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Volleyball, Women

Date	20 July – 3 August 1996
Status	Olympic
Location	The Omni Coliseum, Atlanta, Georgia
Participants	134 from 12 countries
Format	Round-robin pools advanced teams to classification matches.

For the first time, the women’s tournament consisted of 12 teams, separated into two pools of six, followed by medal elimination matches. The teams were selected as follows: host nation (United States), World Cup (Cuba, Brazil, China), Continental Qualifiers (Korea, Canada, Germany, Peru), and qualifying tournaments (Russia, Japan, Netherlands, Ukraine)

Cuba was easily the best team in the world. They had won the 1992 Olympic gold medal and the 1994 World Championships, and every other tournament they entered in the interim. But they were fortunate to get out of group play, losing two matches, and finishing only third in Group B behind Brazil and Russia. In the quarter-finals they were drawn against their arch-rival, the United States, and crushed them – 1, 10, and 12. The semi-finals saw Cuba play Brazil, who had defeated them very easily in straight sets in their group. This match was much closer, going five sets, with Cuba winning 15-12 in the fifth. In the final, Cuba faced China, World Champions in 1982 and 1986. China’s female volleyball fortunes had fallen off considerably since then, but they had replaced their coach with former star player Lang Ping. This seemed to be the boost they needed and they reached the final undefeated. China won the first set of the final, 16-14, but Cuba came back to win the next three sets and the gold medal. The medal ceremony was tainted by booing and whistling from the American crowd when Cuba was awarded their gold medals.

Pos	Number	Team	NOC	Matches Played	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Set Ratio	Points	Points Ratio	Side Outs
1	–	Cuba	CUB	8	6	2	14	19-9	2.111	362-292	1.240	–	Gold
	1	Yumilka Ruiz		1	–	–	1	–-–	–	–-–	–	4
	2	Marlenis Costa		8	–	–	18	–-–	–	–-–	–	36
	3	Mireya Luis		8	–	–	62	–-–	–	–-–	–	88
	4	Lilia Izquierdo		5	–	–	7	–-–	–	–-–	–	7
	5	Idalmis Gato		4	–	–	3	–-–	–	–-–	–	5
	6	Raisa O'Farrill		7	–	–	26	–-–	–	–-–	–	22
	8	Regla Bell		8	–	–	49	–-–	–	–-–	–	84
	10	Regla Torres		7	–	–	35	–-–	–	–-–	–	44
	14	Ana Ivis Fernández		8	–	–	23	–-–	–	–-–	–	53
	15	Magalys Carvajal		7	–	–	70	–-–	–	–-–	–	73
	12	Tai Agüero DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	16	Mirka Francis DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Eugenio George
2	–	People's Republic of China	CHN	8	7	1	15	22-7	3.143	408-310	1.316	–	Silver
	1	Lai Yawen		8	–	–	54	–-–	–	–-–	–	72
	2	Li Yan		8	–	–	63	–-–	–	–-–	–	107
	3	Cui Yongmei		8	–	–	52	–-–	–	–-–	–	66
	5	Wu Yongmei		6	–	–	27	–-–	–	–-–	–	42
	6	Wang Yi		8	–	–	29	–-–	–	–-–	–	54
	7	He Qi		8	–	–	17	–-–	–	–-–	–	9
	10	Wang Ziling		5	–	–	2	–-–	–	–-–	–	6
	11	Sun Yue		8	–	–	58	–-–	–	–-–	–	127
	13	Wang Lina		5	–	–	6	–-–	–	–-–	–	9
	4	Zhu Yunying DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	9	Liu Xiaoning DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	8	Pan Wenli DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Lang Ping
3	–	Brazil	BRA	8	7	1	15	23-6	3.833	404-267	1.513	–	Bronze
	2	Ana Moser		8	–	–	67	–-–	–	–-–	–	70
	4	Ida		5	–	–	7	–-–	–	–-–	–	16
	5	Ana Paula		8	–	–	43	–-–	–	–-–	–	43
	8	Leila		3	–	–	12	–-–	–	–-–	–	13
	9	Hilma		2	–	–	17	–-–	–	–-–	–	22
	10	Virna		8	–	–	38	–-–	–	–-–	–	90
	11	Márcia Fu		8	–	–	61	–-–	–	–-–	–	78
	12	Filó		7	–	–	11	–-–	–	–-–	–	11
	13	Ana Flávia		8	–	–	24	–-–	–	–-–	–	32
	14	Fernanda		8	–	–	18	–-–	–	–-–	–	20
	15	Fofão		3	–	–	1	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	17	Sandra		1	–	–	0	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
Coach		Bernardinho
4	–	Russian Federation	RUS	8	5	3	13	18-11	1.636	382-296	1.291	–
	1	Valentina Ogiyenko		7	–	–	2	–-–	–	–-–	–	9
	2	Nataliya Morozova		8	–	–	36	–-–	–	–-–	–	25
	3	Marina Nikulina-Pankova		8	–	–	9	–-–	–	–-–	–	7
	4	Yelena Batukhtina-Tyurina		8	–	–	40	–-–	–	–-–	–	60
	5	Irina Smirnova-Ilchenko		8	–	–	42	–-–	–	–-–	–	68
	6	Lena Godina		6	–	–	20	–-–	–	–-–	–	40
	7	Tatyana Menshova		6	–	–	14	–-–	–	–-–	–	22
	8	Yevgeniya Artamonova-Estes		8	–	–	69	–-–	–	–-–	–	115
	9	Yelizaveta Tishchenko		8	–	–	40	–-–	–	–-–	–	73
	11	Yuliya Timonova		1	–	–	0	–-–	–	–-–	–	1
	12	Tatyana Gracheva		7	–	–	1	–-–	–	–-–	–	4
	14	Lyubov Sokolova-Shashkova		2	–	–	5	–-–	–	–-–	–	2
Coach		Nikolay Karpol
5	–	Netherlands	NED	8	5	3	13	17-12	1.417	364-326	1.117	–
	1	Jerine Fleurke		3	–	–	8	–-–	–	–-–	–	14
	3	Saskia van Hintum		1	–	–	0	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	4	Erna Brinkman		8	–	–	48	–-–	–	–-–	–	86
	5	Cintha Boersma		8	–	–	41	–-–	–	–-–	–	77
	7	Irena Machovcak		8	–	–	22	–-–	–	–-–	–	44
	9	Marjolein de Jong		6	–	–	1	–-–	–	–-–	–	1
	10	Henriëtte Weersing		8	–	–	69	–-–	–	–-–	–	150
	11	Marrit Leenstra		3	–	–	5	–-–	–	–-–	–	5
	12	Elles Leferink		8	–	–	18	–-–	–	–-–	–	32
	13	Claudia van Thiel		3	–	–	0	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	14	Riëtte Fledderus		8	–	–	32	–-–	–	–-–	–	14
	15	Ingrid Visser		8	–	–	38	–-–	–	–-–	–	56
Coach		Bert Goedkoop
6	–	Republic of Korea	KOR	8	3	5	11	13-15	0.867	341-340	1.003	–
	4	Jang Yun-Hui		8	–	–	52	–-–	–	–-–	–	94
	5	Lee Su-Jeong		8	–	–	16	–-–	–	–-–	–	12
	6	Gang Hye-Mi		8	–	–	0	–-–	–	–-–	–	1
	8	Jeong Seon-Hye		8	–	–	50	–-–	–	–-–	–	99
	9	Kim Nam-Sun		8	–	–	48	–-–	–	–-–	–	66
	10	Park Su-Jeong		8	–	–	45	–-–	–	–-–	–	72
	11	Hong Ji-Yeon		8	–	–	29	–-–	–	–-–	–	72
	15	Jang So-Yeon		8	–	–	11	–-–	–	–-–	–	24
	16	Choi Gwang-Hui		8	–	–	2	–-–	–	–-–	–	7
	12	Lee In-Sook DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	14	Lee Yeon-Sun DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	1	Yoo Yon-Kyung DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Kim Cheol-Yong
7	–	United States	USA	8	5	3	13	16-12	1.333	344-331	1.039	–
	1	Teee Sanders-Williams		8	–	–	14	–-–	–	–-–	–	21
	2	Yoko Zetterlund		8	–	–	11	–-–	–	–-–	–	7
	3	Paula Weishoff		8	–	–	18	–-–	–	–-–	–	31
	4	Caren Kemner		8	–	–	19	–-–	–	–-–	–	23
	5	Lori Endicott		8	–	–	3	–-–	–	–-–	–	7
	6	Kristin Klein		8	–	–	0	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	7	Beverly Oden		8	–	–	15	–-–	–	–-–	–	24
	8	Tammy Webb-Liley		8	–	–	27	–-–	–	–-–	–	77
	9	Elaina Oden		8	–	–	48	–-–	–	–-–	–	82
	10	Danielle Scott-Arruda		7	–	–	29	–-–	–	–-–	–	68
	11	Tara Cross-Battle		8	–	–	71	–-–	–	–-–	–	95
	15	Elaine Youngs		8	–	–	17	–-–	–	–-–	–	23
Coach		Terry Liskevych
8	–	Germany	GER	8	2	6	10	10-18	0.556	295-355	0.831	–
	1	Susanne Lahme		8	–	–	39	–-–	–	–-–	–	79
	3	Tanja Hart		6	–	–	0	–-–	–	–-–	–	6
	4	Constance Radfan		3	–	–	4	–-–	–	–-–	–	4
	5	Sylvia Roll		8	–	–	48	–-–	–	–-–	–	87
	8	Ute Steppin		6	–	–	8	–-–	–	–-–	–	19
	9	Karin Horninger		3	–	–	1	–-–	–	–-–	–	4
	10	Ines Pianka		8	–	–	11	–-–	–	–-–	–	14
	11	Christina Schultz		8	–	–	20	–-–	–	–-–	–	33
	12	Claudia Wilke		3	–	–	2	–-–	–	–-–	–	3
	15	Nancy Celis		8	–	–	46	–-–	–	–-–	–	79
	17	Grit Jensen-Naumann		8	–	–	21	–-–	–	–-–	–	37
	18	Hanka Pachale		8	–	–	11	–-–	–	–-–	–	20
Coach		Siegfried Köhler
=9	–	Japan	JPN	5	1	4	6	3-12	0.250	158-199	0.794	–
	1	Chieko Nakanishi		5	–	–	4	–-–	–	–-–	–	12
	2	Motoko Obayashi		5	–	–	35	–-–	–	–-–	–	71
	3	Aki Nagatomi		3	–	–	2	–-–	–	–-–	–	3
	4	Mika Yamauchi		3	–	–	3	–-–	–	–-–	–	6
	5	Tomoko Yoshihara		5	–	–	18	–-–	–	–-–	–	50
	6	Chiho Torii		1	–	–	1	–-–	–	–-–	–	2
	9	Kazumi Nakamura		5	–	–	7	–-–	–	–-–	–	6
	10	Kiyomi Sakamoto		4	–	–	0	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	11	Mika Saiki		5	–	–	13	–-–	–	–-–	–	31
	12	Asako Tajimi		5	–	–	20	–-–	–	–-–	–	45
	14	Kayo Hoshino		2	–	–	0	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	17	Ikumi Ogake		5	–	–	14	–-–	–	–-–	–	36
Coach		Kuniaki Yoshida
=9	–	Canada	CAN	5	1	4	6	3-14	0.214	156-239	0.653	–
	1	Diane Ratnik		3	–	–	0	–-–	–	–-–	–	3
	2	Josée Corbeil		5	–	–	2	–-–	–	–-–	–	2
	4	Katrina von Sass		4	–	–	21	–-–	–	–-–	–	30
	5	Brigitte Soucy		5	–	–	26	–-–	–	–-–	–	39
	7	Erminia Russo		5	–	–	1	–-–	–	–-–	–	1
	8	Michelle Sawatzky		4	–	–	4	–-–	–	–-–	–	2
	9	Janis Kelly		5	–	–	27	–-–	–	–-–	–	58
	10	Lori Ann Mundt		3	–	–	0	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	12	Kathy Tough		5	–	–	7	–-–	–	–-–	–	15
	13	Wanda Guenette		5	–	–	11	–-–	–	–-–	–	19
	14	Christine Stark		2	–	–	2	–-–	–	–-–	–	4
	15	Kerri Ann Buchberger		5	–	–	8	–-–	–	–-–	–	13
Coach		Mike Burchuk
=11	–	Ukraine	UKR	5	0	5	5	0-15	0.000	89-225	0.396	–
	1	Olha Kolomiyets		4	–	–	5	–-–	–	–-–	–	25
	2	Vita Mateshuk		5	–	–	1	–-–	–	–-–	–	5
	3	Mariya Poliakova		5	–	–	7	–-–	–	–-–	–	26
	4	Olena Sydorenko		5	–	–	19	–-–	–	–-–	–	54
	5	Tetiana Ivaniushkina		5	–	–	5	–-–	–	–-–	–	45
	6	Rehina Myloserdova		3	–	–	4	–-–	–	–-–	–	15
	7	Alla Kravets		1	–	–	1	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	8	Olha Pavlova		5	–	–	4	–-–	–	–-–	–	6
	10	Nataliya Bozhenova		2	–	–	6	–-–	–	–-–	–	14
	12	Oleksandra Fomina		2	–	–	6	–-–	–	–-–	–	11
	13	Yuliya Buieva		1	–	–	0	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	14	Olena Kryvonosova		2	–	–	3	–-–	–	–-–	–	7
Coach		Hariy Yehiazarov
=11	–	Peru	PER	5	0	5	5	2-15	0.133	129-252	0.512	–
	1	Sara Joya		5	–	–	10	–-–	–	–-–	–	15
	2	Iris Falcón		5	–	–	9	–-–	–	–-–	–	38
	4	Verónica Contreras		5	–	–	1	–-–	–	–-–	–	5
	6	Paola Ramos		5	–	–	3	–-–	–	–-–	–	4
	7	Milagros Cámere		5	–	–	22	–-–	–	–-–	–	50
	8	Milagros Moy		4	–	–	20	–-–	–	–-–	–	37
	9	Sandra Rodríguez		4	–	–	1	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	10	Luren Baylon		5	–	–	2	–-–	–	–-–	–	2
	14	Yulissa Zamudio		4	–	–	0	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	17	Yolanda Delgado		5	–	–	14	–-–	–	–-–	–	19
	12	Leyla Chihuán DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	11	Marjorie Vílchez DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Park Jong-Duk

Preliminary Round

Date	20 – 28 July 1996

Group A

Date	20 – 28 July 1996
Format	Round-robin pools.

Pos	Competitors	NOC	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Set Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	People's Republic of China	CHN	5	0	10	15-3	5.000	256-181	1.414
2	United States	USA	4	1	9	13-5	2.600	241-198	1.217
3	Netherlands	NED	3	2	8	10-7	1.429	211-179	1.179
4	Republic of Korea	KOR	2	3	7	10-9	1.111	249-222	1.122
5	Japan	JPN	1	4	6	3-12	0.250	158-199	0.794
6	Ukraine	UKR	0	5	5	0-15	0.000	89-225	0.396

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	20 Jul 10:00	People's Republic of China	CHN	15-10, 15-5, 15-7	Netherlands	NED
Match #2	20 Jul 18:30	Republic of Korea	KOR	15-10, 15-12, 15-10	Japan	JPN
Match #3	20 Jul 19:30	United States	USA	15-8, 15-5, 15-11	Ukraine	UKR
Match #4	22 Jul 10:00	People's Republic of China	CHN	17-16, 16-14, 2-15, 13-15, 15-13	Republic of Korea	KOR
Match #5	22 Jul 13:25	Japan	JPN	15-9, 15-5, 15-4	Ukraine	UKR
Match #6	22 Jul 19:30	United States	USA	12-15, 15-10, 17-15, 15-7	Netherlands	NED
Match #7	24 Jul 10:00	Netherlands	NED	15-3, 15-10, 15-3	Japan	JPN
Match #8	24 Jul 19:30	People's Republic of China	CHN	15-8, 15-2, 12-15, 15-12	United States	USA
Match #9	24 Jul 22:00	Republic of Korea	KOR	15-3, 15-10, 15-7	Ukraine	UKR
Match #10	26 Jul 12:30	Netherlands	NED	15-11, 15-12, 7-15, 15-8	Republic of Korea	KOR
Match #11	26 Jul 16:00	People's Republic of China	CHN	15-4, 15-4, 15-6	Ukraine	UKR
Match #12	26 Jul 19:30	United States	USA	15-11, 15-7, 15-12	Japan	JPN
Match #13	28 Jul 10:00	People's Republic of China	CHN	16-14, 15-11, 15-10	Japan	JPN
Match #14	28 Jul 13:00	United States	USA	10-15, 15-13, 15-9, 15-3	Republic of Korea	KOR
Match #15	28 Jul 15:30	Netherlands	NED	15-3, 15-5, 15-5	Ukraine	UKR

Group B

Date	20 – 28 July 1996
Format	Round-robin pools.

Pos	Competitors	NOC	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Set Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	Brazil	BRA	5	0	10	15-1	15.000	238-121	1.967
2	Russian Federation	RUS	4	1	9	12-4	3.000	217-140	1.550
3	Cuba	CUB	3	2	8	10-6	1.667	196-156	1.256
4	Germany	GER	2	3	7	7-9	0.778	163-191	0.853
5	Canada	CAN	1	4	6	3-14	0.214	156-239	0.653
6	Peru	PER	0	5	5	2-15	0.133	129-252	0.512

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	20 Jul 12:30	Russian Federation	RUS	15-5, 15-10, 15-7	Germany	GER
Match #2	20 Jul 16:00	Cuba	CUB	15-8, 15-8, 15-5	Canada	CAN
Match #3	20 Jul 22:00	Brazil	BRA	15-7, 15-1, 15-5	Peru	PER
Match #4	22 Jul 16:00	Russian Federation	RUS	15-1, 15-7, 15-9	Canada	CAN
Match #5	22 Jul 18:30	Germany	GER	15-11, 15-6, 15-3	Peru	PER
Match #6	22 Jul 22:05	Brazil	BRA	15-11, 15-10, 15-4	Cuba	CUB
Match #7	24 Jul 12:30	Germany	GER	15-5, 15-12, 15-6	Canada	CAN
Match #8	24 Jul 16:00	Brazil	BRA	15-3, 15-11, 15-13	Russian Federation	RUS
Match #9	24 Jul 18:30	Cuba	CUB	15-2, 15-5, 15-10	Peru	PER
Match #10	26 Jul 10:00	Russian Federation	RUS	15-11, 15-8, 15-1	Peru	PER
Match #11	26 Jul 18:30	Cuba	CUB	15-6, 15-8, 15-4	Germany	GER
Match #12	26 Jul 22:00	Brazil	BRA	15-6, 15-6, 15-11	Canada	CAN
Match #13	28 Jul 12:30	Brazil	BRA	15-4, 13-15, 15-6, 15-8	Germany	GER
Match #14	28 Jul 19:30	Russian Federation	RUS	10-15, 15-6, 15-7, 15-8	Cuba	CUB
Match #15	28 Jul 22:00	Canada	CAN	16-17, 15-6, 11-15, 15-9, 15-12	Peru	PER

Quarter-Finals

Date	30 July 1996
Format	Single-elimination.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	30 Jul 12:00	People's Republic of China	CHN	15-12, 15-8, 15-8	Germany	GER
Match #2	30 Jul 14:30	Russian Federation	RUS	10-15, 15-7, 15-9, 15-10	Netherlands	NED
Match #3	30 Jul 19:30	Cuba	CUB	15-1, 15-10, 15-12	United States	USA
Match #4	30 Jul 22:00	Brazil	BRA	15-4, 15-2, 15-10	Republic of Korea	KOR

Classification Round 5-8

Date	31 July 1996
Format	Classification matches.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	31 Jul 8:00	Netherlands	NED	15-12, 9-15, 13-15, 15-9, 15-10	Germany	GER
Match #2	31 Jul 10:55	Republic of Korea	KOR	15-12, 15-5, 15-11	United States	USA

Semi-Finals

Date	31 July – 1 August 1996
Format	Single-elimination.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	01 Aug 19:30	People's Republic of China	CHN	12-15, 15-5, 15-8, 15-12	Russian Federation	RUS
Match #2	01 Aug 22:00	Cuba	CUB	5-15, 15-8, 10-15, 15-13, 15-12	Brazil	BRA

Final Round

Date	1 – 3 August 1996
Format	Medal round.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match 1/2	03 Aug 14:35	Cuba	CUB	14-16, 15-12, 17-16, 15-6	People's Republic of China	CHN
Match 3/4	03 Aug 12:00	Brazil	BRA	15-13, 4-15, 16-14, 8-15, 15-13	Russian Federation	RUS
Match 5/6	01 Aug 16:25	Netherlands	NED	15-9, 15-9, 15-13	Republic of Korea	KOR
Match 7/8	01 Aug 14:00	United States	USA	17-16, 15-6, 5-15, 15-6	Germany	GER