| Date | 10 August 2008 — 12:10 | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Beijing Ligong Daxue Tiyuguan, Beijing | |
| Referee #1 | Humberto Salas |  MEX |
| Referee #2 | Víctor Rodríguez |  PUR |
| Attendance | 3,000 | |
| Details | Match Time: 1-34 Set #1 Time: 0-22 Set #2 Time: 0-23 Set #3 Time: 0-27 Set #4 Time: 0-22 |
| Number | Competitor | NOC | Sets Won | Sets Won | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | Italy |  ITA | 3 | 3 | 25 | 25 | 23 | 25 | |
| – | Japan |  JPN | 1 | 1 | 19 | 18 | 25 | 17 |
Italy| Pos | Number | Competitor | Points | Service Points | Spike Points | Block Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luigi Mastrangelo | 13 | 1 | 7 | 5 | ||||
| 5 | Valerio Vermiglio | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||||
| 7 | Alessandro Paparoni | 9 | 0 | 6 | 3 | ||||
| 8 | Alberto Cisolla | 14 | 1 | 12 | 1 | ||||
| Libero | 12 | Mirko Corsano | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 14 | Alessandro Fei | 19 | 0 | 19 | 0 | ||||
| 15 | Emanuele Birarelli | 15 | 1 | 11 | 3 | ||||
| Team Totals | 98 | – | – | – | |||||
| Coach | Andrea Anastasi | ||||||||
Japan| Pos | Number | Competitor | Points | Service Points | Spike Points | Block Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobuharu Saito | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 5 | Daisuke Usami | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 7 | Takahiro Yamamoto | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | ||||
| 8 | Masaji Ogino | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 11 | Yoshihiko Matsumoto | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| 12 | Kota Yamamura | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | ||||
| 13 | Kunihiro Shimizu | 11 | 1 | 10 | 0 | ||||
| 14 | Tatsuya Fukuzawa | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Libero | 15 | Katsutoshi Tsumagari | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 16 | Yusuke Ishijima | 8 | 1 | 7 | 0 | ||||
| 17 | Yu Koshikawa | 13 | 0 | 13 | 0 | ||||
| 18 | Kosuke Tomonaga | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Team Totals | 79 | – | – | – | |||||
| Coach | Tatsuya Ueta | ||||||||
