Volleyball at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Women's volleyball
at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Women's volleyball; at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	University of Georgia Coliseum; Omni Coliseum
Date	20 July – 3 August
Competitors	144 from 12 nations
Medalists
	← 1992 2000 →

The 1996 women's Olympic volleyball tournament was the ninth edition of the event, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB in conjunction with the International Olympic Committee. It was held from 20 July to 3 August 1996 at the Stegeman Coliseum of The University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia and at the Omni Coliseum in Atlanta, Georgia.^[1] 12 teams competed, up from eight in 1992.

Qualification

Qualifiers	Date	Host	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Country	18 September 1990	Tokyo	1	United States
1995 Women's World Cup	3–17 November 1995	Japan	3	Cuba
				Brazil
				China
European Qualification			1	Germany
North American Qualification			1	Canada
South American Qualification			1	Peru
Asian Qualification			1	South Korea
African Qualification ^[2]			1	Russia
1996 Olympic Qualification Tournament	26 May −2 June 1996	Tokyo, Japan	3	Netherlands
				Japan
				Ukraine
Total			12

Format

In 1991, the International Olympic Committee alongside the FIVB decided to increase the number of countries participating in the women's volleyball tournament at the Summer Olympic Games from 8 to 12 and thus equalize the number of athletes in the two tournaments.As the men's event, the tournament was played in two different stages. In the Preliminary round (first stage), the twelve participants were divided into two pools of six teams. A single round-robin format was played within each pool to determine the teams position in the pool. The four highest ranked teams in each pool advanced to the Final round (second stage) and the two lowest ranked teams took no further participation (with pool places 5th and 6th being ranked in the final standings as joined 9th ad 11th, respectively).

The Final round was played in a single elimination format, with placement matches determining the top eight positions. Starting at the quarterfinals, winners advanced to the semifinals while losers advanced to the placement matches (5th–8th semifinal).

Pools composition

Teams were seeded following the Serpentine system according to their ranking as of January 1996.^[3]

Pool A	Pool B
United States (hosts)	Cuba (1st)
Japan (4th)	Brazil (2nd)
China (5th)	Russia (7th)
South Korea (6th)	Germany (8th)
Netherlands	Peru
Ukraine	Canada

Rosters

Venues

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	China	5	5	0	10	15	3	5.000	256	181	1.414	Quarterfinals
2	United States	5	4	1	9	13	5	2.600	241	198	1.217
3	Netherlands	5	3	2	8	10	7	1.429	211	179	1.179
4	South Korea	5	2	3	7	10	9	1.111	249	222	1.122
5	Japan	5	1	4	6	3	12	0.250	158	199	0.794
6	Ukraine	5	0	5	5	0	15	0.000	89	225	0.396

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

20 July 1996	Netherlands	0–3	China
	(10–15 ,5–15, 7–15) Report

20 July 1996	Japan	0–3	South Korea
	(10–15, 12–15, 10–15) Report

20 July 1996	United States	3–0	Ukraine
	(15–8, 15–5, 15–11) Report

22 July 1996	China	3–2	South Korea
	(17–16, 16–14, 2–15, 13–15, 15–13) Report

22 July 1996	Ukraine	0–3	Japan
	(9–15, 5–15, 4–15) Report

22 July 1996	Netherlands	1–3	United States
	(15–12, 10–15, 15–17, 7–15) Report

24 July 1996	Japan	0–3	Netherlands
	(3–15, 10–15, 3–15) Report

24 July 1996	United States	1–3	China
	(8–15, 2–15, 15–12, 12–15) Report

24 July 1996	South Korea	3–0	Ukraine
	(15–3, 15–10, 15–7) Report

26 July 1996	Netherlands	3–1	South Korea
	(15–11, 15–12, 7–15, 15–8) Report

26 July 1996	China	3–0	Ukraine
	(15–4, 15–4, 15–6) Report

26 July 1996	United States	3–0	Japan
	(15–11 ,15–7, 15–12) Report

28 July 1996	Japan	0–3	China
	(14–16, 11–15, 10–15) Report

28 July 1996	South Korea	1–3	United States
	(15–10, 13–15, 9–15, 3–15) Report

28 July 1996	Ukraine	0–3	Netherlands
	(3–15, 5–15, 5–15) Report

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Brazil	5	5	0	10	15	1	15.000	238	121	1.967	Quarterfinals
2	Russia	5	4	1	9	12	4	3.000	217	140	1.550
3	Cuba	5	3	2	8	10	6	1.667	196	156	1.256
4	Germany	5	2	3	7	7	9	0.778	163	191	0.853
5	Canada	5	1	4	6	3	14	0.214	156	239	0.653
6	Peru	5	0	5	5	2	15	0.133	129	252	0.512

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

20 July 1996	Russia	3–0	Germany
	(15–5 ,15–10, 15–7) Report

20 July 1996	Canada	0–3	Cuba
	(8–15, 8–15, 5–15) Report

20 July 1996	Brazil	3–0	Peru
	(15–7, 15–1, 15–5) Report

22 July 1996	Russia	3–0	Canada
	(15–1, 15–7, 15–9) Report

22 July 1996	Germany	3–0	Peru
	(15–11, 15–6, 15–3) Report

22 July 1996	Cuba	0–3	Brazil
	(11–15, 10–15, 4–15) Report

24 July 1996	Canada	0–3	Germany
	(5–15, 12–15, 6–15) Report

24 July 1996	Brazil	3–0	Russia
	(15–3, 15–11, 15–13) Report

24 July 1996	Peru	0–3	Cuba
	(2–15, 5–15, 10–15) Report

26 July 1996	Russia	3–0	Peru
	(15–11, 15–8, 15–1) Report

26 July 1996	Germany	0–3	Cuba
	(6–15, 8–15, 4–15) Report

26 July 1996	Canada	0–3	Brazil
	(6–15, 6–15, 11–15) Report

28 July 1996	Brazil	3–1	Germany
	(15–4, 13–15, 15–6, 15–8) Report

28 July 1996	Cuba	1–3	Russia
	(15–10, 6–15, 7–15, 8–15) Report

28 July 1996	Peru	2–3	Canada
	(17–16, 6–15, 15–11, 9–15, 12–15) Report

Final round

Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final

30 July

China	3
		1 August
Germany	0
		China	3
30 July
		Russia	1
Netherlands	1
				3 August
Russia	3
				China	1
30 July
				Cuba	3
United States	0
		1 August
Cuba	3
		Cuba	3
30 July
		Brazil	2	Third place
South Korea	0
				3 August
Brazil	3
				Russia	2

				Brazil	3

5–8th place		5th place

31 July

Germany	2
		1 August
Netherlands	3
		Netherlands	3
31 July
		South Korea	0
United States	0

South Korea	3
		7th place

		1 August

		Germany	1

		United States	3

Quarterfinals

30 July 1996	China	3–0	Germany
	(15–12 ,15–8 ,15–8) Report

30 July 1996	Netherlands	1–3	Russia
	(15–10, 7–15, 9–15, 10–15) Report

30 July 1996	United States	0–3	Cuba
	(1–15, 10–15, 12–15) Report

30 July 1996	South Korea	0–3	Brazil
	(4–15, 2–15, 10–15) Report

5th–8th places

Semifinals

31 July 1996	Germany	2–3	Netherlands
	(12–15, 15–9, 15–13, 9–15, 10–15) Report

31 July 1996	United States	0–3	South Korea
	(12–15, 5–15, 11–15) Report

7th place match

1 August 1996	Germany	1–3	United States
	(16–17, 6–15, 15–5, 6–15) Report

5th place match

1 August 1996	Netherlands	3–0	South Korea
	(15–9 ,15–9, 15–13) Report

1st–4th places

Semifinals

1 August 1996	China	3–1	Russia
	(12–15, 15–5, 15–8, 15–12) Report

1 August 1996	Cuba	3–2	Brazil
	(5–15, 15–8, 10–15, 15–13, 15–12) Report

Bronze medal match

3 August 1996	Russia	2–3	Brazil
	(13–15, 15–4, 14–16, 15–8, 13–15) Report

Gold medal match

3 August 1996	China	1–3	Cuba
	(16–14, 12–15, 16–17, 6–15) Report

Final standings

Place	Team
	Cuba
	China
	Brazil
4	Russia
5	Netherlands
6	South Korea
7	United States
8	Germany
9	Japan
10	Canada
11	Peru
12	Ukraine

1996 Women's Olympic champions
Cuba 2nd title

12-woman roster

Yumilka Ruiz, Marlenis Costa, Mireya Luis, Lilia Izquierdo, Idalmis Gato, Raisa O'Farril, Regla Bell, Regla Torres, Taismary Agüero, Ana Fernández, Magalys Carvajal, Mirka Francia

Head coach

Eugenio George

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Cuba (CUB) Yumilka Ruiz Marlenis Costa Mireya Luis Lilia Izquierdo Idalmis Gato Raisa O'Farril Regla Bell Regla Torres Taismary Agüero Ana Fernández Magalys Carvajal Mirka Francia Head coach: Eugenio George	China (CHN) Lai Yawen (c) Li Yan Cui Yongmei Zhu Yunying Wu Yongmei Wang Yi He Qi Pan Wenli Liu Xiaoning Wang Ziling Sun Yue Wang Lina Head coach: Lang Ping	Brazil (BRA) Ana Moser Ana Ida Alvares Ana Paula Connelly Leila Barros Hilma Caldeira Virna Dias Márcia Cunha Ericleia Bodziak Ana Flávia Sanglard Fernanda Venturini Hélia Souza Sandra Suruagy Head coach: Bernardinho

Individual awards

Most valuable player
Cintha Boersma (NED)

Best spiker
Cui Yongmei (CHN)

Best blocker
Magaly Carvajal (CUB)

Best server
Henriëtte Weersing (NED)

Best digger
Ikumi Narita (JPN)

Best setter
Riëtte Fledderus (NED)

Best receiver
Lai Yawen (CHN)

References

^ "Volleyball at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Women's Volleyball". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
^ Russia was transferred to play in this zone. No more African teams were interested to play. Initial host had to be Egypt. They withdrew due to lack of funds. Nigeria had to play in the Intercontinental Qualifications in Japan Olympics Women OQ 1996. Withdrew and was replaced by Romania. The 2 African teams played after a protest at the inclusion in the Africa zone of Russia. https://web.archive.org/web/20150628215914/http://www.todor66.com/volleyball/Africa/Women_OQ_1996.html
^ FIVB (January 1996). "FIVB World Rankings – Women".

External links

[SR-1] "Volleyball at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Women's Volleyball". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 12 February 2019.

[2] Russia was transferred to play in this zone. No more African teams were interested to play. Initial host had to be Egypt. They withdrew due to lack of funds. Nigeria had to play in the Intercontinental Qualifications in Japan Olympics Women OQ 1996. Withdrew and was replaced by Romania. The 2 African teams played after a protest at the inclusion in the Africa zone of Russia. https://web.archive.org/web/20150628215914/http://www.todor66.com/volleyball/Africa/Women_OQ_1996.html

[3] FIVB (January 1996). "FIVB World Rankings – Women".

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Volleyball at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Contents

Qualification

Format

Pools composition

Rosters

Venues

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Final round

Quarterfinals

5th–8th places

Semifinals

7th place match

5th place match

1st–4th places

Semifinals

Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Final standings

Medalists

Individual awards

See also

References

External links