Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament


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 Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio 2016, 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

Qualification

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 APool B

Rosters

Venue

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. 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. 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.
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Pool B

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Knockout stage

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Final standing

RankTeam
4
5
5
5
5
9
9
11
11

Medalists

Awards

;Best Scorers
RankNamePoints
1 Wallace de Souza147
2 Matthew Anderson128
3 Ivan Zaytsev127
4 Osmany Juantorena116
5 Aaron Russell107

;Best Spikers
RankName
1 Maxim Mikhaylov38.41
2 Wallace de Souza36.59
3 Aaron Russell33.50
4 Ricardo Lucarelli32.92
5 Egor Kliuka32.74

;Best Blockers
RankName
1 Artem Volvich0.90
2 Maxwell Holt0.65
3 David Lee0.55
3 Emanuele Birarelli0.55
5 Maxim Mikhaylov0.50

;Best Servers
RankName
1 Ivan Zaytsev0.48
2 Maxwell Holt0.39
3 Taylor Sander0.35
4 Matthew Anderson0.32
5 Ricardo Lucarelli0.30
5 Sergei Tetyukhin0.30

;Best Diggers
RankName
1 Erik Shoji1.81
2 Massimo Colaci1.55
3 Osmany Juantorena1.45
4 Sérgio Santos1.33
5 Aleksey Verbov1.20

;Best Setters
RankName
1 Micah Christenson10.97
2 Simone Giannelli10.79
3 Bruno Rezende10.50
4 Sergey Grankin8.77
5 Igor Kobzar1.73

;Best Receivers
RankName
1 Taylor Sander48.80
2 Erik Shoji45.18
3 Massimo Colaci42.04
4 Sérgio Santos41.84
5 Filippo Lanza40.76

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