| Date | 22 August 2008 — 12:35 | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Shoudu Tiyguan, Beijing | |
| Referee #1 | Osamu Sakaide | JPN |
| Referee #2 | Ibrahim Al-Naama | QAT |
| Attendance | 12,500 | |
| Details | Match Time: 2-05 Set #1 Time: 0-26 Set #2 Time: 0-26 Set #3 Time: 0-31 Set #4 Time: 0-25 Set #5 Time: 0-17 |
| Number | Competitor | NOC | Sets Won | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | United States | USA | 3 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 22 | 15 | |
| – | Russian Federation | RUS | 2 | 22 | 21 | 27 | 25 | 13 |
United States| Pos | Number | Competitor | Points | Service Points | Spike Points | Block Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lloy Ball | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Sean Rooney | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 4 | David Lee | 12 | 0 | 9 | 3 | ||||
| Libero | 5 | Rich Lambourne | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 8 | Reid Priddy | 18 | 1 | 17 | 0 | ||||
| 9 | Ryan Millar | 14 | 0 | 12 | 2 | ||||
| 10 | Riley Salmon | 13 | 0 | 13 | 0 | ||||
| 12 | Tom Hoff | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 13 | Clay Stanley | 19 | 7 | 11 | 1 | ||||
| Team Totals | 112 | – | – | – | |||||
| Coach | Hugh McCutcheon | ||||||||
Russian Federation| Pos | Number | Competitor | Points | Service Points | Spike Points | Block Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aleksandr Korneyev | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 2 | Semyon Poltavsky | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 3 | Aleksandr Kosaryev | 16 | 0 | 14 | 2 | ||||
| 6 | Sergey Grankin | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 8 | Sergey Tetyukhin | 8 | 1 | 7 | 0 | ||||
| 10 | Yury Berezhko | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 15 | Aleksandr Volkov | 14 | 1 | 9 | 4 | ||||
| Libero | 16 | Aleksey Verbov | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 17 | Maksim Mikhaylov | 31 | 1 | 28 | 2 | ||||
| 18 | Aleksey Kuleshov | 9 | 0 | 6 | 3 | ||||
| Team Totals | 108 | – | – | – | |||||
| Coach | Anvyar Iskakov | ||||||||