USA's Patricia Salvatore will officiate at her fourth Olympic Games having been a beach volleyball referee in Atlanta 1996 and a volleyball ref in 2004 and 2008

Lausanne, Switzerland, February 2, 2012 – The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) is very proud to announce the list of referees who have been appointed to officiate at the 2012 Olympic Games in London later this year. A total of 20 referees will officiate at the volleyball competition with a further 16 at the beach volleyball competition.

Egypt’s Amina Elsergany is the first female referee from Africa for either volleyball or beach volleyball and the first representative from Africa for beach volleyball. For the first time in the FIVB’s history, a total of five women will officiate at the Olympics in volleyball after three officiated in Beijing and two in Athens where Patricia Salvatore and Karin Zahorcova became the first female referees to officiate volleyball at an Olympic Games. It will be the third Olympic Games where four female referees have been appointed at the beach volleyball competition after Atlanta and Sydney (where the female referees officiated both men's and women's matches). Athens and Beijing included three each.

For the first time at the Olympic Games, all five continents are represented in the beach volleyball appointments with host nation Great Britain the only country represented twice while 20 different nationalities are covered in the volleyball selection.

The volleyball competition at the 2012 Olympic Games runs from July 28 to August 12 with beach volleyball taking place from July 28 to August 9.

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