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Volleyball, Men

Date	17 September – 1 October 2000
Status	Olympic
Location	Sydney Entertainment Centre, Sydney, New South Wales / The Dome and Exhibition Complex, Olympic Park, Sydney, New South Wales
Participants	141 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 (Australia), World Cup (Russia, Cuba, Italy), Continental qualifiers (Egypt, Korea, United States, Brazil, Serbia & Montenegro), and qualifying tournaments (Argentina, Spain, Netherlands).

Italy was a heavy favorite, having won the last three World Championships and the European title in 1995 and 1999. But they had yet to win an Olympic gold medal. They swept thru Group B undefeated and won their quarter-final match over Australia. But in the semis, Serbia & Montenegro (Yugoslavia), runners-up at the 1998 Worlds, and bronze medalists at the 1999 Europeans, triumphed in straight sets, again denying Italy an Olympic gold medal. Serbia & Montenegro had struggled in the pools, finishing only third behind Italy and Russia, but they defeated Russia in straight sets in the final to win the gold medal. As in 1996, all the medalists came from the same pool, this time Group B.

Pos	Number	Team	NOC	Matches Played	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Set Ratio	Points	Points Ratio	Points
1	–	Yugoslavia	SCG	8	6	2	14	21-11	1.909	765-707	1.082	14	Gold
	3	Vladimir Batez		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	4	Slobodan Kovač		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	6	Slobodan Boškan		1	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	7	Đula Mešter		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	8	Vasa Mijić		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	9	Nikola Grbić		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	10	Vladimir Grbić		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	12	Andrija Gerić		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	13	Goran Vujević		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	14	Ivan Miljković		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	18	Igor Vušurović		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	15	Veljko Petković DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Zoran Gajić
2	–	Russian Federation	RUS	8	6	2	14	19-13	1.462	739-714	1.035	14	Silver
	2	Vadim Khamuttskikh		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	4	Ruslan Olikhver		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	5	Valery Goryushev		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	6	Igor Shulepov		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	7	Aleksey Kazakov		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	8	Yevgeny Mitkov		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	9	Sergey Tetyukhin		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	10	Roman Yakovlev		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	11	Konstantin Ushakov		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	15	Aleksandr Gerasimov		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	16	Ilya Savelyev		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	18	Aleksey Kuleshov		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Gennady Shipulin
3	–	Italy	ITA	8	7	1	15	21-8	2.625	725-629	1.153	15	Bronze
	1	Andrea Gardini		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	2	Marco Meoni		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	3	Pasquale Gravina		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	4	Luigi Mastrangelo		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	5	Paolo Tofoli		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	6	Samuele Papi		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	7	Andrea Sartoretti		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	8	Marco Bracci		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	10	Simone Rosalba		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	12	Mirko Corsano		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	13	Andrea Giani		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	14	Alessandro Fei		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Andrea Anastasi
4	–	Argentina	ARG	8	3	5	11	11-18	0.611	643-716	0.898	11
	1	Marcos Milinkovic		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	3	Christian Lares		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	4	Leandro Maly		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	5	Leandro Patti		1	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	6	Carlos Weber		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	7	Hugo Conte		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	8	Juan Pablo Porello		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	10	Alejandro Spajic		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	11	Jerónimo Bidegain		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	14	Sebastián Firpo		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	15	Pablo Pereira		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	17	Pablo Meana		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Carlos Getzelevich
5	–	Netherlands	NED	8	6	2	14	20-8	2.500	678-594	1.141	14
	4	Reinder Nummerdor		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	5	Guido Görtzen		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	6	Richard Schuil		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	7	Mike van de Goor		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	9	Bas van de Goor		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	10	Joost Kooistra		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	12	Peter Blangé		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	13	Martin van der Horst		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	15	Albert Cristina		1	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	17	Martijn Dieleman		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	1	Misha Latuhihin DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	11	Erik Schuil DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Toon Gerbrands
6	–	Brazil	BRA	8	6	2	14	19-9	2.111	674-606	1.112	14
	2	Marcelinho		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	3	Giovane		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	4	Kid		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	5	André Heller		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	6	Maurício		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	7	Giba		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	8	Douglas		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	10	Max		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	12	Nalbert		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	13	Gustavo		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	14	Tande		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	18	Dante		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Radames Lattari Filho
7	–	Cuba	CUB	8	4	4	12	16-13	1.231	669-595	1.124	12
	1	Leonel Marshall		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	2	Nicolás Vives		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	5	Alexeis Argilagos		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	6	Iván Ruiz		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	7	Ángel Dennis		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	8	Pavel Pimienta		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	9	Raúl Diago		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	11	Osvaldo Hernández		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	12	Ramón Gato		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	13	Alaín Roca		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	14	Ihosvany Hernández		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	16	Yosenki García		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Juan Jesús Díaz
8	–	Australia	AUS	8	2	6	10	7-19	0.368	505-621	0.813	10
	1	Dan Howard		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	2	Steve Keir		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	4	Benjamin Hardy		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	6	Nathan Jakavicius		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	8	Russell Wentworth		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	9	Dan Ronan		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	10	Spiros Marazios		7	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	11	Scott Newcomb		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	12	David Beard		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	13	Ben Loft		6	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	15	Shane Van Beest		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	17	Mark Williams		8	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Stelio De Rocco
=9	–	Spain	ESP	5	1	4	6	7-12	0.583	404-444	0.910	6
	1	Rafael Pascual		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	5	Luis Pedro Suela		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	7	Miguel Ángel Falasca		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	8	Juan Carlos Robles		1	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	9	Alexis Valido		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	10	Cosme Prenafeta		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	11	Carlos Luis Carreño		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	13	José Antonio Casilla		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	14	José Luis Moltó		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	15	Ernesto Rodríguez		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	16	Juan José Salvador		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	17	Enrique de la Fuente		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Raúl Lucio
=9	–	Republic of Korea	KOR	5	1	4	6	8-14	0.571	491-504	0.974	6
	1	Sin Jin-Sik		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	2	Hu In-Jeong		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	3	Jang Byeong-Cheol		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	5	Lee Ho		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	6	Bang Sin-Bong		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	8	Lee Byeong-Yong		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	10	Sin Seon-Ho		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	11	Park Hui-Sang		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	13	Bang Ji-Seop		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	14	Choi Tae-Ung		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	15	Lee Gyeong-Su		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	18	Kim Se-Jin		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Shin Chi-Yong
=11	–	Egypt	EGY	5	0	5	5	1-15	0.067	309-411	0.752	5
	1	Hamdy El-Safy		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	2	Ashraf Abou El-Hassan		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	3	Mohamed El-Husseini		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	4	Nehad Shehata		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	7	Sayed Khalil		1	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	8	Eslam Awad		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	10	Mahmoud Abdel Aziz		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	11	Mohamed Mouselhy		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	13	Ussama Komsan		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	14	Hany Mouselhy		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	16	Ibrahim Fathy		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	18	Ibrahim Rashwan		2	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Ibrahim Ibrahim
=11	–	United States	USA	5	0	5	5	5-15	0.333	417-478	0.872	5
	1	Lloy Ball		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	3	Mike Lambert		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	5	Erik Sullivan		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	7	John Hyden		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	9	Ryan Millar		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	10	Chip McCaw		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	12	Tom Hoff		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	13	Jeff Nygaard		3	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	14	Kevin Barnett		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	15	George Roumain		5	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	16	Dan Landry		4	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
	17	Andy Witt		1	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Doug Beal

Preliminary Round

Date	17 – 25 September 2000

Group A

Date	17 – 25 September 2000
Format	Round-robin pools.

Pos	Competitors	NOC	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Set Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	Brazil	BRA	5	0	10	15-1	15.000	415-331	1.254
2	Netherlands	NED	4	1	9	12-5	2.400	417-360	1.158
3	Cuba	CUB	3	2	8	9-7	1.286	383-335	1.143
4	Australia	AUS	2	3	7	6-10	0.600	327-374	0.874
5	Spain	ESP	1	4	6	7-12	0.583	404-444	0.910
6	Egypt	EGY	0	5	5	1-15	0.067	309-411	0.752

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	17 Sep 10:00	Pavilion 4	Spain	ESP	25-20, 25-10, 25-21	Egypt	EGY
Match #2	17 Sep 14:30		Netherlands	NED	25-22, 25-20, 25-23	Cuba	CUB
Match #3	17 Sep 20:30		Brazil	BRA	25-13, 25-14, 25-21	Australia	AUS
Match #4	19 Sep 12:00	Pavilion 4	Cuba	CUB	25-21, 25-12, 21-25, 25-20	Spain	ESP
Match #5	19 Sep 12:30		Brazil	BRA	30-28, 25-18, 25-21	Egypt	EGY
Match #6	19 Sep 18:30		Netherlands	NED	25-19, 25-17, 25-15	Australia	AUS
Match #7	21 Sep 10:00	Pavilion 4	Cuba	CUB	25-11, 25-18, 25-15	Egypt	EGY
Match #8	21 Sep 18:30		Brazil	BRA	25-20, 25-17, 27-25	Netherlands	NED
Match #9	21 Sep 20:30		Australia	AUS	23-25, 25-20, 25-23, 25-19	Spain	ESP
Match #10	23 Sep 10:00	Pavilion 4	Netherlands	NED	25-21, 25-11, 31-33, 25-20	Egypt	EGY
Match #11	23 Sep 12:30		Cuba	CUB	25-17, 25-20, 25-18	Australia	AUS
Match #12	23 Sep 20:30		Brazil	BRA	25-27, 25-14, 25-21, 25-20	Spain	ESP
Match #13	25 Sep 12:00	Pavilion 4	Netherlands	NED	25-18, 25-17, 24-26, 25-21	Spain	ESP
Match #14	25 Sep 12:30		Brazil	BRA	28-26, 30-28, 25-18	Cuba	CUB
Match #15	25 Sep 18:30		Australia	AUS	25-17, 25-23, 25-22	Egypt	EGY

Group B

Date	17 – 25 September 2000
Format	Round-robin pools.

Pos	Competitors	NOC	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Set Ratio	Points	Points Ratio
1	Italy	ITA	5	0	10	15-4	3.750	482-421	1.145
2	Russian Federation	RUS	4	1	9	13-7	1.857	465-443	1.050
3	Yugoslavia	SCG	3	2	8	12-9	1.333	489-461	1.061
4	Argentina	ARG	2	3	7	7-11	0.636	409-446	0.917
5	Republic of Korea	KOR	1	4	6	8-14	0.571	491-504	0.974
6	United States	USA	0	5	5	5-15	0.333	417-478	0.872

Match	Date/Time	Location	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	17 Sep 12:00	Pavilion 4	Italy	ITA	27-25, 25-23, 25-18	Republic of Korea	KOR
Match #2	17 Sep 12:30		Russian Federation	RUS	19-25, 25-23, 25-23, 25-20	Yugoslavia	SCG
Match #3	17 Sep 18:30		Argentina	ARG	24-26, 25-23, 25-21, 25-18	United States	USA
Match #4	19 Sep 10:00	Pavilion 4	Argentina	ARG	25-23, 17-25, 30-28, 25-21	Republic of Korea	KOR
Match #5	19 Sep 14:30		Russian Federation	RUS	25-18, 25-23, 21-25, 25-17	United States	USA
Match #6	19 Sep 20:30		Italy	ITA	25-19, 19-25, 25-22, 31-33, 22-20	Yugoslavia	SCG
Match #7	21 Sep 12:00	Pavilion 4	Yugoslavia	SCG	25-15, 25-20, 25-23	United States	USA
Match #8	21 Sep 12:30		Italy	ITA	40-38, 25-18, 25-14	Argentina	ARG
Match #9	21 Sep 14:30		Russian Federation	RUS	25-22, 22-25, 20-25, 29-27, 17-15	Republic of Korea	KOR
Match #10	23 Sep 12:00	Pavilion 4	Yugoslavia	SCG	21-25, 25-15, 25-23, 25-22	Argentina	ARG
Match #11	23 Sep 14:30		Italy	ITA	25-20, 25-20, 22-25, 25-22	Russian Federation	RUS
Match #12	23 Sep 18:30		Republic of Korea	KOR	25-20, 25-27, 26-24, 21-25, 15-13	United States	USA
Match #13	25 Sep 10:00		Russian Federation	RUS	25-23, 25-15, 25-20	Argentina	ARG
Match #14	25 Sep 14:30		Yugoslavia	SCG	24-26, 25-20, 25-23, 19-25, 15-8	Republic of Korea	KOR
Match #15	25 Sep 20:30		Italy	ITA	21-25, 25-18, 25-18, 25-18	United States	USA

Quarter-Finals

Date	27 September 2000
Format	Single-elimination.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	27 Sep 12:30	Argentina	ARG	17-25, 25-21, 25-19, 27-25	Brazil	BRA
Match #2	27 Sep 14:30	Yugoslavia	SCG	25-21, 18-25, 25-18, 30-32, 17-15	Netherlands	NED
Match #3	27 Sep 18:30	Russian Federation	RUS	21-25, 25-23, 25-19, 19-25, 15-13	Cuba	CUB
Match #4	27 Sep 20:30	Italy	ITA	25-14, 22-25, 25-19, 25-15	Australia	AUS

Classification Round 5-8

Date	28 September 2000
Format	Classification matches.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	28 Sep 10:00	Brazil	BRA	23-25, 17-25, 25-21, 26-24, 15-11	Cuba	CUB
Match #2	28 Sep 12:00	Netherlands	NED	25-20, 25-15, 25-21	Australia	AUS

Semi-Finals

Date	28 – 29 September 2000
Format	Single-elimination.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	29 Sep 18:30	Russian Federation	RUS	27-25, 32-30, 21-25, 25-11	Argentina	ARG
Match #2	29 Sep 20:30	Yugoslavia	SCG	27-25, 34-32, 25-14	Italy	ITA

Final Round

Date	29 September – 1 October 2000
Format	Medal round.

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match 1/2	01 Oct 14:30	Yugoslavia	SCG	25-22, 25-22, 25-20	Russian Federation	RUS
Match 3/4	01 Oct 12:30	Italy	ITA	25-16, 25-15, 25-18	Argentina	ARG
Match 5/6	29 Sep 12:30	Netherlands	NED	25-21, 25-20, 25-22	Brazil	BRA
Match 7/8	29 Sep 14:30	Cuba	CUB	25-23, 25-11, 25-15	Australia	AUS