| Date | 10 August 2008 — 12:10 | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Beijing Ligong Daxue Tiyuguan, Beijing | |
| Referee #1 | Humberto Salas |  MEX |
| Referee #2 | Víctor Rodríguez |  PUR |
| Attendance | 3,000 | |
| Details | Match Time: 1-34 Set #1 Time: 0-22 Set #2 Time: 0-23 Set #3 Time: 0-27 Set #4 Time: 0-22 |
| Number | Competitor | NOC | Sets Won | Set #1 | Set #2 | Set #3 | Set #4 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | Italy |  ITA | 3 | 25 | 25 | 23 | 25 | |
| – | Japan |  JPN | 1 | 19 | 18 | 25 | 17 |
Italy| Pos | Number | Competitor | Points | Line-up Set #1 | Line-up Set #2 | Line-up Set #3 | Line-up Set #4 | Service Points | Spike Points | Block Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luigi Mastrangelo | 13 | Starter (4) | Starter (3) | Starter (4) | Starter (3) | 1 | 7 | 5 | ||||
| 5 | Valerio Vermiglio | 4 | Starter (5) | Starter (4) | Starter (5) | Starter (4) | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||||
| 7 | Alessandro Paparoni | 9 | Starter (6) | Starter (5) | Starter (6) | Starter (5) | 0 | 6 | 3 | ||||
| 8 | Alberto Cisolla | 14 | Starter (3) | Starter (2) | Starter (3) | Starter (2) | 1 | 12 | 1 | ||||
| Libero | 12 | Mirko Corsano | 0 | Libero | Libero | Libero | Libero | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 14 | Alessandro Fei | 19 | Starter (2) | Starter (1) | Starter (2) | Starter (1) | 0 | 19 | 0 | ||||
| 15 | Emanuele Birarelli | 15 | Starter (1) | Starter (6) | Starter (1) | Starter (6) | 1 | 11 | 3 | ||||
| Team Totals | 98 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Coach | Andrea Anastasi | ||||||||||||
Japan| Pos | Number | Competitor | Points | Line-up Set #1 | Line-up Set #2 | Line-up Set #3 | Line-up Set #4 | Service Points | Spike Points | Block Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobuharu Saito | 2 | – | – | Starter (2) | Starter (2) | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 5 | Daisuke Usami | 0 | – | Sub for #18 | – | Sub for #18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 7 | Takahiro Yamamoto | 7 | Starter (3) | Starter (3) | – | – | 0 | 7 | 0 | ||||
| 8 | Masaji Ogino | 1 | – | – | – | Sub for #16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 11 | Yoshihiko Matsumoto | 3 | Starter (2) | Starter (2) | Sub for #18 | – | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| 12 | Kota Yamamura | 7 | Starter (5) | Starter (5) | Starter (5) | Starter (5) | 0 | 4 | 3 | ||||
| 13 | Kunihiro Shimizu | 11 | – | Sub for #7 | Starter (3) | Starter (3) | 1 | 10 | 0 | ||||
| 14 | Tatsuya Fukuzawa | 1 | Sub for #16 | – | – | Sub for #13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Libero | 15 | Katsutoshi Tsumagari | 0 | Libero | Libero | Libero | Libero | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 16 | Yusuke Ishijima | 8 | Starter (4) | Starter (4) | Starter (4) | Starter (4) | 1 | 7 | 0 | ||||
| 17 | Yu Koshikawa | 13 | Starter (1) | Starter (1) | Starter (1) | Starter (1) | 0 | 13 | 0 | ||||
| 18 | Kosuke Tomonaga | 0 | Starter (6) | Starter (6) | Starter (6) | Starter (6) | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Team Totals | 79 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Coach | Tatsuya Ueta | ||||||||||||
