# Volleyball at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

The men's tournament in volleyball at the 2000 Summer Olympics was the 10th 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 Sydney, Australia from 17 September to 1 October 2000.

## Qualification

| Means of qualification | Date | Host | Vacancies | Qualified |
| Host Country | 24 September 1993 | Monte Carlo | 1 | Australia |
| 1999 World Cup | 18 November – 2 December 1999 | Japan | 3 | Russia |
| 1999 World Cup | 18 November – 2 December 1999 | Japan | 3 | Cuba |
| 1999 World Cup | 18 November – 2 December 1999 | Japan | 3 | Italy |
| African Qualifier | 25–30 January 2000 | Cairo | 1 | Egypt |
| Asian Qualifier | 27–29 December 1999 | Shanghai | 1 | South Korea |
| European Qualifier | 3–9 January 2000 | Katowice | 1 | FR Yugoslavia |
| North American Qualifier | 5–8 January 2000 | Winnipeg | 1 | United States |
| South American Qualifier | 7–9 January 2000 | São Caetano do Sul | 1 | Brazil |
| 1st World Qualifier | 21–23 July 2000 | Matosinhos | 1 | Argentina |
| 2nd World Qualifier | 24–26 July 2000 | Piraeus | 1 | Spain |
| 3rd World Qualifier | 25–27 July 2000 | Castelnau-le-Lez | 1 | Netherlands |
| Total | Total | 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) |

## Venues

| Main venue | Sub venue |
| Sydney, Australia | Sydney, Australia |
| Sydney Entertainment Centre | Sydney Showground Pavilion 4 |
| Capacity: 10,517 | Capacity: 6,000 |

## Preliminary round

* The top four teams in each pool qualified for the quarterfinals.

### Pool A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR | Qualification |
| 1 | Brazil | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 15 | 1 | 15.000 | 415 | 331 | 1.254 | Quarterfinals |
| 2 | Netherlands | 5 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 2.400 | 417 | 360 | 1.158 | Quarterfinals |
| 3 | Cuba | 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 1.286 | 383 | 335 | 1.143 | Quarterfinals |
| 4 | Australia | 5 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 0.600 | 327 | 374 | 0.874 | Quarterfinals |
| 5 | Spain | 5 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 0.583 | 404 | 444 | 0.910 | |
| 6 | Egypt | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 0.067 | 309 | 411 | 0.752 | |

### Pool B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR | Qualification |
| 1 | Italy | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 15 | 4 | 3.750 | 482 | 421 | 1.145 | Quarterfinals |
| 2 | Russia | 5 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 13 | 7 | 1.857 | 465 | 443 | 1.050 | Quarterfinals |
| 3 | FR Yugoslavia | 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 9 | 1.333 | 489 | 461 | 1.061 | Quarterfinals |
| 4 | Argentina | 5 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 0.636 | 409 | 446 | 0.917 | Quarterfinals |
| 5 | South Korea | 5 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 0.571 | 491 | 504 | 0.974 | |
| 6 | United States | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 0.333 | 417 | 478 | 0.872 | |

## Final round

| Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | | Gold medal match | Gold medal match |
| 27 September | 27 September | | | |
| Brazil | 1 | | | |
| Brazil | 1 | 29 September | 29 September | | |
| Argentina | 3 | 29 September | 29 September | |
| Argentina | 3 | Argentina | 1 | |
| 27 September | 27 September | | Argentina | 1 | |
| 27 September | 27 September | Russia | 3 | |
| Cuba | 2 | Russia | 3 | |
| Cuba | 2 | | | | 1 October | 1 October |
| Russia | 3 | | | | 1 October | 1 October |
| Russia | 3 | | | | Russia | 0 |
| 27 September | 27 September | | | | | Russia | 0 |
| 27 September | 27 September | | | | FR Yugoslavia | 3 |
| Netherlands | 2 | | | | FR Yugoslavia | 3 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 29 September | 29 September | | | |
| FR Yugoslavia | 3 | 29 September | 29 September | | | |
| FR Yugoslavia | 3 | FR Yugoslavia | 3 | | | |
| 27 September | 27 September | | FR Yugoslavia | 3 | | | |
| 27 September | 27 September | Italy | 0 | | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| Australia | 1 | Italy | 0 | | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| Australia | 1 | | | | 1 October | 1 October |
| Italy | 3 | | | | 1 October | 1 October |
| Italy | 3 | | | | Argentina | 0 |
| | | | | | Italy | 3 |
| 5th–8th semifinals | 5th–8th semifinals | 5th place match | 5th place match |
| 28 September | 28 September |
| Brazil | 3 |
| Brazil | 3 | 29 September | 29 September |
| Cuba | 2 | 29 September | 29 September |
| Cuba | 2 | Brazil | 0 |
| 28 September | 28 September | | Brazil | 0 |
| 28 September | 28 September | Netherlands | 3 |
| Netherlands | 3 | Netherlands | 3 |
| Australia | 0 | | |
| Australia | 0 | 7th place match | 7th place match |
| | | 29 September | 29 September |
| | | Cuba | 3 |
| | | Australia | 0 |

### Gold medal match
## Final standing

| Rank | Team |
| | FR Yugoslavia |
| | Russia |
| | Italy |
| 4 | Argentina |
| 5 | Netherlands |
| 6 | Brazil |
| 7 | Cuba |
| 8 | Australia |
| 9 | South Korea |
| 10 | Spain |
| 11 | United States |
| 12 | Egypt |
* 2000 Men's Olympic champions
* FR Yugoslavia 1st title
* 12–man roster
* Vladimir Batez, Slobodan Kovač, Slobodan Boškan, Đula Mešter, Vasa Mijić, N. Grbić, V. Grbić, Andrija Gerić, Goran Vujević, Ivan Miljković, Veljko Petković, Igor Vušurović
* Head coach
* Zoran Gajić

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| FR 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 Head coach: Zoran Gajić | 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 Head coach: Gennady Shipulin | 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 Head coach: Andrea Anastasi |

## Awards

* Most valuable player
    Bas van de Goor
* Best scorer
    Marcos Milinkovic
* Best spiker
    Daniel Howard
* Best blocker
    Andrija Gerić
* Best server
    Osvaldo Hernández
* Best digger
    Vasa Mijić
* Best setter
    Peter Blangé
* Best libero
    Evgeni Mitkov
* Best receiver
    Pablo Meana