Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

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.^[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 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.^[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

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:^[5]

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.^[6]

• 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

References

1. "Brazil make triumphant return to the top of the podium". FIVB. 21 August 2016.
2. "USA grab men's bronze with fantastic comeback". FIVB. 21 August 2016.
3. "FIVB Senior World Ranking - Men (as of October 2015)". FIVB. October 2015. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
4. "Men's Olympic Games pools confirmed". FIVB. 6 June 2016.
5. "Pools Ranking Criteria". FIVB. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
6. "Volleyball List of Referees". FIVB. Retrieved 29 June 2016.

External links

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