| Event: | Men's volleyball |
| Games: | 2020 Summer |
| Venue: | Ariake Arena |
| Date: | 24 July – 7 August 2021 |
| Competitors: | 144 |
| Nations: | 12 |
| Gold: | (1st title) |
| Prev: | 2016 |
| Next: | 2024 |
The men's tournament in volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics was the 15th edition of the event at the Summer Olympics, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB, in conjunction with the IOC. It was held in Tokyo, Japan from 24 July to 7 August 2021.[1] It was originally scheduled to take place from 25 July to 8 August 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the IOC and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee announced on 24 March 2020 that the 2020 Summer Olympics would be delayed to 2021.[2] Because of this pandemic, all matches were played behind closed doors.[3]
France won their first gold and overall medal with a 3–2 win over the Russian team that competed as the ROC.[4] Argentina won the bronze medal in a narrow 3–2 victory over Brazil.[5]
The medals for the competition were presented by Bernard Rajzman, IOC Member, Olympian, and Silver Medalist, Brazil; and the medalists' bouquets were presented by Ary Graça, FIVB President; Brazil.
| P | Preliminary round | ¼ | Quarterfinals | ½ | Semifinals | B | Bronze medal match | F | Final |
| Sat 24 | Sun 25 | Mon 26 | Tue 27 | Wed 28 | Thu 29 | Fri 30 | Sat 31 | Sun 1 | Mon 2 | Tue 3 | Wed 4 | Thu 5 | Fri 6 | Sat 7 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | P | P | P | P | ¼ | ½ | B | F | |||||||||||
See main article: Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification.
The preliminary round was a competition between the twelve teams, who were 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 pool advanced to the knockout stage (quarterfinals).
The knockout stage followed the single-elimination format. The losers of the quarterfinals were eliminated. The quarterfinal winners played in the semifinals. The winners of the semifinals competed for gold medal and the losers played for bronze medal.[6]
Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 15 October 2019.[7] 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 who ranked 10th. The pools were confirmed on 31 January 2020.[8]
| width=50% | Pool A | width=50% | Pool B |
|---|---|---|---|
| (Hosts) | (1) | ||
| (3) | (2) | ||
| (4) | (5) | ||
| (7) | (6) | ||
| (8) | (9) | ||
| (36) | (22) |
See main article: Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's team rosters.
| All matches | |
|---|---|
| Tokyo, Japan | |
| Ariake Arena | |
| Capacity: 15,000 | |
In order to establish the ranking of teams after the group stage, the following criteria should be implemented:[9]
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
The following referees were selected for the tournament.[10]
Hernán Casamiquela
Paulo Turci
Liu Jiang
Denny Cespedes
Fabrice Collados
Daniele Rapisarda
Shin Muranaka Sumie Myoi
Luis Macias
Wojciech Maroszek
Evgeny Makshanov
Vladimir Simonović
Juraj Mokrý
Kang Joo-hee
Susana Rodríguez
Patricia Rolf
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| width=40 | Rank | width=180 | Team[12] [13] |
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| 12 |
| 12–man Roster | |
| Barthélémy Chinenyeze, Jenia Grebennikov (L), Jean Patry, Benjamin Toniutti (c), Kévin Tillie, Earvin N'Gapeth, Antoine Brizard, Stéphen Boyer, Nicolas Le Goff, Daryl Bultor, Trévor Clévenot, Yacine Louati | |
| Head coach | |
| Laurent Tillie |
The awards were announced on 7 August 2021.[12] [14]
| width=140 | Position | width=200 | Player |
|---|---|---|---|
| Most valuable player | Earvin N'Gapeth | ||
| Setter | Luciano De Cecco | ||
| Outside hitters | Earvin N'Gapeth | ||
| Egor Kliuka | |||
| Middle blockers | Ivan Iakovlev | ||
| Barthélémy Chinenyeze | |||
| Opposite spiker | Maxim Mikhaylov | ||
| Libero | Jenia Grebennikov |
| width=30 | Rank | width=180 | Name | width=50 | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bruno Lima | 138 | |||
| 2 | Earvin N'Gapeth | 136 | |||
| 3 | Jean Patry | 135 | |||
| 4 | Maksim Mikhaylov | 130 | |||
| 5 | Facundo Conte | 125 |
| width=30 | Rank | width=180 | Name | width=50 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jean Patry | 42.06 | |||
| 2 | Trévor Clévenot | 34.03 | |||
| 3 | Maksim Mikhaylov | 33.33 | |||
| 4 | Yoandy Leal | 33.16 | |||
| 5 | Ricardo Lucarelli | 32.37 |
| width=30 | Rank | width=180 | Name | width=50 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ivan Iakovlev | 0.70 | |||
| 2 | Lucas Saatkamp | 0.66 | |||
| 3 | Agustín Loser | 0.63 | |||
| 4 | Barthélémy Chinenyeze | 0.61 | |||
| Nicolas Le Goff |
| width=30 | Rank | width=180 | Name | width=50 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ricardo Lucarelli | 0.38 | |||
| 2 | Bruno Lima | 0.26 | |||
| 3 | Antoine Brizard | 0.24 | |||
| 4 | Egor Kliuka | 0.23 | |||
| 5 | Jean Patry | 0.21 |
| width=30 | Rank | width=180 | Name | width=50 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thales Hoss | 2.25 | |||
| 2 | Jenia Grebennikov | 1.94 | |||
| 3 | Valentin Golubev | 1.73 | |||
| 4 | Santiago Danani | 1.66 | |||
| 5 | Bruno Rezende | 1.22 |
| width=30 | Rank | width=180 | Name | width=50 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bruno Rezende | 10.78 | |||
| 2 | Luciano De Cecco | 10.34 | |||
| 3 | Igor Kobzar | 8.73 | |||
| 4 | Antoine Brizard | 7.09 | |||
| 5 | Benjamin Toniutti | 4.12 |
| width=30 | Rank | width=180 | Name | width=50 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thales Hoss | 73.15 | |||
| 2 | Santiago Danani | 67.08 | |||
| 3 | Egor Kliuka | 66.67 | |||
| 4 | Trévor Clévenot | 64.74 | |||
| 5 | Facundo Conte | 62.56 |
Source: Olympics.com