Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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Volleyball
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
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Pictograms for indoor (left) and beach volleyball (right)
Venue Ginásio do Maracanãzinho (indoor)
Copacabana Stadium (beach)
Dates 6–21 August 2016
No. of events 4
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Volleyball at the
2016 Summer Olympics
Indoor
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Tournament   men   women
Rosters   men   women
Beach
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Tournament men women

The volleyball tournaments at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was played between 6 and 21 August. 24 volleyball teams and 48 beach volleyball teams, total 386 athletes, participated in the tournament. The indoor volleyball competition took place at Ginásio do Maracanãzinho in Maracanã, and the beach volleyball tournament was held at Copacabana Beach,[1][2] in the temporary Copacabana Stadium.

Competition schedule

P Preliminary round Round of 16 ¼ Quarter-finals ½ Semi-finals B Bronze medal match F Final
Date
Event
Sat 6 Sun 7 Mon 8 Tue 9 Wed 10 Thu 11 Fri 12 Sat 13 Sun 14 Mon 15 Tue 16 Wed 17 Thu 18 Fri 19 Sat 20 Sun 21
Men's indoor P P P P P ¼ ½ B F
Women's indoor P P P P P ¼ ½ B F
Men's beach P P P P P P ¼ ½ B F
Women's beach P P P P P P ¼ ½ B F

Events

Four sets of medals were awarded in the following events:

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee was allowed to enter one men's and one women's qualified team in the volleyball tournaments and two men's and two women's qualified teams in the beach volleyball.[3][4][5]

Men's volleyball

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Means of qualification
Date Venue Vacancies Qualified
Host Country 2 October 2009 Denmark Copenhagen 1  Brazil
2015 World Cup 8–23 September 2015  Japan 2  United States
 Italy
South American Qualifier 9–11 October 2015 Venezuela Maiquetía 1  Argentina
European Qualifier 5–10 January 2016 Germany Berlin 1  Russia
African Qualifier 7–12 January 2016 Republic of the Congo Brazzaville 1  Egypt
North American Qualifier 8–10 January 2016 Canada Edmonton 1  Cuba
Asian Qualifier 28 May – 5 June 2016 Japan Tokyo 1
1st World Qualifier 3  
 
 
2nd World Qualifier 3–5 June 2016 Mexico Mexico City 1
Total 12

Women's volleyball

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Means of qualification
Date Venue Vacancies Qualified
Host Country 2 October 2009 Denmark Copenhagen 1  Brazil
2015 World Cup 22 August – 6 September 2015  Japan 2  China
 Serbia
European Qualifier 4–9 January 2016 Turkey Ankara 1  Russia
South American Qualifier 6–10 January 2016 Argentina Bariloche 1  Argentina
North American Qualifier 7–9 January 2016 United States Lincoln 1  United States
African Qualifier 12–16 February 2016 Cameroon Yaoundé 1  Cameroon
Asian Qualifier 14–22 May 2016 Japan Tokyo 1  Japan
1st World Qualifier 3  Italy
 Netherlands
 South Korea
2nd World Qualifier 20–22 May 2016 Puerto Rico San Juan 1  Puerto Rico
Total 12

Men's beach volleyball

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Women's beach volleyball

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Beach volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

Men's indoor competition

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The competition consisted of two stages; a preliminary round followed by a knockout stage.

Preliminary round

The teams were divided into two groups of six countries, playing every team in their group once. Three points were awarded for a 3–0 or 3–1 win, two points for a 3–2 win, one point for a 2–3 loss and 0 points for a 1–3 or 0–3 loss. The top four teams per group qualified for the quarter-finals.

Pool A

Pool B

Knockout stage

Women's indoor competition

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The competition consisted of two stages; a Preliminary round followed by a knockout stage.

Preliminary round

The teams were divided into two groups of six countries, playing every team in their group once. Three points were awarded for a 3–0 or 3–1 win, two points for a 3–2 win, one point for a 2–3 loss and 0 points for a 1–3 or 0–3 loss. The top four teams per group qualified for the quarter-finals.

Pool A

Pool B

Knockout stage

Men's beach volleyball competition

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Knockout stage

Women's beach volleyball competition

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Knockout stage

Medal summary

Medal table

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Medalists

Indoor volleyball

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's indoor
details
 Brazil
Bruno Rezende
Éder Carbonera
Wallace de Souza
William Arjona
Sérgio Santos
Luiz Felipe Fonteles
Maurício Souza
Douglas Souza
Lucas Saatkamp
Evandro Guerra
Ricardo Lucarelli
Maurício Borges Silva
 Italy
Daniele Sottile
Luca Vettori
Osmany Juantorena
Simone Giannelli
Salvatore Rossini
Ivan Zaytsev
Filippo Lanza
Simone Buti
Massimo Colaci
Matteo Piano
Emanuele Birarelli
Oleg Antonov
 United States
Matthew Anderson
Aaron Russell
Taylor Sander
David Lee
Kawika Shoji
William Priddy
Murphy Troy
Thomas Jaeschke
Micah Christenson
Maxwell Holt
David Smith
Erik Shoji
Women's indoor
details
 China
Ding Xia
Gong Xiangyu
Hui Ruoqi
Lin Li
Liu Xiaotong
Wei Qiuyue
Xu Yunli
Yan Ni
Yang Fangxu
Yuan Xinyue
Zhang Changning
Zhu Ting
 Serbia
Tijana Bošković
Jovana Brakočević
Bianka Buša
Tijana Malešević
Brankica Mihajlović
Jelena Nikolić
Maja Ognjenović
Silvija Popović
Milena Rašić
Jovana Stevanović
Stefana Veljković
Bojana Živković
 United States
Rachael Adams
Foluke Akinradewo
Kayla Banwarth
Alisha Glass
Christa Harmotto
Kimberly Hill
Jordan Larson
Carli Lloyd
Karsta Lowe
Kelly Murphy
Kelsey Robinson
Courtney Thompson

Beach volleyball

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's beach
details
 Brazil
Alison Cerutti
Bruno Oscar Schmidt
 Italy
Daniele Lupo
Paolo Nicolai
 Netherlands
Alexander Brouwer
Robert Meeuwsen
Women's beach
details
 Germany
Laura Ludwig
Kira Walkenhorst
 Brazil
Ágatha Bednarczuk
Bárbara Seixas
 United States
Kerri Walsh Jennings
April Ross

See also

References

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External links

Volleyball:

Beach volleyball: