Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

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Men's volleyball
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
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Venue Ginásio do Maracanãzinho
Date 7–21 August
Competitors 144 from 12 nations
Medalists
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1st  Brazil
2nd  Italy
3rd  United States
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The men's tournament in volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics was the 14th edition of the event at an Olympic Games, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB, in conjunction with the IOC. It was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 7 to 21 August 2016.

Brazil won the gold medal after a 3–0 win over Italy.[1] The United States defeated Russia 3–2 to win the bronze medal.[2]

The medals for the competition were presented by Shamil Tarpishchev, Russia; Habu Gumel, Nigeria; and Bernard Rajzman, Brazil; members of the International Olympic Committee and Carlos Arthur Nuzman, honorary member of the International Olympic Committee and President of the Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio 2016, and the gifts were presented by Ary Graça, Dr. Rafael Lloreda Currea and Dr. Amr Elwani, President and Executive Vice-Presidents of the FIVB.

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Competition schedule

P Preliminary round ¼ Quarter-finals ½ Semi-finals B Bronze medal match F Final
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
P P P P P ¼ ½ B F

Qualification

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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


Pools composition

Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of October 2015.[3] 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 1st. The pools were confirmed on 6 June 2016.[4]

Pool A Pool B
 Brazil (Hosts)  Poland (2)
 Italy (4)  Russia (3)
 United States (5)  Argentina (6)
 Canada (10)  Iran (8)
 France (10)  Cuba (15)
 Mexico (24)  Egypt (17)

Rosters

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Venue

All matches
Brazil Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ginásio do Maracanãzinho
Capacity: 11,800
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Format

The preliminary round was a competition between the twelve teams divided into two pools of six teams. This round, the teams competed in a single round-robin format. The four highest ranked teams in each group advanced to the knockout stage (quarter-finals). The sixth placed teams in each pool was ranked eleventh in this competition. The fifth placed teams in each pool was ranked ninth.

The knockout stage followed the single-elimination format. The losers of the quarter-finals were eliminated and ranked fifth. The quarter-final winners played in the semi-finals. The winners of the semi-finals competed for gold medals and the losers played for bronze medals.

Pool standing procedure

In order to establish the ranking of teams after the group stage, the following criteria should be implemented:[5]

  1. Number of matches won
  2. Match points
  3. Set ratio
  4. Setpoint ratio
  5. Results between tied teams (head-to-head record)

Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser

Referees

The following referees were selected for the tournament.[6]

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  • Argentina Hernán Casamiquela
  • Belgium Arturo Di Giacomo
  • Brazil Rogerio Espicalsky
  • Brazil Paulo Turci
  • China Liu Jiang
  • Dominican Republic Denny Cespedes
  • Egypt Nasr Shaaban
  • Germany Heike Kraft
  • Iran Mohammad Shahmiri
  • Italy Fabrizio Pasquali
  • Mexico Luis Macias
  • Poland Piotr Dudek
  • Qatar Ibrahim Al-Naama
  • Russia Andrey Zenovich
  • Serbia Vladimir Simonović
  • Slovakia Juraj Mokrý
  • South Korea Kang Joo-hee
  • Spain Susana Rodríguez
  • Tunisia Taoufik Boudaya
  • United States Patricia Rolf

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pos Team Pld W L Pts SW SL SR SPW SPL SPR Qualification
1  Brazil (H) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Quarter-finals
2  United States 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Team A3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Team A4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Team A5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Team A6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played on 7 August 2016. Source:
Rules for classification: 1) Matches won; 2) Points; 3) Set ratio; 4) Setpoint ratio; 5) Head-to-head record.
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Pool B

Pos Team Pld W L Pts SW SL SR SPW SPL SPR Qualification
1  Russia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Quarter-finals
2 Team B2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Team B3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Team B4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Team B5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Team B6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Knockout stage

  • All times are Brasília Time (UTC−03:00).
  • The first ranked teams of both pools played against the fourth ranked teams of the other pool. The second ranked teams faced the second or third ranked teams of the other pool, determined by drawing of lots. The drawing of lots was held after the last match in the preliminary round.

Bracket

 
Quarterfinals Semifinals Gold medal match
 
                   
 
17 August
 
 
 Italy 3
 
19 August
 
 Iran 0
 
 Italy 3
 
17 August
 
 United States 2
 
 United States 3
 
21 August
 
 Poland 0
 
 Italy 0
 
17 August
 
 Brazil 3
 
 Canada 0
 
19 August
 
 Russia 3
 
 Russia 0
 
17 August
 
 Brazil 3 Bronze medal match
 
 Brazil 3
 
21 August
 
 Argentina 1
 
 United States 3
 
 
 Russia 2
 

Quarterfinals

17 August 2016 (2016-08-17)

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Semifinals

19 August 2016 (2016-08-19)

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Bronze medal match

21 August 2016 (2016-08-21)

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Gold medal match

21 August 2016 (2016-08-21)

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Final standing

Medalists

Gold Silver Bronze
 Brazil (BRA)
Bruno Rezende (c)
Éder Carbonera
Wallace de Souza
William Arjona
Sérgio Santos
Luiz Felipe Fonteles
Maurício Souza
Douglas Souza
Lucas Saatkamp
Evandro Guerra
Ricardo Lucarelli Souza
Maurício Borges Silva
 Italy (ITA)
Daniele Sottile
Luca Vettori
Osmany Juantorena
Simone Giannelli
Salvatore Rossini
Ivan Zaytsev
Filippo Lanza
Simone Buti
Massimo Colaci
Matteo Piano
Emanuele Birarelli (c)
Oleg Antonov
 United States (USA)
Matthew Anderson
Aaron Russell
Taylor Sander
David Lee (c)
Kawika Shoji
William Priddy
Murphy Troy
Thomas Jaeschke
Micah Christenson
Maxwell Holt
David Smith
Erik Shoji

Awards

Statistics leaders

  • Only players whose teams advanced to the semifinals are ranked.

Source: FIVB.com

See also

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