Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Men's Volleyball at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Peace and Friendship Stadium
Date	15–29 August
Competitors	144 from 12 nations
Medalists
01 !  Brazil 02 !  Italy 03 !  Russia

Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Indoor
Tournament		men		women
Rosters		men		women
Beach
Tournament		men		women

Competing teams

The 2004 Men's Olympic Volleyball Tournament was the 11th edition of the event, organized by the world's governing body, the FIVB in conjunction with the IOC. It was held in Piraeus, Greece from 15 to 29 August 2004.

Qualification

Means of qualification	Date	Host	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Country	5 Sep 1997	Lausanne	1	Greece
2003 World Cup	16–30 Nov 2003	Japan	3	Brazil
				Italy
				Serbia and Montenegro
African Qualifier	5–10 Jan 2004	Tunis	1	Tunisia
European Qualifier	5–10 Jan 2004	Leipzig	1	Russia
North American Qualifier	4–10 Jan 2004	Caguas	1	United States
South American Qualifier	9–11 Jan 2004	Caracas	1	Argentina
World Qualifier 1	21–23 May 2004	Matosinhos	1	Poland
World Qualifier 2	22–30 May 2004	Tokyo	1	France
Asian Qualifier*			1	Australia
World Qualifier 3	28–30 May 2004	Madrid	1	Netherlands
Total			12

Pools composition

Teams were seeded following the Serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of January 2004. 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.

Pool A	Pool B
Greece (Hosts)	Brazil (1)
Serbia and Montenegro (3)	Italy (2)
France (4)	Russia (5)
Argentina (8)	United States (6)
Poland (9)	Netherlands (12)
Tunisia (22)	Australia (21)

Rosters

Venue

All matches
Piraeus, Greece
Peace and Friendship Stadium
Capacity: 10,520

Preliminary round

• All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00).

Pool A

		Pts	Matches		Sets			Points
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Serbia and Montenegro	9	4	1	12	6	2.000	427	398	1.073
2	Greece	8	3	2	12	9	1.333	475	454	1.046
3	Argentina	8	3	2	12	9	1.333	471	457	1.031
4	Poland	8	3	2	10	9	1.111	422	419	1.007
5	France	7	2	3	8	10	0.800	405	394	1.028
6	Tunisia	5	0	5	4	15	0.267	373	451	0.827

15 August 2004 09:00	Serbia and Montenegro	0 – 3	Poland	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 2,000 Referee(s): Bela Hobor (HUN), Luciano Gaspari (ITA) Report(s): result
	21 17 16 54	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	25 25 25 75

15 August 2004 14:00	Argentina	3 – 0	France	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 2,370 Referee(s): Ning Wang (CHN), Hiroyuki Ito (JPN) Report(s): result
	25 25 25 75	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	15 23 22 60

15 August 2004 19:30	Tunisia	0 – 3	Greece	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 8,200 Referee(s): Valdir Dellaqua (BRA), Fernando Nava (MEX) Report(s): result
	20 14 17 51	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	25 25 25 75

17 August 2004 09:00	Tunisia	2 – 3	Argentina	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 888 Referee(s): Ibrahim Al-Naama (QAT), Ryszard Dietrich (POL) Report(s): result
	20 25 16 25 10 96	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total	25 23 25 22 15 110

17 August 2004 11:25	France	0 – 3	Serbia and Montenegro	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 1,000 Referee(s): Frank Leuthaeusser (GER), Bela Hobor (HUN) Report(s): result
	21 28 22 71	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	25 30 25 80

17 August 2004 19:30	Greece	3 – 1	Poland	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 8,600 Referee(s): Luciano Gaspari (ITA), Jarmo Salonen (FIN) Report(s): result
	21 25 25 25 96	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	25 18 21 20 84

19 August 2004 14:00	Poland	0 – 3	France	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 5,230 Referee(s): Jarmo Salonen (FIN), Luciano Gaspari (ITA) Report(s): result
	15 18 17 50	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	25 25 25 75

19 August 2004 16:00	Serbia and Montenegro	3 – 0	Tunisia	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 3,430 Referee(s): Abdullah Al-Khelaifi (KSA), Valdir Dellaqua (BRA) Report(s): result
	25 25 25 75	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	16 18 21 55

19 August 2004 19:30	Argentina	3 – 1	Greece	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 9,403 Referee(s): Mahmoud Abdel Magid (EGY), Patricia Salvatore (USA) Report(s): result
	16 25 25 25 91	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	25 21 22 22 90

21 August 2004 14:00	Tunisia	1 – 3	Poland	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 4,600 Referee(s): Patricia Salvatore (USA), Ibrahim Al-Naama (QAT) Report(s): result
	18 25 19 23 85	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	25 23 25 25 98

21 August 2004 16:10	Argentina	1 – 3	Serbia and Montenegro	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 4,826 Referee(s): Fernando Nava (MEX), Ning Wang (CHN) Report(s): result
	25 17 21 23 86	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	21 25 25 25 96

21 August 2004 19:30	Greece	3 – 2	France	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 9,360 Referee(s): Umit Sokullu (TUR), Frank Leuthaeusser (GER) Report(s): result
	25 14 26 23 15 103	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total	22 25 24 25 10 106

23 August 2004 09:00	France	3 – 1	Tunisia	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 1,860 Referee(s): Francisco Medina (CUB), Fernando Nava (MEX) Report(s): result
	25 18 25 25 93	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	23 25 19 19 86

23 August 2004 16:00	Poland	3 – 2	Argentina	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 6,295 Referee(s): Kun-Tae Kim (KOR), Hiroyuki Ito (JPN) Report(s): result
	25 25 23 22 20 115	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total	19 22 25 25 18 109

23 August 2004 19:30	Serbia and Montenegro	3 – 2	Greece	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 9,415 Referee(s): Luciano Gaspari (ITA), Jarmo Salomen (FIN) Report(s): result
	21 38 25 23 15 122	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total	25 36 13 25 12 111

Pool B

		Pts	Matches		Sets			Points
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Brazil	9	4	1	13	7	1.857	483	431	1.121
2	Italy	8	3	2	13	7	1.857	465	434	1.071
3	United States	8	3	2	11	8	1.375	437	423	1.033
4	Russia	8	3	2	11	9	1.222	452	430	1.051
5	Netherlands	7	2	3	7	11	0.636	391	419	0.933
6	Australia	5	0	5	2	15	0.133	331	422	0.784

15 August 2004 11:00	Netherlands	3 – 2	Russia	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 2,060 Referee(s): Umit Sokullu (TUR), Dejan Jovanovic (SCG) Report(s): result
	25 19 17 27 18 106	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total	23 25 25 25 16 114

15 August 2004 16:00	Brazil	3 – 1	Australia	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 1,853 Referee(s): Georgios Karampetsos (GRE), Ryszard Dietrich (POL) Report(s): result
	23 25 25 25 98	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	25 19 12 21 77

15 August 2004 21:30	Italy	3 – 1	United States	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 5,630 Referee(s): Kun-Tae Kim (KOR), Juan Pereyra (ARG) Report(s): result
	25 21 25 25 96	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	21 25 17 23 86

17 August 2004 14:00	Australia	0 – 3	Russia	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 2,815 Referee(s): Fernando Nava (MEX), Mahmoud Abdel Magid (EGY) Report(s): result
	17 24 23 64	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	25 26 25 76

17 August 2004 16:00	United States	3 – 0	Netherlands	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 3,000 Referee(s): Juan Pereyra (ARG), Abdullah Al-Khelaifi (KSA) Report(s): result
	26 25 25 76	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	24 20 18 62

17 August 2004 21:45	Brazil	3 – 2	Italy	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 6,500 Referee(s): Ning Wang (CHN), Kun-Tae Kim (KOR) Report(s): result
	25 15 25 21 33 119	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total	21 25 16 25 31 118

19 August 2004 09:00	Italy	3 – 0	Australia	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 2,950 Referee(s): Ibrahim Al-Naama (QAT), Juan Pereyra (ARG) Report(s): result
	25 25 25 75	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	20 18 21 59

19 August 2004 11:00	Netherlands	1 – 3	Brazil	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 4,150 Referee(s): Fernando Nava (MEX), Francisco Medina (CUB) Report(s): result
	22 26 21 19 88	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	25 24 25 25 99

19 August 2004 21:45	Russia	3 – 1	United States	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 4,930 Referee(s): Hiroyuki Ito (JPN), Ning Wang (CHN) Report(s): result
	22 25 25 25 97	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	25 20 16 23 84

21 August 2004 09:00	Australia	1 – 3	United States	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 4,580 Referee(s): Fotios Lekkas (GRE), Ryszard Dietrich (POL) Report(s): result
	19 25 13 19 76	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	25 23 25 25 98

21 August 2004 11:20	Italy	3 – 0	Netherlands	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 6,200 Referee(s): Patrick Rachard (FRA), Bela Hobor (HUN) Report(s): result
	25 25 25 75	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	19 21 20 60

21 August 2004 22:20	Brazil	3 – 0	Russia	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 5,400 Referee(s): Hiroyuki Ito (JPN), Kun-Tae Kim (KOR) Report(s): result
	25 25 25 75	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	19 13 23 55

23 August 2004 11:15	Russia	3 – 2	Italy	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 4,134 Referee(s): Frank Leuthaeusser (GER), Patrick Rachard (FRA) Report(s): result
	25 25 22 23 15 110	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total	16 22 25 25 13 101

23 August 2004 14:00	Netherlands	3 – 0	Australia	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 4,120 Referee(s): Mahmoud Abdel Magid (EGY), Juan Pereyra (ARG) Report(s): result
	25 25 25 75	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	22 17 16 55

23 August 2004 22:20	United States	3 – 1	Brazil	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 3,150 Referee(s): Bela Hobor (HUN), Dejan Jovanovic (SCG) Report(s): result
	25 25 18 25 93	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	22 23 25 22 92

Final round

• All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00).

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Gold medal match
	25 August
	Serbia and Montenegro	1
					27 August
	Russia	3
					Russia	0
	25 August
					Italy	3
	Argentina	1
									29 August
	Italy	3
									Italy	1
	25 August
									Brazil	3
	Greece	2
					27 August
	United States	3
					United States	0			Bronze medal match
	25 August
					Brazil	3
	Poland	0							Russia	3
	Brazil	3							United States	0
									29 August

Quarterfinals

25 August 2004 14:00	Serbia and Montenegro	1 – 3	Russia	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 8,850 Referee(s): Jarmo Salonen (FIN), Frank Leuthaeusser (GER) Report(s): result
	27 25 25 26 103	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	29 23 27 28 107

25 August 2004 16:30	Argentina	1 – 3	Italy	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 8,100 Referee(s): Hiroyuki Ito (JPN), Ibrahim Al-Naama (QAT) Report(s): result
	25 22 24 26 97	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	22 25 26 28 101

25 August 2004 19:30	Greece	2 – 3	United States	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 9,300 Referee(s): Kun-Tae Kim (KOR), Juan Pereyra (ARG) Report(s): result
	20 25 27 23 15 110	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total	25 22 25 25 17 114

25 August 2004 22:25	Poland	0 – 3	Brazil	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 4,150 Referee(s): Ning Wang (CHN), Fernando Nava (MEX) Report(s): result
	22 25 18 65	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	25 27 25 77

Semifinals

27 August 2004 19:30	Russia	0 – 3	Italy	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 9,380 Referee(s): Bela Hobor (HUN), Patrick Rachard (FRA) Report(s): result
	16 17 16 49	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	25 25 25 75

27 August 2004 21:30	United States	0 – 3	Brazil	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 9,380 Referee(s): Umit Sokullu (TUR), Ryszard Dietrich (POL) Report(s): result
	16 17 23 56	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	25 25 25 75

Bronze medal match

29 August 2004 12:30	03 ! Russia	3 – 0	United States	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 7,650 Referee(s): Kun-Tae Kim (KOR), Valdir Dellaqua (BRA) Report(s): result
	25 27 25 77	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total	22 25 16 63

Gold medal match

29 August 2004 14:30	02 ! Italy	1 – 3	Brazil 01 !	Peace and Friendship Stadium Attendance: 9,350 Referee(s): Hiroyuki Ito (JPN), Ning Wang (CHN) Report(s): result
	15 26 20 22 83	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Total	25 24 25 25 99

Final standing

Rank Team 01 !  Brazil 02 !  Italy 03 !  Russia 4  United States 5  Argentina  Greece  Poland  Serbia and Montenegro 9  France  Netherlands 11  Australia  Tunisia

2004 Men's Olympic Champions  Brazil 2nd title 12–man Roster Giovane, André Heller, Maurício, Giba, André, Sérgio, Anderson, Nalbert , Gustavo, Rodrigão, Ricardo, Dante Head Coach Bernardinho

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Brazil (BRA) Giovane Gávio André Heller Maurício Lima Gilberto Godoy Filho André Nascimento Sérgio Santos Anderson Rodrigues Nalbert Bitencourt Gustavo Endres Rodrigo Santana Ricardo Garcia Dante Amaral	Italy (ITA) Luigi Mastrangelo Valerio Vermiglio Samuele Papi Andrea Sartoretti Alberto Cisolla Ventzislav Simeonov Damiano Pippi Andrea Giani Alessandro Fei Paolo Tofoli Paolo Cozzi Matej Černič	Russia (RUS) Stanislav Dineykin Sergei Baranov Pavel Abramov Aleksey Kazakov Sergey Tetyukhin Vadim Khamuttskikh Aleksandr Kosarev Konstantin Ushakov Taras Khtey Andrey Egorchev Aleksey Verbov Aleksey Kuleshov

Awards

External links

• Official website
• Final Standing
• Awards
• Results at Todor66.com
• Results at Sports123.com
• Results at Sports–Reference.com

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Brazil squad – 2004 Summer Olympics Gold medal
3 Giovane 4 André Heller 6 Maurício 7 Giba 9 André Nascimento 10 Sérgio 11 Anderson 12 Nalbert 13 Gustavo 14 Rodrigão 17 Ricardinho 18 Dante Coach: Bernardinho

Italy – 2004 Summer Olympics (Silver Medal)
1 Mastrangelo 5 Vermiglio 6 Papi 7 Sartoretti 8 Cisolla 11 Simeonov 12 Pippi 13 Giani (C) 14 Fei 15 Tofoli 17 Cozzi 18 Cernic Coach: Montali

Russia – 2004 Summer Olympics (Bronze Medal)
1 Dineykin 4 Baranov 5 Abramov 7 Kazakov 8 Tetyukhin 9 Khamuttskikh (C) 10 Kosarev 11 Ushakov 12 Khtey 14 Egorchev 16 Verbov 18 Kuleshov Coach: Shipulin

United States men's volleyball squad – 2004 Summer Olympics (4th place)
1 Ball (C) 5 Sullivan 6 Eatherton 7 Suxho 8 Priddy 9 Millar 10 Salmon 11 Billings 12 Hoff 13 Stanley 14 Barnett 15 Gardner Coach: Beal

Serbia and Montenegro – 2004 Summer Olympics (5th place)
2 Vasić 5 Mitrović 6 Đorđević 7 Mešter 8 Mijić 9 N. Grbić (C) 10 V. Grbić 12 Gerić 13 Vujević 14 Miljković 15 Ilić 17 Marković Coach: Travica

Greece – 2004 Summer Olympics (5th place)
1 Christofidelis 2 Giourdas (C) 3 Chatziantoniou 6 Kournetas 7 Stefanou 10 Tsakiropoulos 11 Roumeliotis 14 Pantaleon 15 Lappas 16 Kravárik 17 Prousalis 18 Baev Coach: Prosalikas

Argentina – 2004 Summer Olympics (5th place)
1 Milinkovic (C) 2 Elgueta 3 Porporatto 7 Gutiérrez 8 Ferraro 10 Spajic 11 Bidegain 12 Peralta 13 Darraidou 15 Patti 17 Meana 18 Giani Coach: Armoa

Poland men's volleyball team – 2004 Olympics (5th place)
1 Stelmach 3 Gruszka 5 Zagumny 6 Murek 8 Ignaczak 11 Kadziewicz 12 Rybak 13 Świderski 14 Gabrych 16 Gołaś 17 Bąkiewicz 18 Szczerbaniuk Coach: Gościniak

France – 2004 Summer Olympics (9th place)
2 Henno 3 Daquin (C) 7 Antiga 8 Capet 9 Granvorka 10 Montméat 11 De Kergret 14 Barça-Cysique 15 Samica 16 Patin 17 Kieffer 18 Frangolacci Coach: Blain

Netherlands – 2004 Summer Olympics (9th place)
1 van Gendt 2 Freriks 3 Klok 4 Numerdor (C) 5 Görtzen 6 Schuil 7 van de Goor 9 Trommel 12 Horstink 14 van Dijk 17 Bontje 18 Cristina Coach: Goedkoop

Tunisia – 2004 Summer Olympics (11th place)
2 Trabelsi 3 Gara 4 Ben Abbes 5 Sellami 7 Ghezal 9 Belaïd 11 Fehri 13 Hfaiedh (C) 14 Berriri 15 Guidara 17 Chekili 18 Karamosly Coach: Giacobbe

Australia – 2004 Summer Olympics (11th place)
1 Howard (c) 3 Sorensen 4 Hardy 5 Campbell 7 Young 9 Earl 10 Beard 12 Moran 13 Ferguson 14 Christensen 15 Van Beest 18 Alderman Coach: Uriarte