however, 21-17, 21-19.
The 2016 silver medallists Nicola and Lupo reached the last eight by disposing of the fifth ranked Poles Michał Bryl and Grzegorz Fijałek in two sets, while the reigning world champions Krasilnikov and Stoyanovsky went through to the quarter-finals with a straight-sets win, while the fancied Brazilians Alison and Álvaro also qualified with ease. The Americans Gibb and Borne took the first set against the number eight ranked Germans Julius Thole and Clemens Wickler, but the Europeans came back to take the second set and then win the third 15-11.
All four quarter-finals were decided in straight sets and the top three teams on the FIVB Olympic ranking list made it to the final four, the exception being the 18th ranked Latvians Mārtiņš Pļaviņš and Edgars Točs, who beat Alison and Álvaro 21-16, 21-19, while Krasilnikov and Stoyanovsky of the ROC beat the Germans Thole and Wickler by the same score. Mol and Sørum had no problems in reaching the last four, but for the Italians their medal hope disappeared with defeat by the talented Qataris Cherif and Ahmed, who won 21-17, 23-21.
The top ranked Norwegians had no difficulty in reaching the final with a 21-15, 21-16 win in the semi-final over Pļaviņš and Točs, while the reigning world champions, and No. 2 ranked, Krasilnikov and Stoyanovsky beat Cherif and Ahmed 21-19, 21-17. Cherif and Ahmed were too good for Latvia’s Pļaviņš and Točs in the bronze medal match, winning 21-12, 21-18, capturing Qatar’s first ever beach volleyball medal and depriving Mārtiņš Pļaviņš the chance to win another bronze medal to go with the one he won in 2012 with Jānis Šmēdiņš.
The final between Norway and ROC was contested by two nations who had never won an Olympic beach volleyball medal of any colour and the honour of winning the gold medal went to the Norwegians Mol and Sørum, who improved on the bronze medal they won at the 2019 World Championships. Both finalists had lost one of their pool matches but, since reaching the knockout stage, had reached the final without dropping a set. Played on a damp and dull day, the Norwegians won a thrilling game, winning 21-17, 21-18, despite being behind at some stage in both sets.
Pos | Competitors | NOC | |||
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1 | Norway | ![]() | Gold | ||
Right Blocker | Anders Mol | ||||
Left Defender | Christian Sørum | ||||
2 | ROC 2 | ![]() | Silver | ||
Left Defender | Vyacheslav Krasilnikov | ||||
Right Blocker | Oleg Stoyanovsky | ||||
3 | Qatar | ![]() | Bronze | ||
Right Blocker | Cherif Younousse | ||||
Left Defender | Ahmed Tijan | ||||
4 | Latvia | ![]() | |||
Right Defender | Mārtiņš Pļaviņš | ||||
Left Blocker | Edgars Točs | ||||
=5 | ROC 1 | ![]() | |||
Left Defender | Ilya Leshukov | ||||
Right Blocker | Konstantin Semyonov | ||||
=5 | Brazil 1 | ![]() | |||
Left Blocker | Alison Cerutti | ||||
Right Defender | Álvaro Filho | ||||
=5 | Germany | ![]() | |||
Right Blocker | Julius Thole | ||||
Left Defender | Clemens Wickler | ||||
=5 | Italy 2 | ![]() | |||
Left Blocker | Paolo Nicolai | ||||
Right Defender | Daniele Lupo | ||||
=9 | United States 2 | ![]() | |||
Right Defender | Nick Lucena | ||||
Left Blocker | Phil Dalhausser | ||||
=9 | Netherlands | ![]() | |||
Left Defender | Alexander Brouwer | ||||
Right Blocker | Robert Meeuwsen | ||||
=9 | Brazil 2 | ![]() | |||
Right Defender | Evandro | ||||
Left Blocker | Bruno Schmidt | ||||
=9 | Chile | ![]() | |||
Right Blocker | Marco Grimalt | ||||
Left Defender | Esteban Grimalt | ||||
=9 | Poland 1 | ![]() | |||
Left Blocker | Michał Bryl | ||||
Right Defender | Grzegorz Fijałek | ||||
=9 | Spain | ![]() | |||
Blocker/Defender | Pablo Herrera | ||||
Blocker/Defender | Adrián Gavira | ||||
=9 | Mexico | ![]() | |||
Right Defender | Josué Gaxiola | ||||
Left Blocker | José Luis Rubio | ||||
=9 | United States 1 | ![]() | |||
Right Blocker | Jake Gibb | ||||
Left Defender | Tri Bourne | ||||
=17 | Poland 2 | ![]() | |||
Left Blocker | Piotr Kantor | ||||
Right Defender | Bartosz Łosiak | ||||
=17 | Switzerland | ![]() | |||
Left Blocker | Adrian Heidrich | ||||
Right Defender | Mirco Gerson | ||||
=19 | Australia | ![]() | |||
Left Blocker | Chris McHugh | ||||
Right Defender | Damien Schumann | ||||
=19 | Czech Republic | ![]() | |||
Right Defender | Ondřej Perušič | ||||
Left Blocker | David Schweiner | ||||
=19 | Italy 1 | ![]() | |||
Right Defender | Adrian Carambula | ||||
Left Blocker | Enrico Rossi | ||||
=19 | Argentina | ![]() | |||
Left Defender | Julián Azaad | ||||
Right Blocker | Nicolás Capogrosso | ||||
=19 | Morocco | ![]() | |||
Right Defender | Mohamed Abicha | ||||
Left Blocker | Zouheir El-Graoui | ||||
=19 | Japan | ![]() | |||
Left Blocker | Yusuke Ishijima | ||||
Right Defender | Katsuhiro Shiratori |
Date | 24 – 31 July 2021 |
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Format | Winners and runners-up in each group advanced to round one, along with the highest ranked third-placed teams. |
Date | 24 – 28 July 2021 |
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Pos | Pair | NOC | GP | Wins | Losses | Points | Sets | Set Ratio | Points | Points Ratio | ||
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1 | Ilya Leshukov / Konstantin Semyonov | ![]() | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 6-0 | MAX | 127-107 | 1.187 | ||
2 | Anders Mol / Christian Sørum | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4-3 | 1.333 | 137-133 | 1.030 | ||
3 | Pablo Herrera / Adrián Gavira | ![]() | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2-4 | 0.500 | 120-120 | 1.000 | ||
4 | Chris McHugh / Damien Schumann | ![]() | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1-6 | 0.167 | 114-138 | 0.826 |
Match | Date/Time | Pair | NOC | Result | Pair | NOC | |
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Match #1 | 24 Jul 16:00 | Leshukov / Semyonov | ![]() | 21-19, 22-20 | Herrera / Gavira | ![]() | |
Match #2 | 24 Jul 22:00 | Mol / Sørum | ![]() | 21-18, 18-21, 15-13 | McHugh / Schumann | ![]() | |
Match #3 | 26 Jul 15:00 | Leshukov / Semyonov | ![]() | 21-14, 21-16 | McHugh / Schumann | ![]() | |
Match #4 | 26 Jul 22:00 | Mol / Sørum | ![]() | 21-17, 24-22 | Gavira / Herrera | ![]() | |
Match #5 | 28 Jul 17:00 | Gavira / Herrera | ![]() | 21-16, 21-16 | McHugh / Schumann | ![]() | |
Match #6 | 28 Jul 22:00 | Leshukov / Semyonov | ![]() | 21-19, 21-19 | Mol / Sørum | ![]() |
Date | 25 – 31 July 2021 |
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Pos | Pair | NOC | GP | Wins | Losses | Points | Sets | Set Ratio | Points | Points Ratio | ||
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1 | Vyacheslav Krasilnikov / Oleg Stoyanovsky | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5-4 | 1.250 | 169-148 | 1.142 | ||
2 | Mārtiņš Pļaviņš / Edgars Točs | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4-3 | 1.333 | 83-93 | 0.892 | ||
3 | Josué Gaxiola / José Luis Rubio | ![]() | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4-4 | 1.000 | 150-151 | 0.993 | ||
4 | Ondřej Perušič / David Schweiner | ![]() | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3-5 | 0.600 | 96-148 | 0.649 |
Match | Date/Time | Pair | NOC | Result | Pair | NOC | |
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Match #1 | 25 Jul 10:00 | Krasilnikov / Stoyanovsky | ![]() | 24-26, 21-15, 18-16 | Gaxiola / Rubio | ![]() | |
Match #2 | 26 Jul 17:00 | Pļaviņš / Točs | ![]() | 21-0, 21-0 | Perušič / Schweiner | ![]() | |
Match #3 | 29 Jul 16:00 | Perušič / Schweiner | ![]() | 17-21, 21-16, 16-14 | Gaxiola / Rubio | ![]() | |
Match #4 | 29 Jul 17:00 | Pļaviņš / Točs | ![]() | 13-21, 21-19, 15-11 | Krasilnikov / Stoyanovsky | ![]() | |
Match #5 | 31 Jul 15:00 | Gaxiola / Rubio | ![]() | 21-18, 21-16 | Pļaviņš / Točs | ![]() | |
Match #6 | 31 Jul 16:00 | Krasilnikov / Stoyanovsky | ![]() | 19-21, 21-13, 15-8 | Perušič / Schweiner | ![]() |
Date | 25 – 30 July 2021 |
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Pos | Pair | NOC | GP | Wins | Losses | Points | Sets | Set Ratio | Points | Points Ratio | ||
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1 | Cherif Younousse / Ahmed Tijan | ![]() | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 6-0 | MAX | 129-103 | 1.252 | ||
2 | Jake Gibb / Tri Bourne | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4-2 | 2.000 | 121-119 | 1.017 | ||
3 | Adrian Heidrich / Mirco Gerson | ![]() | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2-5 | 0.400 | 133-139 | 0.957 | ||
4 | Adrian Carambula / Enrico Rossi | ![]() | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1-6 | 0.167 | 125-147 | 0.850 |
Match | Date/Time | Pair | NOC | Result | Pair | NOC | |
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Match #1 | 25 Jul 17:00 | Younousse / Tijan | ![]() | 21-17, 21-16 | Heidrich / Gerson | ![]() | |
Match #2 | 25 Jul 22:00 | Gibb / Bourne | ![]() | 21-18, 21-19 | Carambula / Rossi | ![]() | |
Match #3 | 27 Jul 9:00 | Gibb / Bourne | ![]() | 21-19, 23-21 | Heidrich / Gerson | ![]() | |
Match #4 | 28 Jul 20:00 | Younousse / Tijan | ![]() | 24-22, 21-13 | Carambula / Rossi | ![]() | |
Match #5 | 29 Jul 10:00 | Heidrich / Gerson | ![]() | 21-14, 24-26, 15-13 | Carambula / Rossi | ![]() | |
Match #6 | 30 Jul 22:00 | Younousse / Tijan | ![]() | 21-18, 21-17 | Gibb / Bourne | ![]() |
Date | 24 – 29 July 2021 |
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Pos | Pair | NOC | GP | Wins | Losses | Points | Sets | Set Ratio | Points | Points Ratio | ||
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1 | Alison Cerutti / Álvaro Filho | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5-2 | 2.500 | 143-127 | 1.126 | ||
2 | Alexander Brouwer / Robert Meeuwsen | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4-2 | 2.000 | 120-108 | 1.111 | ||
3 | Nick Lucena / Phil Dalhausser | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4-4 | 1.000 | 147-144 | 1.021 | ||
4 | Julián Azaad / Nicolás Capogrosso | ![]() | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1-6 | 0.167 | 107-138 | 0.775 |
Match | Date/Time | Pair | NOC | Result | Pair | NOC | |
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Match #1 | 24 Jul 10:00 | Cerutti / Filho | ![]() | 21-16, 21-17 | Azaad / Capogrosso | ![]() | |
Match #2 | 24 Jul 21:00 | Brouwer / Meeuwsen | ![]() | 21-17, 21-18 | Lucena / Dalhausser | ![]() | |
Match #3 | 26 Jul 12:00 | Lucena / Dalhausser | ![]() | 24-22, 19-21, 15-13 | Cerutti / Filho | ![]() | |
Match #4 | 27 Jul 21:00 | Brouwer / Meeuwsen | ![]() | 21-14, 21-14 | Azaad / Capogrosso | ![]() | |
Match #5 | 28 Jul 11:00 | Lucena / Dalhausser | ![]() | 21-19, 18-21, 15-6 | Azaad / Capogrosso | ![]() | |
Match #6 | 29 Jul 22:00 | Cerutti / Filho | ![]() | 21-14, 24-22 | Brouwer / Meeuwsen | ![]() |
Date | 24 – 30 July 2021 |
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Pos | Pair | NOC | GP | Wins | Losses | Points | Sets | Set Ratio | Points | Points Ratio | ||
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1 | Evandro / Bruno Schmidt | ![]() | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 6-2 | 3.000 | 151-128 | 1.180 | ||
2 | Michał Bryl / Grzegorz Fijałek | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5-2 | 2.500 | 134-120 | 1.117 | ||
3 | Marco Grimalt / Esteban Grimalt | ![]() | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3-4 | 0.750 | 125-120 | 1.042 | ||
4 | Mohamed Abicha / Zouheir El-Graoui | ![]() | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0-6 | 0.000 | 84-126 | 0.667 |
Match | Date/Time | Pair | NOC | Result | Pair | NOC | |
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Match #1 | 24 Jul 11:00 | Evandro / Schmidt | ![]() | 21-15, 16-21, 15-12 | Grimalt / Grimalt | ![]() | |
Match #2 | 25 Jul 16:00 | Bryl / Fijałek | ![]() | 21-17, 21-11 | Abicha / El-Graoui | ![]() | |
Match #3 | 27 Jul 15:00 | Evandro / Schmidt | ![]() | 21-14, 21-16 | Abicha / El-Graoui | ![]() | |
Match #4 | 27 Jul 17:00 | Bryl / Fijałek | ![]() | 21-17, 21-18 | Grimalt / Grimalt | ![]() | |
Match #5 | 29 Jul 11:00 | Grimalt / Grimalt | ![]() | 21-14, 21-12 | Abicha / El-Graoui | ![]() | |
Match #6 | 30 Jul 21:00 | Evandro / Schmidt | ![]() | 19-21, 21-14, 17-15 | Bryl / Fijałek | ![]() |
Date | 24 – 30 July 2021 |
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Pos | Pair | NOC | GP | Wins | Losses | Points | Sets | Set Ratio | Points | Points Ratio | ||
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1 | Paolo Nicolai / Daniele Lupo | ![]() | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 6-2 | 3.000 | 150-138 | 1.087 | ||
2 | Julius Thole / Clemens Wickler | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5-2 | 2.500 | 138-118 | 1.169 | ||
3 | Piotr Kantor / Bartosz Łosiak | ![]() | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3-4 | 0.750 | 128-125 | 1.024 | ||
4 | Yusuke Ishijima / Katsuhiro Shiratori | ![]() | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0-6 | 0.000 | 91-126 | 0.722 |
Match | Date/Time | Pair | NOC | Result | Pair | NOC | |
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Match #1 | 24 Jul 10:00 | Kantor / Łosiak | ![]() | 21-15, 21-14 | Ishijima / Shiratori | ![]() | |
Match #2 | 25 Jul 20:00 | Nicolai / Lupo | ![]() | 19-21, 21-19, 15-13 | Thole / Wickler | ![]() | |
Match #3 | 26 Jul 10:00 | Nicolai / Lupo | ![]() | 21-19, 21-16 | Ishijima / Shiratori | ![]() | |
Match #4 | 27 Jul 20:00 | Thole / Wickler | ![]() | 22-20, 21-16 | Kantor / Łosiak | ![]() | |
Match #5 | 30 Jul 11:00 | Nicolai / Lupo | ![]() | 21-19, 17-21, 15-10 | Kantor / Łosiak | ![]() | |
Match #6 | 30 Jul 16:00 | Thole / Wickler | ![]() | 21-16, 21-11 | Ishijima / Shiratori | ![]() |
Date | 31 July 2021 |
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Format | Contested by third-place finishers in groups who did not advance automatically Winners of each match advanced to round one. |
Match | Date/Time | Pair | NOC | Result | Pair | NOC | |
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Match #1 | 31 Jul 21:00 | Herrera / Gavira | ![]() | 31-29, 19-21, 15-7 | Kantor / Łosiak | ![]() | |
Match #2 | 31 Jul 22:00 | Grimalt / Grimalt | ![]() | 21-17, 21-18 | Heidrich / Gerson | ![]() |
Date | 1 – 2 August 2021 |
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Format | Winners of each match advanced to the quarter-finals. |
Match | Date/Time | Pair | NOC | Result | Pair | NOC | |
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Match #1 | 01 Aug 13:00 | Younousse / Tijan | ![]() | 14-21, 21-19, 15-11 | Lucena / Dalhausser | ![]() | |
Match #2 | 01 Aug 22:00 | Mol / Sørum | ![]() | 21-17, 21-19 | Brouwer / Meeuwsen | ![]() | |
Match #3 | 02 Aug 13:00 | Pļaviņš / Točs | ![]() | 21-19, 21-18 | Evandro / Schmidt | ![]() | |
Match #4 | 02 Aug 14:00 | Leshukov / Semyonov | ![]() | 21-16, 21-16 | Grimalt / Grimalt | ![]() | |
Match #5 | 02 Aug 17:00 | Nicolai / Lupo | ![]() | 22-20, 21-18 | Bryl / Fijałek | ![]() | |
Match #6 | 02 Aug 18:00 | Krasilnikov / Stoyanovsky | ![]() | 22-20, 21-17 | Herrera / Gavira | ![]() | |
Match #7 | 02 Aug 21:00 | Cerutti / Filho | ![]() | 21-14, 21-13 | Gaxiola / Rubio | ![]() | |
Match #8 | 02 Aug 22:00 | Thole / Wickler | ![]() | 17-21, 21-15, 15-11 | Gibb / Bourne | ![]() |
Date | 4 August 2021 |
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Format | Winners of each match advanced to the semi-finals. |
Match | Date/Time | Pair | NOC | Result | Pair | NOC | |
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Match #1 | 04 Aug 9:00 | Mol / Sørum | ![]() | 21-17, 21-19 | Leshukov / Semyonov | ![]() | |
Match #2 | 04 Aug 10:00 | Pļaviņš / Točs | ![]() | 21-16, 21-19 | Cerutti / Filho | ![]() | |
Match #3 | 04 Aug 21:00 | Krasilnikov / Stoyanovsky | ![]() | 21-16, 21-19 | Thole / Wickler | ![]() | |
Match #4 | 04 Aug 22:00 | Younousse / Tijan | ![]() | 21-17, 23-21 | Nicolai / Lupo | ![]() |
Date | 5 August 2021 |
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Format | Winners of each match advanced to the final match. |
Match | Date/Time | Pair | NOC | Result | Pair | NOC | |
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Match #1 | 05 Aug 21:00 | Mol / Sørum | ![]() | 21-15, 21-16 | Pļaviņš / Točs | ![]() | |
Match #2 | 05 Aug 22:00 | Krasilnikov / Stoyanovsky | ![]() | 21-19, 21-17 | Younousse / Tijan | ![]() |
Date | 7 August 2021 |
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Match | Date/Time | Pair | NOC | Result | Pair | NOC | |
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Match 1/2 | 07 Aug 10:00 | Mol / Sørum | ![]() | 21-17, 21-18 | Krasilnikov / Stoyanovsky | ![]() | |
Match 3/4 | 07 Aug 11:30 | Younousse / Tijan | ![]() | 21-12, 21-18 | Pļaviņš / Točs | ![]() |