Beach volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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The men's beach volleyball event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, was held at the Olympic Beach Volleyball Centre located at the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex.

Contents

Medalists

Gold  Ricardo Santos and Emanuel Rego
Brazil (BRA)
Silver  Javier Bosma and Pablo Herrera
Spain (ESP)
Bronze  Stefan Kobel and Patrick Heuscher
Switzerland (SUI)

Pool play

The 24 competing teams were split equally into six pools of four, and each team played each of the other teams in their pool a best of three set match (so that the number of pool matches, P, played by each team was 3).

The teams in each pool were ranked first through fourth based on the number of matches won, W. In the event of a two-way tie, the winning team in the head-to-head match finished ahead. In a three-team tie, the total number of points each team won and lost during all matches involving only the three tied teams were added up, and the bottom-ranked team of the three was decided by the points for to points against ratio; the other two teams were then ranked according to the outcome of the head-to-head match. The top two teams from each pool and the four best third placed teams (based on: first, matches won; second (in the event of a tie), set ratio SF/SA; and third (if there is still a tie), points ratio PF/PA) progressed through to the round of sixteen (single elimination tournament).

Two points (Pts) were awarded for each match win (W) and one point was given for each loss (L).
In individual matches, all winners are shown in bold.
In group tables advancing teams are highlighted.

Pool A

Team P: W: L: SF: SA: PF: PA: Pts:
 Ricardo Santos and Emanuel Rego (BRA) 3 3 0 6 1 139 107 6
 Daxton Holdren and Stein Metzger (USA) 3 1 2 3 5 138 152 4
 Andrew Schacht and Joshua Slack (AUS) 3 1 2 3 4 135 138 4
 Iver Horrem and Bjørn Maaseide (NOR) 3 1 2 3 5 132 147 4

Pool A Results

August 15 16:30 Holdren & Metzger 2 - 1 Schacht & Slack
August 15 23:00 Santos & Rego 2 - 1 Horrem & Maaseide
August 17 20:00 Holdren & Metzger 1 - 2 Horrem & Maaseide
August 17 22:00 Santos & Rego 2 - 0 Schacht & Slack
August 19 09:00 Schacht & Slack 2 - 0 Horrem & Maaseide
August 19 20:00 Santos & Rego 2 - 0 Holdren & Metzger

Pool B

Team P: W: L: SF: SA: PF: PA: Pts:
 Andreas Scheuerpflug and Christoph Dieckmann (GER) 3 2 1 5 3 147 140 5
 Benjamin Insfran and Márcio Araújo (BRA) 3 2 1 4 2 124 111 5
 Francisco Álvarez and Juan Rossell (CUB) 3 1 2 3 4 133 137 4
 Stephane Canet and Mathieu Hamel (FRA) 3 1 2 2 5 117 133 4

Pool B Results

August 15 10:00 Scheuerpflug & Dieckmann 2 - 1 Alvarez & Rossell
August 15 14:30 Insfran & Araujo 2 - 0 Canet & Hamel
August 17 11:00 Scheuerpflug & Dieckmann 1 - 2 Canet & Hamel
August 17 14:30 Insfran & Araujo 2 - 0 Alvarez & Rossell
August 19 16:30 Alvarez & Rossell 2 - 0 Canet & Hamel
August 19 22:00 Insfran & Araujo 0 - 2 Scheuerpflug & Dieckmann

Pool C

Team P: W: L: SF: SA: PF: PA: Pts:
 Javier Bosma and Pablo Herrera (ESP) 3 3 0 6 2 150 124 6
 Paul Laciga and Martin Laciga (SUI) 3 2 1 5 2 133 117 5
 Nikolas Berger and Florian Gosch (AUT) 3 1 2 2 4 105 118 4
 Robert Nowotny and Peter Gartmayer (AUT) 3 0 3 1 6 110 139 3

Pool C Results

August 15 09:00 Laciga & Laciga 2 - 0 Nowotny & Gartmayer
August 15 12:00 Berger & Gosch 0 - 2 Bosma & Herrera
August 17 09:00 Laciga & Laciga 1 - 2 Bosma & Herrera
August 17 15:30 Berger & Gosch 2 - 0 Nowotny & Gartmayer
August 19 10:00 Bosma & Herrera 2 - 1 Nowotny & Gartmayer
August 19 14:30 Laciga & Laciga 2 - 0 Berger & Gosch

Pool D

Team P: W: L: SF: SA: PF: PA: Pts:
 Markus Dieckmann and Jonas Reckermann (GER) 3 2 1 5 2 145 121 5
 Björn Berg and Simon Dahl (SWE) 3 2 1 4 3 131 126 5
 Jørre Kjemperud and Vegard Høidalen (NOR) 3 2 1 4 4 148 153 5
 Raúl Papaleo and Ramon Hernández (PUR) 3 0 3 2 6 130 154 3

Pool D Results

August 14 09:00 Kjemperud & Høidalen 0 - 2 Berg & Dahl
August 14 11:00 Dieckmann & Reckermann 2 - 0 Papaleo & Hernández
August 16 10.00 Kjemperud & Høidalen 2 - 1 Papaleo & Hernández
August 16 20:00 Dieckmann & Reckermann 2 - 0 Berg & Dahl
August 18 16:30 Berg & Dahl 2 - 1 Papaleo & Hernández
August 18 17:30 Dieckmann & Reckermann 1 - 2 Kjemperud & Høidalen

Pool E

Team P: W: L: SF: SA: PF: PA: Pts:
 Stefan Kobel and Patrick Heuscher (SUI) 3 3 0 6 2 151 144 6
 Julien Prosser and Mark Williams (AUS) 3 2 1 5 3 143 129 5
 John Child and Mark Heese (CAN) 3 1 2 3 4 132 126 4
 Dain Blanton and Jeff Nygaard (USA) 3 0 3 1 6 106 133 3

Pool E Results

August 14 15:30 Kobel & Heuscher 2 - 0 Child & Heese
August 14 23:00 Blanton & Nygaard 0 - 2 Prosser & Williams
August 16 09:00 Kobel & Heuscher 2 - 1 Prosser & Williams
August 16 16:30 Blanton & Nygaard 0 - 2 Child & Heese
August 18 12:00 Kobel & Heuscher 2 - 1 Blanton & Nygaard
August 18 12:00 Prosser & Williams 2 - 1 Child & Heese

Pool F

The Greek pair of Pavlos Beligratis and Athanasios Michalopoulos had to withdraw from their final group game after Beligratis incurred an injury, this gave their opponents Mariano Baracetti and Martín Conde a 21-0, 21-0 straight sets victory.

Team P: W: L: SF: SA: PF: PA: Pts:
 Mariano Baracetti and Martín Conde (ARG) 3 3 0 6 1 133 70 6
 Gershon Rorich and Colin Eric Innes Pocock (RSA) 3 2 1 4 3 130 134 5
 Miguel Maia and João Brenha (POR) 3 1 2 3 4 124 126 4
 Pavlos Beligratis and Athanasios Michalopoulos (GRE) 3 0 3 1 6 85 144 2

Pool F Results

August 14 17:30 Baracetti & Conde 2 - 1 Maia & Brenha
August 14 17:30 Beligratis & Michalopoulos 1 - 2 Rorich & Pocock
August 16 21:00 Baracetti & Conde 2 - 0 Rorich & Pocock
August 16 14:30 Beligratis & Michalopoulos 0 - 2 Maia & Brenha
August 18 11:00 Maia & Brenha 0 - 2 Rorich & Pocock
August 16 14:30 Beligratis & Michalopoulos 0 - 2 Baracetti & Conde

Playoffs

Round of 16

Teams below are highlighted in medal winning colour.

20 August 23:00 Santos & Rego 2 - 1 Kjemperud & Høidalen
21 August 15:30 Laciga & Laciga 2 - 1 Insfran & Araujo
20 August 20:00 Kobel & Heuscher 2 - 0 Maia & Brenha
20 August 17:30 Holdren & Metzger 2 - 1 Dieckmann & Reckermann
20 August 16:30 Bosma & Herrera 2 - 0 Berg & Dahl
21 August 21:00 Baracetti & Conde 0 - 2 Child & Heese
21 August 16:30 Prosser & Williams 2 - 0 Rorich & Pocock
21 August 14:30 Scheuerpflug & Dieckmann 2 - 0 Schacht & Slack

Quarter-Finals

August 22 21:00 Santos & Rego 2 - 0 Laciga & Laciga
August 22 14:30 Kobel & Heuscher 2 - 0 Holdren & Metzger
August 22 23:00 Bosma & Herrera 2 - 1 Child & Heese
August 22 16:30 Prosser & Williams 2 - 1 Scheuerpflug & Dieckmann

Semi-Finals

August 23 22:00 Santos & Rego 2 - 1 Kobel & Heuscher
August 23 21:00 Bosma & Herrera 2 - 0 Prosser & Williams

Bronze medal match

August 25 19:30 Kobel & Heuscher 2 - 1 Prosser & Williams

This was Switzerland's first medal in beach volleyball.

Gold Medal match

August 25 21:00 Santos & Rego 2 - 0 Bosma & Herrera

This was Brazil's first gold medal in men's beach volleyball.

Final ranking

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RANK ATHLETE NAMES SEED
 Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos (BRA) 1
 Javier Bosma and Pablo Herrera (ESP) 15
 Patrick Heuscher and Stefan Kobel (SUI) 5
4.  Julien Prosser and Mark Williams (AUS) 17
5.  Martin Laciga and Paul Laciga (SUI) 3
 Christoph Dieckmann and Andreas Scheuerpflug (GER) 11
 Dax Holdren and Stein Metzger (USA) 12
 John Child and Mark Heese (CAN) 20
9.  Márcio Araújo and Benjamin Insfran (BRA) 2
 Markus Dieckmann and Jonas Reckermann (GER) 4
 Mariano Baracetti and Martín Conde (ARG) 7
 Vegard Høidalen and Jørre Kjemperud (NOR) 9
 Andrew Schacht and Joshua Slack (AUS) 13
 Björn Berg and Simon Dahl (SWE) 16
 João Brenha and Miguel Maia (POR) 18
 Colin Pocock and Gershon Rorich (RSA) 19
17.  Nikolas Berger and Florian Gosch (AUT) 10
 Francisco Álvarez and Juan Rossell (CUB) 14
19.  Pavlos Beligratis and Thanassis Michalopoulos (GRE) 6
 Dain Blanton and Jeff Nygaard (USA) 8
 Ramon Hernandez Raúl Papaleo and You Wenhui (PUR) 21
 Peter Gartmayer and Robert Nowotny (AUT) 22
 Stephane Canet and Mathieu Hamel (FRA) 23
 Iver Horrem and Bjørn Maaseide (NOR) 24

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