Beach volleyball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics – Boys' tournament

The boys' beach volleyball tournament at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China, took place between 17 and 27 August at Nanjing Olympic Sports Center.

Thirty-Six pairs were competing, the host country China withdrew their pair. Africa and Asia hosted a single qualification tournament while Europe created a Youth Continental Cup with different zonal stages ending with a final qualification tournament. South America created a six legged tour, though only five events were held where the six countries with the most points qualified and North, Central America and Caribbean hosted four zonal tournaments where the winners qualified to the Youth Olympics and a final tournament where the top two nations qualified. The remaining were Wild Cards.[1]

To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 1999.[2]

Qualification

Event	Location	Date	Total Teams	Qualified
Host Nation	-	-	0	China
EVCA Zone Qualification Tournament[3]	Pigeon Point	18–20 October 2013	1	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
CAZOVA Zone Qualification Tournament[4]	Maracus Bay	26–28 November 2013	1	Jamaica
Central Zone Qualification Tournament[5]	Fajardo	6–8 December 2013	1	Canada
AFECAVOL Zone Qualification Tournament[6]	Guatemala City	1–2 February 2014	1	Guatemala
AVC Qualification Tournament[7]	Nakhon Si Thammarat	4–6 April 2014	6	Indonesia  Iran  Kazakhstan  New Zealand  Sri Lanka  Thailand
CAVB Qualification Tournament[8]	Accra	11–13 April 2014	6	Burundi  Republic of the Congo  Ghana  Nigeria  Rwanda  Sierra Leone
NORCECA Final Qualification Tournament[9]	Carolina	12–13 April 2014	2	Puerto Rico  United States
2014 CEV Youth Continental Cup Final[10][11]	Antalya	15–17 May 2014	6	Finland  France  Germany  Poland  Russia  Ukraine
CSV Youth Tour Final Rankings[12]	-	19 May 2014	6	Uruguay  Argentina  Venezuela  Peru  Paraguay  Brazil
Tripartite Invitation[13]	-	-	3	Oman  São Tomé and Príncipe  Virgin Islands
Reallocation[13]	-	-	3	Austria  Lithuania  Norway
TOTAL			36

Main draw

Teams were seeded is the preliminary round according to the following draw:

Rank	Team	NOC
1	Samuel Morris – Phillip Ayobami[14]	Nigeria
2	Nate Moore – Kahurangi Robinson	New Zealand
3	Arnaud Gauthier-Rat – Arnaud Loiseau	France
4	Surin Jongklang – Banlue Nakprakhong	Thailand
5	Renato Bogarin – Elioth Frutos	Paraguay
6	Dominik Kmiecik – Jakub Macura	Poland
7	Elias Ndagano – Sylvestre Ndayisabye	Rwanda
8	Anders Berntsen Mol – Mathias Berntsen	Norway
9	Santiago Aulisi – Leo Aveiro	Argentina
10	Lumi Bramont – Jimy Heredia	Peru
11	Niklas Rudolf – Eric Stadie	Germany
12	Miro Määttänen – Santeri Siren	Finland
13	Samiei Alhammadi – Ahid Alsahi	Oman
14	Bryan Shavar – Rojey Hutchinson	Jamaica
15	Sergio Luis Figueroa – Daniel Rivera	Puerto Rico
16	Illia Kovalov – Oleh Plotnytskyi	Ukraine
17	Bosco Ndayishimiye – Fiston Niyongabo	Burundi
18	Rendy Licardo – Mohammad Ashfiya	Indonesia
19	Louis Richard – Torey DeFalco	United States
20	Oleg Stoyanovskiy – Artem Yarzutkin	Russia
21	Patrick Lombi – Abu Bakarr Kamara[14]	Sierra Leone
22	Mohammadreza Shobeiri – Keyvan Sahneh	Iran
23	Arthur Lanci – George Wanderley	Brazil
24	Mauricio Vieyto – Marco Cairus	Uruguay
25	Delshun Welcome – Rodall Fraser	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
26	Edvinas Vaškelis – Matas Navickas	Lithuania
27	Carlos Rosa – Ajai Sweeney	Virgin Islands
28	Andrew Richards – Jake MacNeil	Canada
29	Erik Flores – Mark Álvarez	Guatemala
30	Tigrito Gómez – Rolando Hernández	Venezuela
31	Johannes Kratz – Moritz Pristauz-Telsnigg	Austria
32	Thantrige Perera Mallawa – Isuru Madushan Siddihaluge	Sri Lanka
33	Aloisio De Souza – Alex Quaresma Marques	São Tomé and Príncipe
34	Philip Amissah – Nicholas Tetteh	Ghana
35	Moussa Botouli Ilombola – Johfrat Veldich Itoua Ossolo	Republic of the Congo
36	Yegor Dmitriyev – Sergey Polichshuk	Kazakhstan

Competition Formula

The competition formula consist of two rounds, the first a pool round where the 36 teams have been divided into six pools of six, each pool will play round robin. After the pool round is completed, the best team from each pool plus the two best second place teams will advance to the eight-finals; the rest of the second place teams plus the third and fourth place teams from each pool will advance to the Round of 24. The Round of 24 is a single elimination round, the winning teams will play against the eight-finalists in another single elimination round; next the quarterfinals, semifinals and final matches.[15]

On August 17, it was announced that two pools will only consist of five teams due to two pairings being restricted from competition due to an Ebola outbreak in their countries. The results of the matches against these two teams will be a direct forfeit.[14]

Preliminary round

	Team advances to Round of 16
	Team advances to Round of 24

Pool A

		Pts	Matches		Points			Sets
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Vieyto–Cairus	6	3	0	90	73	1.233	6	1	6.000
2	Dmitriyev–Polichshuk	6	3	0	97	83	1.169	6	1	6.000
3	Määttänen–Siren	5	2	1	133	91	1.462	5	2	2.500
4	Delshun–Fraser	4	1	2	69	97	0.711	3	4	0.750
5	Alhammadi–Alashi	3	0	3	81	126	0.643	0	6	0.000
6	Morris–Ayobami	0	0	0	0	126	0.000	0	6	0.000

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Total	Report
17 Aug	09:00	Määttänen–Siren	2–0	Delshun–Fraser	21–11	21–11		42–22
17 Aug	09:00	Alhammadi–Alashi	0–2	Vieyto–Cairus	12–21	12–21		24–42
18 Aug	21:00	Vieyto–Cairus	2–1	Määttänen–Siren	21–14	11–21	16–14	48–49
18 Aug	21:00	Dmitriyev–Polichshuk	2–0	Alhammadi–Alashi	21–17	21–19		42–36
19 Aug	19:00	Alhammadi–Alashi	0–2	Määttänen–Siren	11–21	10–21		21–42
19 Aug	19:00	Dmitriyev–Polichshuk	2–1	Delshun–Fraser	19–21	21–14	15–12	55–47
21 Aug	15:00	Määttänen–Siren	–	Dmitriyev–Polichshuk				–
21 Aug	15:00	Delshun–Fraser	–	Vieyto–Cairus				–
22 Aug	09:00	Vieyto–Cairus	–	Dmitriyev–Polichshuk				–
22 Aug	09:00	Delshun–Fraser	–	Alhammadi–Alashi				–

Pool B

		Pts	Matches		Points			Sets
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Rudolf–Stadie	6	3	0	145	120	1.208	6	1	6.000
2	Arthur–George	5	2	1	142	108	1.315	5	2	2.500
3	Moore–Robinson	5	2	1	112	107	1.047	4	2	2.000
4	Vaskelis–Navickas	4	1	2	121	129	0.938	2	4	0.500
5	Botouli Ilombola–Itoua Ossolo	4	1	2	117	130	0.900	2	4	0.500
6	Shavar–Hutchinson	3	0	3	85	128	0.664	0	6	0.000

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Total	Report
17 Aug	10:00	Moore–Robinson	2–0	Botouli Ilombola–Itoua Ossolo	21–8	22–20		43–28
17 Aug	10:00	Vaskelis–Navickas	0–2	Rudolf–Stadie	17–21	18–21		35–42
17 Aug	11:00	Arthur–George	2–0	Shavar–Hutchinson	21–8	21–12		42–20
18 Aug	10:00	Rudolf–Stadie	2–1	Arthur–George	24–26	22–20	15–12	61–58
18 Aug	19:00	Moore–Robinson	2–0	Vaskelis–Navickas	21–19	21–18		42–37
18 Aug	20:00	Botouli Ilombola–Itoua Ossolo	2–0	Shavar–Hutchinson	23–21	21–17		44–38
19 Aug	20:00	Arthur–George	2–0	Moore–Robinson	21–17	21–10		42–27
19 Aug	21:00	Rudolf–Stadie	2–0	Shavar–Hutchinson	21–12	21–15		42–27
19 Aug	21:00	Vaskelis–Navickas	2–0	Botouli Ilombola–Itoua Ossolo	21–19	28–26		49–45
21 Aug	16:00	Shavar–Hutchinson	–	Moore–Robinson	–	–		–
21 Aug	16:00	Botouli Ilombola–Itoua Ossolo	–	Rudolf–Stadie	–	–		–
21 Aug	19:00	Arthur–George	–	Vaskelis–Navickas	–	–		–
22 Aug	10:00	Rudolf–Stadie	–	Moore–Robinson	–	–		–
22 Aug	10:00	Vaskelis–Navickas	–	Shavar–Hutchinson	–	–		–
22 Aug	11:00	Botouli Ilombola–Itoua Ossolo	–	Arthur–George	–	–		–

Pool C

		Pts	Matches		Points			Sets
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Gauthier-Rat–Loiseau	6	3	0	126	55	2.291	6	0	MAX
2	Figueroa–Rivera	6	3	0	126	83	1.518	6	0	MAX
3	Lumi–Jimy	5	2	1	132	115	1.148	4	3	1.333
4	Amissah–Tetteh	4	1	2	104	127	0.819	2	5	0.400
5	Shobeiri–Sahneh	3	0	3	103	144	0.715	1	6	0.167
6	Rosa – Sweeney	3	0	3	77	139	0.554	1	6	0.167

Pool D

		Pts	Matches		Points			Sets
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Kovalov–Plotnytskyi	6	3	0	84	54	1.556	6	0	MAX
2	Richards–MacNeil	5	2	1	131	113	1.159	5	2	2.500
3	Jongklang–Nakprakhong	5	2	1	80	63	1.270	4	2	2.000
4	Aulisi–Aveiro	5	2	1	83	88	0.943	4	3	1.333
5	De Souza–Marques	3	0	3	66	126	0.524	0	6	0.000
6	Lombi–Kamara	0	0	0	0	126	0.000	0	6	0.000

Pool E

		Pts	Matches		Points			Sets
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Stoyanovskiy–Yarzutkin	6	3	0	126	86	1.465	6	0	MAX
2	Mol–Berntsen	5	2	1	119	86	1.384	4	2	2.000
3	Mallawa–Siddihaluge	5	2	1	146	122	1.197	5	3	1.667
4	Bogarin–Frutos	4	1	2	109	127	0.858	3	4	0.750
5	Flores–Álvarez	4	1	2	109	134	0.813	2	5	0.400
6	Ndayishimiye–Niyongabo	3	0	3	72	126	0.571	0	6	0.000

Pool F

		Pts	Matches		Points			Sets
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Licardo–Ashfiya	6	3	0	127	97	1.309	6	0	MAX
2	Gómez–Hernández	6	3	0	135	91	1.484	6	1	6.000
3	Kmiecik–Macura	4	1	2	115	128	0.898	3	4	0.750
4	Kratz–Pristauz-Telsnigg	4	1	2	114	115	0.991	2	4	0.500
5	Richard–DeFalco	4	1	2	109	110	0.991	2	4	0.500
6	Ndagano–Ndayisabye	3	0	3	67	126	0.532	0	6	0.000

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