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Volleyball, Women

Date	9 – 23 August 2008
Status	Olympic
Location	Beijing Ligong Daxue Tiyuguan, Beijing / Shoudu Tiyguan, Beijing
Participants	140 from 12 countries
Format	Round-robin pool advanced teams to classification matches.

In the now standard format, 12 teams competed, separated into two pools of six, followed by elimination and medal/placement matches. The qualifying teams were selected as follows: host nation (China), World Cup (Italy, Brazil, United States), Continental qualifiers (Algeria, Kazakhstan, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela), and qualifying tournaments (Poland, Serbia, Japan).

Brazil’s women’s team had won seven FIVB World Grand Prix’s since 1993 and was ranked number one coming in to Beijing. But the Brazilians had never won a gold medal in women’s volleyball. At the 2006 World Championships, they had been runners-up behind Russia. The semi-finals saw Brazil playing the hometown Chinese, the defending gold medalists, and the United States playing the formerly dominant Cuban team. But neither team was a match for Brazil and the United States as both won easily in three sets. The United States had not won a major international event in women’s indoor volleyball, but in Beijing, US teams won the men’s indoor volleyball gold, and both beach volleyball gold medals. But Brazil was too strong, and the US could not sweep the volleyball gold medals, losing in four sets, 25-15, 18-25, 25-13, 25-21.

Pos	Team	NOC	Matches Played	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Set Ratio	Points	Points Ratio	Points
1	Brazil	BRA	8	8	0	16	24-1	24.000	622-409	1.521	16	Gold
	Walewska		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Carol		1	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Mari		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Paula		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Thaísa Daher		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Fofão		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Valeskinha		1	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Fabiana		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Sassá		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Jaque		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Sheilla Tavares		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Fabi		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach	Zé Roberto
2	United States	USA	8	6	2	12	19-14	1.357	712-682	1.044	12	Silver
	Ogonna Nnamani		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Danielle Scott-Arruda		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Tayyiba Haneef		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Lindsey Berg		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Stacy Sykora		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Nicole Davis		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Heather Bown		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Jennifer Joines		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Kim Glass		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Robyn Ah Mow-Santos		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Kim Willoughby		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Logan Tom		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach	Lang Ping
3	People's Republic of China	CHN	8	5	3	10	19-11	1.727	701-612	1.145	10	Bronze
	Wang Yimei		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Feng Kun		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Yang Hao		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Liu Yanan		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Wei Qiuyue		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Xu Yunli		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Zhou Suhong		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Zhao Ruirui		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Xue Ming		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Li Juan		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Zhang Na		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Ma Yunwen		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach	Chen Zhonghe
4	Cuba	CUB	8	6	2	12	19-9	2.111	630-609	1.034	12
	Yumilka Ruiz		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Yanelis Santos		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Nancy Carrillo		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Daimí Ramírez		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Yaima Ortiz		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Rachel Sánchez		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Yusleynis Herrera		1	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Liana Mesa		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Rosir Calderón		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Kenia Carcacés		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Yusidey Silié		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Zoila Barros		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach	Antonio Perdomo
=5	Italy	ITA	6	4	2	8	14-7	2.000	467-419	1.115	8
	Paola Croce		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Nadia Centoni		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Martina Guiggi		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Jenny Barazza		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Manuela Secolo		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Paola Cardullo		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Serena Ortolani		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Francesca Piccinini		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Francesca Ferretti		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Eleonora Lo Bianco		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Tai Agüero		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Simona Gioli		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach	Massimo Barbolini
=5	Japan	JPN	6	2	4	4	7-14	0.500	429-464	0.925	4
	Megumi Kurihara		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Asako Tajimi		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Yoshie Takeshita		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Kanako Omura		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Miyuki Takahashi		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Yuko Sano		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Sachiko Sugiyama		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Yuka Sakurai		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Miyuki Kano		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Erika Araki		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Saori Kimura		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Yuki Kawai		1	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach	Shoichi Yanagimoto
=5	Russian Federation	RUS	6	3	3	6	10-9	1.111	419-389	1.077	6
	Mariya Borodakova		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Nataliya Alimova		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Olga Fateyeva		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Lyubov Shashkova		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Lena Godina		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Yevgeniya Estes		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Yekaterina Gamova		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Marina Sheshenina		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Yekaterina Kabeshova		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Aleksandra Pasynkova		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Yuliya Merkulova		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Marina Akulova		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach	Giovanni Caprara
=5	Serbia	SRB	6	2	4	4	6-13	0.462	410-426	0.962	4
	Jelena Nikolić		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Jovana Brakočević		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Ivana Đerisilo		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Nataša Krsmanović		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Brižitka Molnar		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Jovana Vesović		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Maja Ognjenović		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Vesna Čitaković		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Sanja Malagurski		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Stefana Veljković		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Suzana Ćebić		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Maja Simanić DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach	Zoran Terzić
=9	Kazakhstan	KAZ	5	1	4	2	4-13	0.308	323-404	0.800	2
	Nataliya Zhukova		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Tatyana Pyurova		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Olga Karpova		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Yuliya Kutsko		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Olga Nasedkina		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Korina Ishimtseva		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Kseniya Ilyuchshenko		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Yelena Ezau		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Olga Grushko		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Irina Zaitseva		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Yelena Pavlova		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Inna Matveyeva		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach	Viktor Zhuravlyev
=9	Poland	POL	5	1	4	2	9-12	0.750	441-445	0.991	2
	Katarzyna Skowrońska		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Mariola Zenik		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Katarzyna Gajgał		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Anna Podolec		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Małgorzata Glinka		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Agnieszka Bednarek		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Anna Barańska		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Milena Sadurek		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Milena Rosner		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Maria Liktoras		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Joanna Kaczor		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Katarzyna Skorupa		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach	Marco Bonitta
=11	Algeria	ALG	5	0	5	0	1-15	0.067	230-392	0.587	0
	Nassima Benhamouda		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Raouya Rouabhia		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Narimène Madani		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Fatima Zahra Oukazi		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Mouni Abderrahim		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Safia Boukhima		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Nawal Mansouri		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Faïza Tsabet		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Lydia Oulmou		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Tassadit Aïssou		1	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Melinda Hennaoui DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Sehryne Hennaoui DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach	Mouloud Ikhedji
=11	Venezuela	VEN	5	0	5	0	1-15	0.067	262-395	0.663	0
	Yessica Paz		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Génesis Franchesco		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	María Valero		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Amarylis Villar		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Jayce Andrade		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Desiree Glod		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Gheraldine Quijada		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Shirley Florian		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Aleoscar Blanco		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	María José Pérez		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Roslandy Acosta		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	Wendy Romero DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach	Tomás Fernández

Preliminary Round

Date	9 – 17 August 2008
Format	Round-robin pool.

Group A

Date	9 – 17 August 2008
Format	Round-robin pool.

Pos	Competitors	NOC	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Set Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	Cuba	CUB	5	0	10	15-3	5.000	426-371	1.148
2	United States	USA	4	1	8	12-9	1.333	459-441	1.041
3	People's Republic of China	CHN	3	2	6	13-7	1.857	467-395	1.182
4	Japan	JPN	2	3	4	7-11	0.636	381-389	0.979
5	Poland	POL	1	4	2	9-12	0.750	441-445	0.991
6	Venezuela	VEN	0	5	0	1-15	0.067	262-395	0.663

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	09 Aug 14:30	Cuba	CUB	21-25, 25-17, 25-20, 25-17	Poland	POL
Match #2	09 Aug 20:00	People's Republic of China	CHN	25-13, 25-13, 25-18	Venezuela	VEN
Match #3	09 Aug 22:00	United States	USA	25-20, 20-25, 25-19, 25-21	Japan	JPN
Match #4	11 Aug 12:35	Cuba	CUB	25-15, 26-24, 25-17	United States	USA
Match #5	11 Aug 20:00	People's Republic of China	CHN	22-25, 25-15, 25-20, 25-22	Poland	POL
Match #6	11 Aug 22:15	Japan	JPN	25-12, 25-17, 25-12	Venezuela	VEN
Match #7	13 Aug 12:00	United States	USA	25-17, 20-25, 25-14, 25-18	Venezuela	VEN
Match #8	13 Aug 20:00	Cuba	CUB	18-25, 14-25, 25-23, 32-30, 15-13	People's Republic of China	CHN
Match #9	13 Aug 22:30	Japan	JPN	25-21, 25-20, 18-25, 23-25, 15-11	Poland	POL
Match #10	15 Aug 12:30	Poland	POL	25-12, 25-12, 25-20	Venezuela	VEN
Match #11	15 Aug 20:00	United States	USA	23-25, 25-22, 23-25, 25-20, 15-11	People's Republic of China	CHN
Match #12	15 Aug 22:45	Cuba	CUB	25-17, 25-22, 25-22	Japan	JPN
Match #13	17 Aug 12:00	Cuba	CUB	25-20, 25-20, 25-19	Venezuela	VEN
Match #14	17 Aug 12:30	United States	USA	18-25, 25-21, 19-25, 25-19, 15-13	Poland	POL
Match #15	17 Aug 20:00	People's Republic of China	CHN	26-24, 25-16, 25-14	Japan	JPN

Group B

Date	9 – 17 August 2008
Format	Round-robin pool.

Pos	Competitors	NOC	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Set Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	Brazil	BRA	5	0	10	15-0	∞	377-226	1.668
2	Italy	ITA	4	1	8	12-4	3.000	372-315	1.181
3	Russian Federation	RUS	3	2	6	10-6	1.667	353-312	1.131
4	Serbia	SRB	2	3	4	6-10	0.600	343-349	0.983
5	Kazakhstan	KAZ	1	4	2	4-13	0.308	323-404	0.800
6	Algeria	ALG	0	5	0	1-15	0.067	230-392	0.587

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	09 Aug 10:00	Italy	ITA	25-20, 17-25, 25-16, 25-23	Russian Federation	RUS
Match #2	09 Aug 12:15	Serbia	SRB	25-21, 25-17, 23-25, 25-21	Kazakhstan	KAZ
Match #3	09 Aug 12:30	Brazil	BRA	25-11, 25-11, 25-10	Algeria	ALG
Match #4	11 Aug 10:00	Serbia	SRB	25-14, 25-13, 25-13	Algeria	ALG
Match #5	11 Aug 12:00	Italy	ITA	25-19, 25-15, 25-21	Kazakhstan	KAZ
Match #6	11 Aug 14:30	Brazil	BRA	25-14, 25-14, 25-16	Russian Federation	RUS
Match #7	13 Aug 10:00	Italy	ITA	25-7, 25-20, 25-12	Algeria	ALG
Match #8	13 Aug 12:30	Russian Federation	RUS	25-19, 25-18, 25-11	Kazakhstan	KAZ
Match #9	13 Aug 14:30	Brazil	BRA	25-15, 25-13, 25-23	Serbia	SRB
Match #10	15 Aug 10:00	Russian Federation	RUS	25-11, 25-19, 25-10	Algeria	ALG
Match #11	15 Aug 12:00	Brazil	BRA	25-13, 25-6, 27-25	Kazakhstan	KAZ
Match #12	15 Aug 14:30	Italy	ITA	25-23, 25-20, 25-19	Serbia	SRB
Match #13	17 Aug 10:00	Kazakhstan	KAZ	25-18, 25-20, 17-25, 25-16	Algeria	ALG
Match #14	17 Aug 15:15	Brazil	BRA	25-16, 25-22, 25-17	Italy	ITA
Match #15	17 Aug 22:00	Russian Federation	RUS	25-21, 25-16, 25-20	Serbia	SRB

Quarter-Finals

Date	19 August 2008
Format	Winner of each match advanced to semi-finals.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	19 Aug 10:00	Cuba	CUB	26-24, 25-19, 26-24	Serbia	SRB
Match #2	19 Aug 12:00	Brazil	BRA	25-12, 25-20, 25-16	Japan	JPN
Match #3	19 Aug 20:00	People's Republic of China	CHN	25-22, 27-25, 25-19	Russian Federation	RUS
Match #4	19 Aug 22:00	United States	USA	20-25, 25-21, 19-25, 25-18, 15-6	Italy	ITA

Semi-Finals

Date	21 August 2008
Format	Winner of each match advanced to final round.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	21 Aug 12:35	United States	USA	25-20, 25-16, 25-17	Cuba	CUB
Match #2	21 Aug 20:00	Brazil	BRA	27-25, 25-22, 25-14	People's Republic of China	CHN

Final Round

Date	23 August 2008
Format	Medal round.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match 1/2	23 Aug 20:00	Brazil	BRA	25-15, 18-25, 25-13, 25-21	United States	USA
Match 3/4	23 Aug 12:30	People's Republic of China	CHN	25-16, 21-25, 25-13, 25-20	Cuba	CUB