| Date | 27 July 1996 — 10:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | The Omni Coliseum, Atlanta, Georgia | |
| Referee #1 | Frank Leuthäußer | GER |
| Referee #2 | Qu Zhengzhong | CHN |
| Attendance | 10,050 | |
| Details | Match Time: 1-48 Set #1 Time: 0-41 Set #2 Time: 0-28 Set #3 Time: 0-39 |
| Number | Competitor | NOC | Sets Won | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | Italy | ITA | 3 | 15 | 15 | 15 | |
| – | Russian Federation | RUS | 0 | 11 | 6 | 12 |
Italy| Pos | Number | Competitor | Points | Side Outs | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andrea Gardini | 1 | 14 | ||||
| 2 | Marco Meoni | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 3 | Pasquale Gravina | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 6 | Samuele Papi | 5 | 7 | ||||
| 7 | Andrea Sartoretti | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 8 | Marco Bracci | 0 | 1 | ||||
| 9 | Lorenzo Bernardi | 5 | 14 | ||||
| 10 | Luca Cantagalli | 5 | 7 | ||||
| 13 | Andrea Giani | 10 | 32 | ||||
| 16 | Vigor Bovolenta | 4 | 14 | ||||
| Team Totals | 45 | – | |||||
| Coach | Julio Velasco | ||||||
Russian Federation| Pos | Number | Competitor | Points | Side Outs | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oleg Shatunov | 1 | 3 | ||||
| 2 | Vadim Khamuttskikh | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 3 | Sergey Orlenko | 0 | 5 | ||||
| 4 | Ruslan Olikhver | 2 | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Aleksey Kazakov | 0 | 2 | ||||
| 9 | Sergey Tetyukhin | 2 | 14 | ||||
| 10 | Pavel Shishkin | 3 | 8 | ||||
| 11 | Konstantin Ushakov | 2 | 1 | ||||
| 12 | Stanislav Dineykin | 5 | 18 | ||||
| 13 | Igor Shulepov | 5 | 13 | ||||
| 17 | Valery Goryushev | 3 | 6 | ||||
| Team Totals | 29 | – | |||||
| Coach | Vyacheslav Platonov | ||||||