| | Event type

Volleyball, Men

Date	15 – 29 August 2004
Status	Olympic
Location	Stadio Eirinis kai Filias (SEF), Olympiako Syngrotima Papaliakis Zonis Falirou, Faliro
Participants	143 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 (Greece), World Cup (Brazil, Italy, Serbia & Montenegro), Continental qualifiers (Russia, United States, Argentina, Tunisia), and qualification tournaments (Netherlands, France, Australia, Poland).

Brazil was heavily favored, having won every major international tournament since 2002, including the 2002 World Championships. They led Group B, losing only to the United States, and even that occurred after they had clinched the group victory. In a re-match in the semi-finals, Brazil easily handled the Americans, winning in three sets, 25-16, 25-17, 25-23. Italy had been the best team in the world in the late 90s, but had never managed an Olympic gold, despite winning three straight world titles. They were European Champions in 2003 and made it to the final against Brazil in Athina. It was considered a dream final – the World Champion against the European Champion. The teams split the first two sets, but Brazil won relatively easily after that, taking the gold medal in four sets. One of the their players, Mauricio Lima, had also played on their 1992 Olympics gold medal winning team. Italy was also represented by a five-time volleyball Olympian, Andrea Giani, who also played his last match in Athina. The Russians won the bronze medal after narrowly qualifying in their group (losing to both Brazil and the Netherlands), despite being silver medalists at the 2002 World Championships.

Pos	Nr	Team	NOC	W	L	Pts	Sets	Points	Games	Points	Side Outs	Service Points	Spike Points	Block Points	Serves	Spikes	Blocks	Digs	Sets	Receptions
1		Brazil	BRA	7	1	15	22–8	734–635	–	15	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	Gold
	3	Giovane							4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	4	André Heller							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	6	Maurício							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	7	Giba							7	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	9	André Nascimento							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	10	Serginho							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	11	Anderson							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	12	Nalbert							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	13	Gustavo							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	14	Rodrigão							4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	17	Ricardinho							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	18	Dante							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Coach		Bernardinho
2		Italy	ITA	5	3	13	20–11	724–679	–	13	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	Silver
	1	Luigi Mastrangelo							7	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	5	Valerio Vermiglio							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	6	Samuele Papi							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	7	Andrea Sartoretti							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	8	Alberto Cisolla							2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	11	Ventzislav Simeonov							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	12	Damiano Pippi							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	13	Andrea Giani							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	14	Alessandro Fei							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	15	Paolo Tofoli							4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	17	Paolo Cozzi							2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	18	Matej Cernic							7	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Coach		Gianpaolo Montali
3		Russian Federation	RUS	5	3	13	17–13	685–671	–	13	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	Bronze
	1	Stanislav Dineykin							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	4	Sergey Baranov							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	5	Pavel Abramov							7	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	7	Aleksey Kazakov							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	8	Sergey Tetyukhin							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	9	Vadim Khamuttskikh							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	10	Aleksandr Kosaryev							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	11	Konstantin Ushakov							4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	12	Taras Khtey							7	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	14	Andrey Yegorchev							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	16	Aleksey Verbov							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	18	Aleksey Kuleshov							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Coach		Gennady Shipulin
4		United States	USA	4	4	12	14–16	670–685	–	12	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	1	Lloy Ball							7	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	5	Erik Sullivan							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	6	Phil Eatherton							3	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	7	Donald Suxho							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	8	Reid Priddy							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	9	Ryan Millar							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	10	Riley Salmon							7	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	11	Brook Billings							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	12	Tom Hoff							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	13	Clay Stanley							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	14	Kevin Barnett							8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	15	Gabe Gardner							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Coach		Doug Beal
=5		Argentina	ARG	3	3	9	13–12	568–558	–	9	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	1	Marcos Milinkovic							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	2	Jorge Alberto Elgueta							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	3	Gustavo Porporatto							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	7	Diego Gutiérrez							1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	8	Hernán Ferraro							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	10	Alejandro Spajic							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	11	Jerónimo Bidegain							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	12	Pablo Peralta							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	13	Santiago Darraidou							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	15	Leandro Patti							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	17	Pablo Meana							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	18	Gastón Giani							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Coach		Alberto Armoa
=5		Greece	GRE	3	3	9	14–12	585–568	–	9	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	1	Kostas Christofidelis							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	2	Marios Gkiourdas							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	3	Akis Chatziantontiou							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	6	Vasileios Kournetas							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	7	Georgios Stefanou							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	10	Antonios Tsakiropoulos							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	11	Nikos Roumeliotis							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	14	Sotirios Pantaleon							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	15	Ilias Lappas							3	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	16	Andrei Kravarik							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	17	Kostis Proussalis							3	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	18	Tontor-Zlatko Baev							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Coach		Stylianos Prosalikas
=5		Poland	POL	3	3	9	10–12	487–496	–	9	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	1	Andrzej Stelmach							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	3	Piotr Gruszka							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	5	Paweł Zagumny							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	6	Dawid Murek							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	8	Krzysztof Ignaczak							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	11	Łukasz Kadziewicz							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	12	Radosław Rybak							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	13	Sebastian Świderski							4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	14	Piotr Gabrych							4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	16	Arkadiusz Gołaś							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	17	Michał Bąkiewicz							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	18	Robert Szczerbaniuk							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Coach		Stanisław Gościniak
=5		Serbia and Montenegro	SCG	4	2	10	13–9	530–505	–	10	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	2	Milan Vašić							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	5	Aleksandar Mitrović							4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	6	Vladan Đorđević							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	7	Đula Mešter							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	8	Vasa Mijić							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	9	Nikola Grbić							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	10	Vladimir Grbić							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	12	Andrija Gerić							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	13	Goran Vujević							6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	14	Ivan Miljković							3	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	15	Ivan Ilić							2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	17	Milan Marković							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Coach		Ljubomir Travica
=9		France	FRA	2	3	7	8–10	405–394	–	7	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	2	Hubert Henno							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	3	Dominique Daquin							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	7	Stéphane Antiga							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	8	Laurent Capet							3	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	9	Frantz Granvorka							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	10	Vincent Montmeat							4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	11	Loïc de Kergret							3	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	14	Philippe Barca-Cysique							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	15	Guillaume Samica							4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	16	Mathias Patin							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	17	Oliver Kieffer							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	18	Sébastien Frangolacci							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Coach		Philippe Blain
=9		Netherlands	NED	2	3	7	7–11	391–419	–	7	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	1	Dirk-Jan van Gendt							2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	2	Nico Freriks							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	3	Marko Klok							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	4	Reinder Nummerdor							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	5	Guido Görtzen							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	6	Richard Schuil							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	7	Mike van de Goor							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	9	Jeroen Trommel							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	12	Robert Horstink							3	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	14	Kay van Dijk							4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	17	Rob Bontje							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	18	Albert Cristina							4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Coach		Bert Goedkoop
=11		Australia	AUS	0	5	5	2–15	331–422	–	5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	1	Dan Howard							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	3	Grant Sorensen							3	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	4	Benjamin Hardy							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	5	Luke Campbell							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	7	Matthew Young							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	9	Andrew Earl							1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	10	David Beard							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	12	Travis Moran							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	13	David Ferguson							3	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	14	Zane Christensen							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	15	Shane Van Beest							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	18	Brett Alderman							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Coach		Jon Emili Uriarte
=11		Tunisia	TUN	0	5	5	4–15	373–451	–	5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	2	Mohammed Trabelsi							1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	3	Mahdi Gara							2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	4	Walid Ben Abbes							2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	7	Chaker Ghezal							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	9	Khaled Bel Aïd							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	11	Marouane Fehri							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	13	Noureddine Hfaiedh							4	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	14	Mehrez Berriri							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	15	Ghazi Guidara							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	17	Mohammed Salim Chekili							2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	18	Hosni Karamosly							5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
	5	Samir Sellami (DNS)							–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Coach		Antonio Giacobbe

Preliminary Round (15 – 23 August 2004)

Group A (15 – 23 August 2004)

Round-robin pools.

Pos	NOC	W	L	Pts	Sets	Points
1	SCG	4	1	9	12–6	427–398
2	GRE	3	2	8	12–9	475–454
3	ARG	3	2	8	12–9	471–457
4	POL	3	2	8	10–9	422–419
5	FRA	2	3	7	8–10	405–394
6	TUN	0	5	5	4–15	373–451

Match #1	15 Aug 9:00-10:22	POL	3 – 0	SCG
Match #2	15 Aug 14:00-15:20	ARG	3 – 0	FRA
Match #3	15 Aug 19:30-20:40	GRE	3 – 0	TUN
Match #4	17 Aug 9:00-10:59	ARG	3 – 2	TUN
Match #5	17 Aug 11:25-12:55	SCG	3 – 0	FRA
Match #6	17 Aug 19:30-21:18	GRE	3 – 1	POL
Match #7	19 Aug 14:00-15:19	FRA	3 – 0	POL
Match #8	19 Aug 16:00-17:10	SCG	3 – 0	TUN
Match #9	19 Aug 19:30-21:19	ARG	3 – 1	GRE
Match #10	21 Aug 14:00-15:47	POL	3 – 1	TUN
Match #11	21 Aug 16:10-17:53	SCG	3 – 1	ARG
Match #12	21 Aug 19:30-21:49	GRE	3 – 2	FRA
Match #13	23 Aug 9:00-10:39	FRA	3 – 1	TUN
Match #14	23 Aug 16:00-18:19	POL	3 – 2	ARG
Match #15	23 Aug 19:30-21:54	SCG	3 – 2	GRE

Group B (15 – 23 August 2004)

Round-robin pools.

Pos	NOC	W	L	Pts	Sets	Points
1	BRA	4	1	9	13–7	483–431
2	ITA	3	2	8	13–7	465–434
3	USA	3	2	8	11–8	437–423
4	RUS	3	2	8	11–9	452–430
5	NED	2	3	7	7–11	391–419
6	AUS	0	5	5	2–15	331–422

Match #1	15 Aug 11:00-13:03	NED	3 – 2	RUS
Match #2	15 Aug 16:00-17:43	BRA	3 – 1	AUS
Match #3	15 Aug 21:30-23:16	ITA	3 – 1	USA
Match #4	17 Aug 14:00-15:21	RUS	3 – 0	AUS
Match #5	17 Aug 16:00-17:21	USA	3 – 0	NED
Match #6	17 Aug 21:45-23:54	BRA	3 – 2	ITA
Match #7	19 Aug 9:00-10:17	ITA	3 – 0	AUS
Match #8	19 Aug 11:00-12:53	BRA	3 – 1	NED
Match #9	19 Aug 21:45-23:36	RUS	3 – 1	USA
Match #10	21 Aug 9:00-10:49	USA	3 – 1	AUS
Match #11	21 Aug 11:20-12:33	ITA	3 – 0	NED
Match #12	21 Aug 22:30-23:35	BRA	3 – 0	RUS
Match #13	23 Aug 11:15-13:15	RUS	3 – 2	ITA
Match #14	23 Aug 14:00-15:10	NED	3 – 0	AUS
Match #15	23 Aug 22:20-0:02	USA	3 – 1	BRA

Quarter-Finals (25 August 2004)

Single-elimination.

Match #1	25 Aug 14:00-16:05	RUS	3 – 1	SCG
Match #2	25 Aug 16:30-18:18	ITA	3 – 1	ARG
Match #3	25 Aug 19:30-22:00	USA	3 – 2	GRE
Match #4	25 Aug 22:25-23:54	BRA	3 – 0	POL

Semi-Finals (27 August 2004)

Single-elimination.

Match #1	27 Aug 19:30-20:40	ITA	3 – 0	RUS
Match #2	27 Aug 21:30-22:53	BRA	3 – 0	USA

Final Round (29 August 2004)

Medal round.

Match 1/2	29 Aug 14:30-16:16	BRA	3 – 1	ITA
Match 3/4	29 Aug 12:30-13:54	RUS	3 – 0	USA

Rankings

Points