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Volleyball, Men

Date	26 July – 9 August 1992
Status	Olympic
Location	Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona / Pabellón de la Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona / Palacio de los Deportes, Barcelona
Participants	142 from 12 countries
Format	Round-robin pools advanced teams to classification matches.

Twelve teams competed in two pools of six, followed by elimination and medals rounds. The teams were selected as follows: defending Olympic champion (United States), host nation (Spain), 1990 World Champion (Italy), World Cup (Korea, which placed only fifth in that event but were advanced as the top four had other qualifiers) African Champion (Algeria), Asian Champion (Japan), European Champion (Soviet Union), South American (Brazil), European qualifying tournament (Netherlands and France), and Americas qualifying tournament (Canada and Cuba).

The United States had won the 1984 and 1988 gold medals. But their best player, Karch Kiraly, had turned to beach volleyball, and they were no longer the best team in the world without him. The two favorites were Brazil and Italy. Italy had won the 1990 World Championships, the 1989 European Championships, and was the World League Champion in 1990-92.

In the first match of the tournament, Japan led the US two sets to one, and 14-13 in the fourth, when American Bob Samuelson was given a yellow card. As it was his second yellow card of the match, he should have been disqualified and the point, and the match, awarded to Japan. But the US came back to win in five sets after the referee waived off the disqualification. The USA had seemingly come back to win the fourth set, 17-16, and then won the fifth set, 16-14, to win the match. The next day Japan protested. It was upheld, and Japan was awarded the match, winning in four sets, 15-13 in the fourth. Samuelson was bald, so in his support, the US players shaved their heads before their next match. The USA made it to the medal round, but were soundly beaten by Brazil in four sets in the semi-final.

In the quarter-finals, the Netherlands shocked the favored Italians, winning 17-16 in the fifth set, and made it to the final, defeating Cuba in the semis. Brazil won the final easily in straight sets, 15-12, 15-8, 15-5. The Dutch team was the tallest in the tournament, averaging 2 metres (6-7) in height). The Dutch were coached by Arie Selinger, a Polish-born concentration camp survivor, who emigrated to Israel and later became a US citizen. He coached the US women’s team between 1975 and 1984, culminating in a silver medal in Los Angeles for the American women. He then started coaching the Dutch men’s team, which also included his son, Avital Selinger. The seventh place finish of the Unified Team was the worst finish by the Soviets/Unified in Olympic or World Championships history.

Pos	Number	Team	NOC	Matches Played	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Set Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	–	Brazil	BRA	8	8	0	16	24-3	8.000	395-263	1.502	Gold
	1	Marcelo Negrão		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	2	Jorge Edson		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	3	Giovane		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	5	Paulão		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	6	Maurício		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	7	Janelson		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	8	Douglas		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	9	Carlão		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	10	Talmo		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	12	Pampa		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	14	Tande		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	15	Amauri		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
Coach		Zé Roberto
2	–	Netherlands	NED	8	4	4	12	14-14	1.000	355-316	1.123	Silver
	1	Martin Teffer		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	3	Henk Jan Held		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	5	Ron Boudrie		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	7	Marko Klok		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	8	Ron Zwerver		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	9	Avital Selinger		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	10	Edwin Benne		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	11	Olof van der Meulen		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	12	Peter Blangé		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	13	Jan Posthuma		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	14	Martin van der Horst		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	15	Ronald Zoodsma		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
Coach		Arie Selinger
3	–	United States	USA	8	5	3	13	18-14	1.286	425-385	1.104	Bronze
	1	Carlos Briceno		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	2	Dan Greenbaum		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	3	Nick Becker		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	4	Bob Ctvrtlik		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	5	Bryan Ivie		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	6	Steve Timmons		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	7	Brent Hilliard		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	8	Scott Fortune		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	9	Bob Samuelson		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	10	Jeff Stork		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	14	Eric Sato		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	15	Doug Partie		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
Coach		Fred Sturm
4	–	Cuba	CUB	8	5	3	13	17-11	1.545	356-311	1.145
	1	Freddy Brooks		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	4	Joël Despaigne		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	5	Idalberto Valdés		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	6	Lázaro Beltrán		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	7	Félix Millán		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	8	Rodolfo Sánchez		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	9	Raúl Diago		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	10	Abel Sarmientos		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	11	Osvaldo Hernández		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	12	Lázaro Marín		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	13	Nicolás Vives		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	14	Ihosvany Hernández		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
Coach		Orlando Samuels
5	–	Italy	ITA	8	6	2	14	21-8	2.625	400-301	1.329
	1	Andrea Gardini		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	5	Paolo Tofoli		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	6	Roberto Masciarelli		1	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	7	Claudio Galli		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	8	Marco Bracci		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	9	Lorenzo Bernardi		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	10	Luca Cantagalli		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	11	Andrea Zorzi		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	12	Andrea Lucchetta		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	13	Andrea Giani		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	14	Fabio Vullo		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	15	Michele Pasinato		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
Coach		Julio Velasco
6	–	Japan	JPN	8	4	4	12	14-19	0.737	381-428	0.890
	1	Takashi Narita		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	2	Katsumi Kawano		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	3	Yuichi Nakagaichi		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	4	Akihiko Matsuda		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	6	Masafumi Oura		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	7	Tatsuya Ueta		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	8	Masaji Ogino		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	10	Katsuyuki Minami		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	11	Shigeru Aoyama		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	13	Junichi Kuriuzawa		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	14	Hideyuki Otake		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	15	Masayuki Izumikawa		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
Coach		Seiji Oko
7	–	Unified Team	EUN	8	4	4	12	17-15	1.133	399-394	1.013
	1	Oleg Shatunov		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	2	Andrey Kuznetsov		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	3	Aleksandr Shadchin		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	4	Ruslan Olikhver		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	5	Igor Runov		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	6	Yevgeny Krasilnikov		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	7	Yury Korovyansky		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	8	Dmitry Fomin		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	11	Konstantin Ushakov		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	12	Yury Cherednik		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	13	Sergey Gorbunov		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	15	Pavel Shishkin		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
Coach		Vyacheslav Platonov
8	–	Spain	ESP	8	3	5	11	13-21	0.619	396-453	0.874
	2	Juan Carlos Robles		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	3	Venancio Costa		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	5	Francisco Sánchez		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	6	Jesús Garrido		1	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	7	Jesús Sánchez		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	8	Miguel Ángel Maroto		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	10	Ángel Alonso		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	11	Benjamín Vicedo		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	12	Héctor López		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	13	Francisco Hervás		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	14	Rafael Pascual		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	15	Ernesto Rodríguez		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
Coach		Idolo Herrera
9	–	Republic of Korea	KOR	6	2	4	8	6-13	0.462	199-257	0.774
	1	Ha Jong-Hwa		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	2	Ma Nak-Gil		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	3	Kim Wan-Sik		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	4	Kim Se-Jin		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	5	No Jin-Su		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	6	Sin Yeong-Cheol		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	7	Oh Uk-Hwan		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	8	Im Do-Heon		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	9	Park Jong-Chan		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	10	Kim Byeong-Seon		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	11	Gang Seong-Hyeong		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	12	Jin Chang-Uk		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
Coach		Lee In
10	–	Canada	CAN	6	1	5	7	11-15	0.733	331-336	0.985
	1	Bradley Willock		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	2	William Knight		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	4	Kent Greves		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	6	Allan Coulter		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	8	Gregory Williscroft		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	9	Marc Albert		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	10	Gino Brousseau		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	11	Kevin Boyles		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	12	Randal Gingera		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	13	Christopher Frehlick		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	14	Terry Gagnon		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	15	Russell Paddock		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
Coach		Brian Watson
11	–	France	FRA	6	2	4	8	9-14	0.643	245-290	0.845
	1	Luc Marquet		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	2	Olivier Lecat		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	3	David Romann		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	4	Éric Wolfer		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	5	Éric Bouvier		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	6	Christophe Meneau		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	8	Arnaud Josserand		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	9	Laurent Tillie		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	10	Olivier Rossard		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	13	Laurent Chambertin		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	14	Rivomanantsoa Andriamaonju		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	15	Philippe-Marie Salvan		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
Coach		Gérard Castan
12	–	Algeria	ALG	6	0	6	6	0-18	0.000	122-270	0.452
	2	Ali Dif		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	3	Lies Tizioualou		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	5	El-Tayeb El-Hadj Ben Khelfallah		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	7	Mourad Sennoun		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	8	Foudil Taalba		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	10	Mourad Malaoui		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	11	Krimo Bernaoui		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	12	Adel Sennoun		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	13	Faycal Gharzouli		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	14	Faycal Tellouche		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
	9	Adbullah Kherif DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–
Coach		Abderahmane Slimane

Preliminary Round

Date	26 July – 3 August 1992

Group A

Date	26 July – 3 August 1992
Format	Round-robin pools.

Pos	Competitors	NOC	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Set Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	Italy	ITA	4	1	9	13-5	2.600	253-192	1.318
2	United States	USA	3	2	8	11-9	1.222	267-242	1.103
3	Japan	JPN	3	2	8	11-10	1.100	262-271	0.967
4	Spain	ESP	3	2	8	11-12	0.917	283-299	0.946
5	Canada	CAN	1	4	6	10-12	0.833	286-279	1.025
6	France	FRA	1	4	6	6-14	0.429	200-268	0.746

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	26 Jul 13:00	Japan	JPN	8-15, 15-11, 15-10, 15-13	United States	USA
Match #2	26 Jul 17:30	Italy	ITA	9-15, 15-5, 15-8, 15-2	France	FRA
Match #3	26 Jul 19:00	Spain	ESP	13-15, 15-7, 9-15, 15-12, 15-13	Canada	CAN
Match #4	28 Jul 13:00	United States	USA	15-12, 15-12, 10-15, 11-15, 16-14	Canada	CAN
Match #5	28 Jul 15:00	France	FRA	15-8, 9-15, 15-11, 10-15, 15-9	Japan	JPN
Match #6	28 Jul 19:00	Italy	ITA	16-14, 15-6, 15-7	Spain	ESP
Match #7	30 Jul 10:30	Italy	ITA	15-13, 15-7, 17-15	Japan	JPN
Match #8	30 Jul 13:00	Canada	CAN	15-7, 15-8, 15-6	France	FRA
Match #9	30 Jul 17:30	United States	USA	15-6, 14-16, 12-15, 15-10, 15-11	Spain	ESP
Match #10	01 Aug 13:00	Spain	ESP	15-8, 5-15, 15-17, 15-7, 15-13	Japan	JPN
Match #11	01 Aug 17:30	Italy	ITA	15-11, 8-15, 15-12, 15-7	Canada	CAN
Match #12	01 Aug 19:00	United States	USA	15-5, 15-12, 15-8	France	FRA
Match #13	03 Aug 10:30	Japan	JPN	11-15, 15-17, 15-11, 15-13, 15-10	Canada	CAN
Match #14	03 Aug 19:00	Spain	ESP	10-15, 11-15, 15-9, 15-9, 15-12	France	FRA
Match #15	03 Aug 21:30	United States	USA	9-15, 16-14, 15-11, 15-13	Italy	ITA

Group B

Date	26 July – 3 August 1992
Format	Round-robin pools.

Pos	Competitors	NOC	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Set Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	Brazil	BRA	5	0	10	15-2	7.500	248-165	1.503
2	Cuba	CUB	4	1	9	13-5	2.600	231-180	1.283
3	Unified Team	EUN	3	2	8	11-7	1.571	229-205	1.117
4	Netherlands	NED	2	3	7	8-9	0.889	218-181	1.204
5	Republic of Korea	KOR	1	4	6	3-12	0.250	142-212	0.670
6	Algeria	ALG	0	5	5	0-15	0.000	100-225	0.444

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	26 Jul 10:30	Cuba	CUB	15-12, 17-15, 6-15, 15-10	Netherlands	NED
Match #2	26 Jul 15:00	Unified Team	EUN	15-8, 15-7, 15-4	Algeria	ALG
Match #3	26 Jul 21:30	Brazil	BRA	15-13, 16-14, 15-7	Republic of Korea	KOR
Match #4	28 Jul 10:30	Cuba	CUB	15-4, 15-2, 15-3	Algeria	ALG
Match #5	28 Jul 17:30	Brazil	BRA	15-6, 15-7, 9-15, 16-14	Unified Team	EUN
Match #6	28 Jul 21:30	Netherlands	NED	15-5, 15-5, 15-7	Republic of Korea	KOR
Match #7	30 Jul 15:00	Republic of Korea	KOR	15-8, 15-11, 15-12	Algeria	ALG
Match #8	30 Jul 19:00	Brazil	BRA	15-11, 15-9, 15-4	Netherlands	NED
Match #9	30 Jul 21:30	Cuba	CUB	8-15, 15-10, 15-12, 15-5	Unified Team	EUN
Match #10	01 Aug 10:30	Unified Team	EUN	15-9, 15-6, 15-11	Republic of Korea	KOR
Match #11	01 Aug 15:00	Netherlands	NED	15-2, 15-5, 15-4	Algeria	ALG
Match #12	01 Aug 21:30	Brazil	BRA	15-6, 15-8, 12-15, 15-6	Cuba	CUB
Match #13	03 Aug 13:00	Unified Team	EUN	8-15, 15-9, 17-16, 15-12	Netherlands	NED
Match #14	03 Aug 15:00	Cuba	CUB	15-5, 15-7, 15-8	Republic of Korea	KOR
Match #15	03 Aug 17:30	Brazil	BRA	15-8, 15-13, 15-9	Algeria	ALG

Classification Round 5-8

Date	6 August 1992
Format	Classification matches.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	06 Aug 13:00	Italy	ITA	15-4, 15-12, 15-4	Spain	ESP
Match #2	06 Aug 16:30	Japan	JPN	15-8, 9-15, 15-13, 12-15, 17-16	Unified Team	EUN

Quarter-Finals

Date	5 August 1992
Format	Single-elimination.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	05 Aug 10:30	Netherlands	NED	15-9, 12-15, 8-15, 15-2, 17-16	Italy	ITA
Match #2	05 Aug 13:00	United States	USA	12-15, 15-10, 15-4, 15-11	Unified Team	EUN
Match #3	05 Aug 19:00	Cuba	CUB	16-14, 15-9, 15-6	Spain	ESP
Match #4	05 Aug 21:30	Brazil	BRA	15-12, 15-5, 15-12	Japan	JPN

Semi-Finals

Date	6 – 7 August 1992
Format	Single-elimination.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	07 Aug 10:30	Netherlands	NED	15-11, 15-13, 15-9	Cuba	CUB
Match #2	07 Aug 19:00	Brazil	BRA	12-15, 15-8, 15-9, 15-12	United States	USA

Final Round

Date	5 – 9 August 1992
Format	Medal round.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match 1/2	09 Aug 13:00	Brazil	BRA	15-12, 15-8, 15-5	Netherlands	NED
Match 3/4	09 Aug 10:30	United States	USA	12-15, 15-13, 15-7, 15-11	Cuba	CUB
Match 5/6	07 Aug 17:30	Italy	ITA	15-2, 15-7, 15-13	Japan	JPN
Match 7/8	07 Aug 15:00	Unified Team	EUN	16-14, 12-15, 15-8, 5-15, 15-12	Spain	ESP
Match 9/10	05 Aug 17:30	Republic of Korea	KOR	15-10, 12-15, 15-10, 15-10	Canada	CAN
Match 11/12	05 Aug 15:00	France	FRA	15-4, 15-9, 15-9	Algeria	ALG