Volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Men's volleyball
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Men's volleyball; at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	South Paris Arena
Date	27 July – 10 August
Competitors	144 from 12 nations
Medalists
	← 2020 2028 →

The men's tournament in volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics was the 16th 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 Paris, France from 27 July to 10 August 2024.^[1] This was the first time in the history of the Olympic volleyball competition, each team participating was entitled to include one non-competing (AP) athlete to replace an athlete for medical reasons.^[2]

France won its second straight title by defeating Poland (3–0) in the gold medal match.^[3] The United States defeated Italy (3–0) in the bronze medal match.^[4]

Competition schedule

The match schedule was announced on 2 July 2024.^[5]

P	Preliminary round	¼	Quarterfinals	½	Semifinals	B	Bronze medal match	F	Final

Sat 27	Sun 28	Mon 29	Tue 30	Wed 31	Thu 1	Fri 2	Sat 3	Sun 4	Mon 5	Tue 6	Wed 7	Thu 8	Fri 9	Sat 10
P	P		P	P		P	P		¼		½		B	F

Qualification

Qualification		Date	Venue	Berths	Qualified team
Host nation		—		1	France
FIVB Olympic Qualification Tournaments	Pool A	30 September – 8 October 2023	Rio de Janeiro	2	Germany
	Pool A		Rio de Janeiro	2	Brazil
	Pool B		Tokyo	2	United States
	Pool B		Tokyo	2	Japan
	Pool C		Xi'an	2	Poland
	Pool C		Xi'an	2	Canada
World Ranking qualification pathway		24 June 2024	—	5	Slovenia
					Italy
					Argentina
					Serbia
					Egypt
Total				12

Format

In a change of format compared to the previous nine editions of the Olympic Games, this tournament featured three groups with four teams each during the preliminary round (between 1972 Summer Olympics to 2020 Summer Olympics the teams were placed in two groups). At this round, the teams competed in a single round-robin format. The two highest ranked teams in each pool and the best two third-placed teams advanced to the knockout stage (quarterfinals).

The knockout stage followed the single-elimination format. The match-ups were determined by teams combined ranking system, #1 vs #8 (QF1), #2 vs #7 (QF2), #3 vs #6 (QF3), #4 vs #5 (QF4). The winners advanced to semifinals, QF1 vs QF4, QF3 vs QF2. The losers competed for bronze medals and the winners for gold medals.^[6]

Draw

The twelve qualified teams were seeded according to their position in the FIVB World Ranking as of 24 June 2024. As the host team, France was seeded first and placed in the top position of Pool A. The two top ranked teams seeded second and third were placed at the top of Pools B and C respectively. The remaining nine teams were distributed across three bowls of three teams each based on their position in the World Ranking and drawn for their seed line by line applying the serpentine system.^[2] The draw took place on 26 June 2024.^[7]^[8] Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked seventh.^[9]

Seeding

Seeded teams	Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
France Poland Japan	Slovenia Italy United States	Brazil Argentina Canada	Serbia Germany Egypt

Pools composition

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C
France (Hosts)	Poland (1)	Japan (2)
Slovenia (3)	Italy (4)	United States (5)
Canada (9)	Brazil (6)	Argentina (8)
Serbia (10)	Egypt (19)	Germany (11)

Pool standing procedure and teams combined ranking system

Pool standing procedure
In order to establish the ranking of teams after the group stage, the following criteria was implemented:^[10]

Number of matches won
Match points
Sets ratio
Points ratio
Result of the last match between the tied teams

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

Teams combined ranking system
In order to determine teams playing in quarterfinals and their match-ups:^[2]

Pool Position
Number of matches won
Match points
Sets ratio
Points ratio
Head-to-head
World ranking

Rosters

Referees

The following referees were selected for the tournament.^[11]

Karina Rene
Angela Grass
Ivaylo Ivanov
Scott Dziewirz
Wang Ziling
Denny Cespedes
Wael Kandil
Fabrice Collados
Epaminondas Gerothodoros
Stefano Cesare
Sumie Myoi
Wojciech Maroszek
Juraj Mokrý
Vladimir Simonović
Nurper Özbar
Hamid Al-Rousi

Preliminary round

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Slovenia	3	3	0	8	9	3	3.000	282	252	1.119	Quarterfinals
2	France (H)	3	2	1	6	8	5	1.600	290	260	1.115	Quarterfinals
3	Serbia	3	1	2	3	5	8	0.625	256	293	0.874
4	Canada	3	0	3	1	3	9	0.333	254	277	0.917

Source: Olympics
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Host

28 July 2024 (2024-07-28) 17:00	France	3–2	Serbia	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,372 Referees: Juraj Mokrý (SVK), Hamid Al-Rousi (UAE)
	(23–25, 25–17, 25–17, 21–25, 15–6) P2 Report

28 July 2024 (2024-07-28) 21:00	Slovenia	3–1	Canada	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,381 Referees: Wojciech Maroszek (POL), Wael Kandil (EGY)
	(25–21, 25–20, 20–25, 25–21) P2 Report

30 July 2024 (2024-07-30) 17:00	Slovenia	3–0	Serbia	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,138 Referees: Denny Cespedes (DOM), Stefano Cesare (ITA)
	(25–21, 25–19, 25–19) P2 Report

30 July 2024 (2024-07-30) 21:00	France	3–0	Canada	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,365 Referees: Ivaylo Ivanov (BUL), Epaminondas Gerothodoros (GRE)
	(25–20, 25–21, 25–17) P2 Report

2 August 2024 (2024-08-02) 17:00	France	2–3	Slovenia	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,505 Referees: Vladimir Simonović (SUI), Wojciech Maroszek (POL)
	(20–25, 23–25, 27–25, 25–22, 11–15) P2 Report

3 August 2024 (2024-08-03) 21:00	Canada	2–3	Serbia	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,398 Referees: Stefano Cesare (ITA), Epaminondas Gerothodoros (GRE)
	(25–16, 25–22, 24–26, 19–25, 16–18) P2 Report

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Italy	3	3	0	9	9	2	4.500	269	224	1.201	Quarterfinals
2	Poland	3	2	1	5	7	5	1.400	260	256	1.016
3	Brazil	3	1	2	4	6	6	1.000	273	241	1.133
4	Egypt	3	0	3	0	0	9	0.000	144	225	0.640

Source: Olympics
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

27 July 2024 (2024-07-27) 13:00	Italy	3–1	Brazil	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,485 Referees: Vladimir Simonovic (SUI), Scott Dziewirz (CAN)
	(25–23, 27–25, 18–25, 25–21) P2 Report

27 July 2024 (2024-07-27) 17:00	Poland	3–0	Egypt	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,408 Referees: Epaminondas Gerothodoros (GRE), Ivaylo Ivanov (BUL)
	(25–21, 25–19, 25–13) P2 Report

30 July 2024 (2024-07-30) 09:00	Italy	3–0	Egypt	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,415 Referees: Hamid Al-Rousi (UAE), Wojciech Maroszek (POL)
	(25–15, 25–16, 25–20) P2 Report

31 July 2024 (2024-07-31) 09:00	Poland	3–2	Brazil	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,464 Referees: Stefano Cesare (ITA), Denny Cespedes (DOM)
	(22–25, 25–19, 19–25, 25–23, 15–12) P2 Report

2 August 2024 (2024-08-02) 13:00	Brazil	3–0	Egypt	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,407 Referees: Scott Dziewirz (CAN), Wang Ziling (CHN)
	(25–11, 25–13, 25–16) P2 Report

3 August 2024 (2024-08-03) 17:00	Poland	1–3	Italy	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,441 Referees: Juraj Mokrý (SVK), Denny Cespedes (DOM)
	(15–25, 18–25, 26–24, 20–25) P2 Report

Pool C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	United States	3	3	0	8	9	3	3.000	270	232	1.164	Quarterfinals
2	Germany	3	2	1	6	8	5	1.600	287	264	1.087
3	Japan	3	1	2	4	6	7	0.857	278	292	0.952
4	Argentina	3	0	3	0	1	9	0.111	196	243	0.807

Source: Olympics
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

27 July 2024 (2024-07-27) 09:00	Japan	2–3	Germany	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,897 Referees: Fabrice Collados (FRA), Denny Cespedes (DOM)
	(17–25, 25–23, 25–20, 28–30, 12–15) P2 Report

27 July 2024 (2024-07-27) 21:00	United States	3–0	Argentina	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,464 Referees: Stefano Cesare (ITA), Wojciech Maroszek (POL)
	(25–20, 25–19, 25–16) P2 Report

30 July 2024 (2024-07-30) 13:00	United States	3–2	Germany	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,275 Referees: Scott Dziewirz (CAN), Vladimir Simonović (SUI)
	(25–21, 25–17, 17–25, 20–25, 15–11) P2 Report

31 July 2024 (2024-07-31) 13:00	Japan	3–1	Argentina	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,474 Referees: Wojciech Maroszek (POL), Vladimir Simonović (SUI)
	(25–16, 25–22, 18–25, 25–23) P2 Report

2 August 2024 (2024-08-02) 09:00	Argentina	0–3	Germany	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,455 Referees: Fabrice Collados (FRA), Hamid Al-Rousi (UAE)
	(13–25, 21–25, 21–25) P2 Report

2 August 2024 (2024-08-02) 21:00	Japan	1–3	United States	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,369 Referees: Ivaylo Ivanov (BUL), Juraj Mokrý (SVK)
	(16–25, 18–25, 25–18, 19–25) P2 Report

Combined ranking

Pos	Pool	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Rank
1	B	Italy	3	3	0	9	9	2	4.500	269	224	1.201	First in each of the pools
2	C	United States	3	3	0	8	9	3	3.000	270	232	1.164
3	A	Slovenia	3	3	0	8	9	3	3.000	282	252	1.119

4	A	France (H)	3	2	1	6	8	5	1.600	290	260	1.115	Second in each of the pools
5	C	Germany	3	2	1	6	8	5	1.600	287	264	1.087
6	B	Poland	3	2	1	5	7	5	1.400	260	256	1.016

7	B	Brazil	3	1	2	4	6	6	1.000	273	241	1.133	Third in each of the pools
8	C	Japan	3	1	2	4	6	7	0.857	278	292	0.952	Third in each of the pools
9	A	Serbia	3	1	2	3	5	8	0.625	256	293	0.874	Third in the pool

10	A	Canada	3	0	3	1	3	9	0.333	254	277	0.917	Fourth in each of the pools
11	C	Argentina	3	0	3	0	1	9	0.111	196	243	0.807
12	B	Egypt	3	0	3	0	0	9	0.000	144	225	0.640

Source: Olympics
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Host

Knockout stage

Bracket

Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Gold medal match

5 August

Italy	3
		7 August
Japan	2
		Italy	0
5 August
		France	3
France	3
				10 August
Germany	2
				France	3
5 August
				Poland	0
Slovenia	1
		7 August
Poland	3
		Poland	3
5 August
		United States	2	Bronze medal match
United States	3
				9 August
Brazil	1
				Italy	0

				United States	3

Quarterfinals

5 August 2024 (2024-08-05) 09:00	Slovenia	1–3	Poland	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,274 Referees: Scott Dziewirz (CAN), Stefano Cesare (ITA)
	(20–25, 26–24, 19–25, 20–25) P2 Report

5 August 2024 (2024-08-05) 13:00	Italy	3–2	Japan	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,166 Referees: Ivaylo Ivanov (BUL), Wojciech Maroszek (POL)
	(20–25, 23–25, 27–25, 26–24, 17–15) P2 Report

5 August 2024 (2024-08-05) 17:00	France	3–2	Germany	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,405 Referees: Juraj Mokrý (SVK), Denny Cespedes (DOM)
	(18–25, 26–28, 25–20, 25–21, 15–13) P2 Report

5 August 2024 (2024-08-05) 21:00	United States	3–1	Brazil	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,346 Referees: Vladimir Simonović (SUI), Fabrice Collados (FRA)
	(26–24, 28–30, 25–19, 25–19) P2 Report

Semifinals

7 August 2024 (2024-08-07) 16:00	Poland	3–2	United States	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,333 Referees: Stefano Cesare (ITA), Fabrice Collados (FRA)
	(25–23, 25–27, 14–25, 25–23, 15–13) P2 Report

7 August 2024 (2024-08-07) 20:00	Italy	0–3	France	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,547 Referees: Denny Cespedes (DOM), Ivaylo Ivanov (BUL)
	(20–25, 21–25, 21–25) P2 Report

Bronze medal match

9 August 2024 (2024-08-09) 16:00	Italy	0–3	United States	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,376 Referees: Ivaylo Ivanov (BUL), Epaminondas Gerothodoros (GRE)
	(23–25, 28–30, 24–26) P2 Report

Gold medal match

10 August 2024 (2024-08-10) 13:00	France	3–0	Poland	South Paris Arena 1, Paris Attendance: 9,233 Referees: Stefano Cesare (ITA), Hamid Al-Rousi (UAE)
	(25–19, 25–20, 25–23) P2 Report

Final standing

Rank	Team^[12]
	France
	Poland
	United States
4	Italy
5	Slovenia
6	Germany
7	Japan
8	Brazil
9	Serbia
10	Canada
11	Argentina
12	Egypt

2024 Men's Olympic champions
France 2nd title

12–man roster

Barthélémy Chinenyeze, Jenia Grebennikov (L), Jean Patry, Benjamin Toniutti (c), Kévin Tillie, Earvin N'Gapeth, Antoine Brizard, Nicolas Le Goff, Trévor Clévenot, Yacine Louati, Théo Faure, Quentin Jouffroy

Head coach

Andrea Giani

Medalists

Awards

The awards were announced on 10 August 2024.^[12]^[14]

Position	Player
Most valuable player	Earvin N'Gapeth
Setter	Antoine Brizard
Outside hitters	Earvin N'Gapeth
Outside hitters	Trévor Clévenot
Middle blockers	Jakub Kochanowski
Middle blockers	Taylor Averill
Opposite spiker	Jean Patry
Libero	Jenia Grebennikov

Statistics leaders

Only players whose teams advanced to the semifinals were ranked.

Best Scorers

Rank	Name	Points
1	Wilfredo León	103
2	Yuri Romanò	100
3	Earvin N'Gapeth	92
4	Aaron Russell	90
5	Alessandro Michieletto	89
5	Matt Anderson	89

Best Spikers

Rank	Name	%Eff
1	Yuri Romanò	46.75
2	Aaron Russell	45.14
3	Trévor Clévenot	43.80
4	Matt Anderson	37.97
5	Alessandro Michieletto	36.09

Best Blockers

Rank	Name	Avg
1	Gianluca Galassi	0.68
2	Taylor Averill	0.67
3	Roberto Russo	0.64
4	Barthélémy Chinenyeze	0.54
5	Daniele Lavia	0.50

Best Servers

Rank	Name	Avg
1	Wilfredo León	0.63
2	Antoine Brizard	0.46
3	Yuri Romanò	0.41
4	Maxwell Holt	0.33
4	Norbert Huber	0.33

Best Diggers

Rank	Name	Avg
1	Fabio Balaso	2.64
2	Jenia Grebennikov	2.04
2	Erik Shoji	2.04
4	Yuri Romanò	1.55
5	Paweł Zatorski	1.50

Best Setters

Rank	Name	Avg
1	Micah Christenson	8.75
2	Antoine Brizard	7.13
3	Marcin Janusz	6.25
4	Simone Giannelli	6.05
5	Benjamin Toniutti	1.13

Best Receivers

Rank	Name	%Succ
1	Jenia Grebennikov	57.80
2	Earvin N'Gapeth	55.40
3	Paweł Zatorski	55.33
4	Aaron Russell	55.26
5	Trévor Clévenot	53.70

Source: Olympics.com

References

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External links

[1] "Paris Olympic Schedule". Archived from the original on 16 May 2024. Retrieved 12 October 2023.

[formatt-2] "2024 In Focus: Excitement Builds For Olympic Games Paris 2024" (Press release). FIVB. Archived from the original on 10 January 2024. Retrieved 10 January 2024.

[3] Hendricks, Maggie (10 August 2024). "Paris 2024 men's volleyball: All results as France defend Olympic title". Olympics. Retrieved 10 August 2024.

[4] Estes, Gentry (9 August 2024). "USA men's volleyball rebounds from 'devastating' loss to defeat Italy for bronze medal". USA Today. Retrieved 10 August 2024.

[5] "Brazil and Italy to meet on the first day of Paris 2024 as men's match schedule is announced" (Press release). FIVB. 2 July 2024. Archived from the original on 2 July 2024. Retrieved 2 July 2024.

[format-6] "NEW VOLLEYBALL FORMAT FOR PARIS 2024". Paris2024. Archived from the original on 18 December 2023. Retrieved 12 October 2023.

[7] "Paris 2024 volleyball Drawing of Lots to be held at the VNL Finals". Volleyball World. Retrieved 12 June 2024.

[8] "Get ready to watch the Olympic Games Paris 2024 Volleyball Men's Drawing of Lots!" (Press release). FIVB. Retrieved 26 June 2024.

[9] "Paris 2024 men's volleyball pools set" (Press release). FIVB. Archived from the original on 26 June 2024. Retrieved 26 June 2024.

[10] "Pools Ranking Criteria". Volleyball World. Archived from the original on 31 July 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2021.

[11] "Znamy nazwiska sędziów na igrzyska olimpijskie". Strefa Siatkówki (in Polish). 18 July 2024. Archived from the original on 22 July 2024. Retrieved 18 July 2024.

[fs&awardees-12] "Final Standing" (PDF). Olympics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 August 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024.

[medallists-13] "Medallists" (PDF). Olympics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 August 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024.

[14] "French star Ngapeth repeats as Paris 2024 MVP". Volleyball World. 10 August 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024.

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Gold	Silver	Bronze
France^[13] Barthélémy Chinenyeze Jenia Grebennikov (L) Jean Patry Benjamin Toniutti (c) Kévin Tillie Earvin N'Gapeth Antoine Brizard Nicolas Le Goff Trévor Clévenot Yacine Louati Théo Faure Quentin Jouffroy Head coach: Andrea Giani	Poland^[13] Łukasz Kaczmarek Bartosz Kurek (c) Wilfredo León Aleksander Śliwka Grzegorz Łomacz Jakub Kochanowski Kamil Semeniuk Paweł Zatorski (L) Marcin Janusz Mateusz Bieniek Tomasz Fornal Norbert Huber Bartłomiej Bołądź Head coach: Nikola Grbić	United States^[13] Matt Anderson Aaron Russell Jeffrey Jendryk Torey DeFalco Micah Christenson (c) Maxwell Holt Micah Maʻa Thomas Jaeschke Garrett Muagututia Taylor Averill David Smith Erik Shoji (L) Head coach: John Speraw