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
United States Brazil Russia

Competing teams

The men's tournament in volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics was the 12th edition of the event at the Summer Olympics, 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 July 2001	Moscow	1	China
2007 World Cup	18 November – 2 December 2007	Japan	3	Brazil
				Russia
				Bulgaria
African Qualifier	3–9 February 2008	Durban	1	Egypt
European Qualifier	7–13 January 2008	Izmir	1	Serbia
North American Qualifier	6–11 January 2008	Caguas	1	United States
South American Qualifier	3–7 January 2008	Formosa	1	Venezuela
1st World Qualifier	23–25 May 2008	Düsseldorf	1	Germany
2nd World Qualifier	30 May – 1 June 2008	Espinho	1	Poland
3rd World Qualifier	31 May – 8 June 2008	Tokyo	1	Italy
Asian Qualifier*			1	Japan
Total			12

* The Asian Qualifier was combined with the 3rd World Qualifier. The first place team of the tournament qualified as the 3rd World Qualifier winners, while the best Asian team except the 3rd World Qualifier 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. 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).
• The top four teams in each pool qualified for the quarterfinals.

Qualified for the Quarterfinals

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

Final round

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

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Gold medal match
	20 August
	United States	3
					22 August
	Serbia	2
					United States	3
	20 August
					Russia	2
	Bulgaria	1
									24 August
	Russia	3
									United States	3
	20 August
									Brazil	1
	Italy	3
					22 August
	Poland	2
					Italy	1
	20 August
					Brazil	3			Bronze medal match
	China	0
									24 August
	Brazil	3
									Russia	3
									Italy	0

Final standing

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

2008 Men's Olympic Champions
United States 3rd title

12–man roster

Ball, Rooney, Lee, Lambourne, Priddy, Millar, Salmon, Hoff (c), Stanley, Hansen, Gardner, Touzinsky

Head Coach

McCutcheon

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
United States (USA) Lloy Ball Sean Rooney David Lee Richard Lambourne William Priddy Ryan Millar Riley Salmon Thomas Hoff (c) Clayton Stanley Kevin Hansen Gabriel Gardner Scott Touzinsky	Brazil (BRA) Bruno Rezende Marcelo Elgarten André Heller Samuel Fuchs Gilberto Godoy Filho (c) 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 (c) Yury Berezhko Aleksey Ostapenko Aleksandr Volkov Aleksey Verbov Maxim Mikhaylov Aleksey Kuleshov

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

External links

• Official website
• Final Standing
• Awards
• Statistics
• Results at Todor66.com
• Results at Sports123.com