| | Event type

Volleyball, Men

Date	29 July – 12 August 2012
Status	Olympic
Location	Earls Court Exhibition Centre, Kensington and Chelsea, London
Participants	144 from 12 countries
Format	Round-robin pools advanced teams to classification matches.

Twelve teams qualified, with three teams coming from the 2011 World Cup standings – Russia, Japan, and Brazil; five teams from continental qualifiers (United States, Tunisia, Italy, Argentina, Australia); and three teams earning their places at three separate World Qualifiers earlier in 2012 (Serbia, Bulgaria, Germany). These 11 teams were joined by host country Great Britain, which had very little volleyball background, never before having appeared in the sport at the Olympics, and they failed to win a set in five pool matches.

Coming into London, Brazil, Russia, and Italy were seeded 1-2-3 in the FIVB standings. Italy would struggle, barely getting out of its pool, but in the quarter-finals, it crushed the defending champions, the sixth-seeded United States, 3-0, which had actually won Pool B over Brazil and Russia. Both Brazil and Russia had straight-set quarter-final victories, and easily advanced to the final, Russia beating Bulgaria, 3-1, and Brazil with another straight-set victory over Italy.

The final was closely fought, with Brazil winning the first two sets and narrowly missing straight-set victory as Russia won the third set 29-27. Russia won the fourth set 25-22, and them comfortably closed out the tournament 15-9 in the final set to win the gold medal. It was the fourth consecutive volleyball medal for the Russian men, but their first gold, although the USSR had won three golds (1964, 1968, 1980) and six Olympic medals. For Brazil it was their fifth Olympic medal for the men, all since 1984, with their third silver added to golds won in 1992 and 2004. This gave them five Olympic medals, trailing only the six won by the former Soviet Union and equalling the United States’ five. Brazil’s two Olympic golds trails only the Soviet Union’s and United States’ three.

The third-seeded Italians defeated Bulgaria, 3-1, to win the bronze medal. This was the fifth Olympic medal for Italian men in volleyball, but they were yet to win gold, with silvers in 1996 and 2004, and bronzes in 1984, 2000, and 2012.

Pos	Number	Team	NOC	Matches Played	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Set Ratio	Points	Points Ratio	Individual Points	Service Points	Spike Points	Block Points	Serves	Spikes	Blocks	Digs	Sets	Receptions
1	–	Russian Federation	RUS	8	7	1	15	21-8	2.625	689-605	1.139	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	Gold
	3	Nikolay Apalikov		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	37	3	21	13	66	33	54	12	8	0
	4	Taras Khtey		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	54	1	45	8	62	95	24	28	15	106
	5	Sergey Grankin		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	15	3	3	9	67	5	23	40	340	2
	8	Sergey Tetyukhin		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	72	12	56	4	106	139	28	59	26	106
	9	Aleksandr Sokolov		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	5	18
	10	Yury Berezhko		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	13	0	10	3	41	30	10	12	6	37
	12	Aleksandr Butko		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	10	2	2	6	40	3	24	37	273	1
	13	Dmitry Musersky		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	85	4	65	16	64	106	75	24	5	0
	15	Dmitry Ilinykh		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	34	1	27	6	34	75	20	10	4	30
	17	Maksim Mikhaylov		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	148	13	124	11	114	216	63	76	18	20
	18	Aleksandr Volkov		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	54	6	35	13	89	53	54	17	6	3
Libero	20	Aleksey Obmochayev		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	114	44	183
Coach		Vladimir Alekno
2	–	Brazil	BRA	8	6	2	14	21-8	2.625	676-597	1.132	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	Silver
	1	Bruno Rezende		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	20	7	7	6	116	13	40	74	543	0
	4	Wallace Souza		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	83	2	72	9	46	144	33	28	3	0
	5	Sidão		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	72	10	46	16	90	71	87	15	5	3
	6	Leandro Vissotto		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	48	3	39	6	43	100	28	13	0	1
	7	Giba		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	10	0	9	1	16	24	8	13	2	12
	8	Murilo		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	98	4	85	9	114	162	55	63	25	190
Libero	10	Serginho		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	112	47	171
	11	Thiago Alves		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	5	0	4	1	6	9	4	2	0	13
	14	Rodrigão		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	11	0	6	5	30	11	18	6	0	1
	16	Lucão		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	67	8	53	6	100	89	65	22	1	0
	17	Ricardinho		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	1	1	0	0	22	0	1	12	71	0
	18	Dante		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	56	4	47	5	86	120	30	43	12	88
Coach		Bernardinho
3	–	Italy	ITA	8	5	3	13	16-13	1.231	656-641	1.023	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	Bronze
	1	Luigi Mastrangelo		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	48	5	30	13	83	59	64	15	14	8
	3	Simone Parodi		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	20	1	19	0	18	46	6	9	3	46
	6	Samuele Papi		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	4	0	3	1	6	11	1	7	2	14
	7	Michal Lasko		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	116	7	96	13	118	223	51	67	18	0
	9	Ivan Zaytsev		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	91	8	76	7	95	175	31	56	23	170
	10	Dante Boninfante		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0	0	0	0	13	2	4	3	29	0
	11	Cristian Savani		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	106	20	77	9	100	177	39	42	19	82
	13	Dragan Travica		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	23	7	11	5	109	23	43	86	601	0
	14	Alessandro Fei		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	51	3	36	12	65	62	43	20	18	2
	15	Emanuele Birarelli		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	19	2	13	4	47	23	24	12	9	1
Libero	16	Andrea Bari		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	53	19	185
Libero	17	Andrea Giovi		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	55	14	14
Coach		Mauro Berruto
4	–	Bulgaria	BUL	8	5	3	13	18-10	1.800	653-636	1.027	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		1
	1	Georgi Bratoev		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	21	5	9	7	109	26	34	55	614	1
	7	Todor Skrimov		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	75	8	59	8	118	132	37	57	19	132
	9	Dobromir Dimitrov		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0	0	0	0	11	0	0	1	0	0
	10	Valentin Bratoev		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	3	1	2	0	10	7	2	6	0	19
	11	Vladimir Nikolov		[5]	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	[40]	[2]	[31]	[7]	[33]	[77]	[17]	[32]	[5]	[0]		2
	12	Viktor Yosifov		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	58	3	34	21	85	50	85	12	4	6
Libero	13	Teodor Salparov		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	110	32	163
	14	Teodor Todorov		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	13	0	7	6	26	14	20	2	2	1
	15	Todor Aleksiev		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	97	2	88	7	98	163	38	48	14	194
	17	Nikolay Penchev		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	1	1	0	0	6	2	0	3	0	15
	18	Nikolay Nikolov		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	45	4	26	15	78	44	74	15	6	0
	19	Tsvetan Sokolov		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	129	10	111	8	76	216	30	36	11	1
Coach		Nayden Naydenov
=5	–	Argentina	ARG	6	3	3	9	10-10	1.000	438-442	0.991	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	1	Gabriel Arroyo		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	2	0	2	0	2	2	0	0	0	0
	2	Iván Castellani		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	13	1	12	0	6	20	2	7	1	0
	5	Nicolás Uriarte		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	1	0	0	1	11	1	3	4	48	0
	6	Cristian Poglajen		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	2	0	2	0	15	5	2	2	2	8
	7	Facundo Conte		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	73	4	64	5	76	147	26	37	19	81
	9	Rodrigo Quiroga		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	54	5	46	3	51	98	25	23	20	124
	10	Nicolás Bruno		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0	0	0	0	11	0	0	6	1	10
	11	Sebastián Solé		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	43	8	26	9	87	48	53	16	7	3
	12	Fede Pereyra		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	58	1	53	4	48	111	32	36	10	2
	14	Pablo Crer		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	46	5	31	10	56	53	61	18	3	2
	15	Luciano De Cecco		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	16	3	8	5	75	19	32	61	344	0
Libero	16	Alexis González		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	53	17	124
Coach		Carlos Weber
=5	–	Germany	GER	6	2	4	8	6-14	0.429	429-463	0.927	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	1	Marcus Popp		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	25	0	22	3	41	61	19	40	9	49
Libero	2	Markus Steuerwald		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	82	33	135
	3	Sebastian Schwarz		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	9	1	7	1	13	25	4	16	6	43
	4	Simon Tischer		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	6	0	5	1	19	11	8	14	168	1
	5	Björn Andrae		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	16	2	14	0	22	30	3	6	1	32
	6	Denys Kaliberda		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	41	0	37	4	62	89	17	31	15	120
	8	Marcus Böhme		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	43	3	30	10	65	42	59	7	4	2
	9	Georg Grozer		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	84	8	65	11	62	152	31	36	1	0
	10	Jochen Schöps		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	22	1	20	1	18	60	10	17	2	4
	11	Lukas Kampa		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	15	3	5	7	46	10	24	37	285	1
	13	Christian Dünnes		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	2	0	2	0	8	9	4	1	3	1
	15	Max Günthör		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	48	1	30	17	76	55	62	20	8	1
Coach		Vital Heynen
=5	–	Poland	POL	6	3	3	9	11-10	1.100	494-449	1.100	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	1	Piotr Nowakowski		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	28	0	25	3	43	43	38	11	4	1
	2	Michał Winiarski		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	46	2	35	9	56	76	31	42	12	128
	4	Grzegorz Kosok		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	19	1	12	6	27	19	25	13	4	1
	5	Paweł Zagumny		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	4	1	2	1	24	5	4	10	98	0
	6	Bartosz Kurek		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	92	10	76	6	90	155	34	34	5	52
	7	Jakub Jarosz		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	16	4	12	0	27	26	6	6	3	0
	9	Zbigniew Bartman		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	94	7	81	6	76	157	38	32	5	2
	13	Michał Kubiak		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	15	2	12	1	23	21	6	17	7	51
	14	Michał Ruciak		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	3	3	0	0	22	0	0	2	0	0
	15	Łukasz Żygadło		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	7	0	2	5	59	4	20	33	347	1
Libero	16	Krzysztof Ignaczak		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	79	17	127
	18	Marcin Możdżonek		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	29	1	19	9	48	33	47	9	15	2
Coach		Andrea Anastasi
=5	–	United States	USA	6	4	2	10	14-7	2.000	493-448	1.100	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	1	Matt Anderson		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	82	6	70	6	69	141	32	46	9	146
	2	Sean Rooney		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	20	0	14	6	16	26	11	17	2	32
	4	David Lee		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	43	2	26	15	57	43	71	12	10	1
Libero	5	Rich Lambourne		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	55	40	100
	6	Paul Lotman		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	2	0	1	1	9	6	1	2	0	3
	7	Donald Suxho		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	8	1	3	4	72	7	36	49	408	1
	8	Reid Priddy		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	53	8	35	10	64	96	36	37	12	80
	11	Brian Thornton		1	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	2	0	0	2	5	0	5	2	28	1
	12	Russell Holmes		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	45	1	27	17	72	50	68	13	4	5
	13	Clay Stanley		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	78	6	62	10	76	135	29	46	7	1
	16	David McKienzie		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	21	6	14	1	35	25	5	7	2	0
	20	David Smith		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	8	2	5	1	14	6	11	5	0	1
Coach		Alan Knipe
=9	–	Australia	AUS	5	2	3	7	8-10	0.800	395-397	0.995	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	1	Aidan Zingel		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	46	4	26	16	63	43	64	17	7	2
	3	Nathan Roberts		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	25	3	20	2	24	51	7	14	6	63
	5	Travis Passier		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	25	4	10	11	55	15	31	10	6	1
	6	Igor Yudin		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	46	2	33	11	37	81	22	22	5	48
	7	Harrison Peacock		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	6	2	2	2	69	3	18	46	326	1
	8	Andrew Grant		1	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0
	9	Adam White		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	41	5	33	3	76	87	13	28	7	118
Libero	12	Aden Tutton		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	72	38	77
	14	Greg Sukochev		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	1	0	1	0	8	1	1	5	53	1
	16	Luke Smith		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	2	0	2	0	2	6	0	2	0	10
	18	Lincoln Williams		1	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	1	0	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	0
	19	Thomas Edgar		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	91	4	74	13	59	168	52	43	12	1
Coach		Jon Emili Uriarte
=9	–	Serbia	SRB	5	1	4	6	7-13	0.538	413-455	0.908	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	1	Nikola Kovačević		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	34	2	30	2	40	83	18	28	8	76
	2	Uroš Kovačević		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	38	5	26	7	34	62	15	21	6	88
	4	Bojan Janić		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	17	2	11	4	20	40	14	20	8	50
	5	Vlado Petković		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	4	0	0	4	29	3	9	31	251	2
	7	Dragan Stanković		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	20	1	16	3	41	30	45	6	7	1
	10	Miloš Nikić		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	33	0	30	3	27	69	12	24	17	95
	11	Mihajlo Mitić		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	7	3	1	3	43	4	15	19	211	0
	12	Milan Rašić		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	12	1	7	4	33	11	16	6	2	1
	14	Aleksandar Atanasijević		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	90	7	79	4	61	154	15	36	5	0
	15	Saša Starović		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	21	0	20	1	22	49	6	10	7	0
	18	Marko Podraščanin		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	55	3	32	20	65	61	81	14	12	2
Libero	19	Nikola Rosić		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	58	20	86
Coach		Igor Kolaković
=11	–	Great Britain	GBR	5	0	5	5	0-15	0.000	274-376	0.729	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	1	Peter Bakare		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	7	0	6	1	10	18	7	1	1	0
	2	Ben Pipes		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	13	2	7	4	36	17	16	19	256	0
	3	Dami Bakare		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	46	1	42	3	23	94	10	19	4	1
Libero	4	Daniel Hunter		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	51	22	108
	5	Mark Plotyczer		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	29	1	25	3	32	62	11	21	1	41
	7	Mark McGivern		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	25	5	18	2	58	35	31	13	1	3
	8	Jason Haldane		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	13	0	12	1	20	36	5	13	2	1
	9	Andrew Pink		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	14	0	14	0	15	36	8	17	3	30
	10	Nathan French		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	15	1	13	1	41	50	6	31	2	105
	11	Joel Miller		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	8	0	7	1	6	16	4	4	0	15
	12	Christopher Lamont		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	10	0	8	2	32	22	19	13	3	3
	17	Kieran O'Malley		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	1	0	0	1	10	2	2	4	78	0
Coach		Harry Brokking
=11	–	Tunisia	TUN	5	0	5	5	1-15	0.067	294-395	0.744	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	2	Ahmed Kadhi		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	27	1	20	6	40	38	30	19	9	0
	3	Marouane M'rabet		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0
	7	Elyes Karamosly		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	27	1	25	1	37	71	15	20	5	45
	8	Mohamed Ben Slimane		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	2	0	0	2	45	1	12	26	214	1
	10	Hamza Nagga		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	60	3	55	2	30	121	17	27	4	0
	11	Ismail Moalla		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	20	2	16	2	29	51	7	22	5	65
Libero	12	Anouer Taouerghi		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	48	18	94
	13	Noureddine Hfaiedh		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	8	0	7	1	35	39	13	40	16	117
	14	Bilel Ben Hassine		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	26	0	21	5	33	46	40	11	5	1
	15	Mehdi Ben Cheikh		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0	0	0	0	27	1	2	21	166	2
	16	Hichem Kaabi		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	26	0	23	3	12	64	10	11	4	1
	18	Hakim Zouari		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	3	0	3	0	10	6	2	2	4	0
Coach		Fathi M'kaouar

Preliminary Round

Date	29 July – 6 August 2012
Format	Round-robin pools.

Group A

Date	29 July – 6 August 2012
Format	Round-robin pool. Top 4 in each pool advanced to the quarter-finals.

Pos	Competitors	NOC	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Set Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	Bulgaria	BUL	4	1	12	13-4	3.250	407-390	1.044	Q
2	Poland	POL	3	2	9	11-7	1.571	433-374	1.158	Q
3	Argentina	ARG	3	2	9	10-7	1.429	382-367	1.041
4	Italy	ITA	3	2	8	10-9	1.111	426-413	1.031
5	Australia	AUS	2	3	7	8-10	0.800	395-397	0.995
6	Great Britain	GBR	0	5	0	0-15	0.000	274-376	0.729

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	29 Jul 9:30	Bulgaria	BUL	3 – 0	Great Britain	GBR
Match #2	29 Jul 14:45	Argentina	ARG	3 – 0	Australia	AUS
Match #3	29 Jul 20:00	Poland	POL	3 – 1	Italy	ITA
Match #4	31 Jul 11:40	Bulgaria	BUL	3 – 1	Poland	POL
Match #5	31 Jul 14:45	Italy	ITA	3 – 1	Argentina	ARG
Match #6	31 Jul 20:00	Australia	AUS	3 – 0	Great Britain	GBR
Match #7	02 Aug 12:20	Bulgaria	BUL	3 – 0	Australia	AUS
Match #8	02 Aug 16:45	Poland	POL	3 – 0	Argentina	ARG
Match #9	02 Aug 22:30	Italy	ITA	3 – 0	Great Britain	GBR
Match #10	04 Aug 11:30	Poland	POL	3 – 0	Great Britain	GBR
Match #11	04 Aug 14:45	Italy	ITA	3 – 2	Australia	AUS
Match #12	04 Aug 20:30	Argentina	ARG	3 – 1	Bulgaria	BUL
Match #13	06 Aug 9:30	Australia	AUS	3 – 1	Poland	POL
Match #14	06 Aug 14:45	Bulgaria	BUL	3 – 0	Italy	ITA
Match #15	06 Aug 16:45	Argentina	ARG	3 – 0	Great Britain	GBR

Group B

Date	29 July – 6 August 2012
Format	Round-robin pool. Top 4 in each pool advanced to the quarter-finals.

Pos	Competitors	NOC	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Set Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	United States	USA	4	1	13	14-4	3.500	427-370	1.154	Q
2	Brazil	BRA	4	1	11	13-5	2.600	418-379	1.103	Q
3	Russian Federation	RUS	4	1	11	12-5	2.400	408-352	1.159
4	Germany	GER	2	3	5	6-11	0.545	379-388	0.977
5	Serbia	SRB	1	4	5	7-13	0.538	413-455	0.908
6	Tunisia	TUN	0	5	0	1-15	0.067	294-395	0.744

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	29 Jul 11:30	Russian Federation	RUS	3 – 0	Germany	GER
Match #2	29 Jul 16:45	United States	USA	3 – 0	Serbia	SRB
Match #3	29 Jul 22:20	Brazil	BRA	3 – 0	Tunisia	TUN
Match #4	31 Jul 9:30	Serbia	SRB	3 – 1	Tunisia	TUN
Match #5	31 Jul 17:00	United States	USA	3 – 0	Germany	GER
Match #6	31 Jul 22:00	Brazil	BRA	3 – 0	Russian Federation	RUS
Match #7	02 Aug 9:30	Germany	GER	3 – 2	Serbia	SRB
Match #8	02 Aug 14:45	Russian Federation	RUS	3 – 0	Tunisia	TUN
Match #9	02 Aug 20:00	United States	USA	3 – 1	Brazil	BRA
Match #10	04 Aug 9:30	Germany	GER	3 – 0	Tunisia	TUN
Match #11	04 Aug 17:10	Russian Federation	RUS	3 – 2	United States	USA
Match #12	04 Aug 22:45	Brazil	BRA	3 – 2	Serbia	SRB
Match #13	06 Aug 11:55	Russian Federation	RUS	3 – 0	Serbia	SRB
Match #14	06 Aug 20:00	United States	USA	3 – 0	Tunisia	TUN
Match #15	06 Aug 22:00	Brazil	BRA	3 – 0	Germany	GER

Quarter-Finals

Date	8 August 2012
Format	Winner of each match advanced to semi-finals.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	08 Aug 21:30	Bulgaria	BUL	3 – 0	Germany	GER
Match #2	08 Aug 19:30	Russian Federation	RUS	3 – 0	Poland	POL
Match #3	08 Aug 14:00	Brazil	BRA	3 – 0	Argentina	ARG
Match #4	08 Aug 16:00	Italy	ITA	3 – 0	United States	USA

Semi-Finals

Date	10 August 2012
Format	Winner of each match advanced to the final round.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	10 Aug 15:00	Russian Federation	RUS	3 – 1	Bulgaria	BUL
Match #2	10 Aug 19:30	Brazil	BRA	3 – 0	Italy	ITA

Final Round

Date	12 August 2012
Format	Medal round.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match 1/2	12 Aug 13:00	Russian Federation	RUS	3 – 2	Brazil	BRA
Match 3/4	12 Aug 9:30	Italy	ITA	3 – 1	Bulgaria	BUL