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Beach Volleyball, Women

Date	14 – 25 August 2004
Status	Olympic
Location	Olympiaki Engatastasi Bits Volei, Olympiako Syngrotima Papaliakis Zonis Falirou, Faliro
Participants	48 from 17 countries
Format	Top 16 teams from round-robin pools advanced to the single-elimination tournament.

In 2000, American Misty May competed at the Olympics with Holly McPeak, finishing in joint fifth place. In 2001, May joined up with Kerri Walsh, and they became the dominant team on the beach. In 2002, they were ranked first in the world and in 2003, they went undefeated, winning 39 consecutive matches, including the 2003 World Championships. Coming into Athina, they were heavily favored to win the gold medal. They continued that streak until shortly before the Olympics when they lost to Annett Davis and Jenny Johnson-Jordan. But with all Olympic matches now best of three sets, there were no upsets in Athina. May and Walsh won easily, never losing a set. In the final they faced the Brazilian pair Adriana Behar and Shelda, who they had supplanted as the dominant pair on the beach. The first set was fairly close at 21-17, but May/Walsh put the hammer down in the second set, winning 21-11.

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	7	0	14-0	MAX	294-206	1.427	288	9	13	–	361	191	22	160	Gold
	Kerri Walsh		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	140	6	7	54	179	106	21	67
	Misty May		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	148	3	6	75	182	85	1	93
2	Brazil 1	BRA	7	6	1	12-4	3.000	301-254	1.185	291	30	19	–	384	201	6	165	Silver
	Adriana Behar		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	133	15	7	70	192	115	6	62
	Shelda		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	158	15	12	80	192	86	0	103
3	United States 2	USA	7	6	1	12-5	2.400	316-280	1.129	314	29	9	–	417	214	16	157	Bronze
	Holly McPeak		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	152	4	1	65	152	70	0	111
	Elaine Youngs		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	162	25	8	75	265	144	16	46
4	Australia 1	AUS	7	4	3	9-8	1.125	300-299	1.003	302	24	7	–	378	189	14	133
	Natalie Cook		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	165	1	5	50	180	90	6	81
	Nicole Sanderson		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	137	23	2	75	198	99	8	52
=5	Brazil 2	BRA	5	3	2	8-4	2.000	220-204	1.078	221	47	13	–	214	131	11	67
	Ana Paula		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	100	29	8	80	86	47	10	29
	Sandra Pires		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	121	18	5	77	128	84	1	38
=5	Canada	CAN	5	3	2	7-4	1.750	210-202	1.040	208	17	7	–	279	139	13	98
	Guylaine Dumont		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	110	10	6	75	130	70	12	45
	Annie Martin		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	98	7	1	62	149	69	1	53
=5	Germany 2	GER	5	3	2	7-5	1.400	227-205	1.107	227	26	8	–	275	147	17	95
	Stephanie Pohl		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	101	12	4	69	117	57	13	51
	Okka Rau		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	126	14	4	60	158	90	4	44
=5	Italy	ITA	5	2	3	6-7	0.857	231-235	0.983	233	37	18	–	322	161	4	121
	Daniela Gattelli		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	125	11	7	65	131	59	1	77
	Lucilla Perrotta		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	108	26	11	83	191	102	3	44
=9	Australia 2	AUS	4	3	1	6-3	2.000	173-172	1.006	173	21	6	–	211	115	4	74
	Summer Lochowicz		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	85	10	3	62	133	72	1	38
	Kerri-Ann Pottharst		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	88	11	3	74	78	43	3	36
=9	Bulgaria	BUL	4	2	2	5-5	1.000	172-185	0.930	170	11	8	–	228	102	12	72
	Petya Yanchulova		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	83	5	6	70	80	36	10	37
	Lina Yanchulova		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	87	6	2	69	148	66	2	35
=9	People's Republic of China 2	CHN	4	1	3	2-6	0.333	138-160	0.863	139	33	11	–	207	96	3	65
	Tian Jia		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	68	9	1	72	61	22	0	37
	Wang Fei		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	71	24	10	79	146	74	3	28
=9	Cuba	CUB	4	2	2	4-5	0.800	166-167	0.994	166	20	4	–	215	113	7	74
	Dalixia Fernández		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	95	7	2	71	95	47	0	44
	Tamara Larrea		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	71	13	2	71	120	66	7	30
=9	Czech Republic	CZE	4	2	2	4-4	1.000	152-152	1.000	152	10	6	–	217	107	5	83
	Eva Celbová		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	86	7	3	56	103	53	2	42
	Soňa Nováková		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	66	3	3	55	114	54	3	41
=9	Germany 1	GER	4	2	2	6-6	1.000	213-201	1.060	211	25	5	–	236	130	10	83
	Susanne Lahme		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	90	12	1	58	153	86	10	29
	Danja Müsch		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	121	13	4	73	83	44	0	54
=9	Greece 1	GRE	4	1	3	4-7	0.571	175-195	0.897	175	26	12	–	228	110	1	62
	Thaleia Koutroumanidou		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	80	5	3	64	162	75	1	31
	Viky Arvaniti		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	95	21	9	75	66	35	0	31
=9	Greece 2	GRE	4	2	2	5-4	1.250	169-155	1.090	167	14	8	–	201	105	6	72
	Efi Sfyri		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	80	6	4	66	106	53	5	23
	Vaso Karantasiou		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	87	8	4	68	95	52	1	49
=17	Japan	JPN	3	1	2	2-5	0.400	109-137	0.796	112	10	7	–	163	70	3	48
	Chiaki Kusuhara		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	52	7	5	74	61	28	3	19
	Ryo Tokuno		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	60	3	2	58	102	42	0	29
=17	Norway 2	NOR	3	1	2	2-5	0.400	127-144	0.882	129	15	7	–	176	79	3	51
	Kathrine Maaseide		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	63	9	1	68	116	51	0	32
	Susanne Glesnes		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	66	6	6	60	60	28	3	19
=19	People's Republic of China 1	CHN	3	0	3	1-6	0.167	126-139	0.906	127	15	4	–	168	92	8	45
	Wang Lu		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	54	12	2	71	73	46	8	17
	You Wenhui		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	73	3	2	65	95	46	0	28
=19	Mexico	MEX	3	0	3	0-6	0.000	108-132	0.818	114	13	1	–	151	66	7	45
	Mayra Aide García		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	64	4	0	67	56	31	0	30
	Hilda Gaxiola		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	50	9	1	64	95	35	7	15
=19	Netherlands	NED	3	0	3	1-6	0.167	110-135	0.815	112	22	5	–	173	78	3	55
	Rebekka Kadijk		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	58	9	1	75	97	46	0	32
	Marrit Leenstra		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	54	13	4	73	76	32	3	23
=19	Norway 1	NOR	3	1	2	3-5	0.600	132-149	0.886	133	12	9	–	170	83	1	46
	Nila Håkedal		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	62	10	2	68	70	33	1	30
	Ingrid Tørlen		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	71	2	7	53	100	50	0	16
=19	South Africa	RSA	3	0	3	0-6	0.000	84-126	0.667	89	10	5	–	148	49	3	43
	Leigh-Ann Naidoo		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	45	2	4	66	61	22	1	21
	Julia Willand		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	44	8	1	57	87	27	2	22
=19	Switzerland	SUI	3	0	3	2-6	0.333	134-153	0.876	136	17	5	–	194	88	8	63
	Simone Kuhn		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	60	7	3	72	98	43	8	20
	Nicole Schnyder		–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	76	10	2	63	96	45	0	43

Preliminary Round

Date	14 – 19 August 2004

Group A

Date	15 – 19 August 2004

Pos	NOC	Matches Played	Wins	Losses	Sets	Sets Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	USA	3	3	0	6-0	MAX	126-83	1.518
2	CZE	3	2	1	4-2	2.000	120-110	1.091
3	JPN	3	1	2	2-5	0.400	109-137	0.796
4	NED	3	0	3	1-6	0.167	110-135	0.815

Match	Date/Time	Pair	NOC	Result	Pair	NOC
Match #1	15 Aug 11:00	Celbová / Nováková	CZE	2 – 0	Kadijk / Leenstra	NED
Match #2	15 Aug 20:00	Walsh / May	USA	2 – 0	Kusuhara / Tokuno	JPN
Match #3	17 Aug 10:00	Celbová / Nováková	CZE	2 – 0	Kusuhara / Tokuno	JPN
Match #4	17 Aug 21:00	Walsh / May	USA	2 – 0	Kadijk / Leenstra	NED
Match #5	19 Aug 12:00	Kusuhara / Tokuno	JPN	2 – 1	Kadijk / Leenstra	NED
Match #6	19 Aug 21:00	Walsh / May	USA	2 – 0	Celbová / Nováková	CZE

Group B

Date	15 – 19 August 2004

Pos	NOC	Matches Played	Wins	Losses	Sets	Sets Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	BRA	3	3	0	6-0	MAX	126-84	1.500
2	CUB	3	2	1	4-3	1.333	129-125	1.032
3	ITA	3	1	2	3-4	0.750	124-128	0.969
4	RSA	3	0	3	0-6	0.000	84-126	0.667

Match	Date/Time	Pair	NOC	Result	Pair	NOC
Match #1	15 Aug 17:30	Fernández / Larrea	CUB	2 – 1	Gattelli / Perrotta	ITA
Match #2	15 Aug 22:00	Behar / Shelda	BRA	2 – 0	Naidoo / Willand	RSA
Match #3	17 Aug 12:00	Fernández / Larrea	CUB	2 – 0	Naidoo / Willand	RSA
Match #4	17 Aug 16:30	Behar / Shelda	BRA	2 – 0	Gattelli / Perrotta	ITA
Match #5	19 Aug 11:00	Gattelli / Perrotta	ITA	2 – 0	Naidoo / Willand	RSA
Match #6	19 Aug 15:30	Behar / Shelda	BRA	2 – 0	Fernández / Larrea	CUB

Group C

Date	15 – 19 August 2004

Pos	NOC	Matches Played	Wins	Losses	Sets	Sets Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	GER	3	2	1	5-4	1.250	156-143	1.091
2	BRA	3	2	1	5-2	2.500	131-118	1.110
3	GRE	3	1	2	3-5	0.600	131-140	0.936
4	NOR	3	1	2	3-5	0.600	132-149	0.886

Match	Date/Time	Pair	NOC	Result	Pair	NOC
Match #1	15 Aug 15:30	Ana Paula / Pires	BRA	2 – 0	Håkedal / Tørlen	NOR
Match #2	15 Aug 21:00	Lahme / Müsch	GER	2 – 1	Koutroumanidou / Arvaniti	GRE
Match #3	17 Aug 17:30	Ana Paula / Pires	BRA	2 – 0	Koutroumanidou / Arvaniti	GRE
Match #4	17 Aug 23:00	Håkedal / Tørlen	NOR	2 – 1	Lahme / Müsch	GER
Match #5	19 Aug 17:30	Lahme / Müsch	GER	2 – 1	Ana Paula / Pires	BRA
Match #6	19 Aug 23:00	Koutroumanidou / Arvaniti	GRE	2 – 1	Håkedal / Tørlen	NOR

Group D

Date	14 – 18 August 2004

Pos	NOC	Matches Played	Wins	Losses	Sets	Sets Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	USA	3	3	0	6-2	3.000	148-124	1.194
2	CAN	3	2	1	5-2	2.500	135-123	1.098
3	NOR	3	1	2	2-5	0.400	127-144	0.882
4	SUI	3	0	3	2-6	0.333	134-153	0.876

Match	Date/Time	Pair	NOC	Result	Pair	NOC
Match #1	14 Aug 14:30	Dumont / Martin	CAN	2 – 0	Kuhn / Schnyder	SUI
Match #2	14 Aug 20:00	McPeak / Youngs	USA	2 – 0	Maaseide / Glesnes	NOR
Match #3	16 Aug 17:30	Maaseide / Glesnes	NOR	2 – 1	Kuhn / Schnyder	SUI
Match #4	16 Aug 23:00	McPeak / Youngs	USA	2 – 1	Dumont / Martin	CAN
Match #5	18 Aug 15:30	Dumont / Martin	CAN	2 – 0	Maaseide / Glesnes	NOR
Match #6	18 Aug 20:00	McPeak / Youngs	USA	2 – 1	Kuhn / Schnyder	SUI

Group E

Date	14 – 18 August 2004

Pos	NOC	Matches Played	Wins	Losses	Sets	Sets Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	GER	3	2	1	5-2	2.500	138-119	1.160
2	AUS	3	2	1	4-3	1.333	127-126	1.008
3	BUL	3	2	1	4-3	1.333	124-131	0.947
4	CHN	3	0	3	1-6	0.167	126-139	0.906

Match	Date/Time	Pair	NOC	Result	Pair	NOC
Match #1	14 Aug 12:00	Pohl / Rau	GER	2 – 0	Wang / You	CHN
Match #2	14 Aug 16:30	Cook / Sanderson	AUS	2 – 0	Yanchulova / Yanchulova	BUL
Match #3	16 Aug 11:00	Yanchulova / Yanchulova	BUL	2 – 1	Pohl / Rau	GER
Match #4	16 Aug 12:00	Cook / Sanderson	AUS	2 – 1	Wang / You	CHN
Match #5	18 Aug 9:00	Yanchulova / Yanchulova	BUL	2 – 0	Wang / You	CHN
Match #6	18 Aug 23:00	Pohl / Rau	GER	2 – 0	Cook / Sanderson	AUS

Group F

Date	14 – 18 August 2004

Pos	NOC	Matches Played	Wins	Losses	Sets	Sets Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	AUS	3	3	0	6-1	6.000	142-130	1.092
2	GRE	3	2	1	5-2	2.500	134-113	1.186
3	CHN	3	1	2	2-4	0.500	109-118	0.924
4	MEX	3	0	3	0-6	0.000	108-132	0.818

Match	Date/Time	Pair	NOC	Result	Pair	NOC
Match #1	14 Aug 10:00	Lochowicz / Pottharst	AUS	2 – 0	Tian / Wang	CHN
Match #2	14 Aug 23:00	Sfyri / Karantasiou	GRE	2 – 0	García / Gaxiola	MEX
Match #3	16 Aug 15:30	Tian / Wang	CHN	2 – 0	García / Gaxiola	MEX
Match #4	16 Aug 22:00	Lochowicz / Pottharst	AUS	2 – 1	Sfyri / Karantasiou	GRE
Match #5	18 Aug 10:00	Lochowicz / Pottharst	AUS	2 – 0	García / Gaxiola	MEX
Match #6	18 Aug 22:00	Sfyri / Karantasiou	GRE	2 – 0	Tian / Wang	CHN

Round One

Date	20 – 21 August 2004
Format	Winners of each match advanced to the quarter-finals.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	21 Aug 20:00	Walsh / May	USA	2 – 0	Tian / Wang	CHN
Match #2	20 Aug 21:00	Dumont / Martin	CAN	2 – 0	Fernández / Larrea	CUB
Match #3	21 Aug 22:00	Pohl / Rau	GER	2 – 1	Koutroumanidou / Arvaniti	GRE
Match #4	21 Aug 17:30	McPeak / Youngs	USA	2 – 0	Celbová / Nováková	CZE
Match #5	20 Aug 14:30	Gattelli / Perrotta	ITA	2 – 1	Lahme / Müsch	GER
Match #6	20 Aug 15:30	Cook / Sanderson	AUS	2 – 0	Lochowicz / Pottharst	AUS
Match #7	20 Aug 22:00	Ana Paula / Pires	BRA	2 – 0	Sfyri / Karantasiou	GRE
Match #8	21 Aug 23:00	Behar / Shelda	BRA	2 – 1	Yanchulova / Yanchulova	BUL

Quarter-Finals

Date	22 August 2004
Format	Winners of each match advanced to the semi-finals.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	22 Aug 22:00	Walsh / May	USA	2 – 0	Dumont / Martin	CAN
Match #2	22 Aug 17:30	McPeak / Youngs	USA	2 – 0	Pohl / Rau	GER
Match #3	22 Aug 15:30	Cook / Sanderson	AUS	2 – 1	Gattelli / Perrotta	ITA
Match #4	22 Aug 20:00	Behar / Shelda	BRA	2 – 1	Ana Paula / Pires	BRA

Semi-Finals

Date	23 August 2004
Format	Winners of each match advanced to the final round match.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	23 Aug 19:00	Walsh / May	USA	2 – 0	McPeak / Youngs	USA
Match #2	23 Aug 20:00	Behar / Shelda	BRA	2 – 0	Cook / Sanderson	AUS

Final Round

Date	24 August 2004

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match 1/2	24 Aug 21:00	Walsh / May	USA	2 – 0	Behar / Shelda	BRA
Match 3/4	24 Aug 19:30	McPeak / Youngs	USA	2 – 1	Cook / Sanderson	AUS