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Jake Gibb is Rio bound.

The two-time beach volleyball Olympian from Bountiful has been named to U.S. beach volleyball's Olympic team for this year's Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The 40-year-old, who attended the University of Utah, finished fifth in both the 2008 Games in Beijing and the 2012 Games in London.

Gibb's third Olympiad will feature a new partner in Casey Patterson. Gibb and Patterson finished sixth in the U.S. Olympic rankings and second amongst Americans. The duo was dominant in the leadup to qualifying, holding the top-ranked U.S. men's spot for all but three weeks during the two-year process.

The eight Americans who qualified for the Summer Games in Brazil did so based on their 2015-16 FIVB World Tour results. A total of 96 athletes worldwide — 48 men and 48 women — will compete for Olympic medals on Copacabana Beach Aug. 6-18.

Entering Rio, Gibb and Patterson will be seeded sixth overall.

"We have not celebrated it at all actually," Gibb told TeamUSA.org. "We feel like that's a step in what we want to accomplish and what we want to accomplish is getting a medal at the Olympics. Our end goal is to get a medal and that's what we're focused on."

Gibb and Patterson are coming off a gold on the world tour in St. Petersburg, Fla., and later a silver in Olsztyn, Poland in 2015. At the Beach World Championships a year ago, the tandem finished fifth, but were eliminated by the top-ranked Brazil team in the quarterfinals.

A late bloomer, Gibb did not start playing volleyball until he was 21. In 2010, he found out he had testicular cancer during a standard USADA drug test. Gibb eventually underwent surgery to remove the cancer and no further treatment was necessary. Six years earlier, he was diagnosed with skin cancer, which was also treated.

The 6-foot-7 Utahn currently resides in Huntington Beach, Calif.

The U.S. beach volleyball women's teams are: April Ross (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Kerri Walsh Jennings (San Jose, Calif.); Lauren Fendrick (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Brooke Sweat (Fort Myers, Fla.).

The U.S. men competing are: Phil Dalhausser (Ormond Beach, Fla.) and Nick Lucena (Davie, Fla.); Jake Gibb (Bountiful) and Casey Patterson (Manhattan Beach, Calif.).