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The men's tournament in volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics was the 11th 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 Athens, Greece from 15 to 29 August 2004.

Competition schedule

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|bgcolor="#FEDCBA" align=center|B||Bronze medal match

|bgcolor="#FFFFBB" align=center|F||Gold medal match

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Qualification

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!width=25%|Means of qualification!!width=27%|Date!!width=20%|Host!!width=6%|Vacancies!!width=22%|Qualified

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|Host country||5 September 1997|| Lausanne||align="center"|1||

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|rowspan="3"|2003 World Cup||rowspan="3"|16–30 November 2003||rowspan="3"|||rowspan="3" align="center"|3||

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|African Qualifier||5–10 January 2004|| Tunis||align="center"|1||

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|European Qualifier||5–10 January 2004|| Leipzig||align="center"|1||

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|North American Qualifier||4–10 January 2004|| Caguas||align="center"|1||

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|South American Qualifier||9–11 January 2004|| Caracas||align="center"|1||

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|1st World Qualifier||21–23 May 2004|| Matosinhos||align="center"|1||

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|2nd World Qualifier||rowspan="2"|22–30 May 2004||rowspan="2"| Tokyo||align="center"|1||

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|Asian Qualifier*||align="center"|1||

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|3rd World Qualifier||28–30 May 2004|| Madrid||align="center"|1||

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!colspan="3"|Total!!12!!

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<div id=1><nowiki>*</nowiki> The Asian Qualifier was combined with the 2nd World Qualifier. The first place team of the tournament qualified as the 2nd World Qualifier winners, while the best Asian team except the 2nd World Qualifier winners qualified as the Asian Qualifier winners.</div>

Pools composition

Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of January 2004. 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.

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Rosters

Venue

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| Piraeus, Athens, Greece

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|Peace and Friendship Stadium

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|Capacity: 10,520

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Preliminary round

  • All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00).
  • The top four teams in each pool qualified for the quarterfinals.

Pool A

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Final round

  • All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00).

Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

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Bronze medal match

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Gold medal match

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Final standing

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|12–man roster

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|Giovane, André Heller, Maurício, Giba, André, Sérgio (L), Anderson, Nalbert (c), Gustavo, Rodrigão, Ricardinho, Dante

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|Head coach

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|Bernardinho

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Medalists

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|style="width:15em; background:gold"|Gold

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|<hr>Giovane Gávio<br>André Heller<br>Maurício Lima<br>Gilberto Godoy Filho<br>André Nascimento<br>Sérgio Santos (L)<br>Anderson Rodrigues<br>Nalbert Bitencourt (c)<br>Gustavo Endres<br>Rodrigo Santana<br>Ricardo Garcia<br>Dante Amaral<br /><hr>Head coach:

Bernardinho

|<hr>Luigi Mastrangelo<br>Valerio Vermiglio<br>Samuele Papi<br>Andrea Sartoretti<br>Alberto Cisolla<br>Ventzislav Simeonov<br>Damiano Pippi (L)<br>Andrea Giani (c)<br>Alessandro Fei<br>Paolo Tofoli<br>Paolo Cozzi<br>Matej Černič<br /><hr>Head coach:

Gian Paolo Montali

|<hr>Stanislav Dineykin<br>Sergei Baranov<br>Pavel Abramov<br>Aleksey Kazakov<br>Sergey Tetyukhin<br>Vadim Khamuttskikh (c)<br>Aleksandr Kosarev<br>Konstantin Ushakov<br>Taras Khtey<br>Andrey Egorchev<br>Aleksey Verbov (L)<br>Aleksey Kuleshov<br /><hr>Head coach:

Gennady Shipulin

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Awards

  • Most valuable player
  • : Gilberto Godoy Filho
  • Best scorer
  • : Andrea Sartoretti
  • Best spiker
  • : Dante Amaral
  • Best blocker
  • : Aleksey Kuleshov
  • Best server
  • : Andrea Sartoretti
  • Best digger
  • : Sérgio Santos
  • Best setter
  • : Ricardo Garcia
  • Best receiver
  • : Sérgio Santos
  • Best libero
  • : Sérgio Santos

See also

  • Volleyball at the Summer Olympics
  • Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament
  • Beach volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
  • Sitting volleyball at the 2004 Summer Paralympics – Men's tournament

References

  • Official website
  • Final Standing
  • Awards
  • Results at Todor66.com
  • Results at Sports123.com