Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Men's volleyball
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Men's volleyball; at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho
Date	7–21 August
Competitors	144 from 12 nations
Medalists
	← 2012 2020 →

Last updated October 03, 2025

The medals for the competition were presented by Shamil Tarpishchev, Russia; Habu Gumel, Nigeria; and Bernard Rajzman, Brazil; Members of the International Olympic Committee and Carlos Arthur Nuzman, Honorary member of the International Olympic Committee and President of the Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and the gifts were presented by Ary Graça, Dr. Rafael Lloreda Currea and Dr. Amr Elwani, President and Executive Vice-Presidents of the FIVB.

Competition schedule

P	Preliminary round	¼	Quarter-finals	½	Semi-finals	B	Bronze medal match	F	Final

Sun 7	Mon 8	Tue 9	Wed 10	Thu 11	Fri 12	Sat 13	Sun 14	Mon 15	Tue 16		Wed 17		Thu 18		Fri 19	Sat 20		Sun 21
P		P		P		P		P			¼				½			B	F

Qualification

Means of qualification	Date	Venue	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Country	—	—	1	Brazil
2015 World Cup	8–23 September 2015	Japan	2	United States
2015 World Cup	8–23 September 2015	Japan	2	Italy
South American Qualifier	9–11 October 2015	Maiquetía	1	Argentina
European Qualifier	5–10 January 2016	Berlin	1	Russia
African Qualifier	7–12 January 2016	Brazzaville	1	Egypt
North American Qualifier	8–10 January 2016	Edmonton	1	Cuba
Asian Qualifier *	28 May – 5 June 2016	Tokyo	1	Iran
1st World Qualifier			3	Poland
				France
				Canada
2nd World Qualifier	3–5 June 2016	Mexico City	1	Mexico
Total			12

* The Asian Qualifier was combined with the 1st World Qualifier. The best Asian team qualified as the Asian Qualifier winners, while the best three ranked teams except the Asian Qualifier winners qualified as the top three teams of the 1st World Qualifier.

Format

The preliminary round was a competition between the twelve teams, who were divided into two pools of six teams. This round, the teams competed in a single round-robin format. The four highest ranked teams in each pool advanced to the knockout stage (quarterfinals). The sixth placed teams in each pool were ranked eleventh in this competition. The fifth placed teams in each pool were ranked ninth.

The knockout stage followed the single-elimination format. The losers of the quarterfinals were eliminated and ranked fifth. The quarterfinal winners played in the semifinals. The winners of the semifinals competed for gold medal and the losers played for bronze medal.

Pools composition

Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of October 2015.^[3] FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 1st. The pools were confirmed on 6 June 2016.^[4]

Pool A	Pool B
Brazil (Hosts)	Poland (2)
Italy (4)	Russia (3)
United States (5)	Argentina (6)
Canada (10)	Iran (8)
France (10)	Cuba (15)
Mexico (24)	Egypt (17)

Rosters

Venue

All matches
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ginásio do Maracanãzinho
Capacity: 11,800

Pool standing procedure

In order to establish the ranking of teams after the group stage, the following criteria should be implemented:^[5]

Number of matches won
Match points
Sets ratio
Points ratio
Result of the last match between the tied teams

Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser

Referees

The following referees were selected for the tournament.^[6]

Hernán Casamiquela
Arturo Di Giacomo
Rogerio Espicalsky
Paulo Turci
Liu Jiang
Denny Cespedes
Nasr Shaaban
Heike Kraft
Mohammad Shahmiri
Fabrizio Pasquali
Luis Macias
Piotr Dudek
Ibrahim Al-Naama
Andrey Zenovich
Vladimir Simonović
Juraj Mokrý
Kang Joo-hee
Susana Rodríguez
Taoufik Boudaya
Patricia Rolf

Preliminary round

All times are Brasília Time (UTC−03:00).
The top four teams in each pool qualified for the quarterfinals.

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Italy	5	4	1	12	13	5	2.600	432	375	1.152	Quarterfinals
2	Canada	5	3	2	9	10	7	1.429	378	378	1.000
3	United States	5	3	2	9	10	8	1.250	419	405	1.035
4	Brazil (H)	5	3	2	9	11	9	1.222	467	442	1.057
5	France	5	2	3	6	8	9	0.889	386	367	1.052
6	Mexico	5	0	5	0	1	15	0.067	283	398	0.711

Source: FIVB
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Host

7 August 2016 (2016-08-07) 09:30	Italy	3–0	France	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 4,456 Referees: Hernán Casamiquela (ARG), Denny Cespedes (DOM)
	(25–20, 25–20, 25–15) Results Statistics

7 August 2016 (2016-08-07) 11:35	Brazil	3–1	Mexico	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,686 Referees: Nasr Shaaban (EGY), Arturo Di Giacomo (BEL)
	(23–25, 25–19, 25–14, 25–18) Results Statistics

7 August 2016 (2016-08-07) 17:05	United States	0–3	Canada	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,875 Referees: Andrey Zenovich (RUS), Mohammad Shahmiri (IRI)
	(23–25, 17–25, 23–25) Results Statistics

9 August 2016 (2016-08-09) 11:55	France	3–0	Mexico	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,625 Referees: Liu Jiang (CHN), Taoufik Boudaya (TUN)
	(25–18, 25–12, 25–22) Results Statistics

9 August 2016 (2016-08-09) 15:00	Italy	3–1	United States	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,494 Referees: Vladimir Simonović (SRB), Andrey Zenovich (RUS)
	(28–26, 20–25, 25–23, 25–23) Results Statistics

9 August 2016 (2016-08-09) 22:35	Brazil	3–1	Canada	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,749 Referees: Luis Macias (MEX), Piotr Dudek (POL)
	(24–26, 25–18, 25–22, 25–17) Results Statistics

11 August 2016 (2016-08-11) 17:05	Canada	0–3	France	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,498 Referees: Andrey Zenovich (RUS), Nasr Shaaban (EGY)
	(19–25, 16–25, 19–25) Results Statistics

11 August 2016 (2016-08-11) 20:30	Italy	3–0	Mexico	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 5,472 Referees: Arturo Di Giacomo (BEL), Piotr Dudek (POL)
	(25–17, 25–13, 25–17) Results Statistics

11 August 2016 (2016-08-11) 22:35	Brazil	1–3	United States	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,779 Referees: Liu Jiang (CHN), Vladimir Simonović (SRB)
	(20–25, 23–25, 25–20, 20–25) Results Statistics

13 August 2016 (2016-08-13) 17:25	United States	3–1	France	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,877 Referees: Arturo Di Giacomo (BEL), Luis Macias (MEX)
	(25–22, 25–22, 14–25, 25–22) Results Statistics

13 August 2016 (2016-08-13) 20:30	Canada	3–0	Mexico	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 5,624 Referees: Hernán Casamiquela (ARG), Taoufik Boudaya (TUN)
	(25–20, 25–13, 25–22) Results Statistics

13 August 2016 (2016-08-13) 22:35	Brazil	1–3	Italy	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,892 Referees: Piotr Dudek (POL), Nasr Shaaban (EGY)
	(25–23, 23–25, 22–25, 15–25) Results Statistics

15 August 2016 (2016-08-15) 11:35	United States	3–0	Mexico	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,963 Referees: Mohammad Shahmiri (IRI), Piotr Dudek (POL)
	(25–23, 25–11, 25–19) Results Statistics

15 August 2016 (2016-08-15) 20:30	Italy	1–3	Canada	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,109 Referees: Andrey Zenovich (RUS), Hernán Casamiquela (ARG)
	(23–25, 17–25, 25–16, 21–25) Results Statistics

15 August 2016 (2016-08-15) 22:45	Brazil	3–1	France	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 9,800 Referees: Juraj Mokrý (SVK), Nasr Shaaban (EGY)
	(25–22, 22–25, 25–20, 25–23) Results Statistics

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Argentina	5	4	1	12	12	4	3.000	394	335	1.176	Quarterfinals
2	Poland	5	4	1	12	14	5	2.800	447	389	1.149
3	Russia	5	4	1	11	13	6	2.167	432	367	1.177
4	Iran	5	2	3	7	8	9	0.889	389	392	0.992
5	Egypt	5	1	4	3	3	12	0.250	286	362	0.790
6	Cuba	5	0	5	0	1	15	0.067	300	403	0.744

Source: FIVB
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

7 August 2016 (2016-08-07) 15:00	Poland	3–0	Egypt	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 5,658 Referees: Juraj Mokrý (SVK), Susana Rodríguez (ESP)
	(25–18, 25–20, 25–17) Results Statistics

7 August 2016 (2016-08-07) 20:30	Russia	3–1	Cuba	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,287 Referees: Vladimir Simonović (SRB), Rogerio Espicalsky (BRA)
	(25–17, 25–19, 22–25, 25–18) Results Statistics

7 August 2016 (2016-08-07) 22:35	Argentina	3–0	Iran	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,460 Referees: Fabrizio Pasquali (ITA), Liu Jiang (CHN)
	(25–23, 26–24, 25–18) Results Statistics

9 August 2016 (2016-08-09) 09:30	Russia	1–3	Argentina	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,165 Referees: Arturo di Giacomo (BEL), Heike Kraft (GER)
	(18–25, 25–18, 18–25, 21–25) Results Statistics

9 August 2016 (2016-08-09) 17:35	Poland	3–2	Iran	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,227 Referees: Paulo Turci (BRA), Susana Rodríguez (ESP)
	(25–17, 25–23, 23–25, 20–25, 18–16) Results Statistics

9 August 2016 (2016-08-09) 20:30	Cuba	0–3	Egypt	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 5,016 Referees: Rogerio Espicalsky (BRA), Denny Cespedes (DOM)
	(22–25, 15–25, 22–25) Results Statistics

11 August 2016 (2016-08-11) 09:30	Iran	3–0	Cuba	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,625 Referees: Fabrizio Pasquali (ITA), Juray Mokrý (SVK)
	(25–21, 31–29, 25–16) Results Statistics

11 August 2016 (2016-08-11) 11:35	Russia	3–0	Egypt	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,665 Referees: Paulo Turci (BRA), Ibrahim Al-Naama (QAT)
	(25–11, 25–17, 25–9) Results Statistics

11 August 2016 (2016-08-11) 15:00	Poland	3–0	Argentina	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,972 Referees: Denny Cespedes (DOM), Rogerio Espicalsky (BRA)
	(25–21, 25–19, 37–35) Results Statistics

13 August 2016 (2016-08-13) 09:30	Iran	3–0	Egypt	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,262 Referees: Andrey Zenovich (RUS), Rogerio Espicalsky (BRA)
	(28–26, 25–22, 25–16) Results Statistics

13 August 2016 (2016-08-13) 11:35	Argentina	3–0	Cuba	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,428 Referees: Paulo Turci (BRA), Vladimir Simonović (SRB)
	(25–16, 25–14, 25–16) Results Statistics

13 August 2016 (2016-08-13) 15:00	Poland	2–3	Russia	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,239 Referees: Fabrizio Pasquali (ITA), Juraj Mokrý (SVK)
	(18–25, 25–16, 18–25, 25–22, 13–15) Results Statistics

15 August 2016 (2016-08-15) 09:30	Argentina	3–0	Egypt	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,175 Referees: Luis Macias (MEX), Arturo Di Giacomo (BEL)
	(25–16, 25–19, 25–20) Results Statistics

15 August 2016 (2016-08-15) 15:00	Russia	3–0	Iran	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,387 Referees: Liu Jiang (CHN), Fabrizio Pasquali (ITA)
	(25–23, 25–16, 25–20) Results Statistics

15 August 2016 (2016-08-15) 17:05	Poland	3–0	Cuba	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,175 Referees: Vladimir Simonović (SRB), Ibrahim Al-Naama (QAT)
	(25–18, 25–15, 25–17) Results Statistics

Knockout stage

All times are Brasília Time (UTC−03:00).
The first ranked teams of both pools played against the fourth ranked teams of the other pool. The second ranked teams faced the second or third ranked teams of the other pool, determined by drawing of lots. The drawing of lots was held after the last match in the preliminary round.

Bracket

Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Gold medal match

17 August

Italy	3
		19 August
Iran	0
		Italy	3
17 August
		United States	2
United States	3
				21 August
Poland	0
				Italy	0
17 August
				Brazil	3
Canada	0
		19 August
Russia	3
		Russia	0
17 August
		Brazil	3	Bronze medal match
Brazil	3
				21 August
Argentina	1
				United States	3

				Russia	2

Quarterfinals

17 August 2016 (2016-08-17) 10:00	Canada	0–3	Russia	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,291 Referees: Arturo Di Giacomo (BEL), Mohammad Shahmiri (IRI)
	(15–25, 20–25, 18–25) Results Statistics

17 August 2016 (2016-08-17) 14:00	United States	3–0	Poland	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,278 Referees: Fabrizio Pasquali (ITA), Andrey Zenovich (RUS)
	(25–23, 25–22, 25–20) Results Statistics

17 August 2016 (2016-08-17) 18:00	Italy	3–0	Iran	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 7,213 Referees: Denny Cespedes (DOM), Juraj Mokrý (SVK)
	(31–29, 25–19, 25–17) Results Statistics

17 August 2016 (2016-08-17) 22:15	Brazil	3–1	Argentina	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 9,498 Referees: Vladimir Simonović (SRB), Piotr Dudek (POL)
	(25–22, 17–25, 25–19, 25–23) Results Statistics

Semifinals

19 August 2016 (2016-08-19) 13:00	Italy	3–2	United States	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 8,153 Referees: Arturo Di Giacomo (BEL), Hernán Casamiquela (ARG)
	(30–28, 26–28, 9–25, 25–22, 15–9) Results Statistics

19 August 2016 (2016-08-19) 22:15	Russia	0–3	Brazil	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 9,784 Referees: Juraj Mokrý (SVK), Vladimir Simonović (SRB)
	(21–25, 20–25, 17–25) Results Statistics

Bronze medal match

21 August 2016 (2016-08-21) 09:30	United States	3–2	Russia	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 6,976 Referees: Fabrizio Pasquali (ITA), Liu Jiang (CHN)
	(23–25, 21–25, 25–19, 25–19, 15–13) Results Statistics

Gold medal match

21 August 2016 (2016-08-21) 13:15	Italy	0–3	Brazil	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro Attendance: 9,824 Referees: Andrey Zenovich (RUS), Denny Cespedes (DOM)
	(22–25, 26–28, 24–26) Results Statistics

Final standing

Rank^[7]	Team
	Brazil
	Italy
	United States
4	Russia
5	Iran
	Poland
	Canada
	Argentina
9	Egypt
9	France
11	Cuba
11	Mexico

2016 Men's Olympic champions
Brazil 3rd title

12–man roster

Bruno (c), Éder, Wallace, William, Sérgio (L), Lipe, M. Souza, Douglas, Lucas, Evandro, Lucarelli, Maurício

Head coach

Bernardinho

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Brazil (BRA) Bruno Rezende (c) Éder Carbonera Wallace de Souza William Arjona Sérgio Santos (L) Luiz Felipe Fonteles Maurício Souza Douglas Souza Lucas Saatkamp Evandro Guerra Ricardo Lucarelli Maurício Borges Silva Head coach: Bernardinho	Italy (ITA) Daniele Sottile Luca Vettori Osmany Juantorena Simone Giannelli Salvatore Rossini Ivan Zaytsev Filippo Lanza Simone Buti Massimo Colaci (L) Matteo Piano Emanuele Birarelli (c) Oleg Antonov Head coach: Gianlorenzo Blengini	United States (USA) Matthew Anderson Aaron Russell Taylor Sander David Lee (c) Kawika Shoji Reid Priddy Murphy Troy Thomas Jaeschke Micah Christenson Maxwell Holt David Smith Erik Shoji (L) Head coach: John Speraw

Awards

Most valuable player
Sérgio Santos
Best setter
Bruno Rezende
Best outside spikers
Aaron Russell
Ricardo Lucarelli
Best middle blockers
Artem Volvich
Emanuele Birarelli
Best opposite spiker
Wallace de Souza
Best libero
Sérgio Santos

Statistics leaders

Only players whose teams advanced to the semifinals were ranked.

Best Scorers

Rank	Name	Points
1	Wallace de Souza	147
2	Matthew Anderson	128
3	Ivan Zaytsev	127
4	Osmany Juantorena	116
5	Aaron Russell	107

Best Spikers

Rank	Name	%Eff
1	Maksim Mikhaylov	38.41
2	Wallace de Souza	36.59
3	Aaron Russell	33.50
4	Ricardo Lucarelli	32.92
5	Egor Kliuka	32.74

Best Blockers

Rank	Name	Avg
1	Artem Volvich	0.90
2	Maxwell Holt	0.65
3	David Lee	0.55
3	Emanuele Birarelli	0.55
5	Maksim Mikhaylov	0.50

Best Servers

Rank	Name	Avg
1	Ivan Zaytsev	0.48
2	Maxwell Holt	0.39
3	Taylor Sander	0.35
4	Matthew Anderson	0.32
5	Ricardo Lucarelli	0.30
5	Sergei Tetyukhin	0.30

Best Diggers

Rank	Name	Avg
1	Erik Shoji	1.81
2	Massimo Colaci	1.55
3	Osmany Juantorena	1.45
4	Sérgio Santos	1.33
5	Aleksey Verbov	1.20

Best Setters

Rank	Name	Avg
1	Micah Christenson	10.97
2	Simone Giannelli	10.79
3	Bruno Rezende	10.50
4	Sergey Grankin	8.77
5	Igor Kobzar	1.73

Best Receivers

Rank	Name	%Succ
1	Taylor Sander	48.80
2	Erik Shoji	45.18
3	Massimo Colaci	42.04
4	Sérgio Santos	41.84
5	Filippo Lanza	40.76

Source: FIVB.com

References

↑ "Brazil make triumphant return to the top of the podium". FIVB. 21 August 2016.
↑ "USA grab men's bronze with fantastic comeback". FIVB. 21 August 2016.
↑ "FIVB Senior World Ranking - Men (as of October 2015)". FIVB. October 2015. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
↑ "Men's Olympic Games pools confirmed". FIVB. 6 June 2016.
↑ "Pools Ranking Criteria". FIVB . Retrieved 29 June 2016.
↑ "Volleyball List of Referees". FIVB . Retrieved 29 June 2016.
↑ Rio 2016 volleyball men Results, olympics.com

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[1] "Brazil make triumphant return to the top of the podium". FIVB. 21 August 2016.

[2] "USA grab men's bronze with fantastic comeback". FIVB. 21 August 2016.

[3] "FIVB Senior World Ranking - Men (as of October 2015)". FIVB. October 2015. Retrieved 2 June 2016.

[4] "Men's Olympic Games pools confirmed". FIVB. 6 June 2016.

[5] "Pools Ranking Criteria". FIVB . Retrieved 29 June 2016.

[6] "Volleyball List of Referees". FIVB . Retrieved 29 June 2016.

[7] Rio 2016 volleyball men Results, olympics.com

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