# Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

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

| P | Preliminary round | ¼ | Quarter-finals | ½ | Semi-finals | B | Bronze medal match | F | Gold medal match |
| Sun 15 | Mon 16 | Tue 17 | Wed 18 | Thu 19 | Fri 20 | Sat 21 | Sun 22 | Mon 23 | Tue 24 | Wed 25 | Wed 25 | Thu 26 | Thu 26 | Fri 27 | Fri 27 | Sat 28 | Sun 29 | Sun 29 |
| P | | P | | P | | P | | P | | ¼ | ¼ | | | ½ | ½ | | B | F |

## Qualification

| Means of qualification | Date | Host | Vacancies | Qualified |
| Host Country | 5 September 1997 | Lausanne | 1 | Greece |
| 2003 World Cup | 16–30 November 2003 | Japan | 3 | Brazil |
| 2003 World Cup | 16–30 November 2003 | Japan | 3 | Italy |
| 2003 World Cup | 16–30 November 2003 | Japan | 3 | Serbia and Montenegro |
| African Qualifier | 5–10 January 2004 | Tunis | 1 | Tunisia |
| European Qualifier | 5–10 January 2004 | Leipzig | 1 | Russia |
| North American Qualifier | 4–10 January 2004 | Caguas | 1 | United States |
| South American Qualifier | 9–11 January 2004 | Caracas | 1 | Argentina |
| 1st World Qualifier | 21–23 May 2004 | Matosinhos | 1 | Poland |
| 2nd World Qualifier | 22–30 May 2004 | Tokyo | 1 | France |
| Asian Qualifier* | 22–30 May 2004 | Tokyo | 1 | Australia |
| 3rd World Qualifier | 28–30 May 2004 | Madrid | 1 | Netherlands |
| Total | Total | Total | 12 | |

## 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.
| Pool A | Pool B |
| Greece (Hosts) | Brazil (1) |
| Serbia and Montenegro (3) | Italy (2) |
| France (4) | Russia (5) |
| Argentina (8) | United States (6) |
| Poland (9) | Netherlands (12) |
| Tunisia (22) | Australia (21) |

## Venue

* All matches
* Piraeus, Athens, Greece
* Peace and Friendship Stadium
* Capacity: 10,520

## 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

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR | Qualification |
| 1 | Serbia and Montenegro | 5 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 2.000 | 427 | 398 | 1.073 | Quarterfinals |
| 2 | Greece | 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 9 | 1.333 | 475 | 454 | 1.046 | Quarterfinals |
| 3 | Argentina | 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 9 | 1.333 | 471 | 457 | 1.031 | Quarterfinals |
| 4 | Poland | 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 1.111 | 422 | 419 | 1.007 | Quarterfinals |
| 5 | France | 5 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 0.800 | 405 | 394 | 1.028 | |
| 6 | Tunisia | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 0.267 | 373 | 451 | 0.827 | |

### Pool B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR | Qualification |
| 1 | Brazil | 5 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 13 | 7 | 1.857 | 483 | 431 | 1.121 | Quarterfinals |
| 2 | Italy | 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 7 | 1.857 | 465 | 434 | 1.071 | Quarterfinals |
| 3 | United States | 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 1.375 | 437 | 423 | 1.033 | Quarterfinals |
| 4 | Russia | 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 1.222 | 452 | 430 | 1.051 | Quarterfinals |
| 5 | Netherlands | 5 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 0.636 | 391 | 419 | 0.933 | |
| 6 | Australia | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 0.133 | 331 | 422 | 0.784 | |

## Final round

* All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00).
| Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | | Gold medal match | Gold medal match |
| 25 August | 25 August | | | |
| Serbia and Montenegro | 1 | | | |
| Serbia and Montenegro | 1 | 27 August | 27 August | | |
| Russia | 3 | 27 August | 27 August | |
| Russia | 3 | Russia | 0 | |
| 25 August | 25 August | | Russia | 0 | |
| 25 August | 25 August | Italy | 3 | |
| Argentina | 1 | Italy | 3 | |
| Argentina | 1 | | | | 29 August | 29 August |
| Italy | 3 | | | | 29 August | 29 August |
| Italy | 3 | | | | Italy | 1 |
| 25 August | 25 August | | | | | Italy | 1 |
| 25 August | 25 August | | | | Brazil | 3 |
| Greece | 2 | | | | Brazil | 3 |
| Greece | 2 | 27 August | 27 August | | | |
| United States | 3 | 27 August | 27 August | | | |
| United States | 3 | United States | 0 | | | |
| 25 August | 25 August | | United States | 0 | | | |
| 25 August | 25 August | Brazil | 3 | | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| Poland | 0 | Brazil | 3 | | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| Poland | 0 | | | | 29 August | 29 August |
| Brazil | 3 | | | | 29 August | 29 August |
| Brazil | 3 | | | | Russia | 3 |
| | | | | | United States | 0 |

### Gold medal match
## Final standing

| Rank | Team |
| | Brazil |
| | Italy |
| | Russia |
| 4 | United States |
| 5 | Argentina |
| 5 | Greece |
| 5 | Poland |
| 5 | Serbia and Montenegro |
| 9 | France |
| 9 | Netherlands |
| 11 | Australia |
| 11 | Tunisia |
* 2004 Men's Olympic champions
* Brazil 2nd title
* 12–man roster
* Giovane, André Heller, Maurício, Giba, André, Sérgio (L), Anderson, Nalbert (c), Gustavo, Rodrigão, Ricardinho, Dante
* Head coach
* Bernardinho

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Brazil (BRA)Giovane Gávio André Heller Maurício Lima Gilberto Godoy Filho André Nascimento Sérgio Santos (L) Anderson Rodrigues Nalbert Bitencourt (c) Gustavo Endres Rodrigo Santana Ricardo Garcia Dante Amaral Head coach: Bernardinho | Italy (ITA)Luigi Mastrangelo Valerio Vermiglio Samuele Papi Andrea Sartoretti Alberto Cisolla Ventzislav Simeonov Damiano Pippi (L) Andrea Giani (c) Alessandro Fei Paolo Tofoli Paolo Cozzi Matej Černič Head coach: Gian Paolo Montali | Russia (RUS)Stanislav Dineykin Sergei Baranov Pavel Abramov Aleksey Kazakov Sergey Tetyukhin Vadim Khamuttskikh (c) Aleksandr Kosarev Konstantin Ushakov Taras Khtey Andrey Egorchev Aleksey Verbov (L) Aleksey Kuleshov Head coach: Gennady Shipulin |

## 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