Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament explained

Event:	Women's volleyball
Games:	2016 Summer
Venue:	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho
Date:	6–20 August
Competitors:	144
Nations:	12
Gold:	(3rd title)
Prev:	2012
Next:	2020

The women's tournament in volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics was the 14th edition of the event at an Olympic Games, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB, in conjunction with the IOC. It was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 6 to 20 August 2016.

China won their third gold by defeating Serbia in the final.^[1] The United States won bronze by winning against the Netherlands.^[2]

The medals for the competition were presented by Yu Zaiqing, People's Republic of China; Anita DeFrantz, United States of America; and Chang Ung, Democratic People's Republic of Korea; members of the International Olympic Committee, and the gifts were presented by Ary Graça, Cristóbal Marte Hoffiz and Aleksandar Boričić, President and Executive Vice-Presidents of the FIVB.

Competition schedule

P	Preliminary round	¼	Quarter-finals	½	Semi-finals	B	Bronze medal match	F	Final

Sat 6	Sun 7	Mon 8	Tue 9	Wed 10	Thu 11	Fri 12	Sat 13	Sun 14	Mon 15	Tue 16		Wed 17		Thu 18		Fri 19	Sat 20
P		P		P		P		P		¼				½			B	F

Qualification

See main article: article and Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification.

Pools composition

Teams were seeded following the Serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of October 2015.^[3] FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Rankings are shown in brackets except Hosts who ranked 3rd. The pools were confirmed on 23 May 2016.^[4]

width=50%	Pool A	width=50%	Pool B
(Hosts)	(1)
(4)	(2)
(5)	(6)
(9)	(8)
(12)	(14)
(21)	(16)

Rosters

See main article: article and Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's team rosters.

Venue

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ginásio do Maracanãzinho
Capacity: 11,800

Format

The preliminary round was a competition between the twelve teams divided into two pools of six teams. This round, the teams competed in a single round-robin format. The four highest ranked teams in each group advanced to the knockout stage (quarter-finals). The sixth placed teams in each pool was ranked eleventh in this competition. The fifth placed teams in each pool was ranked ninth.
The knockout stage followed the single-elimination format. The losers of the quarter-finals were eliminated and ranked fifth. The quarter-final winners played in the semi-finals. The winners of the semi-finals competed for gold medals and the losers played for bronze medals.

Pool standing procedure

In order to establish the ranking of teams after the group stage, the following criteria should be implemented:^[5]

Number of matches won
Match points
Set ratio
Setpoint ratio
Results between tied teams (head-to-head record)

Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser

Referees

The following referees were selected for the tournament.^[6]

Hernán Casamiquela
Arturo Di Giacomo
Rogerio Espicalsky
Paulo Turci
Liu Jiang
Denny Cespedes
Nasr Shaaban
Heike Kraft
Mohammad Shahmiri
Fabrizio Pasquali
Luis Macias
Piotr Dudek
Ibrahim Al-Naama
Andrey Zenovich
Vladimir Simonović
Juraj Mokrý
Kang Joo-hee
Susana Rodríguez
Taoufik Boudaya
Patricia Rolf

Preliminary round

All times are Brasília Time .

Pool A

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Pool B

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Knockout stage

All times are Brasília Time .

The first ranked teams of both pools played against the fourth ranked teams of the other pool. The second ranked teams faced the second or third ranked teams of the other pool, determined by drawing of lots. The drawing of lots was held after the last match in the preliminary round.

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Statistics leaders

Only players whose teams advanced to the semifinals are ranked.

Best scorers

width=30	Rank	width=180	Name	width=50	Points
1	Zhu Ting	179
2	Lonneke Slöetjes	157
3	Tijana Bošković	137
4	Brankica Mihajlović	121
5	Anne Buijs	104
Foluke Akinradewo	104

Best spikers

width=30	Rank	width=180	Name	width=50
1	Zhu Ting	42.27
2	Brankica Mihajlović	31.60
3	Lonneke Slöetjes	28.57
Jordan Larson	28.57
5	Kimberly Hill	28.00

Best blockers

width=30	Rank	width=180	Name	width=50
1	Milena Rašić	0.83
2	Robin de Kruijf	0.76
3	Foluke Akinradewo	0.56
Rachael Adams	0.56
5	Zhu Ting	0.48

Best servers

width=30	Rank	width=180	Name	width=50
1	Milena Rašić	0.57
2	Tijana Bošković	0.33
3	Anne Buijs	0.30
4	Hui Ruoqi	0.29
5	Jordan Larson	0.26

Best diggers

width=30	Rank	width=180	Name	width=50
1	Debby Stam	2.30
2	Lin Li	1.90
3	Silvija Popović	1.80
4	Kayla Banwarth	1.75
5	Jordan Larson	1.56

Best setters

width=30	Rank	width=180	Name	width=50
1	Alisha Glass	10.47
2	Laura Dijkema	10.36
3	Maja Ognjenović	9.03
4	Ding Xia	5.52
5	Wei Qiuyue	4.74

Best receivers

width=30	Rank	width=180	Name	width=50
1	Silvija Popović	45.32
2	Jordan Larson	44.05
3	Kayla Banwarth	41.72
4	Zhu Ting	39.16
5	Lin Li	35.06

Source: FIVB.org

Final standing

width=40	Rank	width=180	Team



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12–woman roster
Ding Xia, Gong Xiangyu, Hui Ruoqi (c), Lin Li (L), Liu Xiaotong, Wei Qiuyue, Xu Yunli, Yan Ni, Yang Fangxu, Yuan Xinyue, Zhang Changning, Zhu Ting
Head coach
Lang Ping