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Volleyball, Men

Date24 July – 7 August 2021
StatusOlympic
LocationAriake Arena, 1 Chome-11-1 Ariake, Koto City, Tokyo, Japan
Participants143 from 12 countries
FormatRound-robin pools advanced teams to classification matches.

Twelve teams took part in the Olympic volleyball tournament including Brazil, the only team to have competed at all fifteen previous Olympic volleyball tournaments. Ten out of 12 teams were at the very top of the ratings of the International Volleyball Federation, but the very strong teams of Serbia and Slovenia did not get to the Olympics. Tunisia (19th) and Venezuela (48th place) played instead, as it was necessary to ensure the principle that each continent would have a participant in the tournament. The last two World Championships were won by the team of Poland, and second place was taken by Brazil. These two teams were the favorites at the Tokyo Olympic Games.

In the first round, the Polish team surprisingly lost to Iran with a score of 2-3 but, despite this, Poland took first place in Group A and justified their status as the favorite. As a result, the teams of Iran and Venezuela were rather predictably eliminated from this group. In group B, quite unexpectedly, first place was taken by the team of the Russian Olympic Committee, with second place captured by Brazil. In the penultimate round of the preliminary round, the ROC team lost to the French team and allowed them to take fourth place. The US team, which performed very poorly at this stage of the competition, sensationally failed to progress to the quarterfinals along with Tunisia. The Americans, who qualified for Tokyo whilst ranked second in the world, only finished fifth in their group.

The next stage of the competition confirmed the strength of Group B, as none of the teams from Group A made it to the semifinals. Thus, the big four of Argentina, Brazil, France and the Russian Olympic Committee were formed. In this final quartet, the Brazilian team, the champion of the Olympic Games in Rio, was considered the favorite, the team having won medals during the last four Olympics. But then came a sensation: first Brazil lost to ROC and then, in the match for the bronze medal, to Argentina. For the first time in the last five Olympics, a strong Brazilian team left empty-handed.

The surprises only continued. The title was taken by the French team, which defeated the ROC national team in a very closely contested match that was decided by a tie-break set. France had taken part in the Olympic Games on five occasions without rising above the eighth place. Third place was taken by the Argentine team. This was only the second medal success of this country at the Olympic Games, after winning a bronze medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

PosTeamNOC
1FranceFRAGold
Middle BlockerBarthélémy Chinenyeze
LiberoJénia Grebennikov
OppositeJean Patry
SetterBenjamin Toniutti
Outside HitterKévin Tillie
Outside HitterEarvin Ngapeth
SetterAntoine Brizard
OppositeStéphen Boyer
Middle BlockerNicolas Le Goff
Middle BlockerDaryl Bultor
Outside HitterTrévor Clévenot
Outside HitterYacine Louati
CoachLaurent Tillie
2ROCROCSilver
Outside HitterYaroslav Podlesnykh
Middle BlockerArtyom Volvich
Outside HitterDmitry Volkov
Middle BlockerIvan Yakovlev
Outside HitterDenis Bogdan
SetterPavel Pankov
OppositeViktor Poletayev
OppositeMaksim Mikhaylov
Outside HitterYegor Klyuka
Middle BlockerIlyas Kurkayev
SetterIgor Kobzar
LiberoValentin Golubev
CoachTuomas Sammelvuo
3ArgentinaARGBronze
SetterMatías Sánchez
OppositeFede Pereyra
Outside HitterCristian Poglajen
Outside HitterFacundo Conte
Middle BlockerAgustín Loser
LiberoSanti Danani
Middle BlockerSebastián Solé
OppositeBruno Lima
Outside HitterEzequiel Palacios
SetterLuciano De Cecco
Middle BlockerMartín Ramos
Outside HitterNicolás Méndez DNS
CoachMarcelo Méndez
4BrazilBRA
SetterBruno Rezende
Outside HitterMaurício Borges
Setter Fernando Cachopa
OppositeWallace Souza
Outside HitterYoandy Leal
Middle BlockerIsac Viana
Middle BlockerMaurício Souza
Outside HitterDouglas Souza
Middle Blocker Lucão
LiberoThales Hoss
Outside HitterRicardo Lucarelli
OppositeAlan Souza
Coach Renan
5PolandPOL
Middle BlockerPiotr Nowakowski
OppositeŁukasz Kaczmarek
OppositeBartosz Kurek
Outside HitterWilfredo León
SetterFabian Drzyzga
SetterGrzegorz Łomacz
Outside HitterMichał Kubiak
Outside HitterAleksander Śliwka
Middle BlockerJakub Kochanowski
Outside HitterKamil Semeniuk
LiberoPaweł Zatorski
Middle BlockerMateusz Bieniek
CoachVital Heynen
6ItalyITA
Outside HitterJiri Kovar
OppositeLuca Vettori
Outside HitterOsmany Juantorena
SetterSimone Giannelli
Outside HitterIvan Zaytsev
Middle BlockerMatteo Piano
LiberoMassimo Colaci
Middle BlockerGianluca Galassi
SetterRiccardo Sbertoli
Middle BlockerSimone Anzani
Outside HitterAlessandro Michieletto
Outside HitterDaniele Lavia
CoachGianlorenzo Blengini
7JapanJPN
OppositeKunihiro Shimizu
Middle BlockerTaishi Onodera
SetterNaonobu Fujii
Middle BlockerAkihiro Yamauchi
OppositeYuji Nishida
SetterMasahiro Sekita
Outside HitterYuki Ishikawa
Outside HitterHaku Ri
Middle BlockerKenta Takanashi
Outside HitterTatsunori Otsuka
LiberoTomohiro Yamamoto
Outside HitterRan Takahashi
CoachKatsutoshi Tsumagari
8CanadaCAN
SetterTJ Sanders
Outside HitterGord Perrin
Outside HitterSteve Marshall
Outside HitterNick Hoag
Outside HitterStephen Maar
SetterJay Blankenau
OppositeRyan Sclater
Middle BlockerLucas Van Berkel
OppositeSharone Vernon-Evans
Middle BlockerGraham Vigrass
LiberoBlair Bann
Middle BlockerArthur Szwarc
CoachGlenn Hoag
9Islamic Republic of IranIRI
Outside HitterMilad Ebadipour
SetterSaeid Marouf
Middle BlockerMohammad Mousavi
Middle BlockerMasoud Gholami
OppositeAmir Ghafour
OppositeSaber Kazemi
Outside HitterMorteza Sharifi
Middle BlockerAliasghar Mojarad
Outside HitterMeisam Salehi
LiberoMahdi Marandi
Outside HitterArman Salehi
SetterJavad Karimi
CoachVladimir Alekno
10United StatesUSA
OppositeMatt Anderson
Outside HitterTaylor Sander
OppositeKyle Ensing
Middle BlockerMitch Stahl
SetterKawika Shoji
Outside HitterTJ DeFalco
SetterMicah Christenson
Middle BlockerMax Holt
Outside HitterTom Jaeschke
Outside HitterGarrett Muagututia
Middle BlockerDavid Smith
LiberoErik Shoji
CoachJohn Speraw
11TunisiaTUN
Middle BlockerAhmed Kadhi
SetterKhaled Ben Slimene
Outside HitterMohamed Ali Ben Othmen Miladi
Outside HitterElyes Karamosly
Middle BlockerOmar Agrebi
OppositeHamza Nagga
Outside HitterIsmail Moalla
SetterMehdi Ben Cheikh
Middle BlockerSelim Mbareki
OppositeWassim Ben Tara
Outside HitterAymen Bouguerra
LiberoSaddem Hmissi
CoachAntonio Giacobbe
12VenezuelaVEN
SetterArmando Velázquez
Outside HitterFernando González
LiberoHéctor Mata
OppositeEmerson Rodríguez
Middle BlockerRobert Oramas
Middle BlockerEdson Valencia
SetterJosé Carrasco
Middle BlockerJosé Verdi
Outside HitterEliécer Canelo
OppositeLuis Arias
Outside HitterRonald Fayola
Outside HitterWillner Rivas
CoachRonald Sarti

Preliminary Round

Date24 July – 1 August 2021
FormatRound-robin pools.

Group A

Date24 July – 1 August 2021
FormatRound-robin pool. Top four in each pool advanced to quarter-finals.
PosCompetitorsNOCWinsLossesPointsSetsSet RatioPointsPoints Ratio
1PolandPOL411314-43.500435-3651.192
2ItalyITA411112-71.714447-4111.088
3JapanJPN32810-91.111437-4331.009
4CanadaCAN2379-91.000396-3871.023
5Islamic Republic of IranIRI2369-110.818453-4600.985
6VenezuelaVEN0501-150.067281-3930.715
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #124 Jul 9:00ItalyITA26-28, 18-25, 25-21, 25-18, 15-11CanadaCAN
Match #224 Jul 16:25JapanJPN25-21, 25-20, 25-15VenezuelaVEN
Match #324 Jul 19:40Islamic Republic of IranIRI18-25, 25-22, 25-22, 22-25, 23-21PolandPOL
Match #426 Jul 9:00Islamic Republic of IranIRI25-17, 25-20, 25-18VenezuelaVEN
Match #526 Jul 14:20PolandPOL25-20, 26-24, 25-20ItalyITA
Match #626 Jul 19:40JapanJPN23-25, 25-23, 25-23, 25-20CanadaCAN
Match #728 Jul 9:00CanadaCAN25-16, 25-20, 25-22Islamic Republic of IranIRI
Match #828 Jul 16:25PolandPOL25-16, 25-13, 18-25, 25-15VenezuelaVEN
Match #928 Jul 19:40ItalyITA25-20, 25-17, 23-25, 25-21JapanJPN
Match #1030 Jul 9:00CanadaCAN25-13, 25-22, 25-12VenezuelaVEN
Match #1130 Jul 14:20PolandPOL25-22, 25-21, 26-24JapanJPN
Match #1230 Jul 19:40ItalyITA30-28, 25-21, 21-25, 25-21Islamic Republic of IranIRI
Match #1301 Aug 9:00PolandPOL25-15, 25-21, 25-16CanadaCAN
Match #1401 Aug 16:25ItalyITA25-22, 25-15, 25-17VenezuelaVEN
Match #1501 Aug 19:40JapanJPN25-21, 20-25, 29-31, 25-22, 15-13Islamic Republic of IranIRI

Group B

Date24 July – 1 August 2021
FormatRound-robin pool. Top four in each pool advanced to quarter-finals.
PosCompetitorsNOCWinsLossesPointsSetsSet RatioPointsPoints Ratio
1ROCROC411213-52.600427-3971.076
2BrazilBRA411012-81.500476-4501.058
3ArgentinaARG32812-101.200476-4641.026
4FranceFRA23810-101.000449-4421.016
5United StatesUSA2368-100.800432-4121.049
6TunisiaTUN0513-150.200339-4340.781
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #124 Jul 11:05BrazilBRA25-22, 25-20, 25-15TunisiaTUN
Match #224 Jul 14:20ROCROC21-25, 25-23, 25-17, 25-21ArgentinaARG
Match #324 Jul 21:45United StatesUSA25-18, 25-18, 25-22FranceFRA
Match #426 Jul 11:05ROCROC25-23, 27-25, 21-25, 25-23United StatesUSA
Match #526 Jul 16:25FranceFRA25-21, 25-11, 25-21TunisiaTUN
Match #626 Jul 21:45BrazilBRA19-25, 21-25, 25-16, 25-21, 16-14ArgentinaARG
Match #728 Jul 11:05United StatesUSA25-14, 23-25, 25-14, 25-23TunisiaTUN
Match #828 Jul 14:20ArgentinaARG23-25, 25-17, 25-20, 15-25, 15-13FranceFRA
Match #928 Jul 21:45ROCROC25-22, 25-20, 25-20BrazilBRA
Match #1030 Jul 11:05BrazilBRA30-32, 25-23, 25-21, 25-20United StatesUSA
Match #1130 Jul 16:25ArgentinaARG23-25, 23-25, 25-19, 25-18, 15-8TunisiaTUN
Match #1230 Jul 21:45FranceFRA25-21, 20-25, 25-17, 25-20ROCROC
Match #1301 Aug 11:05BrazilBRA25-22, 37-39, 25-17, 21-25, 20-18FranceFRA
Match #1401 Aug 14:20ROCROC25-20, 25-22, 25-16TunisiaTUN
Match #1501 Aug 21:45ArgentinaARG25-21, 25-23, 25-23United StatesUSA

Quarter-Finals

Date3 August 2021
FormatWinner of each match advanced to semi-finals.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #103 Aug 9:00ROCROC25-21, 30-28, 25-22CanadaCAN
Match #203 Aug 13:00BrazilBRA25-20, 25-22, 25-20JapanJPN
Match #303 Aug 17:00ArgentinaARG21-25, 25-23, 25-22, 14-25, 15-12ItalyITA
Match #403 Aug 21:30FranceFRA21-25, 25-22, 21-25, 25-21, 15-9PolandPOL

Semi-Finals

Date5 August 2021
FormatWinner of each match advanced to final round.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #105 Aug 13:00ROCROC18-25, 25-21, 26-24, 25-23BrazilBRA
Match #205 Aug 21:00FranceFRA25-22, 25-19, 25-22ArgentinaARG

Final Round

Date7 August 2021
FormatMedal round.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match 1/207 Aug 21:15FranceFRA25-23, 25-17, 21-25, 21-25, 15-12ROCROC
Match 3/407 Aug 13:30ArgentinaARG25-23, 20-25, 20-25, 25-17, 15-13BrazilBRA