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Beach Volleyball, Men

Date	9 – 22 August 2008
Status	Olympic
Location	Chaoyang Gongyuan Shatan Paiqiu Chang, Beijing
Participants	48 from 18 countries
Format	Top 16 teams from round-robin pools advanced to the single-elimination tournament.

The two favored teams were the defending gold medalists, Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos (BRA) and the American pair of Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers, the reigning World Champions. But in their first pool match, Dalhausser and Rogers were defeated in straight sets by the unheralded Latvians, Aleksandrs Samoilovs and Mārtiņš Pļaviņš. But winning their next two matches in Pool B, Dalhausser and Rogers made it to the elimination rounds, even leading their pool after Samoilovs and Pļaviņš lost a later match. Rego and Ricardo had no such problems, winning all their pool matches easily. Dalhausser and Rogers made it to the semis, and easily defeated the Georgian pair of Geor/Gia (you read that correctly – they were Brazilian émigrés who had been recruited to play for Georgia). Rego and Ricardo faced their countrymen, Fabio and Marcio, and were beaten in two close sets. The final saw Rogers and Dalhausser win a closely fought first set, 23-21, but Fabio and Marcio came back to win the second set, 21-17. But that was it. In the deciding set, Rogers and Dalhausser trounced the Brazilians, 15-4, to win the gold medal.

Pos	Competitors	NOC	Matches Played	Wins	Losses	Sets	Set Ratio	Points	Points Ratio	Service Attempts	Service Faults	Service Aces	Fastest Serve	Attack Attempts	Attack Successes	Block Successes	Dig Successes
1	United States 1	USA	7	6	1	12-4	3.000	321-250	1.284	315	29	15	–	342	192	42	52	Gold
	Todd Rogers		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	169	4	1	97	220	125	0	43
	Phil Dalhausser		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	146	25	14	94	122	67	42	9
2	Brazil 1	BRA	7	5	2	12-4	3.000	315-297	1.061	312	31	10	–	353	205	40	50	Silver
	Márcio		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	165	25	9	94	140	80	1	48
	Fábio		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	147	6	1	78	213	125	39	2
3	Brazil 2	BRA	7	6	1	12-3	4.000	306-246	1.244	302	25	16	–	317	178	28	51	Bronze
	Ricardo		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	143	15	8	77	169	92	24	18
	Emanuel		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	159	10	8	98	148	86	4	33
4	Georgia	GEO	7	3	4	6-9	0.667	260-283	0.919	260	28	5	–	315	153	26	22
	Geor		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	130	13	3	82	197	101	26	2
	Gia		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	130	15	2	90	118	52	0	20
=5	Austria 1	AUT	6	3	3	6-7	0.857	232-241	0.963	233	15	7	–	318	149	26	45
	Florian Gosch		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	108	3	4	92	200	90	26	10
	Alexander Horst		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	125	12	3	84	118	59	0	35
=5	Germany 1	GER	6	3	3	6-7	0.857	244-252	0.968	244	28	6	–	309	158	20	38
	David Klemperer		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	128	8	2	90	146	74	0	28
	Eric Koreng		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	116	20	4	103	163	84	20	10
=5	Netherlands 1	NED	5	4	1	8-3	2.667	213-178	1.197	210	27	13	–	217	120	20	42
	Reinder Nummerdor		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	105	8	3	89	110	63	1	33
	Richard Schuil		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	105	19	10	99	107	57	19	9
=5	United States 2	USA	5	4	1	8-3	2.667	223-194	1.149	220	9	6	–	281	145	20	47
	Jake Gibb		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	108	4	3	80	127	72	19	9
	Sean Rosenthal		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	112	5	3	73	154	73	1	38
=9	Australia	AUS	4	2	2	4-4	1.000	145-144	1.007	144	25	12	–	156	91	7	17
	Andrew Schacht		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	68	4	3	91	49	24	0	13
	Josh Slack		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	76	21	9	99	107	67	7	4
=9	Austria 2	AUT	4	3	1	7-4	1.750	206-199	1.035	204	24	7	–	237	140	18	17
	Clemens Doppler		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	101	18	6	100	88	48	2	15
	Peter Gartmayer		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	103	6	1	93	149	92	16	2
=9	People's Republic of China	CHN	4	3	1	6-3	2.000	168-146	1.151	166	10	4	–	192	103	18	47
	Xu Linyin		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	84	6	3	88	52	30	18	5
	Wu Penggen		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	82	4	1	88	140	73	0	42
=9	Spain	ESP	4	2	2	4-4	1.000	155-154	1.006	155	9	4	–	196	99	17	23
	Pablo Herrera		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	70	6	2	93	47	28	16	8
	Raúl Mesa		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	85	3	2	54	149	71	1	15
=9	Japan	JPN	4	1	3	3-7	0.429	183-195	0.938	185	23	3	–	222	114	23	23
	Kentaro Asahi		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	84	5	0	74	118	66	23	1
	Katsuhiro Shiratori		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	101	18	3	82	104	48	0	22
=9	Latvia	LAT	4	2	2	4-5	0.800	174-176	0.989	175	8	2	–	231	117	10	46
	Aleksandrs Samoilovs		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	87	3	0	82	84	46	10	8
	Mārtiņš Pļaviņš		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	88	5	2	92	147	71	0	38
=9	Russian Federation	RUS	4	1	3	4-6	0.667	188-188	1.000	189	22	10	–	206	118	16	23
	Dmitry Barsuk		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	103	1	6	91	147	82	2	19
	Igor Kolodinsky		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	86	21	4	110	59	36	14	4
=9	Switzerland 1	SUI	4	2	2	5-4	1.250	165-159	1.038	165	25	12	–	185	96	10	10
	Martin Laciga		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	96	17	10	88	101	51	8	5
	Jan Schnider		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	69	8	2	88	84	45	2	5
=17	Netherlands 2	NED	4	1	3	3-6	0.500	166-185	0.897	167	21	4	–	245	118	10	28
	Emiel Boersma		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	81	7	0	79	124	55	10	9
	Bram Ronnes		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	86	14	4	88	121	63	0	19
=17	Switzerland 2	SUI	4	1	3	3-6	0.500	150-171	0.877	151	16	9	–	211	105	15	32
	Sascha Heyer		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	80	9	5	87	144	69	5	11
	Patrick Heuscher		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	71	7	4	94	67	36	10	21
=19	Angola	ANG	3	0	3	0-6	0.000	72-126	0.571	77	12	1	–	110	36	4	9
	Emanuel Fernandes		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	33	8	0	83	42	15	3	3
	Morais Abreu		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	44	4	1	83	68	21	1	6
=19	Argentina	ARG	3	1	2	2-4	0.500	99-124	0.798	100	7	0	–	146	70	7	9
	Martín Conde		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	45	2	0	57	55	26	0	3
	Mariano Baracetti		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	55	5	0	73	91	44	7	6
=19	Estonia	EST	3	0	3	2-6	0.333	133-149	0.893	135	14	1	–	199	103	6	18
	Kristjan Kais		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	73	6	1	92	117	63	1	16
	Rivo Vesik		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	62	8	0	55	82	40	5	2
=19	Germany 2	GER	3	1	2	2-4	0.500	106-121	0.876	108	12	1	–	137	70	10	24
	Julius Brink		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	53	8	0	87	59	30	1	15
	Christoph Dieckmann		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	55	4	1	91	78	40	9	9
=19	Italy	ITA	3	0	3	0-6	0.000	107-129	0.829	110	15	5	–	137	66	9	12
	Riccardino Lione		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	55	6	3	99	78	37	8	5
	Eugio Amore		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	55	9	2	89	59	29	1	7
=19	Norway	NOR	3	0	3	2-6	0.333	123-147	0.837	126	27	5	–	165	76	6	23
	Jørre Kjemperud		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	71	12	4	84	121	51	0	15
	Tarjei Skarlund		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	55	15	1	89	44	25	6	8

Preliminary Round

Date	9 – 14 August 2008

Group A

Date	10 – 14 August 2008

Pos	NOC	Matches Played	Wins	Losses	Sets	Sets Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	CHN	3	3	0	6-1	6.000	135-104	1.298
2	ESP	3	2	1	4-2	0.600	114-107	1.065
3	AUT	3	1	2	2-5	0.750	111-133	0.835
4	EST	3	0	3	2-6	0.600	133-149	0.893

Match	Date/Time	Location	Pair	NOC	Result	Pair	NOC
Match #1	10 Aug 10:00	Center Court	Herrera / Mesa	ESP	2 – 0	Kais / Vesik	EST
Match #2	10 Aug 22:00	Center Court	Xu / Wu	CHN	2 – 0	Gosch / Horst	AUT
Match #3	12 Aug 10:00	Center Court	Herrera / Mesa	ESP	2 – 0	Gosch / Horst	AUT
Match #4	12 Aug 23:00	Center Court	Xu / Wu	CHN	2 – 1	Kais / Vesik	EST
Match #5	14 Aug 16:00	Center Court	Gosch / Horst	AUT	2 – 1	Kais / Vesik	EST
Match #6	14 Aug 17:00	Center Court	Xu / Wu	CHN	2 – 0	Herrera / Mesa	ESP

Group B

Date	9 – 13 August 2008

Pos	NOC	Matches Played	Wins	Losses	Sets	Sets Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	USA	3	2	1	4-2	1.667	121-92	1.315
2	LAT	3	2	1	4-3	2.000	139-134	1.037
3	SUI	3	1	2	3-4	0.750	120-129	0.930
4	ARG	3	1	2	2-4	0.400	99-124	0.798

Match	Date/Time	Location	Pair	NOC	Result	Pair	NOC
Match #1	09 Aug 21:00	Center Court	Heyer / Heuscher	SUI	2 – 0	Conde / Baracetti	ARG
Match #2	09 Aug 22:00	Center Court	Samoilovs / Pļaviņš	LAT	2 – 0	Rogers / Dalhausser	USA
Match #3	11 Aug 9:00	Center Court	Rogers / Dalhausser	USA	2 – 0	Heyer / Heuscher	SUI
Match #4	11 Aug 22:00	Center Court	Conde / Baracetti	ARG	2 – 0	Samoilovs / Pļaviņš	LAT
Match #5	13 Aug 9:00	Center Court	Samoilovs / Pļaviņš	LAT	2 – 1	Heyer / Heuscher	SUI
Match #6	13 Aug 18:00	Center Court	Rogers / Dalhausser	USA	2 – 0	Conde / Baracetti	ARG

Group C

Date	9 – 13 August 2008

Pos	NOC	Matches Played	Wins	Losses	Sets	Sets Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	BRA	3	3	0	6-0	3.000	126-88	1.432
2	AUS	3	2	1	4-2	2.500	115-102	1.127
3	GEO	3	1	2	2-4	0.500	114-111	1.027
4	ANG	3	0	3	0-6	0.167	72-126	0.571

Match	Date/Time	Location	Pair	NOC	Result	Pair	NOC
Match #1	09 Aug 13:00	Center Court	Schacht / Slack	AUS	2 – 0	Geor / Gia	GEO
Match #2	09 Aug 14:00	Center Court	Ricardo / Emanuel	BRA	2 – 0	Fernandes / Abreu	ANG
Match #3	11 Aug 10:00	Center Court	Ricardo / Emanuel	BRA	2 – 0	Geor / Gia	GEO
Match #4	11 Aug 13:00	Center Court	Schacht / Slack	AUS	2 – 0	Fernandes / Abreu	ANG
Match #5	13 Aug 14:00	Center Court	Ricardo / Emanuel	BRA	2 – 0	Schacht / Slack	AUS
Match #6	13 Aug 21:00	Center Court	Geor / Gia	GEO	2 – 0	Fernandes / Abreu	ANG

Group D

Date	10 – 14 August 2008

Pos	NOC	Matches Played	Wins	Losses	Sets	Sets Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	AUT	3	3	0	6-2	2.500	156-144	1.083
2	BRA	3	2	1	5-2	1.333	139-131	1.061
3	RUS	3	1	2	3-4	1.000	132-130	1.015
4	ITA	3	0	3	0-6	0.333	107-129	0.829

Match	Date/Time	Location	Pair	NOC	Result	Pair	NOC
Match #1	10 Aug 13:00	Center Court	Doppler / Gartmayer	AUT	2 – 1	Barsuk / Kolodinsky	RUS
Match #2	10 Aug 23:00	Center Court	Márcio / Fábio	BRA	2 – 0	Lione / Amore	ITA
Match #3	12 Aug 13:00	Center Court	Barsuk / Kolodinsky	RUS	2 – 0	Lione / Amore	ITA
Match #4	12 Aug 21:00	Center Court	Doppler / Gartmayer	AUT	2 – 1	Márcio / Fábio	BRA
Match #5	14 Aug 15:00	Center Court	Márcio / Fábio	BRA	2 – 0	Barsuk / Kolodinsky	RUS
Match #6	14 Aug 18:00	Center Court	Doppler / Gartmayer	AUT	2 – 0	Lione / Amore	ITA

Group E

Date	9 – 13 August 2008

Pos	NOC	Matches Played	Wins	Losses	Sets	Sets Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	NED	3	3	0	6-1	3.000	133-106	1.255
2	SUI	3	2	1	4-2	1.667	113-102	1.108
3	GER	3	1	2	2-5	0.750	118-132	0.894
4	NOR	3	0	3	2-6	0.167	123-147	0.837

Match	Date/Time	Location	Pair	NOC	Result	Pair	NOC
Match #1	09 Aug 10:00	Center Court	Klemperer / Koreng	GER	2 – 1	Kjemperud / Skarlund	NOR
Match #2	09 Aug 23:00	Center Court	Nummerdor / Schuil	NED	2 – 0	Laciga / Schnider	SUI
Match #3	11 Aug 21:00	Center Court	Laciga / Schnider	SUI	2 – 0	Klemperer / Koreng	GER
Match #4	11 Aug 23:00	Center Court	Nummerdor / Schuil	NED	2 – 1	Kjemperud / Skarlund	NOR
Match #5	13 Aug 19:00	Center Court	Nummerdor / Schuil	NED	2 – 0	Klemperer / Koreng	GER
Match #6	13 Aug 20:00	Center Court	Laciga / Schnider	SUI	2 – 0	Kjemperud / Skarlund	NOR

Group F

Date	10 – 14 August 2008

Pos	NOC	Matches Played	Wins	Losses	Sets	Sets Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	USA	3	3	0	6-1	6.000	142-111	1.279
2	JPN	3	1	2	3-5	1.333	147-151	0.974
3	NED	3	1	2	3-4	0.750	125-137	0.912
4	GER	3	1	2	2-4	0.167	106-121	0.876

Match	Date/Time	Location	Pair	NOC	Result	Pair	NOC
Match #1	10 Aug 20:00	Center Court	Gibb / Rosenthal	USA	2 – 0	Boersma / Ronnes	NED
Match #2	10 Aug 21:00	Center Court	Brink / Dieckmann	GER	2 – 0	Asahi / Shiratori	JPN
Match #3	12 Aug 18:00	Center Court	Gibb / Rosenthal	USA	2 – 0	Brink / Dieckmann	GER
Match #4	12 Aug 22:00	Center Court	Asahi / Shiratori	JPN	2 – 1	Boersma / Ronnes	NED
Match #5	14 Aug 19:00	Center Court	Boersma / Ronnes	NED	2 – 0	Brink / Dieckmann	GER
Match #6	14 Aug 20:00	Center Court	Gibb / Rosenthal	USA	2 – 1	Asahi / Shiratori	JPN

Lucky Loser Round

Date	14 August 2008
Format	Winners of each match advanced to round one.

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	14 Aug 22:00	Contingency Court	Gosch / Horst	AUT	2 – 0	Heyer / Heuscher	SUI
Match #2	14 Aug 22:00	Center Court	Klemperer / Koreng	GER	2 – 0	Boersma / Ronnes	NED

Round One

Date	16 August 2008
Format	Winners of each match advanced to the quarter-finals.

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	16 Aug 9:00	Center Court	Ricardo / Emanuel	BRA	2 – 1	Barsuk / Kolodinsky	RUS
Match #2	16 Aug 10:00	Center Court	Gibb / Rosenthal	USA	2 – 0	Herrera / Mesa	ESP
Match #3	16 Aug 11:00	Center Court	Gosch / Horst	AUT	2 – 0	Samoilovs / Pļaviņš	LAT
Match #4	16 Aug 12:00	Center Court	Márcio / Fábio	BRA	2 – 0	Asahi / Shiratori	JPN
Match #5	16 Aug 18:00	Center Court	Nummerdor / Schuil	NED	2 – 0	Schacht / Slack	AUS
Match #6	16 Aug 19:00	Center Court	Geor / Gia	GEO	2 – 1	Doppler / Gartmayer	AUT
Match #7	16 Aug 20:00	Center Court	Klemperer / Koreng	GER	2 – 0	Xu / Wu	CHN
Match #8	16 Aug 21:00	Center Court	Rogers / Dalhausser	USA	2 – 1	Laciga / Schnider	SUI

Quarter-Finals

Date	18 August 2008
Format	Winners of each match advanced to the semi-finals.

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	18 Aug 10:00	Center Court	Ricardo / Emanuel	BRA	2 – 0	Gibb / Rosenthal	USA
Match #2	18 Aug 11:00	Center Court	Márcio / Fábio	BRA	2 – 0	Gosch / Horst	AUT
Match #3	18 Aug 20:00	Center Court	Geor / Gia	GEO	2 – 0	Nummerdor / Schuil	NED
Match #4	18 Aug 21:00	Center Court	Rogers / Dalhausser	USA	2 – 0	Klemperer / Koreng 1	GER

Semi-Finals

Date	20 August 2008
Format	Winners of each match advanced to the final round match.

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	20 Aug 9:00	Center Court	Márcio / Fábio	BRA	2 – 0	Ricardo / Emanuel	BRA
Match #2	20 Aug 10:00	Center Court	Rogers / Dalhausser	USA	2 – 0	Geor / Gia	GEO

Final Round

Date	22 August 2008

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match 1/2	22 Aug 11:00	Center Court	Rogers / Dalhausser	USA	2 – 1	Márcio / Fábio	BRA
Match 3/4	22 Aug 9:00	Center Court	Ricardo / Emanuel	BRA	2 – 0	Geor / Gia	GEO