Volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Women's volleyball at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	Earls Court Exhibition Centre
Date	28 July–11 August
Competitors	144 from 12 nations
Medalists
01 !  Brazil 02 !  United States 03 !  Japan

Volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Indoor
Tournament		men		women
Rosters		men		women
Beach
Tournament		men		women

The women's tournament in volleyball at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was the 13th edition of the event in an Olympic Games, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB, in conjunction with the IOC.

It was held at Earls Court Exhibition Centre from 28 July to 11 August 2012.

Qualification

Means of qualification	Date	Host	Vacancies	Qualified
Host country	6 July 2005	Singapore	1	Great Britain
2011 World Cup	4–18 November 2011	Japan	3	Italy
				United States
				China
African Qualifier	2–4 February 2012	Blida	1	Algeria
North American Qualifier	29 Apr–5 May 2012	Tijuana	1	Dominican Republic
European Qualifier	1–6 May 2012	Ankara	1	Turkey
South American Qualifier	9–13 May 2012	São Carlos	1	Brazil
World Qualifier	19–27 May 2012	Tokyo	3	Russia
				South Korea
				Serbia
Asian Qualifier			1	Japan
Total			12

• The Asian Qualification Tournament will be combined with the World Qualification Tournament. The first 3 place teams of the tournament will qualify as the winners of the World Qualification Tournament while the best Asian team except the top 3 winners qualify as the Asian Qualification Tournament winners.

Pools composition

Teams were seeded following the Serpentine system according to their ranking as of January 15, 2012.^[1]

Twelve qualified nations were drawn into two groups, each consisting of six teams. After a robin-round, the four highest-placed teams in each group advanced to a knock-out round to decide the medals.

Group A	Group B
Great Britain (Hosts)	United States (1)
Japan (3)	Brazil (2)
Italy (4)	China (5)
Russia (7)	Serbia (6)
Dominican Republic (9)	Turkey (11)
Algeria (16)	South Korea (13)

Rosters

Preliminary round

Teams played a round-robin schedule within the pool and those with the top four point totals advanced to a knockout round. Teams were awarded three points for a 3–0 or 3–1 win, two points for a 3–2 win, one point for a 3–2 loss, and zero points for a 3–0 or 3–1 loss.^[2] If at the end of pool play teams are tied the tiebreakers are (1) most wins, (2) set win ratio, (3) points ratio, and (4) head-to-head.^[2] If three or more teams are tied, the tiebreakers are applied only to the matches between tied teams.^[2]

• All times are British Summer Time (UTC+01:00).

Pool A

		Pts	Matches		Sets			Points
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Russia	14	5	0	15	4	3.750	459	352	1.304
2	Italy	13	4	1	14	5	2.800	442	368	1.201
3	Japan	9	3	2	11	6	1.833	401	335	1.197
4	Dominican Republic	6	2	3	8	9	0.889	374	362	1.033
5	Great Britain	2	1	4	3	14	0.214	295	396	0.745
6	Algeria	1	0	5	2	15	0.133	252	410	0.615

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
28 Jul	09:30	Algeria	0–3	Japan	15–25	14–25	7–25			36–75	P2 P3
28 Jul	14:45	Great Britain	0–3	Russia	19–25	10–25	16–25			45–75	P2 P3
28 Jul	16:45	Italy	3–1	Dominican Republic	25–17	23–25	25–19	25–15		98–76	P2 P3
30 Jul	14:45	Dominican Republic	1–3	Russia	23–25	15–25	26–24	22–25		86–99	P2 P3
30 Jul	20:00	Italy	3–1	Japan	25–22	25–21	20–25	25–22		95–90	P2 P3
30 Jul	22:20	Great Britain	3–2	Algeria	22–25	25–19	23–25	25–19	15–8	110–96	P2 P3
01 Aug	09:30	Dominican Republic	0–3	Japan	20–25	19–25	23–25			62–75	P2 P3
01 Aug	11:30	Algeria	0–3	Russia	7–25	14–25	15–25			36–75	P2 P3
01 Aug	16:45	Great Britain	0–3	Italy	25–27	12–25	12–25			49–75	P2 P3
03 Aug	12:25	Japan	1–3	Russia	25–27	17–25	25–20	19–25		86–97	P2 P3
03 Aug	16:45	Great Britain	0–3	Dominican Republic	9–25	18–25	19–25			46–75	P2 P3
03 Aug	22:00	Algeria	0–3	Italy	11–25	12–25	17–25			40–75	P2 P3
05 Aug	09:30	Algeria	0–3	Dominican Republic	15–25	16–25	13–25			44–75	P2 P3
05 Aug	14:45	Great Britain	0–3	Japan	19–25	14–25	12–25			45–75	P2 P3
05 Aug	16:45	Italy	2–3	Russia	28–26	19–25	25–22	16–25	11–15	99–113	P2 P3

Pool B

		Pts	Matches		Sets			Points
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	United States	15	5	0	15	2	7.500	426	345	1.235
2	China	9	3	2	11	10	1.100	475	461	1.030
3	South Korea	8	2	3	11	10	1.100	449	452	0.993
4	Brazil	7	3	2	10	10	1.000	447	420	1.064
5	Turkey	6	2	3	9	11	0.818	434	443	0.980
6	Serbia	0	0	5	2	15	0.133	297	407	0.730

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
28 Jul	11:30	China	3–1	Serbia	16–25	25–18	25–13	25–12		91–68	P2 P3
28 Jul	20:00	United States	3–1	South Korea	25–19	25–17	20–25	25–21		95–82	P2 P3
28 Jul	22:30	Brazil	3–2	Turkey	25–18	23–25	25–19	25–27	15–12	113–101	P2 P3
30 Jul	09:30	China	3–1	Turkey	25–20	25–20	29–31	25–22		104–93	P2 P3
30 Jul	12:00	Serbia	1–3	South Korea	12–25	16–25	25–16	21–25		74–91	P2 P3
30 Jul	17:15	United States	3–1	Brazil	25–18	25–17	22–25	25–21		97–81	P2 P3
01 Aug	14:45	Serbia	0–3	Turkey	20–25	12–25	21–25			53–75	P2 P3
01 Aug	20:00	United States	3–0	China	26–24	25–16	31–29			82–69	P2 P3
01 Aug	22:05	Brazil	0–3	South Korea	23–25	21–25	21–25			65–75	P2 P3
03 Aug	09:30	Brazil	3–2	China	25–16	20–25	25–18	28–30	15–10	113–99	P2 P3
03 Aug	15:00	Turkey	3–2	South Korea	25–16	21–25	25–18	19–25	15–12	105–96	P2 P3
03 Aug	20:00	United States	3–0	Serbia	25–17	25–20	25–16			75–53	P2 P3
05 Aug	11:30	China	3–2	South Korea	28–26	22–25	25–19	22–25	15–10	112–105	P2 P3
05 Aug	20:00	United States	3–0	Turkey	27–25	25–16	25–19			77–60	P2 P3
05 Aug	22:00	Brazil	3–0	Serbia	25–10	25–22	25–16			75–48	P2 P3

Knockout stage

• All times are British Summer Time (UTC+01:00).

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	7 August
	Russia	2
					9 August
	Brazil	3
					Brazil	3
	7 August
					Japan	0
	China	2
									11 August
	Japan	3
									Brazil	3
	7 August
									United States	1
	Italy	1
					9 August
	South Korea	3
					South Korea	0			Bronze medal match
	7 August
					United States	3			11 August
	United States	3
									Japan	3
	Dominican Republic	0
									South Korea	0

Quarterfinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
7 Aug	13:00	China	2–3	Japan	26–28	25–23	23–25	25–23	16–18	115–117	P2 P3
7 Aug	15:50	Russia	2–3	Brazil	26–24	22–25	25–19	22–25	19–21	114–114	P2 P3
7 Aug	19:10	United States	3–0	Dominican Republic	25–14	25–21	25–22			75–57	P2 P3
7 Aug	21:05	Italy	1–3	South Korea	25–18	21–25	20–25	18–25		84–93	P2 P3

Semifinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
9 Aug	15:00	South Korea	0–3	United States	20–25	22–25	22–25			64–75	P2 P3
9 Aug	19:30	Brazil	3–0	Japan	25–18	25–15	25–18			75–51	P2 P3

Bronze medal match

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
11 Aug	11:30	Japan	3–0	South Korea	25–22	26–24	25–21			76–67	P2 P3

Final

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
11 Aug	18:30	Brazil	3–1	United States	11–25	25–17	25–20	25–17		86–79	P2 P3

Final standings

Rank Team 01 !  Brazil 02 !  United States 03 !  Japan 4.  South Korea 5.  Russia  Italy  China  Dominican Republic 9.  Turkey  Great Britain 11.  Algeria  Serbia

2012 Women's Olympic Champions  Brazil 2nd title

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Brazil (BRA) Fabiana Claudino (captain) Dani Lins Paula Pequeno Adenízia da Silva Thaísa Menezes Jaqueline Carvalho Fernanda Ferreira Tandara Caixeta Natália Pereira Sheilla Castro Fabiana de Oliveira Fernanda Garay	United States (USA) Danielle Scott-Arruda Tayyiba Haneef-Park Lindsey Berg (captain) Tamari Miyashiro Nicole Davis Jordan Larson Megan Hodge Christa Harmotto Logan Tom Foluke Akinradewo Courtney Thompson Destinee Hooker	Japan (JPN) Hitomi Nakamichi Yoshie Takeshita Mai Yamaguchi Erika Araki (captain) Kaori Inoue Maiko Kano Yuko Sano Ai Otomo Risa Shinnabe Saori Sakoda Yukiko Ebata Saori Kimura

Individual awards

See also

• Volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

References

External links

• Official website of the 2012 Olympic volleyball tournaments

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