Volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Women's volleyball
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
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
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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

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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

Template:2012 Summer Olympics women's volleyball pool A standings

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

Template:2012 Summer Olympics women's volleyball pool B standings

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
7 August
		United States	3	Bronze medal match
United States	3
				11 August
Dominican Republic	0
				[[Japan women's national volleyball team\|Japan]]	3

				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
	Brazil
	United States
	Japan
4.	South Korea
5.	Russia
	Italy
	China
	Dominican Republic
9.	Turkey
9.	Great Britain
11.	Algeria
11.	Serbia

2012 Women's Olympic Champions
Brazil 2nd title

Medalists

Individual awards

Most Valuable Player

Kim Yeon-Koung (KOR)^[3]

Best Scorer

Kim Yeon-Koung (KOR)

Best Spiker

Destinee Hooker (USA)

Best Blocker

Fabiana Claudino (BRA)

Best Server

Sheilla Castro (BRA)

Ruoqi Hui (CHN)^[4]

Best Setter

Yevgeniya Startseva (RUS)

Best Receiver

Fernanda Garay (BRA)

Best Libero

Brenda Castillo (DOM)

References

^ FIVB (January 4, 2012). "FIVB World Rankings - Women".
^ ^a ^b ^c "Sports Regulations Volleyball" (PDF). FIVB. July 2012. p. 21. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
^ FIVB (2012-08-11). "Brazil win second consecutive title, USA and Japan complete Olympic podium". London, Great Britain. Retrieved 2012-08-12.
^ http://www.fivb.org/vis_web/VOLLEY/WOG2012/PDF/P5-WOG2012-Finals.pdf

External links

Official website of the 2012 Olympic volleyball tournaments

[1] FIVB (January 4, 2012). "FIVB World Rankings - Women".

[FIVB_scoring-2] "Sports Regulations Volleyball" (PDF). FIVB. July 2012. p. 21. Retrieved 4 August 2012.

[3] FIVB (2012-08-11). "Brazil win second consecutive title, USA and Japan complete Olympic podium". London, Great Britain. Retrieved 2012-08-12.

[4] ttp://www.fivb.org/vis_web/VOLLEY/WOG2012/PDF/P5-WOG2012-Finals.pdf

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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

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