Volleyball at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

The men's tournament in volleyball at the 2000 Summer Olympics was the 10th edition of the event at the Summer Olympics, organized by the world's governing body, the FIVB in conjunction with the IOC. It was held in Sydney, Australia from 17 September to 1 October 2000.[1]

Men's volleyball at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Venue	Sydney Entertainment Centre and Sydney Showground Pavilion 4
Date	17 September – 1 October
Competitors	144 from 12 nations
Medalists
FR Yugoslavia  Russia  Italy

Qualification

Means of qualification	Date	Host	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Country	24 September 1993	Monte Carlo	1	Australia
1999 World Cup	18 November – 2 December 1999	Japan	3	Russia
				Cuba
				Italy
African Qualifier	25–30 January 2000	Cairo	1	Egypt
Asian Qualifier	27–29 December 1999	Shanghai	1	South Korea
European Qualifier	3–9 January 2000	Katowice	1	FR Yugoslavia
North American Qualifier	5–8 January 2000	Winnipeg	1	United States
South American Qualifier	7–9 January 2000	São Caetano do Sul	1	Brazil
1st World Qualifier	21–23 July 2000	Matosinhos	1	Argentina
2nd World Qualifier	24–26 July 2000	Piraeus	1	Spain
3rd World Qualifier	25–27 July 2000	Castelnau-le-Lez	1	Netherlands
Total			12

Pools composition

Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of January 2000. 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
Australia (Hosts)	Italy (1)
Cuba (3)	Russia (2)
Brazil (4)	United States (5)
Netherlands (7)	FR Yugoslavia (6)
Spain (8)	Argentina (9)
Egypt (23)	South Korea (10)

Rosters

Venues

Main venue	Sub venue
Sydney, Australia	Sydney, Australia
Sydney Entertainment Centre	Sydney Showground Pavilion 4
Capacity: 10,517	Capacity: 6,000

Preliminary round

• The top four teams in each pool qualified for the quarterfinals.

Qualified for the Quarterfinals

Pool A

		Pts	Matches		Sets			Points
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Brazil	10	5	0	15	1	15.000	415	331	1.254
2	Netherlands	9	4	1	12	5	2.400	417	360	1.158
3	Cuba	8	3	2	9	7	1.286	383	335	1.143
4	Australia	7	2	3	6	10	0.600	327	374	0.874
5	Spain	6	1	4	7	12	0.583	404	444	0.910
6	Egypt	5	0	5	1	15	0.067	309	411	0.752

Date	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
17 Sep	SP4	Spain	3–0	Egypt	25–20	25–10	25–21			75–51
17 Sep	SEC	Cuba	0–3	Netherlands	22–25	20–25	23–25			65–75
17 Sep	SEC	Australia	0–3	Brazil	13–25	14–25	21–25			48–75
19 Sep	SP4	Spain	1–3	Cuba	21–25	12–25	25–21	20–25		78–96
19 Sep	SEC	Egypt	0–3	Brazil	28–30	18–25	21–25			67–80
19 Sep	SEC	Netherlands	3–0	Australia	25–19	25–17	25–15			75–51
21 Sep	SP4	Cuba	3–0	Egypt	25–11	25–18	25–15			75–44
21 Sep	SEC	Brazil	3–0	Netherlands	25–20	25–17	27–25			77–62
21 Sep	SEC	Australia	3–1	Spain	23–25	25–20	25–23	25–19		98–87
23 Sep	SP4	Egypt	1–3	Netherlands	21–25	11–25	33–31	20–25		85–106
23 Sep	SEC	Cuba	3–0	Australia	25–17	25–20	25–18			75–55
23 Sep	SEC	Spain	1–3	Brazil	27–25	14–25	21–25	20–25		82–100
25 Sep	SP4	Netherlands	3–1	Spain	25–18	25–17	24–26	25–21		99–82
25 Sep	SEC	Brazil	3–0	Cuba	28–26	30–28	25–18			83–72
25 Sep	SEC	Australia	3–0	Egypt	25–17	25–23	25–22			75–62

Pool B

		Pts	Matches		Sets			Points
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Italy	10	5	0	15	4	3.750	482	421	1.145
2	Russia	9	4	1	13	7	1.857	465	443	1.050
3	FR Yugoslavia	8	3	2	12	9	1.333	489	461	1.061
4	Argentina	7	2	3	7	11	0.636	409	446	0.917
5	South Korea	6	1	4	8	14	0.571	491	504	0.974
6	United States	5	0	5	5	15	0.333	417	478	0.872

Date	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
17 Sep	SP4	South Korea	0–3	Italy	25–27	23–25	18–25			66–77
17 Sep	SEC	Russia	3–1	FR Yugoslavia	19–25	25–23	25–23	25–20		94–91
17 Sep	SEC	United States	1–3	Argentina	26–24	23–25	21–25	18–25		88–99
19 Sep	SP4	Argentina	3–1	South Korea	25–23	17–25	30–28	25–21		97–97
19 Sep	SEC	Russia	3–1	United States	25–18	25–23	21–25	25–17		96–83
19 Sep	SEC	FR Yugoslavia	2–3	Italy	19–25	25–19	22–25	33–31	20–22	119–122
21 Sep	SP4	United States	0–3	FR Yugoslavia	15–25	20–25	23–25			58–75
21 Sep	SEC	Italy	3–0	Argentina	40–38	25–18	25–14			90–70
21 Sep	SEC	South Korea	2–3	Russia	22–25	25–22	25–20	27–29	15–17	114–113
23 Sep	SP4	FR Yugoslavia	3–1	Argentina	21–25	25–15	25–23	25–22		96–85
23 Sep	SEC	Russia	1–3	Italy	20–25	20–25	25–22	22–25		87–97
23 Sep	SEC	United States	2–3	South Korea	20–25	27–25	24–26	25–21	13–15	109–112
25 Sep	SP4	Argentina	0–3	Russia	23–25	15–25	20–25			58–75
25 Sep	SEC	South Korea	2–3	FR Yugoslavia	26–24	20–25	23–25	25–19	8–15	102–108
25 Sep	SEC	Italy	3–1	United States	21–25	25–18	25–18	25–18		96–79

Final round

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Gold medal match
	27 September
	Brazil	1
					29 September
	Argentina	3
					Argentina	1
	27 September
					Russia	3
	Cuba	2
									1 October
	Russia	3
									Russia	0
	27 September
									FR Yugoslavia	3
	Netherlands	2
					29 September
	FR Yugoslavia	3
					FR Yugoslavia	3
	27 September
					Italy	0			Bronze medal match
	Australia	1
									1 October
	Italy	3
									Argentina	0
									Italy	3

	5th–8th semifinals				5th place match
	28 September
	Brazil	3
					29 September
	Cuba	2
					Brazil	0
	28 September
					Netherlands	3
	Netherlands	3
	Australia	0
					7th place match
					29 September
					Cuba	3
					Australia	0

Quarterfinals

Date	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
27 Sep	SEC	Cuba	2–3	Russia	25–21	23–25	19–25	25–19	13–15	105–105
27 Sep	SEC	Australia	1–3	Italy	14–25	25–22	19–25	15–25		73–97
27 Sep	SEC	Brazil	1–3	Argentina	25–17	21–25	19–25	25–27		90–94
27 Sep	SEC	Netherlands	2–3	FR Yugoslavia	21–25	25–18	18–25	32–30	15–17	111–115

5th–8th semifinals

Date	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
28 Sep	SP4	Brazil	3–2	Cuba	23–25	17–25	25–21	26–24	15–11	106–106
28 Sep	SP4	Netherlands	3–0	Australia	25–20	25–15	25–21			75–56

Semifinals

Date	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
29 Sep	SEC	Argentina	1–3	Russia	25–27	30–32	25–21	11–25		91–105
29 Sep	SEC	FR Yugoslavia	3–0	Italy	27–25	34–32	25–14			86–71

7th place match

Date	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
29 Sep	SEC	Cuba	3–0	Australia	25–23	25–11	25–15			75–49

5th place match

Date	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
29 Sep	SEC	Brazil	0–3	Netherlands	21–25	20–25	22–25			63–75

Bronze medal match

Date	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
1 Oct	SEC	Argentina	0–3	Italy	16–25	15–25	18–25			49–75

Gold medal match

Date	Venue		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
1 Oct	SEC	Russia	0–3	FR Yugoslavia	22–25	22–25	20–25			64–75

Final standing

Rank Team  FR Yugoslavia  Russia  Italy 4  Argentina 5  Netherlands 6  Brazil 7  Cuba 8  Australia 9  South Korea  Spain 11  Egypt  United States

2000 Men's Olympic Champions  FR Yugoslavia 1st title 12–man Roster Batez, Kovač, Boškan, Mešter, Mijić, N. Grbić, V. Grbić, Gerić, Vujević, Miljković, Petković, Vušurović Head Coach Gajić

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Yugoslavia (YUG) Vladimir Batez Slobodan Kovač Slobodan Boškan Đula Mešter Vasa Mijić Nikola Grbić Vladimir Grbić Andrija Gerić Goran Vujević Ivan Miljković Veljko Petković Igor Vušurović	Russia (RUS) Vadim Khamuttskikh Ruslan Olikhver Valeri Goryushev Igor Shulepov Aleksey Kazakov Evgeni Mitkov Sergey Tetyukhin Roman Yakovlev Konstantin Ushakov Aleksandr Gerasimov Ilya Savelev Aleksey Kuleshov	Italy (ITA) Andrea Gardini Marco Meoni Pasquale Gravina Luigi Mastrangelo Paolo Tofoli Samuele Papi Andrea Sartoretti Marco Bracci Simone Rosalba Mirko Corsano Andrea Giani Alessandro Fei

Awards

Most Valuable Player Bas van de Goor Best Scorer Marcos Milinkovic Best Spiker Daniel Howard Best Blocker Andrija Gerić

Best Server Osvaldo Hernández Best Digger Vasa Mijić Best Setter Peter Blangé Best Receiver Pablo Meana

References

1. "Volleyball at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's Volleyball". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.

External links

• Final Standing (1964–2000)
• Results at Todor66.com
• Results at Sports123.com