Volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Men's volleyball at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	Earls Court Exhibition Centre
Date	29 July–12 August
Competitors	144 from 12 nations
Medalists
Russia Brazil Italy

The men's tournament in volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics was the 13th 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 London, United Kingdom from 29 July to 12 August 2012.

Russia won the gold medal in a 3–2 victory against Brazil.

Qualification

Main article: Volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

Pools composition

Teams were seeded following the Serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 4 January 2012. 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 92nd.

Pool A	Pool B
Great Britain (Hosts)	Brazil (1)
Italy (3)	Russia (2)
Poland (4)	United States (6)
Argentina (8)	Serbia (7)
Bulgaria (9)	Germany (13)
Australia (22)	Tunisia (18)

Rosters

Main article: Volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters

Venue

All matches
London, United Kingdom
Earls Court Exhibition Centre
Capacity: 20,000

Pool standing procedure

1. Match points
2. Number of matches won
3. Sets ratio
4. Points ratio
5. Result of the last match between the tied teams

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

Preliminary round

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

Qualified for the Quarterfinals

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Final round

• All times are British Summer Time (UTC+01:00).
• Quarterfinals format: (A1 vs. B4), (A2 vs. B2 or B3 – drawing of lots), (A3 vs. B2 or B3 – drawing of lots), (B1 vs. A4)
• Teams in the draw: Poland (A2), Argentina (A3), Brazil (B2), Russia (B3)

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Gold medal match
	8 August
	Bulgaria	3
					10 August
	Germany	0
					Bulgaria	1
	8 August
					Russia	3
	Poland	0
									12 August
	Russia	3
									Russia	3
	8 August
									Brazil	2
	Argentina	0
					10 August
	Brazil	3
					Brazil	3
	8 August
					Italy	0			Bronze medal match
	United States	0
									12 August
	Italy	3
									Bulgaria	1
									Italy	3

Final standing

Rank	Team
	Russia
	Brazil
	Italy
4	Bulgaria
5	Argentina
	Germany
	Poland
	United States
9	Australia
	Serbia
11	Great Britain
	Tunisia

2012 Men's Olympic Champions
Russia 1st title

12–man Roster

Apalikov, Khtey , Grankin, Tetyukhin, Sokolov, Berezhko, Butko, Muserskiy, Ilinikh, Mikhaylov, Volkov, Obmochaev

Head Coach

Alekno

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Russia (RUS) Nikolay Apalikov Taras Khtey Sergey Grankin Sergey Tetyukhin Aleksandr Sokolov Yury Berezhko Aleksandr Butko Dmitriy Muserskiy Dmitriy Ilinikh Maxim Mikhaylov Aleksandr Volkov Aleksey Obmochaev	Brazil (BRA) Bruno Rezende Wallace Souza Sidnei Santos Leandro Neves Gilberto Godoy Filho Murilo Endres Sérgio Santos Thiago Alves Rodrigo Santana Lucas Saatkamp Ricardo Garcia Dante Amaral	Italy (ITA) Luigi Mastrangelo Simone Parodi Samuele Papi Michal Lasko Ivan Zaytsev Dante Boninfante Cristian Savani Dragan Travica Alessandro Fei Emanuele Birarelli Andrea Bari Andrea Giovi

Awards

• Most Valuable Player

Murilo Endres

• Best Scorer

Maxim Mikhaylov

• Best Spiker

Maxim Mikhaylov

• Best Blocker

Max Gunthor

• Best Server

Cristian Savani

• Best Digger

Teodor Salparov

• Best Setter

Georgi Bratoev

• Best Receiver

Krzysztof Ignaczak

• Best Libero

Markus Steuerwald

See also

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

External links

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