First historic Olympic final for the women's national volleyball team, led by Julio Velasco. In the first pavilion of the South Paris Arena, Italy annihilated in three sets (25-22, 25-19, 25-22) Turkey, which had already been beaten decisively in the third and final group stage engagement. Now the Italian team in the gold medal match will face the United States, which got the better of Brazil 3-2 (25-23, 18-25, 25-15, 23-25, 15-11) in the other penultimate act of the day.