# Beach volleyball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics – Boys' tournament

The boys' beach volleyball tournament at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China, took place between 17 and 27 August at Nanjing Olympic Sports Center.
Thirty-Six pairs were competing, the host country China withdrew their pair. Africa and Asia hosted a single qualification tournament while Europe created a Youth Continental Cup with different zonal stages ending with a final qualification tournament. South America created a six legged tour, though only five events were held where the six countries with the most points qualified and North, Central America and Caribbean hosted four zonal tournaments where the winners qualified to the Youth Olympics and a final tournament where the top two nations qualified. The remaining were Wild Cards.
To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 1999.

## Qualification

| Event | Location | Date | Total Teams | Qualified |
| Host Nation | - | - | 0 | China |
| EVCA Zone Qualification Tournament | Pigeon Point | 18–20 October 2013 | 1 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
| CAZOVA Zone Qualification Tournament | Maracus Bay | 26–28 November 2013 | 1 | Jamaica |
| Central Zone Qualification Tournament | Fajardo | 6–8 December 2013 | 1 | Canada |
| AFECAVOL Zone Qualification Tournament | Guatemala City | 1–2 February 2014 | 1 | Guatemala |
| AVC Qualification Tournament | Nakhon Si Thammarat | 4–6 April 2014 | 6 | Indonesia Iran Kazakhstan New Zealand Sri Lanka Thailand |
| CAVB Qualification Tournament | Accra | 11–13 April 2014 | 6 | Burundi Republic of the Congo Ghana Nigeria Rwanda Sierra Leone |
| NORCECA Final Qualification Tournament | Carolina | 12–13 April 2014 | 2 | Puerto Rico United States |
| 2014 CEV Youth Continental Cup Final | Antalya | 15–17 May 2014 | 6 | Finland France Germany Poland Russia Ukraine |
| CSV Youth Tour Final Rankings | - | 19 May 2014 | 6 | Uruguay Argentina Venezuela Peru Paraguay Brazil |
| Tripartite Invitation | - | - | 3 | Oman São Tomé and Príncipe Virgin Islands |
| Reallocation | - | - | 3 | Austria Lithuania Norway |
| TOTAL | | | 36 | |

## Main draw

Teams were seeded is the preliminary round according to the following draw:
| Rank | Team | NOC |
| 1 | Samuel Morris – Phillip Ayobami | Nigeria |
| 2 | Nate Moore – Kahurangi Robinson | New Zealand |
| 3 | Arnaud Gauthier-Rat – Arnaud Loiseau | France |
| 4 | Surin Jongklang – Banlue Nakprakhong | Thailand |
| 5 | Renato Bogarin – Elioth Frutos | Paraguay |
| 6 | Dominik Kmiecik – Jakub Macura | Poland |
| 7 | Elias Ndagano – Sylvestre Ndayisabye | Rwanda |
| 8 | Anders Berntsen Mol – Mathias Berntsen | Norway |
| 9 | Santiago Aulisi – Leo Aveiro | Argentina |
| 10 | Lumi Bramont – Jimy Heredia | Peru |
| 11 | Niklas Rudolf – Eric Stadie | Germany |
| 12 | Miro Määttänen – Santeri Siren | Finland |
| 13 | Samiei Alhammadi – Ahid Alsahi | Oman |
| 14 | Bryan Shavar – Rojey Hutchinson | Jamaica |
| 15 | Sergio Luis Figueroa – Daniel Rivera | Puerto Rico |
| 16 | Illia Kovalov – Oleh Plotnytskyi | Ukraine |
| 17 | Bosco Ndayishimiye – Fiston Niyongabo | Burundi |
| 18 | Rendy Licardo – Mohammad Ashfiya | Indonesia |
| 19 | Louis Richard – Torey DeFalco | United States |
| 20 | Oleg Stoyanovskiy – Artem Yarzutkin | Russia |
| 21 | Patrick Lombi – Abu Bakarr Kamara | Sierra Leone |
| 22 | Mohammadreza Shobeiri – Keyvan Sahneh | Iran |
| 23 | Arthur Lanci – George Wanderley | Brazil |
| 24 | Mauricio Vieyto – Marco Cairus | Uruguay |
| 25 | Delshun Welcome – Rodall Fraser | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
| 26 | Edvinas Vaškelis – Matas Navickas | Lithuania |
| 27 | Carlos Rosa – Ajai Sweeney | Virgin Islands |
| 28 | Andrew Richards – Jake MacNeil | Canada |
| 29 | Erik Flores – Mark Álvarez | Guatemala |
| 30 | Tigrito Gómez – Rolando Hernández | Venezuela |
| 31 | Johannes Kratz – Moritz Pristauz-Telsnigg | Austria |
| 32 | Thantrige Perera Mallawa – Isuru Madushan Siddihaluge | Sri Lanka |
| 33 | Aloisio De Souza – Alex Quaresma Marques | São Tomé and Príncipe |
| 34 | Philip Amissah – Nicholas Tetteh | Ghana |
| 35 | Moussa Botouli Ilombola – Johfrat Veldich Itoua Ossolo | Republic of the Congo |
| 36 | Yegor Dmitriyev – Sergey Polichshuk | Kazakhstan |

## Competition Formula

The competition formula consist of two rounds, the first a pool round where the 36 teams have been divided into six pools of six, each pool will play round robin. After the pool round is completed, the best team from each pool plus the two best second place teams will advance to the eight-finals; the rest of the second place teams plus the third and fourth place teams from each pool will advance to the Round of 24. The Round of 24 is a single elimination round, the winning teams will play against the eight-finalists in another single elimination round; next the quarterfinals, semifinals and final matches.
On August 17, it was announced that two pools will only consist of five teams due to two pairings being restricted from competition due to an Ebola outbreak in their countries. The results of the matches against these two teams will be a direct forfeit.

## Preliminary round
### Pool A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR | Qualification |
| 1 | Vieyto–Cairus | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 10.000 | 174 | 119 | 1.462 | Round of 16 |
| 2 | Määttänen–Siren | 5 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 4.500 | 176 | 122 | 1.443 | Round of 16 |
| 3 | Dmitriyev–Polichshuk | 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 1.200 | 154 | 168 | 0.917 | Round of 24 |
| 4 | Alhammadi–Alashi | 5 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 0.571 | 136 | 176 | 0.773 | Round of 24 |
| 5 | Delshun–Fraser | 5 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 0.500 | 139 | 194 | 0.716 | |
| 6 | Morris–Ayobami | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0.000 | 0 | 210 | 0.000 | |
| Date | Time | | Score | | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Total |
| 17 Aug | 09:00 | Määttänen–Siren | 2–0 | Delshun–Fraser | 21–11 | 21–11 | | 42–22 |
| 17 Aug | 09:00 | Alhammadi–Alashi | 0–2 | Vieyto–Cairus | 12–21 | 12–21 | | 24–42 |
| 18 Aug | 21:00 | Vieyto–Cairus | 2–1 | Määttänen–Siren | 21–14 | 11–21 | 16–14 | 48–49 |
| 18 Aug | 21:00 | Dmitriyev–Polichshuk | 2–0 | Alhammadi–Alashi | 21–17 | 21–19 | | 42–36 |
| 19 Aug | 19:00 | Alhammadi–Alashi | 0–2 | Määttänen–Siren | 11–21 | 10–21 | | 21–42 |
| 19 Aug | 19:00 | Dmitriyev–Polichshuk | 2–1 | Delshun–Fraser | 19–21 | 21–14 | 15–12 | 55–47 |
| 21 Aug | 15:00 | Määttänen–Siren | 2–0 | Dmitriyev–Polichshuk | 22–20 | 21–11 | | 43–31 |
| 21 Aug | 15:00 | Delshun–Fraser | 0–2 | Vieyto–Cairus | 9–21 | 11–21 | | 20–42 |
| 22 Aug | 09:00 | Vieyto–Cairus | 0–2 | Dmitriyev–Polichshuk | 13–21 | 13–21 | | 26–42 |
| 22 Aug | 09:00 | Delshun–Fraser | 1–2 | Alhammadi–Alashi | 15–21 | 21–18 | 14–16 | 50–55 |

### Pool B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR | Qualification |
| 1 | Rudolf–Stadie | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 10.000 | 229 | 164 | 1.396 | Round of 16 |
| 2 | Arthur–George | 5 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 4.500 | 227 | 164 | 1.384 | Round of 16 |
| 3 | Moore–Robinson | 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 1.200 | 191 | 195 | 0.979 | Round of 24 |
| 4 | Vaskelis–Navickas | 5 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 0.667 | 193 | 199 | 0.970 | Round of 24 |
| 5 | Botouli Ilombola–Itoua Ossolo | 5 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 0.250 | 163 | 215 | 0.758 | |
| 6 | Shavar–Hutchinson | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 0.100 | 159 | 225 | 0.707 | |
| Date | Time | | Score | | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Total |
| 17 Aug | 10:00 | Moore–Robinson | 2–0 | Botouli Ilombola–Itoua Ossolo | 21–8 | 22–20 | | 43–28 |
| 17 Aug | 10:00 | Vaskelis–Navickas | 0–2 | Rudolf–Stadie | 17–21 | 18–21 | | 35–42 |
| 17 Aug | 11:00 | Arthur–George | 2–0 | Shavar–Hutchinson | 21–8 | 21–12 | | 42–20 |
| 18 Aug | 10:00 | Rudolf–Stadie | 2–1 | Arthur–George | 24–26 | 22–20 | 15–12 | 61–58 |
| 18 Aug | 19:00 | Moore–Robinson | 2–0 | Vaskelis–Navickas | 21–19 | 21–18 | | 42–37 |
| 18 Aug | 20:00 | Botouli Ilombola–Itoua Ossolo | 2–0 | Shavar–Hutchinson | 23–21 | 21–17 | | 44–38 |
| 19 Aug | 20:00 | Arthur–George | 2–0 | Moore–Robinson | 21–17 | 21–10 | | 42–27 |
| 19 Aug | 21:00 | Rudolf–Stadie | 2–0 | Shavar–Hutchinson | 21–12 | 21–15 | | 42–27 |
| 19 Aug | 21:00 | Vaskelis–Navickas | 2–0 | Botouli Ilombola–Itoua Ossolo | 21–19 | 28–26 | | 49–45 |
| 21 Aug | 16:00 | Shavar–Hutchinson | 1–2 | Moore–Robinson | 19–21 | 21–19 | 6–15 | 46–55 |
| 21 Aug | 16:00 | Botouli Ilombola–Itoua Ossolo | 0–2 | Rudolf–Stadie | 9–21 | 11–21 | | 20–42 |
| 21 Aug | 19:00 | Arthur–George | 2–0 | Vaskelis–Navickas | 21–12 | 21–18 | | 42–30 |
| 22 Aug | 10:00 | Rudolf–Stadie | 2–0 | Moore–Robinson | 21–18 | 21–10 | | 42–28 |
| 22 Aug | 10:00 | Vaskelis–Navickas | 2–0 | Shavar–Hutchinson | 21–18 | 21–10 | | 42–28 |
| 22 Aug | 11:00 | Botouli Ilombola–Itoua Ossolo | 0–2 | Arthur–George | 20–22 | 6–21 | | 26–43 |

### Pool C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR | Qualification |
| 1 | Figueroa–Rivera | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 10.000 | 222 | 138 | 1.609 | Round of 16 |
| 2 | Gauthier-Rat–Loiseau | 5 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 4.500 | 216 | 130 | 1.662 | Round of 16 |
| 3 | Amissah–Tetteh | 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 0.857 | 218 | 234 | 0.932 | Round of 24 |
| 4 | Lumi–Jimy | 5 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 0.714 | 209 | 216 | 0.968 | Round of 24 |
| 5 | Shobeiri–Sahneh | 5 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 0.500 | 196 | 218 | 0.899 | |
| 6 | Rosa – Sweeney | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 0.100 | 97 | 223 | 0.435 | |
| Date | Time | | Score | | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Total |
| 17 Aug | 11:00 | Amissah–Tetteh | 0–2 | Gauthier-Rat–Loiseau | 9–21 | 11–21 | | 20–42 |
| 17 Aug | 15:00 | Rosa – Sweeney | 0–2 | Lumi–Jimy | 10–21 | 6–21 | | 16–42 |
| 17 Aug | 15:00 | Shobeiri–Sahneh | 0–2 | Figueroa–Rivera | 13–21 | 11–21 | | 24–42 |
| 18 Aug | 9:00 | Rosa – Sweeney | 0–2 | Gauthier-Rat–Loiseau | 4–21 | 9–21 | | 13–42 |
| 18 Aug | 9:00 | Shobeiri–Sahneh | 1–2 | Lumi–Jimy | 18–21 | 23–21 | 16–18 | 57–60 |
| 18 Aug | 10:00 | Amissah–Tetteh | 0–2 | Figueroa–Rivera | 13–21 | 16–21 | | 29–42 |
| 19 Aug | 15:00 | Rosa – Sweeney | 1–2 | Amissah–Tetteh | 21–19 | 13–21 | 9–15 | 43–55 |
| 19 Aug | 16:00 | Figueroa–Rivera | 2–1 | Lumi–Jimy | 21–17 | 21–13 | | 42–30 |
| 19 Aug | 20:00 | Shobeiri–Sahneh | 0–2 | Gauthier-Rat–Loiseau | 7–21 | 15–21 | | 22–42 |
| 21 Aug | 19:00 | Figueroa–Rivera | 2–1 | Gauthier-Rat–Loiseau | 21–17 | 18–21 | 15–10 | 54–48 |
| 21 Aug | 20:00 | Amissah–Tetteh | 2–1 | Lumi–Jimy | 16–21 | 21–15 | 22–20 | 59–56 |
| 21 Aug | 20:00 | Rosa – Sweeney | 0–2 | Shobeiri–Sahneh | 6–21 | 12–21 | | 18–42 |
| 22 Aug | 11:00 | Lumi–Jimy | 0–2 | Gauthier-Rat–Loiseau | 14–21 | 7–21 | | 21–42 |
| 22 Aug | 15:00 | Amissah–Tetteh | 2–1 | Shobeiri–Sahneh | 17–21 | 24–22 | 14–8 INJ | 55–51 |
| 22 Aug | 15:00 | Rosa – Sweeney | 0–2 | Figueroa–Rivera | 2–21 | 5–21 | | 7–42 |

### Pool D

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR | Qualification |
| 1 | Kovalov–Plotnytskyi | 5 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 4.500 | 187 | 150 | 1.247 | Round of 16 |
| 2 | Aulisi–Aveiro | 5 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 2.667 | 167 | 132 | 1.265 | Round of 16 |
| 3 | Richards–MacNeil | 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1.750 | 164 | 155 | 1.058 | Round of 24 |
| 4 | Jongklang–Nakprakhong | 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 1.200 | 169 | 166 | 1.018 | Round of 24 |
| 5 | De Souza–Marques | 5 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 0.250 | 84 | 168 | 0.500 | |
| 6 | Lombi–Kamara | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0.000 | 0 | 210 | 0.000 | |

### Pool E

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR | Qualification |
| 1 | Stoyanovskiy–Yarzutkin | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0 | MAX | 210 | 143 | 1.469 | Round of 16 |
| 2 | Mol–Berntsen | 5 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 4.000 | 203 | 144 | 1.410 | Round of 16 |
| 3 | Mallawa–Siddihaluge | 5 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 0.714 | 205 | 206 | 0.995 | Round of 24 |
| 4 | Bogarin–Frutos | 5 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 0.833 | 181 | 202 | 0.896 | Round of 24 |
| 5 | Flores–Álvarez | 5 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 0.571 | 177 | 208 | 0.851 | |
| 6 | Ndayishimiye–Niyongabo | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0.000 | 137 | 210 | 0.652 | |

### Pool F

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | SPW | SPL | SPR | Qualification |
| 1 | Gómez–Hernández | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 10.000 | 219 | 153 | 1.431 | Round of 16 |
| 2 | Licardo–Ashfiya | 5 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 4.000 | 200 | 175 | 1.143 | Round of 16 |
| 3 | Kratz–Pristauz-Telsnigg | 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 1.500 | 201 | 180 | 1.117 | Round of 24 |
| 4 | Kmiecik–Macura | 5 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 0.833 | 193 | 198 | 0.975 | Round of 24 |
| 5 | Richard–DeFalco | 5 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 0.250 | 179 | 197 | 0.909 | |
| 6 | Ndagano–Ndayisabye | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0.000 | 121 | 210 | 0.576 | |