| Date | 18 August 2008 — 20:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Shoudu Tiyguan, Beijing | |
| Referee #1 | Mitch Davidson |  CAN |
| Referee #2 | Humberto Salas |  MEX |
| Attendance | 12,500 | |
| Details | Match Time: 1-56 Set #1 Time: 0-20 Set #2 Time: 0-27 Set #3 Time: 0-28 Set #4 Time: 0-25 Set #5 Time: 0-16 |
| Number | Competitor | NOC | Sets Won | Set #1 | Set #2 | Set #3 | Set #4 | Set #5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | Italy |  ITA | 3 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 20 | 16 | |
| – | People's Republic of China |  CHN | 2 | 17 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 14 |
Italy| Pos | Number | Competitor | Points | Line-up Set #1 | Line-up Set #2 | Line-up Set #3 | Line-up Set #4 | Line-up Set #5 | Service Points | Spike Points | Block Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luigi Mastrangelo | 4 | – | – | Sub for #16 | Starter (4) | Starter (1) | 0 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| 3 | Mauro Gavotto | 18 | Starter (3) | Starter (3) | Starter (3) | Starter (2) | Starter (5) | 0 | 15 | 3 | ||||
| 6 | Marco Meoni | 2 | Starter (6) | Starter (6) | Starter (6) | Starter (5) | Starter (2) | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| 7 | Alessandro Paparoni | 0 | Libero | Libero | Libero | Libero | Libero | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 8 | Alberto Cisolla | 4 | – | – | Sub for #3 | Sub for #3 | – | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||
| 9 | Matteo Martino | 10 | Starter (1) | Starter (1) | Starter (1) | Starter (6) | Starter (3) | 1 | 9 | 0 | ||||
| 11 | Hristo Zlatanov | 29 | Starter (4) | Starter (4) | Starter (4) | Starter (3) | Starter (6) | 3 | 24 | 2 | ||||
| 15 | Emanuele Birarelli | 10 | Starter (2) | Starter (2) | Starter (2) | Starter (1) | Starter (4) | 0 | 8 | 2 | ||||
| 16 | Vigor Bovolenta | 5 | Starter (5) | Starter (5) | Starter (5) | – | – | 0 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| Team Totals | 107 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Coach | Andrea Anastasi | |||||||||||||
People's Republic of China| Pos | Number | Competitor | Points | Line-up Set #1 | Line-up Set #2 | Line-up Set #3 | Line-up Set #4 | Line-up Set #5 | Service Points | Spike Points | Block Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bian Hongmin | 8 | Starter (6) | Starter (4) | Starter (3) | Starter (4) | Starter (4) | 0 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| 5 | Guo Peng | 2 | – | – | Sub for #6 | Sub for #9 | Sub for #9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 6 | Shi Hairong | 13 | – | Sub for #8 | Starter (2) | Starter (3) | Starter (3) | 1 | 11 | 1 | ||||
| 8 | Cui Jianjun | 5 | Starter (5) | Starter (3) | – | – | Sub for #6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | ||||
| 9 | Jiao Shuai | 3 | Starter (1) | Starter (5) | Starter (4) | Starter (5) | Starter (5) | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| 11 | Yu Dawei | 11 | Starter (3) | Starter (1) | Starter (6) | Starter (1) | Starter (1) | 0 | 9 | 2 | ||||
| 12 | Shen Qiong | 11 | Starter (2) | Starter (6) | Starter (5) | Starter (6) | Starter (6) | 0 | 10 | 1 | ||||
| Libero | 16 | Ren Qi | 0 | Libero | Libero | Libero | Libero | Libero | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 17 | Sui Shengsheng | 0 | Sub for #12 | Sub for #12 | Sub for #12 | – | Sub for #12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 18 | Fang Yingchao | 20 | Starter (4) | Starter (2) | Starter (1) | Starter (2) | Starter (2) | 0 | 20 | 0 | ||||
| Team Totals | 104 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Coach | Zhou Jianan | |||||||||||||
