Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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The 2004 Men's Olympic Volleyball Tournament was the 11th edition of the event, organized by the world's governing body, the FIVB in conjunction with the IOC. It was held in Athens, Greece from August 15 to August 29, 2004.

Contents 1 Qualification 2 Pools composition 3 Squads 4 Venue 5 Preliminary round 5.1 Pool A 5.2 Pool B 6 Final round 6.1 Bracket 6.2 Quarterfinals 6.3 Semifinals 6.4 Bronze medal match 6.5 Gold medal match 7 Final standing 8 Medalists 9 Awards 10 External links

Qualification

Volleyball Men	Date	Host	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Nation	–	–	1	Greece
2003 World Cup	Nov 16 – 30, 2003	Tokyo	3	Brazil  Italy  Serbia and Montenegro
African Qualification Tournament	Jan 5 – 10, 2004	Tunis	1	Tunisia
Asian Qualification Tournament*	May 22 – 30, 2004	Tokyo	1	Australia
NORCECA Qualification Tournament	Jan 4 – 10, 2004	Caguas	1	United States
South American Qualification Tournament	Jan 9 – 11, 2004	Caracas	1	Argentina
European Qualification Tournament	Jan 5 – 10, 2004	Leipzig	1	Russia
World Qualification Tournament 1	May 21 – 23, 2004	Matosinhos	1	Poland
World Qualification Tournament 2	May 22 – 30, 2004	Tokyo	1	France
World Qualification Tournament 3	May 28 – 30, 2004	Madrid	1	Netherlands
Total			12

* The Asian Qualification Tournament was combined with the World Qualification Tournament 2. The first place team of the tournament qualified as the winners of the World Qualification Tournament 2 while the best Asian team except the winners qualified as the Asian Qualification Tournament winners.

Pools composition

Pool A	Pool B
Greece (Host Nation)  Serbia and Montenegro (No. 3 in the FIVB World Ranking)  France (No. 4 in the FIVB World Ranking)  Argentina (No. 8 in the FIVB World Ranking)  Poland (No. 9 in the FIVB World Ranking)  Tunisia (No. 22 in the FIVB World Ranking)	Brazil (No. 1 in the FIVB World Ranking)  Italy (No. 2 in the FIVB World Ranking)  Russia (No. 5 in the FIVB World Ranking)  United States (No. 6 in the FIVB World Ranking)  Netherlands (No. 12 in the FIVB World Ranking)  Australia (No. 21 in the FIVB World Ranking)

Squads

Venue

• Peace and Friendship Stadium, Athens, Greece

Preliminary round

• All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00).

Pool A

			Matches		Sets			Points
Rank	Team	Pts	W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Serbia and Montenegro	9	4	1	12	6	2.000	427	398	1.073
2	Greece	8	3	2	12	9	1.333	475	454	1.046
3	Argentina	8	3	2	12	9	1.333	471	457	1.031
4	Poland	8	3	2	10	9	1.111	422	419	1.007
5	France	7	2	3	8	10	0.800	405	394	1.028
6	Tunisia	5	0	5	4	15	0.267	373	451	0.827

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
15 Aug	09:00	Serbia and Montenegro	0–3	Poland	21–25	17–25	16–25			54–75	P2
15 Aug	14:00	Argentina	3–0	France	25–15	25–23	25–22			75–60	P2
15 Aug	19:30	Tunisia	0–3	Greece	20–25	14–25	17–25			51–75	P2
17 Aug	09:00	Tunisia	2–3	Argentina	20–25	25–23	16–25	25–22	10–15	96–110	P2
17 Aug	11:25	France	0–3	Serbia and Montenegro	21–25	28–30	22–25			71–80	P2
17 Aug	19:30	Greece	3–1	Poland	21–25	25–18	25–21	25–20		96–84	P2
19 Aug	14:00	Poland	0–3	France	15–25	18–25	17–25			50–75	P2
19 Aug	16:00	Serbia and Montenegro	3–0	Tunisia	25–16	25–18	25–21			75–55	P2
19 Aug	19:30	Argentina	3–1	Greece	16–25	25–21	25–22	25–22		91–90	P2
21 Aug	14:00	Tunisia	1–3	Poland	18–25	25–23	19–25	23–25		85–98	P2
21 Aug	16:10	Argentina	1–3	Serbia and Montenegro	25–21	17–25	21–25	23–25		86–96	P2
21 Aug	19:30	Greece	3–2	France	25–22	14–25	26–24	23–25	15–10	103–106	P2
23 Aug	09:00	France	3–1	Tunisia	25–23	18–25	25–19	25–19		93–86	P2
23 Aug	16:00	Poland	3–2	Argentina	25–19	25–22	23–25	22–25	20–18	115–109	P2
23 Aug	19:30	Serbia and Montenegro	3–2	Greece	21–25	38–36	25–13	23–25	15–12	122–111	P2

Pool B

			Matches		Sets			Points
Rank	Team	Pts	W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Brazil	9	4	1	13	7	1.857	483	431	1.121
2	Italy	8	3	2	13	7	1.857	465	434	1.071
3	United States	8	3	2	11	8	1.375	437	423	1.033
4	Russia	8	3	2	11	9	1.222	452	430	1.051
5	Netherlands	7	2	3	7	11	0.636	391	419	0.933
6	Australia	5	0	5	2	15	0.133	331	422	0.784

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
15 Aug	11:00	Netherlands	3–2	Russia	25–23	19–25	17–25	27–25	18–16	106–114	P2
15 Aug	16:00	Brazil	3–1	Australia	23–25	25–19	25–12	25–21		98–77	P2
15 Aug	21:30	Italy	3–1	United States	25–21	21–25	25–17	25–23		96–86	P2
17 Aug	14:00	Australia	0–3	Russia	17–25	24–26	23–25			64–76	P2
17 Aug	16:00	United States	3–0	Netherlands	26–24	25–20	25–18			76–62	P2
17 Aug	21:45	Brazil	3–2	Italy	25–21	15–25	25–16	21–25	33–31	119–118	P2
19 Aug	09:00	Italy	3–0	Australia	25–20	25–18	25–21			75–59	P2
19 Aug	11:00	Netherlands	1–3	Brazil	22–25	26–24	21–25	19–25		88–99	P2
19 Aug	21:45	Russia	3–1	United States	22–25	25–20	25–16	25–23		97–84	P2
21 Aug	09:00	Australia	1–3	United States	19–25	25–23	13–25	19–25		76–98	P2
21 Aug	11:20	Italy	3–0	Netherlands	25–19	25–21	25–20			75–60	P2
21 Aug	22:20	Brazil	3–0	Russia	25–19	25–13	25–23			75–55	P2
23 Aug	11:15	Russia	3–2	Italy	25–16	25–22	22–25	23–25	15–13	110–101	P2
23 Aug	14:00	Netherlands	3–0	Australia	25–22	25–17	25–16			75–55	P2
23 Aug	22:20	United States	3–1	Brazil	25–22	25–23	18–25	25–22		93–92	P2

Final round

• All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00).

Bracket

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Gold medal match
	2004–08–25 – Athens
	Serbia and Montenegro	1
					2004–08–27 – Athens
	Russia	3
					Russia	0
	2004–08–25 – Athens
					Italy	3
	Argentina	1
									2004–08–29 – Athens
	Italy	3
									Italy	1
	2004–08–25 – Athens
									Brazil	3
	Greece	2
					2004–08–27 – Athens
	United States	3
					United States	0			Bronze medal match
	2004–08–25 – Athens
					Brazil	3
	Poland	0							Russia	3
	Brazil	3							United States	0
									2004–08–29 – Athens

Quarterfinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
25 Aug	14:00	Serbia and Montenegro	1–3	Russia	27–29	25–23	25–27	26–28		103–107	P2
25 Aug	16:30	Argentina	1–3	Italy	25–22	22–25	24–26	26–28		97–101	P2
25 Aug	19:30	Greece	2–3	United States	20–25	25–22	27–25	23–25	15–17	110–114	P2
25 Aug	22:25	Poland	0–3	Brazil	22–25	25–27	18–25			65–77	P2

Semifinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
27 Aug	19:30	Russia	0–3	Italy	16–25	17–25	16–25			49–75	P2
27 Aug	21:30	United States	0–3	Brazil	16–25	17–25	23–25			56–75	P2

Bronze medal match

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
29 Aug	12:30	Russia	3–0	United States	25–22	27–25	25–16			77–63	P2

Gold medal match

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
29 Aug	14:30	Italy	1–3	Brazil	15–25	26–24	20–25	22–25		83–99	P2

Final standing

Rank Team 1 !  Brazil 2 !  Italy 3 !  Russia 4  United States 5  Argentina  Greece  Poland  Serbia and Montenegro 9  France  Netherlands 11  Australia  Tunisia

2004 Men's Olympic Champions  Brazil 2nd title 12–man Roster Giovane, André Heller, Maurício, Giba, André, Sérgio, Anderson, Nalbert, Gustavo, Rodrigão, Ricardinho, Dante Head Coach Bernardinho

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Brazil (BRA) Giovane Gávio André Heller Maurício Lima Gilberto Godoy Filho André Nascimento Sérgio Santos Anderson Rodrigues Nalbert Bitencourt Gustavo Endres Rodrigo Santana Ricardo Garcia Dante Amaral	Italy (ITA) Luigi Mastrangelo Valerio Vermiglio Samuele Papi Andrea Sartoretti Alberto Cisolla Ventzislav Simeonov Damiano Pippi Andrea Giani Alessandro Fei Paolo Tofoli Paolo Cozzi Matej Černič	Russia (RUS) Stanislav Dineykin Sergei Baranov Pavel Abramov Aleksey Kazakov Sergey Tetyukhin Vadim Khamuttskikh Aleksandr Kosarev Konstantin Ushakov Taras Khtey Andrey Egorchev Aleksey Verbov Aleksey Kuleshov

Awards

• MVP: Gilberto Godoy Filho
• Best Scorer: Andrea Sartoretti
• Best Spiker: Dante Amaral
• Best Blocker: Aleksey Kuleshov
• Best Server: Andrea Sartoretti
• Best Digger: Sérgio Santos
• Best Setter: Ricardo Garcia
• Best Receiver: Sérgio Santos
• Best Libero: Sérgio Santos

External links

• Official Website of the 2004 Men's Olympic Volleyball Tournament
• Olympic Volleyball Story at FIVB.org
• Results at Todor66.com
• Results at Sports123.com
• Results at Sports–Reference.com
• Medalists at Olympic.org

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