Volleyball at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

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
01 !  Yugoslavia 02 !  Russia 03 !  Italy

Volleyball at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Indoor
Tournament		men		women
Rosters		men		women
Beach
Tournament		men		women

The 2000 Men's Olympic Volleyball Tournament was the 10th edition of the event, 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.

Qualification

Means of qualification	Date	Host	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Country	24 Sep 1993	Monte Carlo	1	Australia
1999 World Cup	18 Nov–2 Dec 1999	Japan	3	Russia
				Cuba
				Italy
African Qualifier	25–30 Jan 2000	Cairo	1	Egypt
Asian Qualifier	27–29 Dec 1999	Shanghai	1	South Korea
European Qualifier	3–9 Jan 2000	Katowice	1	Yugoslavia
North American Qualifier	5–8 Jan 2000	Winnipeg	1	United States
South American Qualifier	7–9 Jan 2000	São Caetano do Sul	1	Brazil
World Qualifier 1	21–23 Jul 2000	Matosinhos	1	Argentina
World Qualifier 2	24–26 Jul 2000	Piraeus	1	Spain
World Qualifier 3	25–27 Jul 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)	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

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	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	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	Yugoslavia	2–3	Italy	19–25	25–19	22–25	33–31	20–22	119–122
21 Sep	SP4	United States	0–3	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	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	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
									Yugoslavia	3
	Netherlands	2
					29 September
	Yugoslavia	3
					Yugoslavia	3			Bronze medal match
	27 September
					Italy	0
	Australia	1							Argentina	0
	Italy	3							Italy	3
									1 October

	5th–8th semifinals				5th place match
	28 September
	Brazil	3
	Cuba	2
					29 September
					Brazil	0
					Netherlands	3
					7th place match
	28 September			29 September
	Netherlands	3		Cuba	3
	Australia	0			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	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	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
01 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
01 Oct	SEC	Russia	0–3	Yugoslavia	22–25	22–25	20–25			64–75

Final standing

Rank Team 01 !  Yugoslavia 02 !  Russia 03 !  Italy 4  Argentina 5  Netherlands 6  Brazil 7  Cuba 8  Australia 9  South Korea  Spain 11  Egypt  United States

2000 Men's Olympic Champions  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

External links

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

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Federal Republic of Yugoslavia – 2000 Summer Olympics (Gold Medal)
3 Batez 4 Kovač 6 Boškan 7 Mešter 8 Mijić 9 N. Grbić (C) 10 V. Grbić 12 Gerić 13 Vujević 14 Miljković 15 Petković 18 Vušurović Coach: Gajić

Russia – 2000 Summer Olympics (Silver Medal)
2 Khamuttskikh (C) 4 Olikhver 5 Goryushev 6 Shulepov 7 Kazakov 8 Mitkov 9 Tetyukhin 10 Yakovlev 11 Ushakov 15 Gerasimov 16 Savelev 18 Kuleshov Coach: Shipulin

Italy – 2000 Summer Olympics (Bronze Medal)
1 Gardini (C) 2 Meoni 3 Gravina 4 Mastrangelo 5 Tofoli 6 Papi 7 Sartoretti 8 Bracci 10 Rosalba 12 Corsano 13 Giani 14 Fei Coach: Anastasi

Argentina – 2000 Summer Olympics (4th place)
1 Milinkovic 2 Lares 4 Maly 5 Patti 6 Weber 7 Conte 8 Porello 10 Spajic 11 Bidegain 14 Firpo 15 Pereira 17 Meana Coach: Getzelevich

Netherlands – 2000 Summer Olympics (5th place)
1 Latuhihin 4 Nummerdor 5 Görtzen 6 R. Schuil 7 M. van de Goor 9 B. van de Goor 10 Kooistra 11 E. Schuil 12 Blangé 13 van der Horst 15 Cristina 18 Dieleman Coach: Gerbrands

Brazil squad – 2000 Summer Olympics (6th place)
2 Marcelinho 3 Giovane 4 Kid 5 André Heller 7 Giba 8 Douglas 10 Max Pereira 12 Nalbert 13 Gustavo 14 Tande 18 Dante Coach: Lattari

Cuba – 2000 Summer Olympics (7th place)
1 Marshall 2 Vives 3 Argilagos 6 Ruíz 7 Dennis 8 Pimienta 9 Diago 11 O. Hernández 12 Gato 13 Roca 14 I. Hernández 16 García Coach: Díaz

Australia – 2000 Summer Olympics (8th place)
1 Howard 2 Keir 4 Hardy 6 Jakavicius 8 Wentworth 9 Ronan 10 Marazios 11 Newcomb 12 Beard 13 Loft 15 Van Beest 17 Williams Coach: DeRocco

Spain – 2000 Summer Olympics (9th place)
1 Pascual (C) 5 Suela 7 Falasca 8 Robles 9 Valido 10 Prenafeta 11 Carreño 13 Casilla 14 Moltó 15 Rodríguez 16 Salvador 17 de la Fuente Coach: Lozano

South Korea – 2000 Summer Olympics (9th place)
1 Shin Jin-sik 2 Who In-jung 3 Chang Byung-chul 5 Lee Ho 6 Bang Sin-bong 8 Lee Byong-yong 10 Shin Sun-ho 11 Park Hee-sang 13 Bang Ji-sub 14 Choi Tae-woong 15 Lee Kyung-soo 18 Kim Se-jin Coach: Shin Chi-yong

United States men's volleyball squad – 2000 Summer Olympics (11th place)
1 Ball (C) 3 Lambert 5 Sullivan 7 Hyden 9 Millar 10 McCaw 12 Hoff 13 Nygaard 14 Barnett 15 Roumain 16 Landry 17 Witt Coach: Beal