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Volleyball, Men

Date	15 – 29 August 2004
Status	Olympic
Location	Stadio Eirinis kai Filias (SEF), Olympiako Syngrotima Papaliakis Zonis Falirou, Faliro
Participants	143 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 (Greece), World Cup (Brazil, Italy, Serbia & Montenegro), Continental qualifiers (Russia, United States, Argentina, Tunisia), and qualification tournaments (Netherlands, France, Australia, Poland).

Brazil was heavily favored, having won every major international tournament since 2002, including the 2002 World Championships. They led Group B, losing only to the United States, and even that occurred after they had clinched the group victory. In a re-match in the semi-finals, Brazil easily handled the Americans, winning in three sets, 25-16, 25-17, 25-23. Italy had been the best team in the world in the late 90s, but had never managed an Olympic gold, despite winning three straight world titles. They were European Champions in 2003 and made it to the final against Brazil in Athina. It was considered a dream final – the World Champion against the European Champion. The teams split the first two sets, but Brazil won relatively easily after that, taking the gold medal in four sets. One of the their players, Mauricio Lima, had also played on their 1992 Olympics gold medal winning team. Italy was also represented by a five-time volleyball Olympian, Andrea Giani, who also played his last match in Athina. The Russians won the bronze medal after narrowly qualifying in their group (losing to both Brazil and the Netherlands), despite being silver medalists at the 2002 World Championships.

Pos	Number	Team	NOC	Matches Played	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Set Ratio	Points	Points Ratio	Individual Points
1	–	Brazil	BRA	8	7	1	15	22-8	2.750	734-635	1.156	–	Gold
	3	Giovane		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	15
	4	André Heller		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	72
	6	Maurício		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	2
	7	Giba		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	126
	9	André Nascimento		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	98
	10	Serginho		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	11	Anderson		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	32
	12	Nalbert		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	8
	13	Gustavo		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	82
	14	Rodrigão		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	16
	17	Ricardinho		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	19
	18	Dante		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	101
Coach		Bernardinho
2	–	Italy	ITA	8	5	3	13	20-11	1.818	724-679	1.066	–	Silver
	1	Luigi Mastrangelo		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	72
	5	Valerio Vermiglio		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	26
	6	Samuele Papi		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	78
	7	Andrea Sartoretti		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	137
	8	Alberto Cisolla		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	11	Ventzislav Simeonov		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	2
	12	Damiano Pippi		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	13	Andrea Giani		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	32
	14	Alessandro Fei		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	77
	15	Paolo Tofoli		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	17	Paolo Cozzi		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	8
	18	Matej Cernic		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	83
Coach		Gian Paolo Montali
3	–	Russian Federation	RUS	8	5	3	13	17-13	1.308	685-671	1.021	–	Bronze
	1	Stanislav Dineykin		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	57
	4	Sergey Baranov		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	65
	5	Pavel Abramov		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	35
	7	Aleksey Kazakov		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	48
	8	Sergey Tetyukhin		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	100
	9	Vadim Khamuttskikh		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	18
	10	Aleksandr Kosaryev		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	57
	11	Konstantin Ushakov		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	12	Taras Khtey		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	12
	14	Andrey Yegorchev		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	46
	16	Aleksey Verbov		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	18	Aleksey Kuleshov		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	70
Coach		Gennady Shipulin
4	–	United States	USA	8	4	4	12	14-16	0.875	670-685	0.978	–
	1	Lloy Ball		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	25
	5	Erik Sullivan		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	6	Phil Eatherton		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	10
	7	Donald Suxho		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	6
	8	Reid Priddy		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	86
	9	Ryan Millar		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	70
	10	Riley Salmon		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	23
	11	Brook Billings		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	28
	12	Tom Hoff		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	52
	13	Clay Stanley		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	110
	14	Kevin Barnett		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	72
	15	Gabe Gardner		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	2
Coach		Doug Beal
=5	–	Argentina	ARG	6	3	3	9	13-12	1.083	568-558	1.018	–
	1	Marcos Milinkovic		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	129
	2	Jorge Alberto Elgueta		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	108
	3	Gustavo Porporatto		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	55
	7	Diego Gutiérrez		1	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	8	Hernán Ferraro		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	2
	10	Alejandro Spajic		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	63
	11	Jerónimo Bidegain		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	18
	12	Pablo Peralta		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	5
	13	Santiago Darraidou		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	1
	15	Leandro Patti		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	1
	17	Pablo Meana		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	18	Gastón Giani		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	40
Coach		Fabián Armoa
=5	–	Greece	GRE	6	3	3	9	14-12	1.167	585-568	1.030	–
	1	Kostas Christofidelis		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	42
	2	Marios Gkiourdas		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	58
	3	Akis Chatziantontiou		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	44
	6	Vasileios Kournetas		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	14
	7	Georgios Stefanou		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	10	Antonios Tsakiropoulos		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	47
	11	Nikos Roumeliotis		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	19
	14	Sotirios Pantaleon		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	15
	15	Ilias Lappas		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	13
	16	Andrei Kravarik		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	118
	17	Kostis Proussalis		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	18	Tontor-Zlatko Baev		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	75
Coach		Stylianos Prosalikas
=5	–	Poland	POL	6	3	3	9	10-12	0.833	487-496	0.982	–
	1	Andrzej Stelmach		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	7
	3	Piotr Gruszka		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	110
	5	Paweł Zagumny		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	1
	6	Dawid Murek		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	78
	8	Krzysztof Ignaczak		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	11	Łukasz Kadziewicz		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	5
	12	Radosław Rybak		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	5
	13	Sebastian Świderski		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	42
	14	Piotr Gabrych		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	11
	16	Arkadiusz Gołaś		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	43
	17	Michał Bąkiewicz		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	25
	18	Robert Szczerbaniuk		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	34
Coach		Stanisław Gościniak
=5	–	Serbia and Montenegro	SCG	6	4	2	10	13-9	1.444	530-505	1.050	–
	2	Milan Vašić		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	45
	5	Aleksandar Mitrović		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	17
	6	Vladan Đorđević		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	3
	7	Đula Mešter		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	24
	8	Vasa Mijić		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	9	Nikola Grbić		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	27
	10	Vladimir Grbić		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	84
	12	Andrija Gerić		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	45
	13	Goran Vujević		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	73
	14	Ivan Miljković		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	52
	15	Ivan Ilić		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	17	Milan Marković		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	29
Coach		Ljubomir Travica
=9	–	France	FRA	5	2	3	7	8-10	0.800	405-394	1.028	–
	2	Hubert Henno		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	3	Dominique Daquin		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	40
	7	Stéphane Antiga		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	52
	8	Laurent Capet		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	14
	9	Frantz Granvorka		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	53
	10	Vincent Montmeat		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	19
	11	Loïc de Kergret		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	5
	14	Philippe Barca-Cysique		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	61
	15	Guillaume Samica		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	13
	16	Mathias Patin		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	2
	17	Oliver Kieffer		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	16
	18	Sébastien Frangolacci		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	10
Coach		Philippe Blain
=9	–	Netherlands	NED	5	2	3	7	7-11	0.636	391-419	0.933	–
	1	Dirk-Jan van Gendt		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	1
	2	Nico Freriks		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	9
	3	Marko Klok		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	4	Reinder Nummerdor		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	37
	5	Guido Görtzen		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	61
	6	Richard Schuil		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	96
	7	Mike van de Goor		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	34
	9	Jeroen Trommel		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	1
	12	Robert Horstink		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	2
	14	Kay van Dijk		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	17	Rob Bontje		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	40
	18	Albert Cristina		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	3
Coach		Bert Goedkoop
=11	–	Australia	AUS	5	0	5	5	2-15	0.133	331-422	0.784	–
	1	Dan Howard		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	38
	3	Grant Sorensen		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	4	Benjamin Hardy		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	44
	5	Luke Campbell		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	29
	7	Matthew Young		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	1
	9	Andrew Earl		1	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	2
	10	David Beard		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	20
	12	Travis Moran		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	13	David Ferguson		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	3
	14	Zane Christensen		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	61
	15	Shane Van Beest		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	32
	18	Brett Alderman		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	9
Coach		Jon Emili Uriarte
=11	–	Tunisia	TUN	5	0	5	5	4-15	0.267	373-451	0.827	–
	2	Mohammed Trabelsi		1	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	1
	3	Mahdi Gara		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	3
	4	Walid Ben Abbes		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	7	Chaker Ghezal		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	31
	9	Khaled Bel Aïd		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	44
	11	Marouane Fehri		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	77
	13	Noureddine Hfaiedh		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	46
	14	Mehrez Berriri		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	0
	15	Ghazi Guidara		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	12
	17	Mohammed Salim Chekili		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	7
	18	Hosni Karamosly		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	44
	5	Samir Sellami DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Antonio Giacobbe

Preliminary Round

Date	15 – 23 August 2004

Group A

Date	15 – 23 August 2004
Format	Round-robin pools.

Pos	Competitors	NOC	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Set Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	Serbia and Montenegro	SCG	4	1	9	12-6	2.000	427-398	1.073
2	Greece	GRE	3	2	8	12-9	1.333	475-454	1.046
3	Argentina	ARG	3	2	8	12-9	1.333	471-457	1.031
4	Poland	POL	3	2	8	10-9	1.111	422-419	1.007
5	France	FRA	2	3	7	8-10	0.800	405-394	1.028
6	Tunisia	TUN	0	5	5	4-15	0.267	373-451	0.827

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	15 Aug 9:00	Poland	POL	3 – 0	Serbia and Montenegro	SCG
Match #2	15 Aug 14:00	Argentina	ARG	3 – 0	France	FRA
Match #3	15 Aug 19:30	Greece	GRE	3 – 0	Tunisia	TUN
Match #4	17 Aug 9:00	Argentina	ARG	3 – 2	Tunisia	TUN
Match #5	17 Aug 11:25	Serbia and Montenegro	SCG	3 – 0	France	FRA
Match #6	17 Aug 19:30	Greece	GRE	3 – 1	Poland	POL
Match #7	19 Aug 14:00	France	FRA	3 – 0	Poland	POL
Match #8	19 Aug 16:00	Serbia and Montenegro	SCG	3 – 0	Tunisia	TUN
Match #9	19 Aug 19:30	Argentina	ARG	3 – 1	Greece	GRE
Match #10	21 Aug 14:00	Poland	POL	3 – 1	Tunisia	TUN
Match #11	21 Aug 16:10	Serbia and Montenegro	SCG	3 – 1	Argentina	ARG
Match #12	21 Aug 19:30	Greece	GRE	3 – 2	France	FRA
Match #13	23 Aug 9:00	France	FRA	3 – 1	Tunisia	TUN
Match #14	23 Aug 16:00	Poland	POL	3 – 2	Argentina	ARG
Match #15	23 Aug 19:30	Serbia and Montenegro	SCG	3 – 2	Greece	GRE

Group B

Date	15 – 23 August 2004
Format	Round-robin pools.

Pos	Competitors	NOC	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Set Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	Brazil	BRA	4	1	9	13-7	1.857	483-431	1.121
2	Italy	ITA	3	2	8	13-7	1.857	465-434	1.071
3	United States	USA	3	2	8	11-8	1.375	437-423	1.033
4	Russian Federation	RUS	3	2	8	11-9	1.222	452-430	1.051
5	Netherlands	NED	2	3	7	7-11	0.636	391-419	0.933
6	Australia	AUS	0	5	5	2-15	0.133	331-422	0.784

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	15 Aug 11:00	Netherlands	NED	3 – 2	Russian Federation	RUS
Match #2	15 Aug 16:00	Brazil	BRA	3 – 1	Australia	AUS
Match #3	15 Aug 21:30	Italy	ITA	3 – 1	United States	USA
Match #4	17 Aug 14:00	Russian Federation	RUS	3 – 0	Australia	AUS
Match #5	17 Aug 16:00	United States	USA	3 – 0	Netherlands	NED
Match #6	17 Aug 21:45	Brazil	BRA	3 – 2	Italy	ITA
Match #7	19 Aug 9:00	Italy	ITA	3 – 0	Australia	AUS
Match #8	19 Aug 11:00	Brazil	BRA	3 – 1	Netherlands	NED
Match #9	19 Aug 21:45	Russian Federation	RUS	3 – 1	United States	USA
Match #10	21 Aug 9:00	United States	USA	3 – 1	Australia	AUS
Match #11	21 Aug 11:20	Italy	ITA	3 – 0	Netherlands	NED
Match #12	21 Aug 22:30	Brazil	BRA	3 – 0	Russian Federation	RUS
Match #13	23 Aug 11:15	Russian Federation	RUS	3 – 2	Italy	ITA
Match #14	23 Aug 14:00	Netherlands	NED	3 – 0	Australia	AUS
Match #15	23 Aug 22:20	United States	USA	3 – 1	Brazil	BRA

Quarter-Finals

Date	25 August 2004
Format	Single-elimination.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	25 Aug 14:00	Russian Federation	RUS	3 – 1	Serbia and Montenegro	SCG
Match #2	25 Aug 16:30	Italy	ITA	3 – 1	Argentina	ARG
Match #3	25 Aug 19:30	United States	USA	3 – 2	Greece	GRE
Match #4	25 Aug 22:25	Brazil	BRA	3 – 0	Poland	POL

Semi-Finals

Date	27 August 2004
Format	Single-elimination.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	27 Aug 19:30	Italy	ITA	3 – 0	Russian Federation	RUS
Match #2	27 Aug 21:30	Brazil	BRA	3 – 0	United States	USA

Final Round

Date	29 August 2004
Format	Medal round.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match 1/2	29 Aug 14:30	Brazil	BRA	3 – 1	Italy	ITA
Match 3/4	29 Aug 12:30	Russian Federation	RUS	3 – 0	United States	USA