Volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Men's volleyball
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad

Venue

Capital Indoor Stadium and
Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium

Date

10–24 August

Competitors

144 from 12 nations

Medalists

01 !		United States
02 !		Brazil
03 !		Russia

Volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics
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Competing teams

The men's tournament in volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics was the 12th edition of the event, organized by the world's governing body, the FIVB, in conjunction with the IOC. It was held in Beijing, China from 10 to 24 August 2008.

The twelve competing teams were split equally into two pools of six teams. Each team played all other teams in their pool with the winning team gaining 2 points and the losing side 1 point. The top four teams from each pool progressed through to the quarterfinals. The rest of the tournament was a single-elimination bracket, with a bronze medal match held between the two semifinal losers.

A total of 38 matches were played: 15 in each group, 4 quarterfinals, 2 semifinals, 1 bronze medal match, and 1 gold medal match.

Qualification

Main article: Volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

Means of qualification	Date	Host	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Country	13 Jul 2001	Moscow	1	China
2007 World Cup	18 Nov–2 Dec 2007	Japan	3	Brazil
				Russia
				Bulgaria
African Qualifier	3–9 Feb 2008	Durban	1	Egypt
European Qualifier	7–13 Jan 2008	Izmir	1	Serbia
North American Qualifier	6–11 Jan 2008	Caguas	1	United States
South American Qualifier	3–7 Jan 2008	Formosa	1	Venezuela
World Qualifier 1	23–25 May 2008	Düsseldorf	1	Germany
World Qualifier 2	30 May–1 Jun 2008	Espinho	1	Poland
World Qualifier 3	31 May–8 Jun 2008	Tokyo	1	Italy
Asian Qualifier *	31 May–8 Jun 2008	Tokyo	1	Japan
Total			12

* The Asian Qualifier was combined with the World Qualifier 3. The first place team of the tournament qualified as the winners of the World Qualifier 3, while the best Asian team except the winners qualified as the Asian Qualifier winners.

Pools composition

Teams were seeded following the Serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 3 December 2007.^[1] FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 21st.

Pool A	Pool B
China (Hosts)	Brazil (1)
United States (3)	Russia (2)
Bulgaria (4)	Poland (5)
Italy (10)	Serbia (8)
Japan (12)	Egypt (14)
Venezuela (20)	Germany (19)

Rosters

Main article: Volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters

Venues

Main venue	Sub venue
Beijing, China	Beijing, China
Capital Indoor Stadium	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium
Capacity: 17,345	Capacity: 5,000

Preliminary round

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00).

	Qualified for the Quarterfinals

Pool A

		Pts	Matches		Points			Sets
Rank	Team	Pts	W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	United States	10	5	0	460	371	1.240	15	4	3.750
2	Italy	9	4	1	439	401	1.095	13	6	2.167
3	Bulgaria	8	3	2	446	440	1.014	10	9	1.111
4	China	7	2	3	445	492	0.904	9	13	0.692
5	Venezuela	6	1	4	421	451	0.933	8	12	0.667
6	Japan	5	0	5	392	448	0.875	4	15	0.267

10 August 2008 12:10	Italy	3 – 1	Japan	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium, Beijing Attendance: 3,000 Referee(s): Humberto Salas (MEX), Victor Rodriguez (PUR) Report(s): result statistics
10 August 2008 12:10	25 25 23 25 98	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	19 18 25 17 79

000000002008-08-10-000010 August 2008 12:35	United States	3 – 2	Venezuela	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,000 Referee(s): Konstantin Tufekchiev (BUL), Umit Sokullu (TUR) Report(s): result statistics
000000002008-08-10-000010 August 2008 12:35	25 25 22 21 15 108	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total	18 18 25 25 10 96

10 August 2008 20:00	Bulgaria	3 – 1	China	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,000 Referee(s): Laert Souza (BRA), Mitch Davidson (CAN) Report(s): result statistics
10 August 2008 20:00	25 25 26 25 101	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	20 21 28 19 88

000000002008-08-12-000012 August 2008 12:30	United States	3 – 1	Italy	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 12,500 Referee(s): Ibrahim Al-Naama (QAT), Kun-Tae Kim (KOR) Report(s): result statistics
000000002008-08-12-000012 August 2008 12:30	24 25 25 25 99	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	26 22 15 21 84

12 August 2008 20:00	Venezuela	2 – 3	China	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 12,500 Referee(s): Massimo Menghini (ITA), Konstantin Tufekchiev (BUL) Report(s): result statistics
12 August 2008 20:00	21 25 25 21 14 106	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total	25 21 16 25 16 103

12 August 2008 22:45	Japan	1 – 3	Bulgaria	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 3,200 Referee(s): Mitch Davidson (CAN), Victor Rodriguez (PUR) Report(s): result statistics
12 August 2008 22:45	27 25 21 19 92	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	29 23 25 25 102

14 August 2008 10:00	Italy	3 – 0	Venezuela	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium, Beijing Attendance: 3,300 Referee(s): Mohammad Shahmiri (IRI), Mitch Davidson (CAN) Report(s): result statistics
14 August 2008 10:00	25 25 25 75	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	21 20 21 62

14 August 2008 20:00	China	3 – 2	Japan	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 13,000 Referee(s): Bela Hobor (HUN), Frank Leuthauser (GER) Report(s): result statistics
14 August 2008 20:00	25 25 17 16 15 98	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total	20 23 25 25 10 103

000000002008-08-14-000014 August 2008 22:30	Bulgaria	1 – 3	United States	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 5,700 Referee(s): Laert Souza (BRA), Kun-Tae Kim (KOR) Report(s): result statistics
000000002008-08-14-000014 August 2008 22:30	29 21 14 24 88	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	27 25 25 26 103

000000002008-08-16-000016 August 2008 10:00	United States	3 – 0	China	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium, Beijing Attendance: 3,650 Referee(s): Patrick Deregnaucourt (FRA), Laert Souza (BRA) Report(s): result statistics
000000002008-08-16-000016 August 2008 10:00	25 25 25 75	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	22 12 18 52

16 August 2008 14:50	Italy	3 – 0	Bulgaria	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 8,000 Referee(s): Umit Sokullu (TUR), Mohammad Shahmiri (IRI) Report(s): result statistics
16 August 2008 14:50	25 25 25 75	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	20 21 16 57

16 August 2008 22:00	Venezuela	3 – 0	Japan	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 7,500 Referee(s): Mitch Davidson (CAN), Victor Rodriguez (PUR) Report(s): result statistics
16 August 2008 22:00	25 25 25 75	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	23 21 23 67

18 August 2008 10:00	Bulgaria	3 – 1	Venezuela	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium, Beijing Attendance: 3,400 Referee(s): Mohammad Shahmiri (IRI), Laert Souza (BRA) Report(s): result statistics
18 August 2008 10:00	23 25 25 25 98	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	25 19 16 22 82

18 August 2008 20:00	China	2 – 3	Italy	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 12,500 Referee(s): Mitch Davidson (CAN), Humberto Salas (MEX) Report(s): result statistics
18 August 2008 20:00	17 23 25 25 14 104	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total	25 25 21 20 16 107

000000002008-08-18-000018 August 2008 22:35	Japan	0 – 3	United States	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 5,800 Referee(s): Dejan Jovanovic (SRB), Patrick Deregnaucourt (FRA) Report(s): result statistics
000000002008-08-18-000018 August 2008 22:35	18 12 21 51	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	25 25 25 75

Pool B

		Pts	Matches		Points			Sets
Rank	Team	Pts	W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Brazil	9	4	1	427	373	1.145	13	4	3.250
2	Russia	9	4	1	496	447	1.110	14	7	2.000
3	Poland	9	4	1	434	404	1.074	12	6	2.000
4	Serbia	7	2	3	440	439	1.002	9	10	0.900
5	Germany	6	1	4	418	440	0.950	6	12	0.500
6	Egypt	5	0	5	267	379	0.704	0	15	0.000

10 August 2008 10:00	Serbia	1 – 3	Russia	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium, Beijing Attendance: 3,100 Referee(s): Bela Hobor (HUN), Osamu Sakaide (JPN) Report(s): result statistics
10 August 2008 10:00	25 21 22 14 82	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	20 25 25 25 95

10 August 2008 15:20	Brazil	3 – 0	Egypt	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 8,500 Referee(s): Ning Wang (CHN), Mohammad Shahmiri (IRI) Report(s): result statistics
10 August 2008 15:20	25 25 25 75	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	19 15 18 52

10 August 2008 22:20	Poland	3 – 0	Germany	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 5,700 Referee(s): Frans Loderus (NED), Massimo Menghini (ITA) Report(s): result statistics
10 August 2008 22:20	25 33 25 83	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	17 31 20 68

12 August 2008 10:00	Russia	3 – 2	Germany	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium, Beijing Attendance: 3,500 Referee(s): Patrick Deregnaucourt (FRA), Bela Hobor (HUN) Report(s): result statistics
12 August 2008 10:00	25 25 21 25 16 112	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total	27 21 25 23 14 110

12 August 2008 13:00	Egypt	0 – 3	Poland	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium, Beijing Attendance: 3,000 Referee(s): Mohammad Shahmiri (IRI), Patricia Salvatore (USA) Report(s): result statistics
12 August 2008 13:00	21 18 10 49	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	25 25 25 75

12 August 2008 15:00	Serbia	1 – 3	Brazil	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 9,000 Referee(s): Ning Wang (CHN), Osamu Sakaide (JPN) Report(s): result statistics
12 August 2008 15:00	27 20 17 21 85	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	25 25 25 25 100

14 August 2008 12:00	Germany	3 – 0	Egypt	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium, Beijing Attendance: 3,200 Referee(s): Ibrahim Al-Naama (QAT), Jiang Liu (CHN) Report(s): result statistics
14 August 2008 12:00	29 25 25 79	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	27 21 21 69

14 August 2008 12:30	Brazil	1 – 3	Russia	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 12,000 Referee(s): Victor Rodriguez (PUR), Ning Wang (CHN) Report(s): result statistics
14 August 2008 12:30	25 24 29 19 97	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	22 26 31 25 104

14 August 2008 15:05	Poland	3 – 1	Serbia	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 7,000 Referee(s): Umit Sokullu (TUR), Patrick Deregnaucourt (FRA) Report(s): result statistics
14 August 2008 15:05	31 22 25 25 103	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	29 25 22 21 97

16 August 2008 12:00	Russia	3 – 0	Egypt	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium, Beijing Attendance: 3,200 Referee(s): Jiang Liu (CHN), Ibrahim Al-Naama (QAT) Report(s): result statistics
16 August 2008 12:00	25 25 25 75	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	19 14 18 51

16 August 2008 12:30	Serbia	3 – 1	Germany	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 12,500 Referee(s): Ning Wang (CHN), Bela Hobor (HUN) Report(s): result statistics
16 August 2008 12:30	25 27 24 25 101	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	21 25 26 23 95

16 August 2008 20:00	Brazil	3 – 0	Poland	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 12,500 Referee(s): Kun-Tae Kim (KOR), Osamu Sakaide (JPN) Report(s): result statistics
16 August 2008 20:00	30 25 25 80	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	28 19 19 66

18 August 2008 12:20	Germany	0 – 3	Brazil	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium, Beijing Attendance: 3,400 Referee(s): Jiang Liu (CHN), Umit Sokullu (TUR) Report(s): result statistics
18 August 2008 12:20	22 21 23 66	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	25 25 25 75

18 August 2008 12:30	Poland	3 – 2	Russia	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 12,000 Referee(s): Frans Loderus (NED), Frank Leuthauser (GER) Report(s): result statistics
18 August 2008 12:30	17 26 24 25 15 107	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total	25 24 26 23 12 110

18 August 2008 15:15	Egypt	0 – 3	Serbia	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 6,000 Referee(s): Victor Rodriguez (PUR), Ibrahim Al-Naama (QAT) Report(s): result statistics
18 August 2008 15:15	16 13 17 46	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	25 25 25 75

Final round

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00).
Quarterfinals format: (A1 vs. B4), (A3 vs. B2 or B3 – drawing of lots), (A2 vs. B2 or B3 – drawing of lots), (A4 vs. B1)
Teams in the draw: Italy (A2), Bulgaria (A3), Russia (B2), Poland (B3)

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Gold medal match

20 August

United States

22 August

Serbia

United States

20 August

Russia

Bulgaria

24 August

Russia

United States

20 August

Brazil

Italy

22 August

Poland

Italy

Bronze medal match

20 August

Brazil

China

Russia

Brazil

Italy

24 August

Quarterfinals

20 August 2008 10:00	Bulgaria	1 – 3	Russia	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,500 Referee(s): Bela Hobor (HUN), Frans Loderus (NED) Report(s): result statistics
20 August 2008 10:00	25 16 22 21 84	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	20 25 25 25 95

20 August 2008 12:15	Italy	3 – 2	Poland	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 8,000 Referee(s): Umit Sokullu (TUR), Patrick Deregnaucourt (FRA) Report(s): result statistics
20 August 2008 12:15	25 25 18 26 17 111	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total	19 22 25 28 15 109

20 August 2008 20:00	China	0 – 3	Brazil	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 13,000 Referee(s): Massimo Menghini (ITA), Frank Leuthauser (GER) Report(s): result statistics
20 August 2008 20:00	17 15 16 48	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	25 25 25 75

000000002008-08-20-000020 August 2008 22:01	United States	3 – 2	Serbia	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 7,500 Referee(s): Ning Wang (CHN), Mohammad Shahmiri (IRI) Report(s): result statistics
000000002008-08-20-000020 August 2008 22:01	20 25 21 25 15 106	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total	25 23 25 18 12 103

Semifinals

000000002008-08-22-000022 August 2008 12:35	United States	3 – 2	Russia	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 12,500 Referee(s): Osamu Sakaide (JPN), Ibrahim Al-Naama (QAT) Report(s): result statistics
000000002008-08-22-000022 August 2008 12:35	25 25 25 22 15 112	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total	22 21 27 25 13 108

22 August 2008 20:00	Italy	1 – 3	Brazil	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 12,500 Referee(s): Kun-Tae Kim (KOR), Humberto Salas (MEX) Report(s): result statistics
22 August 2008 20:00	25 18 21 22 86	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	19 25 25 25 94

Bronze medal match

24 August 2008 10:00	03 ! Russia	3 – 0	Italy	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 11,500 Referee(s): Frank Leuthauser (GER), Dejan Jovanovic (SRB) Report(s): result statistics
24 August 2008 10:00	25 25 25 75	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	22 19 23 64

Gold medal match

000000002008-08-24-000024 August 2008 12:00	01 ! United States	3 – 1	Brazil 02 !	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing Attendance: 13,000 Referee(s): Ning Wang (CHN), Bela Hobor (HUN) Report(s): result statistics
000000002008-08-24-000024 August 2008 12:00	20 25 25 25 95	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	25 22 21 23 91

Final standing

Rank	Team
01 !	United States
02 !	Brazil
03 !	Russia
4	Italy
5	Bulgaria
	China
	Poland
	Serbia
9	Germany
9	Venezuela
11	Egypt
11	Japan

2008 Men's Olympic Champions
United States 3rd title

12–man roster

Ball, Rooney, Lee, Lambourne, Priddy, Millar, Salmon, Hoff

, Stanley, Hansen, Gardner, Touzinsky

Head Coach

McCutcheon

Medalists

Awards

Most Valuable Player

Clayton Stanley

Best Scorer

Clayton Stanley

Best Spiker

Sebastian Świderski

Best Blocker

Gustavo Endres

Best Server

Clayton Stanley

Best Digger

Aleksey Verbov

Best Setter

Paweł Zagumny

Best Receiver

Michał Winiarski

Best Libero

Mirko Corsano

References

↑ "FIVB Senior World Ranking - Men (as of 3 December 2007)". FIVB. 3 December 2007. Archived from the original on 4 December 2007.

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Volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's tournament - Squads

United States men's volleyball squad – 2008 Summer Olympics (Gold medal)

1 Ball 2 Rooney 4 Lee 5 Lambourne 8 Priddy 9 Millar 10 Salmon 12 Hoff (C) 13 Stanley 14 Hansen 15 Gardner 18 Touzinsky Coach: McCutcheon

Brazil squad – 2008 Summer Olympics Silver Medal

1 Bruno 2 Marcelinho 4 André Heller 6 Samuel 7 Giba 8 Murilo 9 André 10 Sérgio 11 Anderson 13 Gustavo 14 Rodrigão 18 Dante Coach: Bernardinho

Russia – 2008 Summer Olympics (Bronze Medal)

1 Korneev 2 Poltavskiy 3 Kosarev 6 Grankin 8 Tetyukhin 9 Khamuttskikh (C) 10 Berezhko 13 Ostapenko 15 Volkov 16 Verbov 17 Mikhaylov 18 Kuleshov Coach: Alekno

Poland men's volleyball team – 2008 Olympics (5th place)

2 Winiarski 3 Gruszka 4 Pliński 5 Zagumny 8 Wika 10 Wlazły 11 Kadziewicz 12 Woicki 13 Świderski 14 Gierczyński 16 Ignaczak 18 Możdżonek Coach: Lozano

Bulgaria – 2008 Summer Olympics (5th place)

1 Ivanov 2 Tsvetanov 3 Zhekov 4 Yordanov 5 Gaydarski 6 Kaziyski 11 Nikolov 13 Salparov 14 Stoykov 15 Aleksiev 17 Konstantinov (C) 18 Tassev Coach: Stoev

Serbia – 2008 Summer Olympics (5th place)

1 Kovačević 2 Bojović 3 Bjelica 4 Janić 5 Petković 8 Samardžić 9 Grbić (C) 10 Nikić 12 Gerić 14 Miljković 15 Starović 18 Podraščanin Coach: Kolaković

China squad – 2008 Summer Olympics (5th place)

1 Bian 4 Yuan 5 Guo 6 Shi 8 Cui 9 Jiao 11 Yu 12 Shen 14 Jiang 16 Ren 17 Sui 18 Fang Coach: Zhou

Germany – 2008 Summer Olympics (9th place)

1 Popp 4 Tischer 5 Andrae (C) 7 Siebeck 8 Böhme 9 Hübner 10 Schöps 11 Dehne 12 Pampel 13 Bergmann 14 Kromm 19 Kröger Coach: Moculesku

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Gold	Silver	Bronze
United States (USA) Lloy Ball Sean Rooney David Lee Richard Lambourne William Priddy Ryan Millar Riley Salmon Thomas Hoff Clayton Stanley Kevin Hansen Gabriel Gardner Scott Touzinsky	Brazil (BRA) Bruno Rezende Marcelo Elgarten André Heller Samuel Fuchs Gilberto Godoy Filho Murilo Endres André Nascimento Sérgio Santos Anderson Rodrigues Gustavo Endres Rodrigo Santana Dante Amaral	Russia (RUS) Aleksandr Korneev Semyon Poltavskiy Aleksandr Kosarev Sergey Grankin Sergey Tetyukhin Vadim Khamuttskikh Yury Berezhko Aleksey Ostapenko Aleksandr Volkov Aleksey Verbov Maxim Mikhaylov Aleksey Kuleshov