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Volleyball, Women

Date	16 – 30 September 2000
Status	Olympic
Location	Sydney Entertainment Centre, Sydney, New South Wales
Participants	138 from 12 countries
Format	Round-robin pools advanced teams to classification matches.

In the now standard format, 12 teams competed, separated into two pools of six, followed by elimination and medal/placement matches. The qualifying teams were selected as follows: host nation (Australia), World Cup (Cuba, Russia, Brazil), Continental Qualifiers (Kenya, Korea, United States, Peru, Germany), and qualification tournaments (Italy, China, Croatia)

The two favorites were Cuba and Russia. Cuba had won the last two gold medals, and the 1994 and 1998 World Championships. They were drawn together in Group B and Russia defeated the Cubans in five close sets. The semi-finals saw Cuba require five sets to defeat Brazil, while the Russians also needed five sets to beat a tough US team. The two favorites matched off in the final, and Russia narrowly won the first two sets, 27-25, 34-32. But Cuba then showed why they had won almost every tournament since 1992, taking the last three sets easily, and winning their third consecutive gold medal. Four Cuban players – Regla Bell, Marlenis Costa, Mireya Luis, and Regla Torres – played on all three championship teams.

Pos	Number	Team	NOC	Matches Played	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Set Ratio	Points	Points Ratio	Points
1	–	Cuba	CUB	8	7	1	15	23-8	2.875	729-600	1.215	15	Gold
	1	Yumilka Ruiz		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	2	Marlenis Costa		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	3	Mireya Luis		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	8	Regla Bell		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	10	Regla Torres		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	12	Tai Agüero		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	14	Ana Ivis Fernández		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	16	Mirka Francis		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	5	Idalmis Gato DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	4	Lilia Izquierdo DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	18	Zoila Barros DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	17	Marta Sánchez DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Luis Calderón
2	–	Russian Federation	RUS	8	7	1	15	23-10	2.300	763-678	1.125	15	Silver
	1	Olga Potashova		1	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	2	Nataliya Morozova		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	3	Anastasiya Belikova		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	4	Yelena Batukhtina-Tyurina		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	5	Lyubov Sokolova-Shashkova		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	6	Lena Godina		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	8	Yevgeniya Artamonova-Estes		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	9	Yelizaveta Tishchenko		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	10	Yelena Vasilevskaya		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	11	Yekaterina Gamova		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	12	Tatyana Gracheva		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	13	Inessa Sargsyan		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Nikolay Karpol
3	–	Brazil	BRA	8	7	1	15	23-4	5.750	646-503	1.284	15	Bronze
	2	Elisângela		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	3	Janina		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	4	Raquel		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	5	Ricarda		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	7	Fofão		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	8	Leila		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	9	Walewska		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	10	Virna		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	11	Karin		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	14	Kely		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	16	Kiki		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	17	Kátia		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Bernardinho
4	–	United States	USA	8	5	3	13	18-12	1.500	653-608	1.074	13
	1	Demetria Sance		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	2	Danielle Scott-Arruda		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	5	Stacy Sykora		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	7	Heather Bown		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	8	Charlene Tagaloa		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	9	Kerri Walsh Jennings		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	10	Mickisha Hurley		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	11	Robyn Ah Mow-Santos		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	13	Tara Cross-Battle		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	15	Logan Tom		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	16	Sarah Noriega		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	18	Allison Weston		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Mick Haley
5	–	People's Republic of China	CHN	8	4	4	12	14-14	1.000	639-613	1.042	12
	1	Wu Dan		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	2	Li Yan		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	4	Zhu Yunying		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	5	Wu Yongmei		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	6	Li Shan		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	7	He Qi		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	10	Chen Jing		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	11	Sun Yue		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	12	Qiu Aihua		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	13	Gui Chaoran		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	15	Wang Lina		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	17	Yin Yin		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Hu Jin
6	–	Germany	GER	8	3	5	11	12-17	0.706	622-660	0.942	11
	1	Susanne Lahme		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	2	Beatrice Dömeland		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	3	Tanja Hart		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	4	Kerstin Tzscherlich		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	5	Sylvia Roll		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	9	Christina Benecke		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	10	Anja-Nadin Pietrek		1	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	11	Christina Schultz		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	12	Judith Flemig		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	13	Hanka Pachale		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	15	Angelina Grün		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	16	Judith Sylvester		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Lee Hee-Wan
7	–	Croatia	CRO	8	4	4	12	13-16	0.813	665-655	1.015	12
	1	Nataša Leto		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	2	Ingrid Šišković		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	3	Patricia Daničić		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	4	Marijana Ribičić		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	6	Marija Anzulović		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	8	Barbara Jelić		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	10	Biljana Gligorović		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	11	Jelena Ovchinnikova-Čebukina		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	12	Vesna Jelić		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	13	Beti Rimac		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	14	Gordana Jurcan		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	9	Ana Kaštelan DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Ivica Jelić
8	–	Republic of Korea	KOR	8	3	5	11	13-18	0.722	681-719	0.947	11
	2	Kim Hui-Gyeong		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	3	Gang Hye-Mi		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	4	Gu Min-Jeong		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	6	Choi Gwang-Hui		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	7	Park Mi-Gyeong		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	8	Gu Gi-Ran		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	9	Jeong Seon-Hye		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	10	Park Su-Jeong		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	12	Lee Yeon-Sun		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	13	Lee Myeong-Hui		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	14	Lee Yun-Hui		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	15	Jang So-Yeon		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Kim Cheol-Yong
=9	–	Australia	AUS	5	1	4	6	4-13	0.308	303-408	0.743	6
	2	Renae Maycock		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	3	Majella Brown		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	5	Liz Brett		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	6	Rachel White		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	7	Christie Mokotupu		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	9	Selina Scoble		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	10	Sandi Bowen		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	11	Tamsin Barnett-Hinchley		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	12	Priscilla Ruddle		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	14	Louise Bawden		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	15	Bea Daly		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	16	Angela Clarke		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Brad Saindon
=9	–	Italy	ITA	5	1	4	6	7-12	0.583	427-446	0.957	6
	2	Simona Rinieri Dennis		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	3	Elisa Togut		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	4	Manuela Leggeri		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	7	Maurizia Cacciatori		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	8	Sabrina Bertini		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	10	Paola Paggi		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	11	Darina Mifkova		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	12	Francesca Piccinini		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	14	Eleonora Lo Bianco		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	15	Ana Paula De Tassis		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	16	Anna Vania Mello		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	18	Antonella Bragaglia		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Angiolino Frigoni
=11	–	Kenya	KEN	5	0	5	5	2-15	0.133	280-412	0.680	5
	2	Margaret Indakala		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	3	Doris Wanjala		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	5	Jackline Makokha		1	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	6	Edna Chepngeno		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	9	Dorcas Nakhomicha Ndasaba		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	11	Rose Obunaga		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	13	Gladys Nasikanda		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	14	Violet Barasa		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	15	Maria Kochwa		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	16	Nancy Waswa		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	17	Emily Wesutila		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	18	Judith Serenge		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Sadatoshi Sugawara
=11	–	Peru	PER	5	0	5	5	2-15	0.133	316-422	0.749	5
	1	Fiorella Aíta		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	2	Iris Falcón		1	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	3	Rosa García		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	4	Diana Soto		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	5	Leyla Chihuán		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	7	Yulissa Zamudio		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	8	Milagros Moy		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	9	Janet Vasconzuelos		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	12	Natalia Málaga		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	14	Milagros Uceda		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	17	Milagros Cámere		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	6	Elena Keldibekova DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Park Man-Bok

Preliminary Round

Date	16 – 24 September 2000

Group A

Date	16 – 24 September 2000
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	395-272	1.452
2	United States	USA	4	1	9	13-4	3.250	392-306	1.281
3	Croatia	CRO	3	2	8	9-9	1.000	411-389	1.057
4	People's Republic of China	CHN	2	3	7	8-9	0.889	371-365	1.016
5	Australia	AUS	1	4	6	4-13	0.308	303-408	0.743
6	Kenya	KEN	0	5	5	2-15	0.133	280-412	0.680

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	16 Sep 12:33		Brazil	BRA	25-8, 25-11, 25-13	Kenya	KEN
Match #2	16 Sep 14:31		Croatia	CRO	25-21, 22-25, 25-14, 25-16	Australia	AUS
Match #3	16 Sep 21:10		United States	USA	19-25, 25-21, 25-12, 26-24	People's Republic of China	CHN
Match #4	18 Sep 12:00	Pavilion 4	Croatia	CRO	25-23, 26-28, 25-20, 25-15	People's Republic of China	CHN
Match #5	18 Sep 14:30		United States	USA	25-16, 25-6, 25-16	Kenya	KEN
Match #6	18 Sep 18:30		Brazil	BRA	25-13, 25-18, 25-17	Australia	AUS
Match #7	20 Sep 14:30		Australia	AUS	16-25, 25-20, 25-15, 28-26	Kenya	KEN
Match #8	20 Sep 18:30		Brazil	BRA	25-14, 25-21, 25-18	People's Republic of China	CHN
Match #9	20 Sep 20:30		United States	USA	25-19, 25-18, 25-16	Croatia	CRO
Match #10	22 Sep 10:00	Pavilion 4	People's Republic of China	CHN	25-15, 25-14, 25-18	Kenya	KEN
Match #11	22 Sep 18:30		Brazil	BRA	25-21, 25-23, 25-23	Croatia	CRO
Match #12	22 Sep 20:30		United States	USA	25-11, 25-17, 25-10	Australia	AUS
Match #13	24 Sep 10:00	Pavilion 4	Croatia	CRO	18-25, 25-16, 25-18, 25-18	Kenya	KEN
Match #14	24 Sep 12:00	Pavilion 4	Brazil	BRA	25-17, 20-25, 25-15, 25-15	United States	USA
Match #15	24 Sep 18:30		People's Republic of China	CHN	25-18, 25-14, 25-15	Australia	AUS

Group B

Date	16 – 24 September 2000
Format	Round-robin pools.

Pos	Competitors	NOC	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Set Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	Russian Federation	RUS	5	0	10	15-5	3.000	465-392	1.186
2	Cuba	CUB	4	1	9	14-4	3.500	419-332	1.262
3	Republic of Korea	KOR	3	2	8	9-9	1.000	393-413	0.952
4	Germany	GER	2	3	7	8-10	0.800	380-395	0.962
5	Italy	ITA	1	4	6	7-12	0.583	427-446	0.957
6	Peru	PER	0	5	5	2-15	0.133	316-422	0.749

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	16 Sep 10:00	Pavilion 4	Cuba	CUB	25-17, 25-18, 25-18	Germany	GER
Match #2	16 Sep 12:00	Pavilion 4	Russian Federation	RUS	25-17, 25-13, 25-20	Peru	PER
Match #3	16 Sep 18:30		Republic of Korea	KOR	23-25, 25-18, 25-22, 22-25, 27-25	Italy	ITA
Match #4	18 Sep 10:00	Pavilion 4	Italy	ITA	25-17, 25-20, 25-20	Peru	PER
Match #5	18 Sep 12:30		Republic of Korea	KOR	25-16, 25-21, 25-22	Germany	GER
Match #6	18 Sep 20:30		Russian Federation	RUS	20-25, 25-21, 21-25, 25-12, 15-13	Cuba	CUB
Match #7	20 Sep 10:01	Pavilion 4	Germany	GER	25-16, 25-19, 25-16	Peru	PER
Match #8	20 Sep 12:00	Pavilion 4	Russian Federation	RUS	29-31, 25-18, 25-21, 25-19	Italy	ITA
Match #9	20 Sep 12:30		Cuba	CUB	25-17, 25-13, 25-15	Republic of Korea	KOR
Match #10	22 Sep 12:00	Pavilion 4	Cuba	CUB	25-18, 25-21, 25-20	Italy	ITA
Match #11	22 Sep 12:30		Republic of Korea	KOR	19-25, 25-19, 30-28, 25-17	Peru	PER
Match #12	22 Sep 14:35		Russian Federation	RUS	25-23, 23-25, 14-25, 28-26, 15-6	Germany	GER
Match #13	24 Sep 12:30		Germany	GER	25-22, 13-25, 25-21, 25-21	Italy	ITA
Match #14	24 Sep 14:40		Cuba	CUB	23-25, 25-12, 25-16, 25-16	Peru	PER
Match #15	24 Sep 20:30		Russian Federation	RUS	25-15, 25-21, 25-16	Republic of Korea	KOR

Quarter-Finals

Date	26 September 2000
Format	Single-elimination.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	26 Sep 12:30	Brazil	BRA	25-22, 25-18, 25-17	Germany	GER
Match #2	26 Sep 14:30	Cuba	CUB	25-18, 25-23, 25-21	Croatia	CRO
Match #3	26 Sep 18:30	United States	USA	26-24, 17-25, 25-23, 25-27, 16-14	Republic of Korea	KOR
Match #4	26 Sep 20:30	Russian Federation	RUS	27-25, 25-23, 27-25	People's Republic of China	CHN

Classification Round 5-8

Date	27 September 2000
Format	Classification matches.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	27 Sep 10:00	Germany	GER	27-25, 27-29, 25-21, 25-18	Croatia	CRO
Match #2	27 Sep 12:00	People's Republic of China	CHN	23-25, 25-19, 25-23, 25-21	Republic of Korea	KOR

Semi-Finals

Date	28 September 2000
Format	Single-elimination.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	28 Sep 18:30	Cuba	CUB	27-29, 25-19, 21-25, 25-19, 15-9	Brazil	BRA
Match #2	28 Sep 20:30	Russian Federation	RUS	25-15, 23-25, 25-15, 26-28, 15-8	United States	USA

Final Round

Date	28 – 30 September 2000
Format	Medal round.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match 1/2	30 Sep 14:30	Cuba	CUB	25-27, 32-34, 25-19, 25-18, 15-7	Russian Federation	RUS
Match 3/4	30 Sep 12:30	Brazil	BRA	25-18, 25-22, 25-21	United States	USA
Match 5/6	28 Sep 12:30	People's Republic of China	CHN	25-19, 25-19, 22-25, 25-18	Germany	GER
Match 7/8	28 Sep 14:30	Croatia	CRO	25-18, 24-26, 25-22, 25-21	Republic of Korea	KOR