Volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

The women's tournament in volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held at Capital Indoor Stadium and Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium from 9 to 23 August 2008.

The twelve competing teams were split equally into two pools of six teams. Each team played all other teams in their pool with the winning team gaining two points and the losing side earning one point. The top four teams from each pool progressed through to the quarterfinals. The rest of the tournament was a single-elimination bracket, with a bronze medal match held between the two semifinal losers.

A total of 38 matches were played: 15 in each group, four quarterfinals, two semifinals, one bronze medal match, and one gold medal match.

Brazil won its first gold by defeating United States in the final.

China won bronze by winning against Cuba.

Competition schedule PPreliminary round¼Quarterfinals½SemifinalsBBronze medal matchFFinal Sat 9Sun 10Mon 11Tue 12Wed 13Thu 14Fri 15Sat 16Sun 17Mon 18Tue 19Wed 20Thu 21Fri 22Sat 23PPPPP¼ ½BF

Qualification Means of qualificationDateHostVacanciesQualifiedHost Country13 July 2001 Moscow12007 FIVB Women's World Cup2–16 November 2007 Japan3African Olympic Qualification Tournament22–26 January 2008 Blida1Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament*17–25 May 2008 Tokyo1European Olympic Qualification Tournament15–20 January 2008 Halle1North American Olympic Qualification Tournament17–22 December 2007 Monterrey1South American Olympic Qualification Tournament3–7 January 2008 Lima1World Olympic Qualification Tournament17–25 May 2008 Tokyo3Total12

* The Asian Olympic qualification tournament and the World Olympic Qualification Tournament are combined into one event. The top 3 teams at the tournament will qualify as the medallists of the World Olympic Qualification Tournament while the best Asian team outside the top 3 will qualify as the Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament champion.

Pools composition Teams were seeded following the Serpentine system according to their ranking as of January 2008.

Twelve qualified nations were drawn into two groups, each consisting of six teams. After a robin-round, the four highest-placed teams in each group advanced to a knock-out round to decide the medals.

Group A Group B (Hosts) (1) (3) (2) (4) (5) (8) (7) (9) (16) (29) (21)

Roster

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Preliminary round All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8).

Pool A

Pool B

Knockout stage The first four teams in each Preliminary Round pool advanced to the quarterfinals, eight teams in total. The format was as follows: A1 vs. B4 (first place in pool A vs. fourth place in pool B) B1 vs. A4 A drawing of lots determined the pairings among A2/A3 and B2/B3. The purpose of this drawing was to prevent a second-place team in a pool from deliberately losing the last game in pool play in order to select an "easier" opponent (in the sense of matchups) in the quarterfinals.

Based on a drawing of lots after the group stage, the United States faced and defeated Italy, while China drew and won against Russia in their quarterfinal matches. The other quarterfinal match-ups were determined by the pool standings. Brazil (pool B winner) played Japan (pool A 4th place). Cuba (pool A winner) played play Serbia (pool B 4th place). Both top seeds went on to defeat their opponents 3–0, thus reaching the semifinals.

In the semifinals, Brazil defeated the host nation and defending champion China, while the United States defeated Cuba. Both semifinal matches were won 3–0.

In the final, Brazil, for the first time in the tournament, lost a set but was able to win the next two sets from the United States to claim the match and the gold medal. In the third-place match, China defeated Cuba for the bronze medal.

Bracket

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00).

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Award ceremony

21:50, 23 August 2008

Statistics leaders Only players whose teams advanced to the quarterfinals are ranked.

Best ScorersRankNamePoints1 Logan Tom1242 Sheilla Castro1093 Rosir Calderon1064 Yumilka Ruiz1035 Tayyiba Haneef-Park102

Best SpikersRankName1 Rosir Calderon42.582 Nancy Carrillo41.133 Yumilka Ruiz40.864 Paula Pequeno 39.135 Jelena Nikolic 35.00

Best BlockersRankName1 Erika Araki0.862 Ekaterina Gamova0.84 Fabiana Claudino Paula Pequeno Sheilla Castro

Best ServersRankName1 Yanelis Santos0.612 Jovana Brakocevic0.533 Taismary Aguero0.484 Marianne Steinbrecher0.405 Erika Araki0.38

Best DiggersRankName1 Paola Cardullo3.382 Yuko Sano3.293 Fabiana de Oliveira3.244 Suzana Cebic3.215 Nicole Davis2.88

Best SettersRankName1 Fofão7.282 Maja Ognjenovic6.583 Yoshie Takeshita6.104 Eleonora Lo Bianco5.905 Robyn Ah Mow-Santos3.70

Best ReceiversRankName1 Francesca Piccinini61.002 Jelena Nikolic59.443 Yuko Sano77.884 Antonella Del Core57.275 Marianne Steinbrecher56.25

Source:

Final standings

PlaceBeijing 2008 volleyball women Results, olympics.comTeam 45911

12–woman rosterOliveira, Albuquerque, Steinbrecher, Pequeno, Menezes, Hélia Souza (c), Menezes, Claudino, Gonzaga, Carvalho, Castro, Fabiana de Oliveira (L)Head coachZé Roberto

Medalists GoldSilverBronzeWalewska OliveiraCarolina AlbuquerqueMarianne SteinbrecherPaula PequenoThaisa MenezesHélia Souza (c)Valeska MenezesFabiana ClaudinoWelissa GonzagaJaqueline CarvalhoSheilla CastroFabiana de Oliveira (L)Head coach: Zé RobertoOgonna NnamaniDanielle Scott-ArrudaTayyiba Haneef-ParkLindsey BergStacy Sykora (L)Nicole Davis (L)Heather BownJennifer JoinesKim GlassRobyn Ah Mow-Santos (c)Kim WilloughbyLogan TomHead coach: Jenny Lang PingWang YimeiFeng Kun (c)Yang HaoLiu YananWei QiuyueXu YunliZhou SuhongZhao RuiruiXue MingLi JuanZhang Na (L)Ma YunwenHead coach: Chen Zhonghe

Individual awards

Most valuable player

Best scorer

Best spiker

Best blocker

Best server

Best setter

Best digger

Best receiver

Best libero

Fair Play Award:

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