Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Volleyball at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
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

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, in the temporary Copacabana Stadium.

Competition schedule

P

Preliminary round

⅛

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	⅛	⅛		¼	½				B	F
Women's beach	P	P	P	P	P	P	⅛	⅛	¼		½		B	F

Events

Four sets of medals were awarded in the following events:

• Indoor volleyball – men (12 teams, 144 athletes)
• Indoor volleyball – women (12 teams, 144 athletes)
• Beach volleyball – men (24 teams, 48 athletes)
• Beach volleyball – women (24 teams, 48 athletes)

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.

Men's volleyball

Main article: Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

Women's volleyball

Main article: Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

Women's beach volleyball

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

Men's indoor competition

Main article: Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

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.

Knockout stage

Men's volleyball at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho
Date	7–21 August
Competitors	144 from 12 nations
Medalists
Brazil (3rd title) Italy United States

The men's tournament in volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics was the 14th edition of the event at the Summer Olympics, 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. The United States defeated Russia 3–2 to win the bronze medal.

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 Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and the gifts were presented by Ary Graça, Dr. Rafael Lloreda Currea and Dr. Amr Elwani, President and Executive Vice-Presidents of the FIVB.

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

Main article: Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

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

* The Asian Qualifier was combined with the 1st World Qualifier. The best Asian team qualified as the Asian Qualifier winners, while the best three ranked teams except the Asian Qualifier winners qualified as the top three teams of the 1st World Qualifier.

Format

The preliminary round was a competition between the twelve teams, who were 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 pool advanced to the knockout stage (quarterfinals). The sixth placed teams in each pool were ranked eleventh in this competition. The fifth placed teams in each pool were ranked ninth.

The knockout stage followed the single-elimination format. The losers of the quarterfinals were eliminated and ranked fifth. The quarterfinal winners played in the semifinals. The winners of the semifinals competed for gold medal and the losers played for bronze medal.

Pools composition

Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of October 2015. 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.

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

Main article: Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters

Venue

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

Pool standing procedure

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

1. Number of matches won
2. Match points
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

Referees

The following referees were selected for the tournament.

• Hernán Casamiquela
• Arturo Di Giacomo
• Rogerio Espicalsky
• Paulo Turci
• Liu Jiang
• Denny Cespedes
• Nasr Shaaban
• Heike Kraft
• Mohammad Shahmiri
• Fabrizio Pasquali
• Luis Macias
• Piotr Dudek
• Ibrahim Al-Naama
• Andrey Zenovich
• Vladimir Simonović
• Juraj Mokrý
• Kang Joo-hee
• Susana Rodríguez
• Taoufik Boudaya
• Patricia Rolf

Preliminary round

• All times are Brasília Time (UTC−03:00).
• The top four teams in each pool qualified for the quarterfinals.

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Italy	5	4	1	12	13	5	2.600	432	375	1.152	Quarterfinals
2	Canada	5	3	2	9	10	7	1.429	378	378	1.000
3	United States	5	3	2	9	10	8	1.250	419	405	1.035
4	Brazil (H)	5	3	2	9	11	9	1.222	467	442	1.057
5	France	5	2	3	6	8	9	0.889	386	367	1.052
6	Mexico	5	0	5	0	1	15	0.067	283	398	0.711

Source: FIVB
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Host

7 August 2016 (2016-08-07) 09:30	Italy	3–0	France	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 4,456 Referees: Hernán Casamiquela (ARG), Denny Cespedes (DOM)
	(25–20, 25–20, 25–15) Results Statistics

7 August 2016 (2016-08-07) 11:35	Brazil	3–1	Mexico	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,686 Referees: Nasr Shaaban (EGY), Arturo Di Giacomo (BEL)
	(23–25, 25–19, 25–14, 25–18) Results Statistics

7 August 2016 (2016-08-07) 17:05	United States	0–3	Canada	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,875 Referees: Andrey Zenovich (RUS), Mohammad Shahmiri (IRI)
	(23–25, 17–25, 23–25) Results Statistics

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9 August 2016 (2016-08-09) 11:55	France	3–0	Mexico	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,625 Referees: Liu Jiang (CHN), Taoufik Boudaya (TUN)
	(25–18, 25–12, 25–22) Results Statistics

9 August 2016 (2016-08-09) 15:00	Italy	3–1	United States	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,494 Referees: Vladimir Simonović (SRB), Andrey Zenovich (RUS)
	(28–26, 20–25, 25–23, 25–23) Results Statistics

9 August 2016 (2016-08-09) 22:35	Brazil	3–1	Canada	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,749 Referees: Luis Macias (MEX), Piotr Dudek (POL)
	(24–26, 25–18, 25–22, 25–17) Results Statistics

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11 August 2016 (2016-08-11) 17:05	Canada	0–3	France	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,498 Referees: Andrey Zenovich (RUS), Nasr Shaaban (EGY)
	(19–25, 16–25, 19–25) Results Statistics

11 August 2016 (2016-08-11) 20:30	Italy	3–0	Mexico	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 5,472 Referees: Arturo Di Giacomo (BEL), Piotr Dudek (POL)
	(25–17, 25–13, 25–17) Results Statistics

11 August 2016 (2016-08-11) 22:35	Brazil	1–3	United States	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,779 Referees: Liu Jiang (CHN), Vladimir Simonović (SRB)
	(20–25, 23–25, 25–20, 20–25) Results Statistics

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13 August 2016 (2016-08-13) 17:25	United States	3–1	France	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,877 Referees: Arturo Di Giacomo (BEL), Luis Macias (MEX)
	(25–22, 25–22, 14–25, 25–22) Results Statistics

13 August 2016 (2016-08-13) 20:30	Canada	3–0	Mexico	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 5,624 Referees: Hernán Casamiquela (ARG), Taoufik Boudaya (TUN)
	(25–20, 25–13, 25–22) Results Statistics

13 August 2016 (2016-08-13) 22:35	Brazil	1–3	Italy	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,892 Referees: Piotr Dudek (POL), Nasr Shaaban (EGY)
	(25–23, 23–25, 22–25, 15–25) Results Statistics

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15 August 2016 (2016-08-15) 11:35	United States	3–0	Mexico	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,963 Referees: Mohammad Shahmiri (IRI), Piotr Dudek (POL)
	(25–23, 25–11, 25–19) Results Statistics

15 August 2016 (2016-08-15) 20:30	Italy	1–3	Canada	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,109 Referees: Andrey Zenovich (RUS), Hernán Casamiquela (ARG)
	(23–25, 17–25, 25–16, 21–25) Results Statistics

15 August 2016 (2016-08-15) 22:45	Brazil	3–1	France	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 9,800 Referees: Juraj Mokrý (SVK), Nasr Shaaban (EGY)
	(25–22, 22–25, 25–20, 25–23) Results Statistics

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Argentina	5	4	1	12	12	4	3.000	394	335	1.176	Quarterfinals
2	Poland	5	4	1	12	14	5	2.800	447	389	1.149
3	Russia	5	4	1	11	13	6	2.167	432	367	1.177
4	Iran	5	2	3	7	8	9	0.889	389	392	0.992
5	Egypt	5	1	4	3	3	12	0.250	286	362	0.790
6	Cuba	5	0	5	0	1	15	0.067	300	403	0.744

Source: FIVB
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

7 August 2016 (2016-08-07) 15:00	Poland	3–0	Egypt	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 5,658 Referees: Juraj Mokrý (SVK), Susana Rodríguez (ESP)
	(25–18, 25–20, 25–17) Results Statistics

7 August 2016 (2016-08-07) 20:30	Russia	3–1	Cuba	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,287 Referees: Vladimir Simonović (SRB), Rogerio Espicalsky (BRA)
	(25–17, 25–19, 22–25, 25–18) Results Statistics

7 August 2016 (2016-08-07) 22:35	Argentina	3–0	Iran	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,460 Referees: Fabrizio Pasquali (ITA), Liu Jiang (CHN)
	(25–23, 26–24, 25–18) Results Statistics

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9 August 2016 (2016-08-09) 09:30	Russia	1–3	Argentina	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,165 Referees: Arturo di Giacomo (BEL), Heike Kraft (GER)
	(18–25, 25–18, 18–25, 21–25) Results Statistics

9 August 2016 (2016-08-09) 17:35	Poland	3–2	Iran	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,227 Referees: Paulo Turci (BRA), Susana Rodríguez (ESP)
	(25–17, 25–23, 23–25, 20–25, 18–16) Results Statistics

9 August 2016 (2016-08-09) 20:30	Cuba	0–3	Egypt	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 5,016 Referees: Rogerio Espicalsky (BRA), Denny Cespedes (DOM)
	(22–25, 15–25, 22–25) Results Statistics

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11 August 2016 (2016-08-11) 09:30	Iran	3–0	Cuba	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,625 Referees: Fabrizio Pasquali (ITA), Juray Mokrý (SVK)
	(25–21, 31–29, 25–16) Results Statistics

11 August 2016 (2016-08-11) 11:35	Russia	3–0	Egypt	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,665 Referees: Paulo Turci (BRA), Ibrahim Al-Naama (QAT)
	(25–11, 25–17, 25–9) Results Statistics

11 August 2016 (2016-08-11) 15:00	Poland	3–0	Argentina	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,972 Referees: Denny Cespedes (DOM), Rogerio Espicalsky (BRA)
	(25–21, 25–19, 37–35) Results Statistics

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13 August 2016 (2016-08-13) 09:30	Iran	3–0	Egypt	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,262 Referees: Andrey Zenovich (RUS), Rogerio Espicalsky (BRA)
	(28–26, 25–22, 25–16) Results Statistics

13 August 2016 (2016-08-13) 11:35	Argentina	3–0	Cuba	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,428 Referees: Paulo Turci (BRA), Vladimir Simonović (SRB)
	(25–16, 25–14, 25–16) Results Statistics

13 August 2016 (2016-08-13) 15:00	Poland	2–3	Russia	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,239 Referees: Fabrizio Pasquali (ITA), Juraj Mokrý (SVK)
	(18–25, 25–16, 18–25, 25–22, 13–15) Results Statistics

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15 August 2016 (2016-08-15) 09:30	Argentina	3–0	Egypt	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,175 Referees: Luis Macias (MEX), Arturo Di Giacomo (BEL)
	(25–16, 25–19, 25–20) Results Statistics

15 August 2016 (2016-08-15) 15:00	Russia	3–0	Iran	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,387 Referees: Liu Jiang (CHN), Fabrizio Pasquali (ITA)
	(25–23, 25–16, 25–20) Results Statistics

15 August 2016 (2016-08-15) 17:05	Poland	3–0	Cuba	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,175 Referees: Vladimir Simonović (SRB), Ibrahim Al-Naama (QAT)
	(25–18, 25–15, 25–17) Results Statistics

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) 10:00	Canada	0–3	Russia	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,291 Referees: Arturo Di Giacomo (BEL), Mohammad Shahmiri (IRI)
	(15–25, 20–25, 18–25) Results Statistics

17 August 2016 (2016-08-17) 14:00	United States	3–0	Poland	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,278 Referees: Fabrizio Pasquali (ITA), Andrey Zenovich (RUS)
	(25–23, 25–22, 25–20) Results Statistics

17 August 2016 (2016-08-17) 18:00	Italy	3–0	Iran	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,213 Referees: Denny Cespedes (DOM), Juraj Mokrý (SVK)
	(31–29, 25–19, 25–17) Results Statistics

17 August 2016 (2016-08-17) 22:15	Brazil	3–1	Argentina	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 9,498 Referees: Vladimir Simonović (SRB), Piotr Dudek (POL)
	(25–22, 17–25, 25–19, 25–23) Results Statistics

Semifinals

19 August 2016 (2016-08-19) 13:00	Italy	3–2	United States	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,153 Referees: Arturo Di Giacomo (BEL), Hernán Casamiquela (ARG)
	(30–28, 26–28, 9–25, 25–22, 15–9) Results Statistics

19 August 2016 (2016-08-19) 22:15	Russia	0–3	Brazil	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 9,784 Referees: Juraj Mokrý (SVK), Vladimir Simonović (SRB)
	(21–25, 20–25, 17–25) Results Statistics

Bronze medal match

21 August 2016 (2016-08-21) 09:30	United States	3–2	Russia	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,976 Referees: Fabrizio Pasquali (ITA), Liu Jiang (CHN)
	(23–25, 21–25, 25–19, 25–19, 15–13) Results Statistics

Gold medal match

21 August 2016 (2016-08-21) 13:15	Italy	0–3	Brazil	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 9,824 Referees: Andrey Zenovich (RUS), Denny Cespedes (DOM)
	(22–25, 26–28, 24–26) Results Statistics

Final standing

Rank	Team
	Brazil
	Italy
	United States
4	Russia
5	Iran
	Canada
	Argentina
	Poland
9	Egypt
	France
11	Cuba
	Mexico

2016 Men's Olympic champions
Brazil 3rd title

12–man roster

Bruno (c), Éder, Wallace, William, Sérgio (L), Lipe, M. Souza, Douglas, Lucas, Evandro, Lucarelli, Maurício

Head coach

Bernardinho

Medalists

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

Awards

• Most valuable player

  Sérgio Santos

• Best setter

  Bruno Rezende

• Best outside spikers

  Aaron Russell

  Ricardo Lucarelli

• Best middle blockers

  Artem Volvich

  Emanuele Birarelli

• Best opposite spiker

  Wallace de Souza

• Best libero

  Sérgio Santos

Statistics leaders

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

Best Scorers

Rank	Name	Points
1	Wallace de Souza	147
2	Matthew Anderson	128
3	Ivan Zaytsev	127
4	Osmany Juantorena	116
5	Aaron Russell	107

Best Spikers

Rank	Name	%Eff
1	Maksim Mikhaylov	38.41
2	Wallace de Souza	36.59
3	Aaron Russell	33.50
4	Ricardo Lucarelli	32.92
5	Egor Kliuka	32.74

Best Blockers

Rank	Name	Avg
1	Artem Volvich	0.90
2	Maxwell Holt	0.65
3	David Lee	0.55
	Emanuele Birarelli
5	Maksim Mikhaylov	0.50

Best Servers

Rank	Name	Avg
1	Ivan Zaytsev	0.48
2	Maxwell Holt	0.39
3	Taylor Sander	0.35
4	Matthew Anderson	0.32
5	Ricardo Lucarelli	0.30
	Sergei Tetyukhin

Best Diggers

Rank	Name	Avg
1	Erik Shoji	1.81
2	Massimo Colaci	1.55
3	Osmany Juantorena	1.45
4	Sérgio Santos	1.33
5	Aleksey Verbov	1.20

Best Setters

Rank	Name	Avg
1	Micah Christenson	10.97
2	Simone Giannelli	10.79
3	Bruno Rezende	10.50
4	Sergey Grankin	8.77
5	Igor Kobzar	1.73

Best Receivers

Rank	Name	%Succ
1	Taylor Sander	48.80
2	Erik Shoji	45.18
3	Massimo Colaci	42.04
4	Sérgio Santos	41.84
5	Filippo Lanza	40.76

Source: FIVB.com

See also

• Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

External links

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

Women's indoor competition

Main article: Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

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.

Knockout stage

Women's volleyball at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho
Date	6–20 August
Competitors	144 from 12 nations
Medalists
China (3rd title) Serbia United States

The women'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 6 to 20 August 2016.

China won their third gold by defeating Serbia in the final. The United States won bronze by winning against the Netherlands.

The medals for the competition were presented by Yu Zaiqing, People's Republic of China; Anita DeFrantz, United States of America; and Chang Ung, Democratic People's Republic of Korea; members of the International Olympic Committee, and the gifts were presented by Ary Graça, Cristóbal Marte Hoffiz and Aleksandar Boričić, President and Executive Vice-Presidents of the FIVB.

Competition schedule

P

Preliminary round

¼

Quarter-finals

½

Semi-finals

B

Bronze medal match

F

Final

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
P		P		P		P		P		¼				½			B	F

Qualification

Main article: Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

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

Pools composition

Teams were seeded following the Serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of October 2015. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Rankings are shown in brackets except Hosts who ranked 3rd. The pools were confirmed on 23 May 2016.

Pool A	Pool B
Brazil (Hosts)	United States (1)
Russia (4)	China (2)
Japan (5)	Serbia (6)
South Korea (9)	Italy (8)
Argentina (12)	Netherlands (14)
Cameroon (21)	Puerto Rico (16)

Rosters

Main article: Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's team rosters

Venue

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

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:

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.

• Hernán Casamiquela
• Arturo Di Giacomo
• Rogerio Espicalsky
• Paulo Turci
• Liu Jiang
• Denny Cespedes
• Nasr Shaaban
• Heike Kraft
• Mohammad Shahmiri
• Fabrizio Pasquali
• Luis Macias
• Piotr Dudek
• Ibrahim Al-Naama
• Andrey Zenovich
• Vladimir Simonović
• Juraj Mokrý
• Kang Joo-hee
• Susana Rodríguez
• Taoufik Boudaya
• Patricia Rolf

Preliminary round

All times are Brasília Time (UTC−03:00).

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Brazil (H)	5	5	0	15	15	0	MAX	377	272	1.386	Quarter-finals
2	Russia	5	4	1	12	12	4	3.000	393	323	1.217
3	South Korea	5	3	2	9	10	7	1.429	384	372	1.032
4	Japan	5	2	3	6	7	9	0.778	347	364	0.953
5	Argentina	5	1	4	2	3	14	0.214	319	407	0.784
6	Cameroon	5	0	5	1	2	15	0.133	328	410	0.800

Source: FIVB
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Host

6 August 2016 (2016-08-06) 09:30	Japan	1–3	South Korea	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 5,760 Referees: Denny Cespedes (DOM), Patricia Rolf (USA)
	(25–19, 15–25, 17–25, 21–25) Result Statistics

6 August 2016 (2016-08-06) 15:00	Brazil	3–0	Cameroon	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,890 Referees: Heike Kraft (GER), Liu Jiang (CHN)
	(25–14, 25–21, 25–13) Result Statistics

6 August 2016 (2016-08-06) 20:30	Russia	3–0	Argentina	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 5,437 Referees: Ibrahim Al-Naama (QAT), Luis Macias (MEX)
	(25–13, 25–10, 25–16) Result Statistics

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8 August 2016 (2016-08-08) 11:35	Japan	3–0	Cameroon	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 5,400 Referees: Rogerio Espicalsky (BRA), Hernán Casamiquela (ARG)
	(25–20, 25–15, 25–17) Result Statistics

8 August 2016 (2016-08-08) 20:30	Russia	3–1	South Korea	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 5,398 Referees: Piotr Dudek (POL), Ibrahim Al-Naama (QAT)
	(25–23, 23–25, 25–23, 25–14) Result Statistics

8 August 2016 (2016-08-08) 22:35	Brazil	3–0	Argentina	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,651 Referees: Nasr Shaaban (EGY), Fabrizio Pasquali (ITA)
	(25–16, 25–19, 25–11) Result Statistics

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10 August 2016 (2016-08-10) 17:05	Russia	3–0	Cameroon	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,396 Referees: Ibrahim Al-Naama (QAT), Mohammad Shahmiri (IRI)
	(25–19, 25–22, 25–23) Result Statistics

10 August 2016 (2016-08-10) 20:30	South Korea	3–0	Argentina	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,248 Referees: Patricia Rolf (USA), Taoufik Boudaya (TUN)
	(25–18, 25–20, 25–23) Result Statistics

10 August 2016 (2016-08-10) 22:35	Brazil	3–0	Japan	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,759 Referees: Susana Rodríguez (ESP), Luís Macias (MEX)
	(25–18, 25–18, 25–22) Result Statistics

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12 August 2016 (2016-08-12) 11:35	Argentina	3–2	Cameroon	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 5,345 Referees: Taoufik Boudaya (TUN), Arturo di Giacomo (BEL)
	(19–25, 25–19, 26–28, 25–21, 15–13) Result Statistics

12 August 2016 (2016-08-12) 20:30	Russia	3–0	Japan	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,448 Referees: Mohammad Shahmiri (IRI), Heike Kraft (GER)
	(25–14, 30–28, 25–18) Result Statistics

12 August 2016 (2016-08-12) 22:35	Brazil	3–0	South Korea	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,790 Referees: Patricia Rolf (USA), Liu Jiang (CHN)
	(25–17, 25–13, 27–25) Result Statistics

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14 August 2016 (2016-08-14) 11:35	South Korea	3–0	Cameroon	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,893 Referees: Luis Macias (MEX), Rogerio Espicalsky (BRA)
	(25–15, 25–22, 25–20) Result Statistics

14 August 2016 (2016-08-14) 20:30	Japan	3–0	Argentina	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 5,939 Referees: Denny Cespedes (DOM), Fabrizio Pasquali (ITA)
	(25–23, 25–16, 26–24) Result Statistics

14 August 2016 (2016-08-14) 22:35	Brazil	3–0	Russia	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,892 Referees: Nasr Shaaban (EGY), Taoufik Boudaya (TUN)
	(25–23, 25–21, 25–21) Result Statistics

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	United States	5	5	0	14	15	5	3.000	470	400	1.175	Quarter-finals
2	Netherlands	5	4	1	11	14	7	2.000	455	425	1.071
3	Serbia	5	3	2	10	12	6	2.000	410	394	1.041
4	China	5	2	3	7	9	9	1.000	398	389	1.023
5	Italy	5	1	4	3	4	12	0.333	351	374	0.939
6	Puerto Rico	5	0	5	0	0	15	0.000	277	379	0.731

Source: FIVB
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

6 August 2016 (2016-08-06) 11:35	China	2–3	Netherlands	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,410 Referees: Susana Rodríguez (ESP), Paulo Turci (BRA)
	(23–25, 25–21, 25–18, 22–25, 13–15) Result Statistics

6 August 2016 (2016-08-06) 17:05	United States	3–0	Puerto Rico	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,832 Referees: Taoufik Boudaya (TUN), Kang Joo-hee (KOR)
	(25–17, 25–22, 25–17) Result Statistics

6 August 2016 (2016-08-06) 22:35	Serbia	3–0	Italy	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 4,373 Referees: Piotr Dudek (POL), Arturo Di Giacomo (BEL)
	(27–25, 25–20, 25–23) Result Statistics

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8 August 2016 (2016-08-08) 09:30	China	3–0	Italy	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 4,804 Referees: Patricia Rolf (USA), Paulo Turci (BRA)
	(25–21, 25–21, 25–16) Result Statistics

8 August 2016 (2016-08-08) 15:00	United States	3–2	Netherlands	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 5,455 Referees: Mohammad Shahmiri (IRI), Juraj Mokrý (SVK)
	(18–25, 25–18, 21–25, 25–20, 15–8) Result Statistics

8 August 2016 (2016-08-08) 17:05	Serbia	3–0	Puerto Rico	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 5,730 Referees: Kang Joo-hee (KOR), Andrey Zenovich (RUS)
	(29–27, 25–18, 25–20) Result Statistics

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10 August 2016 (2016-08-10) 09:30	China	3–0	Puerto Rico	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 4,386 Referees: Heike Kraft (GER), Kang Joo-hee (KOR)
	(25–20, 25–17, 25–18) Result Statistics

10 August 2016 (2016-08-10) 11:35	Italy	0–3	Netherlands	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 5,539 Referees: Juraj Mokrý (SVK), Nasr Shaaban (EGY)
	(21–25, 20–25, 20–25) Result Statistics

10 August 2016 (2016-08-10) 15:00	United States	3–1	Serbia	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,134 Referees: Hernán Casamiquela (ARG), Rogerio Espicalsky (BRA)
	(25–17, 21–25, 25–18, 25–19) Result Statistics

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12 August 2016 (2016-08-12) 09:30	China	0–3	Serbia	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 3,509 Referees: Kang Joo-hee (KOR), Susana Rodríguez (ESP)
	(19–25, 19–25, 22–25) Result Statistics

12 August 2016 (2016-08-12) 15:00	United States	3–1	Italy	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,243 Referees: Rogerio Espicalsky (BRA), Denny Cespedes (DOM)
	(25–22, 25–22, 23–25, 25–20) Result Statistics

12 August 2016 (2016-08-12) 17:05	Netherlands	3–0	Puerto Rico	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,742 Referees: Ibrahim Al-Naama (QAT), Hernán Casamiquela (ARG)
	(25–14, 25–22, 25–16) Result Statistics

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14 August 2016 (2016-08-14) 09:30	Serbia	2–3	Netherlands	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,387 Referees: Susana Rodríguez (ESP), Andrey Zenovich (RUS)
	(22–25, 20–25, 25–22, 25–18, 8–15) Result Statistics

14 August 2016 (2016-08-14) 15:00	Italy	3–0	Puerto Rico	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,225 Referees: Kang Joo-hee (KOR), Patricia Rolf (USA)
	(25–14, 25–13, 25–22) Result Statistics

14 August 2016 (2016-08-14) 17:05	United States	3–1	China	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,897 Referees: Heike Kraft (GER), Juraj Mokrý (SVK)
	(22–25, 25–17, 25–19, 25–19) Result Statistics

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

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	16 August
	Brazil	2
					18 August
	China	3
					China	3
	16 August
					Netherlands	1
	South Korea	1
									20 August
	Netherlands	3
									China	3
	16 August
									Serbia	1
	Russia	0
					18 August
	Serbia	3
					Serbia	3
	16 August
					United States	2			Bronze medal match
	Japan	0
									20 August
	United States	3
									Netherlands	1
									United States	3

Quarter-finals

16 August 2016 (2016-08-16) 10:00	South Korea	1–3	Netherlands	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,351 Referees: Patricia Rolf (USA), Nasr Shaaban (EGY)
	(19–25, 14–25, 25–23, 20–25) Result Statistics

16 August 2016 (2016-08-16) 14:00	Japan	0–3	United States	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,226 Referees: Paulo Turci (BRA), Heike Kraft (GER)
	(16–25, 23–25, 22–25) Result Statistics

16 August 2016 (2016-08-16) 18:00	Russia	0–3	Serbia	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,121 Referees: Susana Rodríguez (ESP), Hernán Casamiquela (ARG)
	(9–25, 22–25, 21–25) Result Statistics

16 August 2016 (2016-08-16) 22:15	Brazil	2–3	China	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 9,498 Referees: Piotr Dudek (POL), Vladimir Simonović (SRB)
	(25–15, 23–25, 22–25, 25–22, 13–15) Result Statistics

Semi-finals

18 August 2016 (2016-08-18) 13:00	Serbia	3–2	United States	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 5,837 Referees: Andrey Zenovich (RUS), Nasr Shaaban (EGY)
	(20–25, 25–17, 25–21, 16–25, 15–13) Result Statistics

18 August 2016 (2016-08-18) 22:15	China	3–1	Netherlands	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,411 Referees: Luis Macias (MEX), Fabrizio Pasquali (ITA)
	(27–25, 23–25, 29–27, 25–23) Result Statistics

Bronze medal match

20 August 2016 (2016-08-20) 13:00	Netherlands	1–3	United States	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,897 Referees: Paulo Turci (BRA), Piotr Dudek (POL)
	(23–25, 27–25, 22–25, 19–25) Result Statistics

Gold medal match

20 August 2016 (2016-08-20) 22:15	China	3–1	Serbia	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,773 Referees: Susana Rodríguez (ESP), Patricia Rolf (USA)
	(19–25, 25–17, 25–22, 25–23) Result Statistics

Statistics leaders

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

Best scorers

Rank	Name	Points
1	Zhu Ting	179
2	Lonneke Slöetjes	157
3	Tijana Bošković	137
4	Brankica Mihajlović	121
5	Anne Buijs	104
	Foluke Akinradewo	104

Best spikers

Rank	Name	%Eff
1	Zhu Ting	42.27
2	Brankica Mihajlović	31.60
3	Lonneke Slöetjes	28.57
	Jordan Larson	28.57
5	Kimberly Hill	28.00

Best blockers

Rank	Name	Avg
1	Milena Rašić	0.83
2	Robin de Kruijf	0.76
3	Foluke Akinradewo	0.56
	Rachael Adams	0.56
5	Zhu Ting	0.48

Best servers

Rank	Name	Avg
1	Milena Rašić	0.57
2	Tijana Bošković	0.33
3	Anne Buijs	0.30
4	Hui Ruoqi	0.29
5	Jordan Larson	0.26

Best diggers

Rank	Name	Avg
1	Debby Stam	2.30
2	Lin Li	1.90
3	Silvija Popović	1.80
4	Kayla Banwarth	1.75
5	Jordan Larson	1.56

Best setters

Rank	Name	Avg
1	Alisha Glass	10.47
2	Laura Dijkema	10.36
3	Maja Ognjenović	9.03
4	Ding Xia	5.52
5	Wei Qiuyue	4.74

Best receivers

Rank	Name	%Succ
1	Silvija Popović	45.32
2	Jordan Larson	44.05
3	Kayla Banwarth	41.72
4	Zhu Ting	39.16
5	Lin Li	35.06

Source: FIVB.org

Final standing

Rank	Team
	China
	Serbia
	United States
4	Netherlands
5	Brazil
6	Russia
7	South Korea
8	Japan
9	Italy
10	Argentina
11	Cameroon
12	Puerto Rico

2016 Women's Olympic champions
China 3rd title

12–woman roster

Ding Xia, Gong Xiangyu, Hui Ruoqi (c), Lin Li (L), Liu Xiaotong, Wei Qiuyue, Xu Yunli, Yan Ni, Yang Fangxu, Yuan Xinyue, Zhang Changning, Zhu Ting

Head coach

Lang Ping

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
China (CHN) Wei Qiuyue Xu Yunli Hui Ruoqi (c) Zhang Changning Yang Fangxu Lin Li (L) Yan Ni Zhu Ting Ding Xia Gong Xiangyu Liu Xiaotong Yuan Xinyue Head coach: Lang Ping	Serbia (SRB) Jelena Nikolić Maja Ognjenović (c) Stefana Veljković Jovana Brakočević Bojana Živković Milena Rašić Brankica Mihajlović Bianka Buša Jovana Stevanović Tijana Bošković Tijana Malešević Silvija Popović (L) Head coach: Zoran Terzić	United States (USA) Courtney Thompson Jordan Larson-Burbach Foluke Akinradewo Christa Harmotto-Dietzen (c) Alisha Glass Carli Lloyd Karsta Lowe Kayla Banwarth (L) Kelly Murphy Kelsey Robinson Kimberly Hill Rachael Adams Head coach: Karch Kiraly

Awards

• Most valuable player

  Zhu Ting

• Best setter

  Alisha Glass

• Best outside spikers

  Zhu Ting

  Brankica Mihajlović

• Best middle blockers

  Milena Rašić

  Foluke Akinradewo

• Best opposite spiker

  Lonneke Slöetjes

• Best libero

  Lin Li

See also

• Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
• Leap (Movie)

External links

• Official website

Men's beach volleyball competition

Main article: Beach volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Knockout stage

Men's beach volleyball at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue	Copacabana Stadium
Dates	6–18 August 2016
Competitors	48 from 16 nations
Teams	24
Medalists
Alison Cerutti Bruno Oscar Schmidt  Brazil Daniele Lupo Paolo Nicolai  Italy Alexander Brouwer Robert Meeuwsen  Netherlands

The men's beach volleyball tournament at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, took place at the Copacabana Stadium. The competition was held from 6 to 18 August 2016. Twenty four teams with 48 athletes around the world competed for the gold medal.

The medals for the tournament were presented by Bernard Rajzman, Brazil, member of the International Olympic Committee, and the gifts were presented by Dr. Ary Graça Filho, President of the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball.

Qualification

Means of qualification	Date	Venue	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Country	2 October 2009	Copenhagen	1	Brazil
2015 World Championships	26 June – 5 July 2015	Netherlands	1	Brazil
FIVB Beach Volleyball Olympic Ranking	13 June 2016	Lausanne	15	Netherlands
				United States
				Netherlands
				United States
				Spain
				Latvia
				Russia
				Italy
				Poland
				Italy
				Austria
				Poland
				Germany
				Canada
				Mexico
2014–2016 AVC Continental Cup	20–26 June 2016	Cairns	1	Qatar
2014–2016 CAVB Continental Cup	3–9 May 2016	Kelibia	1	Tunisia
2014–2016 CEV Continental Cup	22–26 June 2016	Stavanger	1	Austria
2014–2016 CSV Continental Cup	22–26 June 2016	Santiago	1	Chile
2014–2016 NORCECA Continental Cup	20–26 June 2016	Guaymas	1	Cuba
2016 FIVB World Continental Cup	6–10 July 2016	Sochi	2	Canada
				Russia
Total			24

Pools composition

Twenty four teams were drawn in six pools of four teams. The top six teams from the FIVB beach volleyball Olympic ranking as of 12 June 2016 were seeded at the first row of each pools from pool A to F. The seventh to ninth from the ranking were drawn first in pool F, E, or D. Then, the tenth to twelfth were drawn in pool C, B, or A. The drawing of lots number three belonged the thirteenth to seventeenth teams. They were drawn in pool A to E. The remaining spot of third row were one of five confederation continental cup champions. Next, the four remaining were drawn in pool F to C. Finally the winners and runners-up from World continental cup were drawn last two spots. The teams from the same national Olympic committee could not be the same pool, except the last drawing.

Group	Team	NOC
Seeding	Alison Cerutti / Bruno Oscar Schmidt	Brazil
	Alexander Brouwer / Robert Meeuwsen	Netherlands
	Phil Dalhausser / Nick Lucena	United States
	Evandro Oliveira / Pedro Solberg Salgado	Brazil
	Reinder Nummerdor / Christiaan Varenhorst	Netherlands
	Jake Gibb / Casey Patterson	United States
Draw 1	Adrián Gavira / Pablo Herrera	Spain
	Aleksandrs Samoilovs / Jānis Šmēdiņš	Latvia
	Viacheslav Krasilnikov / Konstantin Semenov	Russia
Draw 2	Daniele Lupo / Paolo Nicolai	Italy
	Piotr Kantor / Bartosz Łosiak	Poland
	Adrian Carambula / Alex Ranghieri	Italy
Draw 3	Clemens Doppler / Alexander Horst	Austria
	Grzegorz Fijałek / Mariusz Prudel	Poland
	Markus Böckermann / Lars Flüggen	Germany
	Ben Saxton / Chaim Schalk	Canada
	Lombardo Ontiveros / Juan Virgen	Mexico
Draw 4–5	Jefferson Pereira / Cherif Younousse	Qatar
	Mohamed Arafet Naceur / Choaib Belhaj Salah	Tunisia
	Alexander Huber / Robin Seidl	Austria
	Esteban Grimalt / Marco Grimalt	Chile
	Nivaldo Díaz / Sergio González	Cuba
Draw 6	Josh Binstock / Sam Schachter	Canada
	Dmitri Barsouk / Nikita Liamin	Russia

Draw

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C
Alison – Bruno Schmidt (BRA)	Brouwer – Meeuwsen (NED)	Dalhausser – Lucena (USA)
Carambula – Ranghieri (ITA)	Kantor – Łosiak (POL)	Lupo – Nicolai (ITA)
Doppler – Horst (AUT)	Böckermann – Flüggen (GER)	Ontiveros – Virgen (MEX)
Binstock – Schachter (CAN)	Barsouk – Liamin (RUS)	Belhaj – Naceur (TUN)

Pool D	Pool E	Pool F
Evandro – Pedro Solberg (BRA)	Nummerdor – Varenhorst (NED)	Gibb – Patterson (USA)
Samoilovs – Šmēdiņš (LAT)	Krasilnikov – Semenov (RUS)	Gavira – Herrera (ESP)
Saxton – Schalk (CAN)	Fijałek – Prudel (POL)	Huber – Seidl (AUT)
Díaz – González (CUB)	Grimalt E. – Grimalt M. (CHI)	Cherif – Jefferson (QAT)

Venue

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Copacabana Stadium
Capacity: 12,000

Format

The preliminary round was a competition between the twenty four teams divided into six groups of four teams. This round, the teams competed in a single round-robin format. The two highest ranked teams in each group and the two best third ranked teams advanced automatically to the knockout stage. The other four third ranked teams faced the lucky loser playoffs to take the last two spots. The fourth placed teams in each pool were ranked nineteenth in this competition. The losers from the lucky loser playoffs were tied seventeenth. The knockout stage followed the single-elimination format. The losers in the round of sixteen were ranked ninth. The four quarter-final losers finished fifth. The winners of the semi-finals competed for gold medals and the losers played for bronze medals.

Pool standing procedure

1. Match points (2 for the winner, 1 for the loser, 0 for forfeit)
2. Between 2 teams consider all teams points ratio / Between 3 teams consider head-to-head points ratio
3. Seeding position of the pools composition

Referees

The following referees were selected for the tournament.

• Osvaldo Sumavil
• Mário Ferro
• Elizir Martins de Oliveira
• Lucie Guillemette
• Wang Lijun
• Juan Carlos Saavedra
• Charalampos Papadogoulas
• Davide Crescentini
• Mariko Satomi
• Carlos L. Rivera Rodriguez
• Roman Pristovakin
• Giovanni Bake
• José Maria Padron
• Jonas Personeni
• Kritsada Panaseri
• Daniel Apol

Preliminary round

• All times are Brasília Time (UTC−03:00).

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Carambula – Ranghieri (ITA)	3	2	1	5	4	3	1.333	127	119	1.067	Round of 16
2	Alison – Bruno Schmidt (BRA)	3	2	1	5	5	2	2.500	140	128	1.094
3	Doppler – Horst (AUT)	3	2	1	5	4	4	1.000	133	145	0.917
4	Binstock – Schachter (CAN)	3	0	3	3	2	6	0.333	137	145	0.945

Source: FIVB

6 August 2016 10:00	Carambula – Ranghieri	2–0	Doppler – Horst	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Mário Ferro (BRA), Osvaldo Sumavil (ARG)
	(21–14, 21–13) Report

6 August 2016 11:00	Alison – Bruno Schmidt	2–0	Binstock – Schachter	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Roman Pristovakin (RUS), Wang Lijun (CHN)
	(21–19, 22–20) Report

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8 August 2016 15:30	Alison – Bruno Schmidt	1–2	Doppler – Horst	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,593 Referees: Daniel Apol (USA), Kritsada Panaseri (THA)
	(21–23, 21–16, 13–15) Report

8 August 2016 21:00	Carambula – Ranghieri	2–1	Binstock – Schachter	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Osvaldo Sumavil (ARG), Jonas Personeni (SUI)
	(21–18, 14–21, 15–11) Report

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10 August 2016 15:30	Alison – Bruno Schmidt	2–0	Carambula – Ranghieri	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,531 Referees: José Padron (ESP), Carlos Rodríguez (PUR)
	(21–19, 21–16) Report

11 August 2016 00:00	Doppler – Horst	2–1	Binstock – Schachter	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 1,953 Referees: Jonas Personeni (SUI), Giovanni Bake (RSA)
	(21–19, 16–21, 15–8) Report

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Brouwer – Meeuwsen (NED)	3	3	0	6	6	1	6.000	138	121	1.140	Round of 16
2	Barsouk – Liamin (RUS)	3	2	1	5	4	2	2.000	113	194	0.582
3	Kantor – Łosiak (POL)	3	1	2	4	2	4	0.500	113	116	0.974	Lucky losers
4	Böckermann – Flüggen (GER)	3	0	3	3	1	6	0.167	117	140	0.836

Source: FIVB

6 August 2016 17:30	Brouwer – Meeuwsen	2–0	Barsouk – Liamin	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Juan Saavedra (COL), Daniel Apol (USA)
	(21–15, 21–14) Report

6 August 2016 21:00	Kantor – Łosiak	2–0	Böckermann – Flüggen	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 3,135 Referees: Lucie Guillemette (CAN), Mário Ferro (BRA)
	(21–11, 23–21) Report

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8 August 2016 12:00	Kantor – Łosiak	0–2	Barsouk – Liamin	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Mário Ferro (BRA), Jonas Personeni (SUI)
	(14–21, 17–21) Report

8 August 2016 18:30	Brouwer – Meeuwsen	2–1	Böckermann – Flüggen	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,593 Referees: José Padron (ESP), Elzir De Oliveira (BRA)
	(21–19, 17–21, 16–14) Report

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10 August 2016 16:30	Brouwer – Meeuwsen	2–0	Kantor – Łosiak	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,531 Referees: Daniel Apol (USA), Juan Saavedra (COL)
	(21–19, 21–19) Report

10 August 2016 23:00	Böckermann – Flüggen	0–2	Barsouk – Liamin	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 4,246 Referees: Wang Lijun (CHN), Charalampos Papadogoulas (GRE)
	(14–21, 17–21) Report

Pool C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Dalhausser – Lucena (USA)	3	3	0	6	6	1	6.000	146	107	1.364	Round of 16
2	Ontiveros – Virgen (MEX)	3	2	1	5	4	3	1.333	123	108	1.139
3	Lupo – Nicolai (ITA)	3	1	2	4	4	4	1.000	144	142	1.014	Lucky losers
4	Belhaj – Naceur (TUN)	3	0	3	3	0	6	0.000	70	126	0.556

Source: FIVB

7 August 2016 12:00	Lupo – Nicolai	1–2	Ontiveros – Virgen	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,433 Referees: Juan Saavedra (COL), Mariko Satomi (JPN)
	(21–14, 14–21, 11–15) Report

7 August 2016 16:30	Dalhausser – Lucena	2–0	Belhaj – Naceur	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,924 Referees: Wang Lijun (CHN), Jonas Personeni (SUI)
	(21–7, 21–13) Report

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9 August 2016 11:00	Dalhausser – Lucena	2–0	Ontiveros – Virgen	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 3,988 Referees: Juan Saavedra (COL), Elizir de Oliveira (BRA)
	(21–14, 21–17) Report

9 August 2016 22:00	Lupo – Nicolai	2–0	Belhaj – Naceur	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,671 Referees: Mariko Satomi (JPN), Juan Saavedra (COL)
	(21–17, 21–13) Report

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11 August 2016 16:30	Dalhausser – Lucena	2–1	Lupo – Nicolai	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,241 Referees: Mário Ferro (BRA), Osvaldo Sumavil (ARG)
	(21–13, 17–21, 24–22) Report

11 August 2016 16:30	Ontiveros – Virgen	2–0	Belhaj – Naceur	Copacabana Stadium Court 1, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Giovanni Bake (RSA), Charalampos Papadogoulas (GRE)
	(21–10, 21–10) Report

Pool D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Díaz – González (CUB)	3	3	0	6	6	2	3.000	159	142	1.120	Round of 16
2	Evandro – Pedro Solberg (BRA)	3	1	2	4	4	5	0.800	157	159	0.987
3	Saxton – Schalk (CAN)	3	1	2	4	3	5	0.600	138	149	0.926	Lucky losers
4	Samoilovs – Šmēdiņš (LAT)	3	1	2	4	4	5	0.800	150	164	0.915

Source: FIVB

7 August 2016 17:30	Evandro – Pedro Solberg	1–2	Díaz – González	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,540 Referees: Charalampos Papadogoulas (GRE), Osvaldo Sumavil (ARG)
	(22–24, 23–21, 13–15) Report

8 August 2016 00:00	Samoilovs – Šmēdiņš	2–1	Saxton – Schalk	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,274 Referees: Elzir De Oliveira (BRA), Daniel Apol (USA)
	(21–17, 18–21, 15–13) Report

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9 August 2016 10:00	Evandro – Pedro Solberg	1–2	Saxton – Schalk	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 3,988 Referees: Daniel Apol (USA), Mariko Satomi (JPN)
	(21–17, 18–21, 14–16) Report

9 August 2016 15:30	Samoilovs – Šmēdiņš	1–2	Díaz – González	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,353 Referees: Roman Pristovakin (RUS), Jonas Personeni (SUI)
	(21–23, 21–19. 9–15) Report

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11 August 2016 11:00	Saxton – Schalk	0–2	Díaz – González	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,838 Referees: Davide Crescentini (ITA), Elzir De Oliveira (BRA)
	(15–21, 18–21) Report

11 August 2016 17:30	Evandro – Pedro Solberg	2–1	Samoilovs – Šmēdiņš	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,722 Referees: Jonas Personeni (SUI), Wang Lijun (CHN)
	(21–16, 20–22, 15–7) Report

Pool E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Krasilnikov – Semenov (RUS)	3	3	0	6	6	1	6.000	134	103	1.301	Round of 16
2	Nummerdor – Varenhorst (NED)	3	2	1	5	5	3	1.667	142	126	1.127
3	Fijałek – Prudel (POL)	3	1	2	4	3	5	0.600	126	140	0.900	Lucky losers
4	Grimalt E. – Grimalt M. (CHI)	3	0	3	3	1	6	0.167	103	136	0.757

Source: FIVB

7 August 2016 13:00	Nummerdor – Varenhorst	2–0	Grimalt E. – Grimalt M.	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,433 Referees: Elzir De Oliveira (BRA), Kritsada Panaseri (THA)
	(21–16, 21–13) Report

7 August 2016 23:00	Krasilnikov – Semenov	2–0	Fijałek – Prudel	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,329 Referees: Davide Crescentini (ITA), Mariko Satomi (JPN)
	(21–14, 21–13) Report

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9 August 2016 17:30	Nummerdor – Varenhorst	2–1	Fijałek – Prudel	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,590 Referees: Jonas Personeni (SUI), Giovanni Bake (RSA)
	(21–17, 19–21, 15–9) Report

9 August 2016 23:00	Krasilnikov – Semenov	2–0	Grimalt E. – Grimalt M.	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,875 Referees: José Padron (ESP), Carlos Rodríguez (PUR)
	(21–17, 21–14) Report

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11 August 2016 12:00	Fijałek – Prudel	2–1	Grimalt E. – Grimalt M.	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,838 Referees: Juan Saavedra (COL), José Padron (ESP)
	(21–13, 16–21, 15–9) Report

11 August 2016 13:00	Nummerdor – Varenhorst	1–2	Krasilnikov – Semenov	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,838 Referees: Daniel Apol (USA), Kritsada Panaseri (THA)
	(15–21, 21–14, 9–15) Report

Pool F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Gavira – Herrera (ESP)	3	2	1	5	5	4	1.250	153	147	1.041	Round of 16
2	Cherif – Jefferson (QAT)	3	2	1	5	4	4	1.000	135	145	0.931
3	Huber – Seidl (AUT)	3	1	2	4	4	4	1.000	145	140	1.036
4	Gibb – Patterson (USA)	3	1	2	4	3	4	0.750	125	126	0.992

Source: FIVB

6 August 2016 16:30	Gibb – Patterson	2–0	Cherif – Jefferson	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Davide Crescentini (ITA), Kritsada Panaseri (THA)
	(21–16, 21–16) Report

6 August 2016 22:00	Gavira – Herrera	2–1	Huber – Seidl	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 3,135 Referees: Jonas Personeni (SUI), Roman Pristovakin (RUS)
	(14–21, 21–17, 15–13) Report

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8 August 2016 13:00	Gavira – Herrera	1–2	Cherif – Jefferson	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Roman Pristovakin (RUS), Lucie Guillemette (CAN)
	(21–13, 18–21, 12–15) Report

8 August 2016 16:30	Gibb – Patterson	0–2	Huber – Seidl	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,593 Referees: Elzir De Oliveira (BRA), José Padron (ESP)
	(18–21, 18–21) Report

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10 August 2016 11:00	Gibb – Patterson	1–2	Gavira – Herrera	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,245 Referees: Wang Lijun (CHN), Giovanni Bake (RSA)
	(19–21, 21–16, 7–15) Report

10 August 2016 12:00	Huber – Seidl	1–2	Cherif – Jefferson	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,245 Referees: Charalampos Papadogoulas (GRE), Jonas Personeni (SUI)
	(21–18, 19–21, 12–15) Report

Lucky losers

The table below shows the ranking of third-placed teams in the preliminary round. The top two teams will advance to next round automatically. The other teams will compete for the two remaining spots. The third-ranked team will play with the sixth-ranked team, and the fourth-ranked team will play with the fifth-ranked team.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Doppler – Horst (AUT)	3	2	1	5	5	2	2.500	133	145	0.917	Round of 16
2	Huber – Seidl (AUT)	3	1	2	4	4	4	1.000	145	140	1.036
3	Lupo – Nicolai (ITA)	3	1	2	4	4	4	1.000	144	142	1.014	Lucky loser playoffs
4	Saxton – Schalk (CAN)	3	1	2	4	3	5	0.600	138	149	0.926
5	Fijałek – Prudel (POL)	3	1	2	4	3	5	0.600	126	140	0.900
6	Kantor – Łosiak (POL)	3	1	2	4	2	4	0.500	113	116	0.974

Source: FIVB

Lucky loser playoffs

11 August 2016 23:00	Lupo – Nicolai	2–1	Kantor – Łosiak	Copacabana Stadium Court 1, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Charalampos Papadogoulas (GRE), Wang Lijun (CHN)
	(21–12, 15–21, 15–13) Report

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11 August 2016 23:00	Saxton – Schalk	2–0	Fijałek – Prudel	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,741 Referees: Juan Saavedra (COL), Davide Crescentini (ITA)
	(21–19. 21–18) Report

Knockout stage

The round of sixteen pair up weer determined by drawing of lots. The six first ranked teams in preliminary pools were separated automatically. Then, the lucky loser playoffs winners were drawn. The two best third ranked were drawn next. And, the last drawing belonged to the second ranked teams. The teams in the same pool from preliminary round could not meet in round of 16.

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Gold medal

12 August

Carambula – Ranghieri (ITA)

0

15 August

Lupo – Nicolai (ITA)

2

Lupo – Nicolai (ITA)

2

13 August

Barsouk – Liamin (RUS)

1

Evandro – Pedro Solberg (BRA)

1

16 August

Barsouk – Liamin (RUS)

2

Lupo – Nicolai (ITA)

2

12 August

Krasilnikov – Semenov (RUS)

1

Krasilnikov – Semenov (RUS)

2

15 August

Cherif – Jefferson (QAT)

0

Krasilnikov – Semenov (RUS)

2

12 August

Díaz – González (CUB)

1

Doppler – Horst (AUT)

0

18 August

Díaz – González (CUB)

2

Lupo – Nicolai (ITA)

0

13 August

Alison – Bruno Schmidt (BRA)

2

Dalhausser – Lucena (USA)

2

15 August

Huber – Seidl (AUT)

0

Dalhausser – Lucena (USA)

1

13 August

Alison – Bruno Schmidt (BRA)

2

Alison – Bruno Schmidt (BRA)

2

16 August

Gavira – Herrera (ESP)

0

Alison – Bruno Schmidt (BRA)

2

12 August

Brouwer – Meeuwsen (NED)

1

Bronze medal

Ontiveros – Virgen (MEX)

0

15 August

18 August

Nummerdor – Varenhorst (NED)

2

Nummerdor – Varenhorst (NED)

0

Krasilnikov – Semenov (RUS)

0

13 August

Brouwer – Meeuwsen (NED)

2

Brouwer – Meeuwsen (NED)

2

Saxton – Schalk (CAN)

0

Brouwer – Meeuwsen (NED)

2

Round of 16

12 August 2016 12:00	Krasilnikov – Semenov	2–0	Cherif – Jefferson	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,237 Referees: Wang Lijun (CHN), Charalampos Papadogoulas (GRE)
	(21–13, 21–13) Report

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12 August 2016 15:00	Doppler – Horst	0–2	Díaz – González	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 5,756 Referees: Daniel Apol (USA), Jonas Personeni (SUI)
	(17–21, 14–21) Report

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12 August 2016 20:00	Ontiveros – Virgen	0–2	Nummerdor – Varenhorst	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,878 Referees: Roman Pristovakin (RUS), José Padron (ESP)
	(18–21, 15–21) Report

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12 August 2016 23:00	Carambula – Ranghieri	0–2	Lupo – Nicolai	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 5,247 Referees: Mário Ferro (BRA), Juan Saavedra (COL)
	(12–21, 21–23) Report

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13 August 2016 11:00	Alison – Bruno Schmidt	2–0	Gavira – Herrera	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 5,989 Referees: Charalampos Papadogoulas (GRE), Wang Lijun (CHN)
	(24–22, 21–13) Report

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13 August 2016 16:00	Evandro – Pedro Solberg	1–2	Barsouk – Liamin	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,778 Referees: Juan Saavedra (COL), Roman Pristovakin (RUS)
	(21–16, 14–21, 10–15) Report

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13 August 2016 19:00	Saxton – Schalk	0–2	Brouwer – Meeuwsen	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,449 Referees: Jonas Personeni (SUI), Davide Crescentini (ITA)
	(12–21, 15–21) Report

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13 August 2016 23:59	Dalhausser – Lucena	2–0	Huber – Seidl	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,180 Referees: José Padron (ESP), Kritsada Panaseri (THA)
	(21–14, 21–15) Report

Quarterfinals

15 August 2016 16:00	Dalhausser – Lucena	1–2	Alison – Bruno Schmidt	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,256 Referees: Jonas Personeni (SUI), Mariko Satomi (JPN)
	(14–21, 21–12, 9–15) Report

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15 August 2016 17:00	Nummerdor – Varenhorst	0–2	Brouwer – Meeuwsen	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Referees: José Padron (ESP), Roman Pristovakin (RUS)
	(23–25, 17–21) Report

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15 August 2016 23:00	Lupo – Nicolai	2–1	Barsouk – Liamin	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 3,318 Referees: Daniel Apol (USA), Elzir De Oliveira (BRA)
	(21–18, 20–22, 15–11) Report

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15 August 2016 23:59	Krasilnikov – Semenov	2–1	Díaz – González	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,042 Referees: Charalampos Papadogoulas (GRE), Mário Ferro (BRA)
	(22–20, 22–24, 18–16) Report

Semifinals

16 August 2016 17:00	Alison – Bruno Schmidt	2–1	Brouwer – Meeuwsen	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Charalampos Papadogoulas (GRE), Roman Pristovakin (RUS)
	(21–17, 21–23, 16–14) Report

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16 August 2016 23:00	Lupo – Nicolai	2–1	Krasilnikov – Semenov	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Mário Ferro (BRA), Elizir de Oliveira (BRA)
	(15–21, 21–16, 15–13) Report

Bronze medal game

18 August 2016 22:00	Brouwer – Meeuwsen	2–0	Krasilnikov – Semenov	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 3,622 Referees: Elizir de Oliveira (BRA), Davide Crescentini (ITA)
	(23–21, 22–20) Report

Gold medal game

18 August 2016 23:59	Alison – Bruno Schmidt	2–0	Lupo – Nicolai	Copacabana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,199 Referees: Jonas Personeni (SUI), Daniel Apol (USA)
	(21–19, 21–17) Report

Final ranking

Rank	Team	Seed
	Alison – Bruno Schmidt (BRA)	1
	Lupo – Nicolai (ITA)	10
	Brouwer – Meeuwsen (NED)	2
4	Krasilnikov – Semenov (RUS)	9
5	Dalhausser – Lucena (USA)	3
	Nummerdor – Varenhorst (NED)	5
	Barsouk – Liamin (RUS)	9
	Díaz – González (CUB)	24
9	Evandro – Pedro Solberg (BRA)	4
	Gavira – Herrera (ESP)	7
	Carambula – Ranghieri (ITA)	12
	Doppler – Horst (AUT)	13
	Ontiveros – Virgen (MEX)	15
	Saxton – Schalk (CAN)	16
	Huber – Seidl (AUT)	18
	Cherif – Jefferson (QAT)	19
17	Kantor – Łosiak (POL)	11
	Fijałek – Prudel (POL)	16
19	Gibb – Patterson (USA)	6
	Samoilovs – Šmēdiņš (LAT)	9
	Böckermann – Flüggen (GER)	14
	Grimalt E. – Grimalt M. (CHI)	20
	Belhaj – Naceur (TUN)	22
	Binstock – Schachter (CAN)	24

See also

• Beach volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

External links

• Official website

Women's beach volleyball competition

Main article: Beach volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Knockout stage

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

Medal summary

Medal table

Key

  *   Host nation (Brazil)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil*	2	1	0	3
2	China	1	0	0	1
	Germany	1	0	0	1
4	Italy	0	2	0	2
5	Serbia	0	1	0	1
6	United States	0	0	3	3
7	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		4	4	4	12

Medalists

Indoor volleyball

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's indoor	Brazil (BRA) William Arjona Éder Carbonera Wallace de Souza Luiz Felipe Fonteles Evandro Guerra Ricardo Lucarelli Souza Bruno Rezende Lucas Saatkamp Sérgio Santos Maurício Borges Silva Douglas Souza Maurício Souza	Italy (ITA) Oleg Antonov Emanuele Birarelli Simone Buti Massimo Colaci Simone Giannelli Osmany Juantorena Filippo Lanza Matteo Piano Salvatore Rossini Daniele Sottile Luca Vettori Ivan Zaytsev	United States (USA) Matthew Anderson Micah Christenson Maxwell Holt Thomas Jaeschke David Lee William Priddy Aaron Russell Taylor Sander Erik Shoji Kawika Shoji David Smith Murphy Troy
Women's indoor	China (CHN) 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 (SRB) 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 (USA) 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	Brazil (BRA) Alison Cerutti Bruno Oscar Schmidt	Italy (ITA) Daniele Lupo Paolo Nicolai	Netherlands (NED) Alexander Brouwer Robert Meeuwsen
Women's beach	Germany (GER) Laura Ludwig Kira Walkenhorst	Brazil (BRA) Ágatha Bednarczuk Bárbara Seixas	United States (USA) Kerri Walsh Jennings April Ross

See also

• Beach volleyball at the 2014 Asian Games
• Beach volleyball at the 2015 Pan American Games
• Volleyball at the 2014 Asian Games
• Volleyball at the 2015 Pan American Games
• Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

External links

Volleyball:

• Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics (Rio2016.com) at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-08-26)
• Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics at SR/Olympics (archived)
• Volleyball qualification process (olympics.com.au)
• Volleyball qualification website (fivb.com)

Beach volleyball:

• Beach Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics (Rio2016.com) at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-08-26)
• Beach Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics at SR/Olympics (archived)
• Beach Volleyball qualification process (olympics.com.au)
• Beach Volleyball qualification website (fivb.com)

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