| Event: | Women's volleyball |
| Games: | 2012 Summer |
| Venue: | Earls Court Exhibition Centre |
| Date: | 28 July – 11 August |
| Competitors: | 144 |
| Nations: | 12 |
| Gold: | (2nd title) |
| Prev: | 2008 |
| Next: | 2016 |
The women's tournament in volleyball at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was the 13th edition of the event in an Olympic Games, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB, in conjunction with the IOC. It was held at Earls Court Exhibition Centre from 28 July to 11 August 2012.[1]
Teams were seeded following the Serpentine system according to their ranking as of 15 January 2012.[2]
Twelve qualified nations were drawn into two groups, each consisting of six teams. After a robin-round, the four highest-placed teams in each group advanced to a knock-out round to decide the medals.
| Group A | Group B | |
|---|---|---|
| (Hosts) | (1) | |
| (3) | (2) | |
| (4) | (5) | |
| (7) | (6) | |
| (9) | (11) | |
| (16) | (13) |
See main article: article and Volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's team rosters.
Teams played a round-robin schedule within the pool and those with the top four point totals advanced to a knockout round. Teams were awarded three points for a 3–0 or 3–1 win, two points for a 3–2 win, one point for a 3–2 loss, and zero points for a 3–0 or 3–1 loss.[3] If at the end of pool play teams are tied the tiebreakers are (1) most wins, (2) set win ratio, (3) points ratio, and (4) head-to-head.[3] If three or more teams are tied, the tiebreakers are applied only to the matches between tied teams.[3]
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| Best Scorers | |||||
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| width=30 | Rank | width=180 | Name | width=50 | Points |
| 1 |  Kim Yeon-koung | 207 | |||
| 2 |  Destinee Hooker | 161 | |||
| 3 |  Saori Kimura | 142 | |||
| 4 |  Sheilla Castro | 140 | |||
| 5 |  Ekaterina Gamova | 124 | |||
| Best Spikers | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=30 | Rank | width=180 | Name | width=50 | |
| 1 | Destinee Hooker | 37.93 | |||
| 2 |  Simona Gioli | 37.78 | |||
| 3 | Kim Yeon-koung | 35.57 | |||
| 4 | Nataliya Goncharova | 34.22 | |||
| 5 | Ekaterina Gamova | 33.04 | |||
| Best Blockers | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=30 | Rank | width=180 | Name | width=50 | |
| 1 | Fabiana Claudino | 0.94 | |||
| 2 | Foluke Akinradewo | 0.93 | |||
| 3 | Simona Gioli | 0.91 | |||
| 4 | Destinee Hooker | 0.78 | |||
| 5 | Thaísa Menezes | 0.75 | |||
| Best Servers | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=30 | Rank | width=180 | Name | width=50 | |
| 1 | Sheilla Castro | 0.31 | |||
| 2 |  Hui Ruoqi | 0.31 | |||
| 3 | Lucia Bosetti | 0.30 | |||
| 4 | Ekaterina Gamova | 0.29 | |||
| 5 | Antonella Del Core | 0.26 | |||
| Best Diggers | |||||
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| width=30 | Rank | width=180 | Name | width=50 | |
| 1 |  Brenda Castillo | 6.10 | |||
| 2 | Zhang Xian | 4.77 | |||
| 3 | Yuko Sano | 4.11 | |||
| 4 | Kim Hae-ran | 3.90 | |||
| 5 | Yoshie Takeshita | 3.64 | |||
| Best Setters | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=30 | Rank | width=180 | Name | width=50 | |
| 1 | Yevgeniya Startseva | 12.79 | |||
| 2 | Wei Qiuyue | 12.08 | |||
| 3 | Yoshie Takeshita | 11.82 | |||
| 4 | Lindsey Berg | 9.74 | |||
| 5 | Danielle Lins | 9.72 | |||
| Best Receivers | |||||
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| width=30 | Rank | width=180 | Name | width=50 | |
| 1 | Fernanda Rodrigues | 81.32 | |||
| 2 | Svetlana Kryuchkova | 80.00 | |||
| 3 | Paola Croce | 77.88 | |||
| 4 | Antonella Del Core | 77.03 | |||
| 5 | Nicole Davis | 74.27 | |||
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| 12-woman roster | |
| Fabiana Claudino (c), Dani Lins, Paula Pequeno, Adenízia da Silva, Thaísa Menezes, Jaqueline Carvalho, Fernanda Ferreira, Tandara Caixeta, Natália Pereira, Sheilla Castro, Fabi Alvim (L), Fernanda Garay | |
| Head coach | |
| Zé Roberto |