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Beach Volleyball, Women

Date	9 – 21 August 2008
Status	Olympic
Location	Chaoyang Gongyuan Shatan Paiqiu Chang, Beijing
Participants	48 from 17 countries
Format	Top 16 teams from round-robin pools advanced to the single-elimination tournament.

After winning the 2004 gold medal, Misty May and Kerri Walsh had continued their dominance of the women’s pro tour and were overwhelming favorites in Beijing. Since the 2004 Olympics both women had married, and Misty was now Misty May-Treanor, married to major league baseball player Matt Treanor. Walsh married pro beach player Casey Jennings, but was still known only as Kerri Walsh. As they had in 2004, May-Treanor/Walsh played 7 matches and 14 sets, and won them all. But in general the matches were closer than they had been in 2008. The final was played in a downpour against the Chinese pair of Tian Jia and Wang Jie, a rematch of the 2007 World Championships final. Tian and Wang led the first set at 18-17, but May-Treanor and Walsh won the last four points to prevail, 21-18. The Americans got an early lead in the second set, but the Chinese pulled back to lead 9-8. However, May-Treanor and Walsh had too much in the end and won, 21-18, 21-18. The second Chinese team of Xue Chen and Zhang Xi won the bronze medal.

Pos	Competitors	NOC	Matches Played	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Points	Service Attempts	Service Faults	Service Aces	Fastest Serve	Attack Attempts	Attack Successes	Block Successes	Opponent Errors	Dig Successes
1	United States 1	USA	7	7	0	14	14-0	297-213	291	8	15	–	339	194	28	60	54	Gold
	Misty May-Treanor		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	154	0	6	79	186	107	1	–	43
	Kerri Walsh Jennings		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	137	8	9	72	153	87	27	–	11
2	People's Republic of China 1	CHN	7	6	1	12	12-5	335-279	331	33	31	–	353	190	19	95	67	Silver
	Tian Jia		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	176	17	12	77	124	62	2	–	46
	Wang Jie		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	155	16	19	65	229	128	17	–	21
3	People's Republic of China 2	CHN	7	6	1	12	13-3	324-269	317	42	38	–	315	181	23	82	54	Bronze
	Xue Chen		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	156	22	23	67	165	86	23	–	11
	Zhang Xi		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	161	20	15	75	150	95	0	–	43
4	Brazil 1	BRA	7	5	2	10	10-6	294-294	293	36	17	–	376	198	17	62	43
	Talita		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	141	11	5	64	208	120	17	–	14
	Renata Ribeiro		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	152	25	12	75	168	78	0	–	29
=5	Australia	AUS	5	4	1	8	8-4	235-211	232	18	13	–	305	142	24	56	64
	Tamsin Barnett-Hinchley		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	115	14	8	59	124	63	22	–	12
	Natalie Cook		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	117	4	5	73	181	79	2	–	52
=5	Austria	AUT	5	3	2	6	6-5	197-205	195	26	27	–	221	115	13	42	30
	Stefanie Schwaiger		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	95	14	12	77	122	62	13	–	6
	Doris Schwaiger		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	100	12	15	72	99	53	0	–	24
=5	Brazil 2	BRA	5	3	2	6	6-6	231-213	229	31	12	–	307	143	15	61	59
	Ana Paula		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	112	9	4	80	196	85	13	–	17
	Larissa		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	117	22	8	79	111	58	2	–	42
=5	United States 2	USA	5	4	1	8	8-3	211-199	210	36	15	–	263	135	12	47	35
	Nicole Branagh		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	107	18	7	79	124	61	4	–	16
	Elaine Youngs		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	103	18	8	74	139	74	8	–	19
=9	Belgium	BEL	5	2	3	4	5-6	210-211	209	16	12	–	298	143	13	41	43
	Liesbeth Mouha		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	99	7	6	67	116	64	13	–	9
	Liesbet Van Breedam		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	110	9	6	61	182	79	0	–	34
=9	Cuba 1	CUB	4	1	3	2	3-6	162-159	165	5	5	–	211	97	11	49	39
	Imara Estévez		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	90	2	3	67	105	48	11	–	3
	Milagros Crespo		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	75	3	2	67	106	49	0	–	36
=9	Cuba 2	CUB	4	2	2	4	4-4	144-158	144	12	8	–	184	97	6	33	13
	Dalixia Fernández		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	80	5	6	55	68	34	1	–	12
	Tamara Larrea		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	64	7	2	62	116	63	5	–	1
=9	Germany 1	GER	4	2	2	4	4-4	149-157	149	6	6	–	194	90	11	42	22
	Stephanie Pohl		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	63	1	1	71	73	26	9	–	8
	Okka Rau		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	86	5	5	71	121	64	2	–	14
=9	Germany 2	GER	4	2	2	4	5-4	177-154	180	34	32	–	180	98	5	42	27
	Sara Goller		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	89	20	20	82	119	61	5	–	14
	Laura Ludwig		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	91	14	12	65	61	37	0	–	13
=9	Greece 1	GRE	4	1	3	2	4-6	180-176	179	27	8	–	201	102	21	49	17
	Thaleia Koutroumanidou		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	90	5	3	60	124	57	1	–	11
	Maria Tsiartsiani		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	89	22	5	74	77	45	20	–	6
=9	Norway 1	NOR	4	2	2	4	6-4	183-169	182	20	12	–	228	118	7	46	21
	Kathrine Maaseide		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	86	11	5	61	96	46	1	–	17
	Susanne Glesnes		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	96	9	7	57	132	72	6	–	4
=9	Norway 2	NOR	5	2	3	4	4-7	192-198	193	17	17	–	253	126	9	40	31
	Nila Håkedal		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	87	11	8	58	113	54	6	–	15
	Ingrid Tørlen		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	106	6	9	58	140	72	3	–	16
=17	Georgia	GEO	4	1	3	2	3-7	156-196	157	17	4	–	277	106	6	40	57
	Saka		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	73	8	3	71	153	61	6	–	16
	Rtvelo		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	84	9	1	75	124	45	0	–	41
=17	Mexico	MEX	4	1	3	2	4-7	169-202	171	18	13	–	214	95	13	48	12
	Bibiana Candelas		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	87	13	10	58	63	31	13	–	1
	Mayra Aide García		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	84	5	3	55	151	64	0	–	11
=19	Greece 2	GRE	3	0	3	–	1-6	125-137	127	13	8	–	161	86	3	28	27
	Vaso Karantasiou		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	71	4	4	58	49	28	2	–	17
	Viky Arvaniti		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	56	9	4	75	112	58	1	–	10
=19	Japan	JPN	3	0	3	–	0-6	88-126	91	11	5	–	139	60	1	22	11
	Mika Saiki		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	49	3	3	59	44	13	0	–	9
	Chiaki Kusuhara		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	42	8	2	75	95	47	1	–	2
=19	Netherlands	NED	3	0	3	–	0-6	107-132	109	17	6	–	153	76	2	23	20
	Rebekka Kadijk		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	57	9	4	75	99	46	0	–	14
	Merel Mooren		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	52	8	2	74	54	30	2	–	6
=19	South Africa	RSA	3	0	3	–	0-6	68-126	73	12	2	–	113	39	2	25	9
	Judith Augoustides		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	35	9	0	57	28	11	0	–	0
	Vita Nel		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	38	3	2	61	85	28	2	–	9
=19	Russian Federation	RUS	3	0	3	–	3-6	140-157	144	18	11	–	221	94	10	25	31
	Nataliya Uryadova		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	66	9	3	60	83	34	4	–	16
	Aleksandra Shiryayeva		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	78	9	8	77	138	60	6	–	15
=19	Switzerland	SUI	3	0	3	–	0-6	93-126	96	14	5	–	135	65	3	20	10
	Simone Kuhn		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	43	5	2	71	49	27	2	–	7
	Lea Schwer		–	–	–	–	–-–	–-–	53	9	3	74	86	38	1	–	3

Preliminary Round

Date	9 – 14 August 2008

Group A

Date	9 – 13 August 2008

Pos	NOC	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Points
1	CHN	3	0	6	6-2	149-126
2	NOR	2	1	4	5-2	130-121
3	BEL	1	2	2	3-4	135-134
4	SUI	0	3	0	0-6	93-126

Match	Date/Time	Location	Pair	NOC	Result	Pair	NOC
Match #1	09 Aug 9:00	Center Court	Tian / Wang	CHN	21-12, 21-18	Kuhn / Schwer	SUI
Match #2	09 Aug 11:00	Center Court	Maaseide / Glesnes	NOR	24-22, 21-18	Mouha / Van Breedam	BEL
Match #3	11 Aug 11:00	Center Court	Maaseide / Glesnes	NOR	21-11, 21-17	Kuhn / Schwer	SUI
Match #4	11 Aug 14:00	Center Court	Tian / Wang	CHN	18-21, 21-19, 15-13	Mouha / Van Breedam	BEL
Match #5	13 Aug 11:00	Center Court	Mouha / Van Breedam	BEL	21-18, 21-17	Kuhn / Schwer	SUI
Match #6	13 Aug 13:00	Center Court	Tian / Wang	CHN	17-21, 21-14, 15-8	Maaseide / Glesnes	NOR

Group B

Date	10 – 14 August 2008

Pos	NOC	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Points
1	USA	3	0	6	6-0	126-85
2	CUB	2	1	4	4-2	116-116
3	NOR	1	2	2	2-4	108-111
4	JPN	0	3	0	0-6	88-126

Match	Date/Time	Location	Pair	NOC	Result	Pair	NOC
Match #1	10 Aug 9:00	Center Court	Fernández / Larrea	CUB	22-20, 21-19	Håkedal / Tørlen	NOR
Match #2	10 Aug 14:00	Center Court	May-Treanor / Walsh Jennings	USA	21-12, 21-15	Saiki / Kusuhara	JPN
Match #3	12 Aug 9:00	Center Court	Håkedal / Tørlen	NOR	21-8, 21-18	Saiki / Kusuhara	JPN
Match #4	12 Aug 12:00	Center Court	May-Treanor / Walsh Jennings	USA	21-15, 21-16	Fernández / Larrea	CUB
Match #5	14 Aug 9:00	Center Court	Fernández / Larrea	CUB	21-18, 21-17	Saiki / Kusuhara	JPN
Match #6	14 Aug 11:00	Center Court	May-Treanor / Walsh Jennings	USA	21-12, 21-15	Håkedal / Tørlen	NOR

Group C

Date	9 – 13 August 2008

Pos	NOC	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Points
1	AUS	3	0	6	6-1	143-113
2	BRA	2	1	4	4-4	156-139
3	GEO	1	2	2	3-5	124-154
4	RUS	0	3	0	3-6	140-157

Match	Date/Time	Location	Pair	NOC	Result	Pair	NOC
Match #1	09 Aug 12:00	Center Court	Ana Paula / Larissa	BRA	23-25, 21-17, 15-5	Saka / Rtvelo	GEO
Match #2	09 Aug 20:00	Center Court	Barnett / Cook	AUS	21-8, 19-21, 15-12	Uryadova / Shiryayeva	RUS
Match #3	11 Aug 19:00	Center Court	Ana Paula / Larissa	BRA	19-21, 21-12, 15-13	Uryadova / Shiryayeva	RUS
Match #4	11 Aug 20:00	Center Court	Barnett / Cook	AUS	21-18, 21-12	Saka / Rtvelo	GEO
Match #5	13 Aug 10:00	Center Court	Barnett / Cook	AUS	23-21, 23-21	Ana Paula / Larissa	BRA
Match #6	13 Aug 12:00	Center Court	Saka / Rtvelo	GEO	10-21, 22-20, 15-12	Uryadova / Shiryayeva	RUS

Group D

Date	10 – 14 August 2008

Pos	NOC	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Points
1	CHN	3	0	6	6-1	139-105
2	GER	2	1	4	4-2	119-102
3	GRE	1	2	2	3-4	127-120
4	RSA	0	3	0	0-6	68-126

Match	Date/Time	Location	Pair	NOC	Result	Pair	NOC
Match #1	10 Aug 18:00	Center Court	Xue / Zhang	CHN	21-18, 19-21, 15-12	Koutroumanidou / Tsiartsiani	GRE
Match #2	10 Aug 19:00	Center Court	Goller / Ludwig	GER	21-12, 21-14	Augoustides / Nel	RSA
Match #3	12 Aug 11:00	Center Court	Xue / Zhang	CHN	21-14, 21-18	Goller / Ludwig	GER
Match #4	12 Aug 19:00	Center Court	Koutroumanidou / Tsiartsiani	GRE	21-12, 21-8	Augoustides / Nel	RSA
Match #5	14 Aug 10:00	Center Court	Goller / Ludwig	GER	24-22, 21-12	Koutroumanidou / Tsiartsiani	GRE
Match #6	14 Aug 14:00	Center Court	Xue / Zhang	CHN	21-13, 21-9	Augoustides / Nel	RSA

Group E

Date	9 – 13 August 2008

Pos	NOC	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Points
1	USA	3	0	6	6-1	139-129
2	GER	2	1	4	4-2	117-115
3	CUB	1	2	2	3-4	130-117
4	NED	0	3	0	0-6	107-132

Match	Date/Time	Location	Pair	NOC	Result	Pair	NOC
Match #1	09 Aug 18:00	Center Court	Pohl / Rau	GER	21-17, 21-19	Estévez / Crespo	CUB
Match #2	09 Aug 19:00	Center Court	Branagh / Youngs	USA	21-19, 27-25	Kadijk / Mooren	NED
Match #3	11 Aug 12:00	Center Court	Branagh / Youngs	USA	21-17, 21-16	Pohl / Rau	GER
Match #4	11 Aug 18:00	Center Court	Estévez / Crespo	CUB	21-11, 21-15	Kadijk / Mooren	NED
Match #5	13 Aug 22:00	Center Court	Pohl / Rau	GER	21-19, 21-18	Kadijk / Mooren	NED
Match #6	13 Aug 23:00	Center Court	Branagh / Youngs	USA	21-19, 13-21, 15-12	Estévez / Crespo	CUB

Group F

Date	10 – 14 August 2008

Pos	NOC	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Points
1	BRA	3	0	6	6-1	139-121
2	AUT	2	1	4	4-2	121-105
3	MEX	1	2	2	3-5	124-146
4	GRE	0	3	0	1-6	125-137

Match	Date/Time	Location	Pair	NOC	Result	Pair	NOC
Match #1	10 Aug 11:00	Center Court	Talita / Ribeiro	BRA	18-21, 21-16, 15-8	Candelas / García	MEX
Match #2	10 Aug 12:00	Center Court	Schwaiger / Schwaiger	AUT	21-18, 21-18	Karantasiou / Arvaniti	GRE
Match #3	12 Aug 14:00	Center Court	Talita / Ribeiro	BRA	21-18, 21-19	Schwaiger / Schwaiger	AUT
Match #4	12 Aug 20:00	Center Court	Candelas / García	MEX	21-17, 16-21, 15-12	Karantasiou / Arvaniti	GRE
Match #5	14 Aug 12:00	Center Court	Schwaiger / Schwaiger	AUT	21-17, 21-10	Candelas / García	MEX
Match #6	14 Aug 13:00	Center Court	Talita / Ribeiro	BRA	22-20, 21-19	Karantasiou / Arvaniti	GRE

Lucky Loser Round

Date	14 August 2008
Format	Winners of each match advanced to the round one.

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	14 Aug 21:00	Contingency Court	Mouha / Van Breedam	BEL	21-13, 21-19	Saka / Rtvelo	GEO
Match #2	14 Aug 21:00	Center Court	Håkedal / Tørlen	NOR	20-22, 21-12, 15-11	Candelas / García	MEX

Round One

Date	15 August 2008
Format	Winners of each match advanced to the quarter-finals.

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	15 Aug 9:00	Center Court	Ana Paula / Larissa	BRA	21-18, 21-14	Pohl / Rau	GER
Match #2	15 Aug 10:00	Center Court	Talita / Ribeiro	BRA	12-21, 21-19, 15-13	Maaseide / Glesnes	NOR
Match #3	15 Aug 11:00	Center Court	Xue / Zhang	CHN	21-19, 21-13	Estévez / Crespo	CUB
Match #4	15 Aug 12:00	Center Court	Schwaiger / Schwaiger	AUT	23-21, 11-21, 18-16	Goller / Ludwig	GER
Match #5	15 Aug 18:00	Center Court	Barnett / Cook	AUS	22-20, 19-21, 15-12	Koutroumanidou / Tsiartsiani	GRE
Match #6	15 Aug 19:00	Center Court	Tian / Wang	CHN	21-13, 21-15	Håkedal / Tørlen	NOR
Match #7	15 Aug 20:00	Center Court	Branagh / Youngs	USA	21-15, 21-13	Fernández / Larrea	CUB
Match #8	15 Aug 21:00	Center Court	May-Treanor / Walsh Jennings	USA	24-22, 21-11	Mouha / Van Breedam	BEL

Quarter-Finals

Date	17 August 2008
Format	Winners of each match advanced to the semi-finals.

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	17 Aug 10:00	Center Court	Talita / Ribeiro	BRA	24-22, 21-14	Barnett / Cook	AUS
Match #2	17 Aug 11:00	Center Court	Xue / Zhang	CHN	21-17, 21-13	Branagh / Youngs	USA
Match #3	17 Aug 20:00	Center Court	Tian / Wang	CHN	21-12, 21-12	Schwaiger / Schwaiger	AUT
Match #4	17 Aug 21:00	Center Court	May-Treanor / Walsh Jennings	USA	21-18, 21-15	Ana Paula / Larissa	BRA

Semi-Finals

Date	19 August 2008
Format	Winners of each match advanced to the final match.

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	19 Aug 9:00	Center Court	Tian / Wang	CHN	22-24, 29-27, 15-8	Xue / Zhang	CHN
Match #2	19 Aug 10:00	Center Court	May-Treanor / Walsh Jennings	USA	21-12, 21-14	Talita / Ribeiro	BRA

Final Round

Date	21 August 2008

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match 1/2	21 Aug 11:00	Center Court	May-Treanor / Walsh Jennings	USA	21-18, 21-18	Tian / Wang	CHN
Match 3/4	21 Aug 9:00	Center Court	Xue / Zhang	CHN	21-19, 21-17	Talita / Ribeiro	BRA