First Olympic team sport for women

- Who
- Volleyball
- What
- First
- Where
- Japan (Tokyo,)
- When
- 1964
Introduced at the 1964 Tokyo Games, volleyball was the first Olympic team sport for female athletes. The round-robin event was won comfortably by the Japanese team, who lost just one set in the course of the competition and beat the silver medal-winning Soviet Union in straight sets.