Beach volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

The men's beach volleyball tournament at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, United Kingdom, took place between 28 July and 9 August at Horse Guards Parade.

Twenty-four pairs were competing, including one from Great Britain as the host country, and a maximum of two from each nation. Sixteen qualified through positioning in the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Rankings as of 17 June 2012, five others earned their places at the 2010–12 Continental Beach Volleyball Cup, and the final three from the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Cup Olympic Qualification tournament.Olympic Qualifying process confirmed for Volleyball and Beach Volleyball, FIVB, 17 May 2010.

Seeds RankTeamNOC1Alison Cerutti – Emanuel Rego2Phil Dalhausser – Todd Rogers3Julius Brink – Jonas Reckermann4Jake Gibb – Sean Rosenthal5Reinder Nummerdor – Richard Schuil6John Garcia Thompson – Steve Grotowski7Pedro Cunha – Ricardo Santos8Jonathan Erdmann – Kay Matysik9Grzegorz Fijałek – Mariusz Prudel10Wu Penggen – Xu Linyin11Adrián Gavira – Pablo Herrera12Jefferson Bellaguarda – Patrick Heuscher13Daniele Lupo – Paolo Nicolai14Petr Beneš – Přemysl Kubala15Sébastien Chevallier – Sascha Heyer16Aleksandrs Samoilovs – Ruslans Sorokins17Mārtiņš Pļaviņš – Jānis Šmēdiņš18Tarjei Skarlund – Martin Spinnangr19Josh Binstock – Martin Reader20Igor Hernández – Jesus Villafañe21Freedom Chiya – Grant Goldschmidt22Sergey Prokopiev – Konstantin Semenov23Kentaro Asahi – Katsuhiro Shiratori24Clemens Doppler – Alexander Horst

Preliminary round The composition of the preliminary rounds was announced confirmed on 19 July 2012 in a draw held in Klagenfurt, Austria.Olympic beach volleyball pool draw completed in Klagenfurt, FIVB, 19 July 2012.

Teams are awarded two points for a win and one for a loss. If two teams are tied at the end of pool play, the tiebreakers is their head-to-head match. If two teams are tied at the end of pool play, the tiebreakers is their head-to-head match. If three or more teams are tied, the tiebreakers are (1) points ratio between tied teams, (2) points ratio within pool, and (3) tournament seed. The two best teams from each group directly advance to the round-of-16. The two best 3rd-placed teams also advance. The remaining four third-placed teams play one another in two Lucky Loser matches, and the two winners complete the list of 16 playoff teams.Olympic Games beach volleyball schedule confirmed, FIVB, 20 July 2012.

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

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Pool E

Pool F

Lucky loser

Of the 6 teams that are placed third in their pools, two directly qualify for the playoffs. From the four remaining third placed teams, another two teams qualify for the playoffs by winning a Lucky Loser match.

This table shows the results of the third placed teams after the pool play, and before the Lucky Loser matches.

Lucky loser play-offs

Playoffs

Round of 16

Finals overview

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Bronze medal match

Final

Final ranking

Rank TeamSeed 3 1 174.55.479139.2811121516182217.141919.61020212324

See also Beach volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

References

External links Official website of the 2012 Olympic beach volleyball tournaments