The women's tournament in volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London was the 13th edition of the event in an Olympic Games, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB, in conjunction with the IOC. It was held at Earls Court Exhibition Centre from 28 July to 11 August 2012.

Qualification

Pools composition Teams were seeded following the Serpentine system according to their ranking as of 15 January 2012.

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) (7) (6) (9) (11) (16) (13)

Rosters

Preliminary round Teams played a round-robin schedule within the pool and those with the top four point totals advanced to a knockout round. Teams were awarded three points for a 3–0 or 3–1 win, two points for a 3–2 win, one point for a 3–2 loss, and zero points for a 3–0 or 3–1 loss. If at the end of pool play teams are tied the tiebreakers are (1) most wins, (2) set win ratio, (3) points ratio, and (4) head-to-head. If three or more teams are tied, the tiebreakers are applied only to the matches between tied teams.

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+01:00). Pool A

Pool B

Knockout stage All times are British Summer Time (UTC+01:00).

Bracket

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Bronze medal match

Final

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

Best ScorersRankNamePoints1 Kim Yeon-koung2072 Destinee Hooker1613 Saori Kimura1424 Sheilla Castro1405 Ekaterina Gamova124

Best SpikersRankName1 Destinee Hooker37.932 Simona Gioli37.783 Kim Yeon-koung35.574 Nataliya Goncharova34.225 Ekaterina Gamova33.04

Best BlockersRankName1 Fabiana Claudino0.942 Foluke Akinradewo0.933 Simona Gioli0.914 Destinee Hooker0.785 Thaísa Menezes0.75

Best ServersRankName1 Sheilla Castro0.312 Hui Ruoqi0.313 Lucia Bosetti0.304 Ekaterina Gamova0.295 Antonella Del Core0.26

Best DiggersRankName1 Brenda Castillo6.102 Zhang Xian4.773 Yuko Sano4.114 Kim Hae-ran3.905 Yoshie Takeshita3.64

Best SettersRankName1 Yevgeniya Startseva12.792 Wei Qiuyue12.083 Yoshie Takeshita11.824 Lindsey Berg9.745 Danielle Lins9.72

Best ReceiversRankName1 Fernanda Garay81.322 Svetlana Kryuchkova80.003 Paola Croce77.884 Antonella Del Core77.035 Nicole Davis74.27

Source:

Final standings

Rank Team 4 5 9 11

12-woman rosterFabiana Claudino (c), Dani Lins, Paula Pequeno, Adenízia da Silva, Thaísa Menezes, Jaqueline Carvalho, Fernanda Ferreira, Tandara Caixeta, Natália Pereira, Sheilla Castro, Fabi Alvim (L), Fernanda GarayHead coachZé Roberto

Medalists GoldSilverBronzeFabiana Claudino (c)Dani LinsPaula PequenoAdenízia da SilvaThaísa MenezesJaqueline CarvalhoFernanda FerreiraTandara CaixetaNatália PereiraSheilla CastroFabiana de Oliveira (L)Fernanda GarayHead coach: Zé RobertoDanielle Scott-ArrudaTayyiba Haneef-ParkLindsey Berg (c)Tamari MiyashiroNicole Davis (L)Jordan LarsonMegan HodgeChrista HarmottoLogan TomFoluke AkinradewoCourtney ThompsonDestinee HookerHead coach: Hugh McCutcheonHitomi NakamichiYoshie TakeshitaMai YamaguchiErika Araki (c)Kaori InoueMaiko KanoYuko Sano (L)Ai OtomoRisa ShinnabeSaori SakodaYukiko EbataSaori KimuraHead coach: Masayoshi Manabe

Individual awards Most valuable player

Best scorer

Best spiker

Best blocker

Best server

Best setter

Best receiver

Best libero

See also Volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

References

External links Official website of the 2012 Olympic volleyball tournaments