Beach volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Men's beach volleyball
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
VenueHorse Guards Parade
Dates28 July – 9 August
Competitors48 from 19 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Julius Brink
Jonas Reckermann		  Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Alison Cerutti
Emanuel Rego		  Brazil
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Mārtiņš Pļaviņš
Jānis Šmēdiņš		  Latvia
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The men's beach volleyball tournament at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, United Kingdom, took place between 28 July and 9 August at Horse Guards Parade.[1]

Twenty-four pairs were competing, including one from Great Britain as the host country, and a maximum of two from each nation. Sixteen qualified through positioning in the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Rankings as of 17 June 2012, five others earned their places at the 2010–12 Continental Beach Volleyball Cup, and the final three from the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Cup Olympic Qualification tournament.[2]

Seeds

Rank Team NOC
1 Alison Cerutti – Emanuel Rego  Brazil
2 Phil Dalhausser – Todd Rogers  United States
3 Julius Brink – Jonas Reckermann  Germany
4 Jake Gibb – Sean Rosenthal  United States
5 Reinder Nummerdor – Richard Schuil  Netherlands
6 John Garcia Thompson – Steve Grotowski  Great Britain
7 Pedro Cunha – Ricardo Santos  Brazil
8 Jonathan Erdmann – Kay Matysik  Germany
9 Grzegorz Fijałek – Mariusz Prudel  Poland
10 Wu Penggen – Xu Linyin  China
11 Adrián Gavira – Pablo Herrera  Spain
12 Jefferson Bellaguarda – Patrick Heuscher  Switzerland
13 Daniele Lupo – Paolo Nicolai  Italy
14 Petr Beneš – Přemysl Kubala  Czech Republic
15 Sébastien Chevallier – Sascha Heyer  Switzerland
16 Aleksandrs Samoilovs – Ruslans Sorokins  Latvia
17 Mārtiņš Pļaviņš – Jānis Šmēdiņš  Latvia
18 Tarjei Skarlund – Martin Spinnangr  Norway
19 Josh Binstock – Martin Reader  Canada
20 Igor Hernández – Jesus Villafañe  Venezuela
21 Freedom Chiya – Grant Goldschmidt  South Africa
22 Sergey Prokopiev – Konstantin Semenov  Russia
23 Kentaro Asahi – Katsuhiro Shiratori  Japan
24 Clemens Doppler – Alexander Horst  Austria

Preliminary round

The composition of the preliminary rounds was announced confirmed on 19 July 2012 in a draw held in Klagenfurt, Austria.[3]

Teams are awarded two points for a win and one for a loss.[4] If two teams are tied at the end of pool play, the tiebreakers is their head-to-head match.[4] If two teams are tied at the end of pool play, the tiebreakers is their head-to-head match.[4] If three or more teams are tied, the tiebreakers are (1) points ratio between tied teams, (2) points ratio within pool, and (3) tournament seed.[4] The two best teams from each group directly advance to the round-of-16. The two best 3rd-placed teams also advance. The remaining four third-placed teams play one another in two Lucky Loser matches, and the two winners complete the list of 16 playoff teams.[5]

Pool A

Pos Team Pld W L Pts SW SL SR SPW SPL SPR Qualification
1  Alison – Emanuel (BRA) 3 3 0 6 6 1 6.000 145 123 1.179 Round of 16
2  Bellaguarda – Heuscher (SUI) 3 1 2 4 2 4 0.500 111 118 0.941
3  Lupo – Nicolai (ITA) 3 1 2 4 2 4 0.500 119 126 0.944 3rd place/Lucky Loser playoffs
4  Doppler – Horst (AUT) 3 1 2 4 3 4 0.750 128 136 0.941 Eliminated
Source: [citation needed]
29 July 2012
11:00 		 Alison – Emanuel (BRA) 2–1  Doppler – Horst (AUT) Horse Guards Parade
(19–21, 21–17, 16–14)
Report
29 July 2012
23:00 		 Bellaguarda – Heuscher (SUI) 0–2  Lupo – Nicolai (ITA) Horse Guards Parade
(19–21, 18–21)
Report
31 July 2012
10:00 		 Alison – Emanuel (BRA) 2–0  Bellaguarda – Heuscher (SUI) Horse Guards Parade
(21–17, 21–12)
Report
31 July 2012
22:00 		 Lupo – Nicolai (ITA) 0–2  Doppler – Horst (AUT) Horse Guards Parade
(18–21, 17–21)
Report
2 August 2012
10:00 		 Alison – Emanuel (BRA) 2–0  Lupo – Nicolai (ITA) Horse Guards Parade
(26–24, 21–18)
Report
2 August 2012
20:00 		 Bellaguarda – Heuscher (SUI) 2–0  Doppler – Horst (AUT) Horse Guards Parade
(24–22, 21–12)
Report

Pool B

Pos Team Pld W L Pts SW SL SR SPW SPL SPR Qualification
1  Dalhausser – Rogers (USA) 3 3 0 6 6 1 6.000 139 109 1.275 Round of 16
2  Gavira – Herrera (ESP) 3 2 1 5 5 2 2.500 139 133 1.045
3  Beneš – Kubala (CZE) 3 1 2 4 2 5 0.400 120 128 0.938 3rd place/Lucky Loser playoffs
4  Asahi – Shiratori (JPN) 3 0 3 3 1 6 0.167 110 138 0.797 Eliminated
Source: [citation needed]
29 July 2012
10:00 		 Gavira – Herrera (ESP) 2–0  Beneš – Kubala (CZE) Horse Guards Parade
(25–23, 21–16)
Report
29 July 2012
22:00 		 Dalhausser – Rogers (USA) 2–0  Asahi – Shiratori (JPN) Horse Guards Parade
(21–15, 21–16)
Report
31 July 2012
09:00 		 Beneš – Kubala (CZE) 2–1  Asahi – Shiratori (JPN) Horse Guards Parade
(17–21, 21–12, 15–7)
Report
31 July 2012
21:00 		 Dalhausser – Rogers (USA) 2–1  Gavira – Herrera (ESP) Horse Guards Parade
(19–21, 21–16, 15–13)
Report
2 August 2012
14:30 		 Gavira – Herrera (ESP) 2–0  Asahi – Shiratori (JPN) Horse Guards Parade
(21–19, 22–20)
Report
2 August 2012
21:00 		 Dalhausser – Rogers (USA) 2–0  Beneš – Kubala (CZE) Horse Guards Parade
(21–13, 21–15)
Report

Pool C

Pos Team Pld W L Pts SW SL SR SPW SPL SPR Qualification
1  Brink – Reckermann (GER) 3 3 0 6 6 1 6.000 133 114 1.167 Round of 16
2  Chevallier – Heyer (SUI) 3 2 1 5 4 4 1.000 145 151 0.960
3  Prokopiev – Semenov (RUS) 3 1 2 4 3 5 0.600 157 163 0.963
4  Wu – Xu (CHN) 3 0 3 3 3 6 0.500 157 164 0.957 Eliminated
Source: [citation needed]
28 July 2012
12:00 		 Brink – Reckermann (GER) 2–0  Prokopiev – Semenov (RUS) Horse Guards Parade
(21–19, 21–17)
Report
28 July 2012
14:30 		 Wu – Xu (CHN) 1–2  Chevallier – Heyer (SUI) Horse Guards Parade
(21–18, 16–21, 12–15)
Report
30 July 2012
14:30 		 Brink – Reckermann (GER) 2–1  Wu – Xu (CHN) Horse Guards Parade
(13–21, 21–19, 15–8)
Report
30 July 2012
20:00 		 Chevallier – Heyer (SUI) 2–1  Prokopiev – Semenov (RUS) Horse Guards Parade
(28–26, 18–21, 15–13)
Report
1 August 2012
11:00 		 Wu – Xu (CHN) 1–2  Prokopiev – Semenov (RUS) Horse Guards Parade
(27–29, 21–17, 12–15)
Report
1 August 2012
21:00 		 Brink – Reckermann (GER) 2–0  Chevallier – Heyer (SUI) Horse Guards Parade
(21–14, 21–16)
Report

Pool D

Pos Team Pld W L Pts SW SL SR SPW SPL SPR Qualification
1  Gibb – Rosenthal (USA) 3 2 1 5 4 2 2.000 119 89 1.337 Round of 16
2  Fijałek – Prudel (POL) 3 2 1 5 5 2 2.500 132 115 1.148
3  Samoilovs – Sorokins (LAT) 3 2 1 5 4 3 1.333 116 113 1.027
4  Chiya – Goldschmidt (RSA) 3 0 3 3 0 6 0.000 76 126 0.603 Eliminated
Source: [citation needed]
28 July 2012
11:00 		 Fijałek – Prudel (POL) 1–2  Samoilovs – Sorokins (LAT) Horse Guards Parade
(21–12, 15–21, 12–15)
Report
28 July 2012
22:00 		 Gibb – Rosenthal (USA) 2–0  Chiya – Goldschmidt (RSA) Horse Guards Parade
(21–10, 21–11)
Report
30 July 2012
12:00 		 Samoilovs – Sorokins (LAT) 2–0  Chiya – Goldschmidt (RSA) Horse Guards Parade
(21–13, 21–10)
Report
30 July 2012
21:00 		 Gibb – Rosenthal (USA) 0–2  Fijałek – Prudel (POL) Horse Guards Parade
(17–21, 18–21)
Report
1 August 2012
12:00 		 Fijałek – Prudel (POL) 2–0  Chiya – Goldschmidt (RSA) Horse Guards Parade
(21–19, 21–13)
Report
1 August 2012
16:30 		 Gibb – Rosenthal (USA) 2–0  Samoilovs – Sorokins (LAT) Horse Guards Parade
(21–10, 21–16)
Report

Pool E

Pos Team Pld W L Pts SW SL SR SPW SPL SPR Qualification
1  Pļaviņš – Šmēdiņš (LAT) 3 3 0 6 6 1 6.000 141 113 1.248 Round of 16
2  Nummerdor – Schuil (NED) 3 2 1 5 4 3 1.333 127 116 1.095
3  Erdmann – Matysik (GER) 3 1 2 4 3 5 0.600 132 148 0.892 3rd place/Lucky Loser playoffs
4  Hernández – Villafañe (VEN) 3 0 3 3 2 6 0.333 128 151 0.848 Eliminated
Source: [citation needed]
29 July 2012
14:30 		 Nummerdor – Schuil (NED) 2–1  Hernández – Villafañe (VEN) Horse Guards Parade
(21–18, 17–21, 15–10)
Report
29 July 2012
15:30 		 Erdmann – Matysik (GER) 1–2  Pļaviņš – Šmēdiņš (LAT) Horse Guards Parade
(21–19, 21–23, 9–15)
Report
31 July 2012
14:30 		 Pļaviņš – Šmēdiņš (LAT) 2–0  Hernández – Villafañe (VEN) Horse Guards Parade
(21–14, 21–16)
Report
31 July 2012
15:30 		 Nummerdor – Schuil (NED) 2–0  Erdmann – Matysik (GER) Horse Guards Parade
(21–9, 21–16)
Report
2 August 2012
09:00 		 Nummerdor – Schuil (NED) 0–2  Pļaviņš – Šmēdiņš (LAT) Horse Guards Parade
(14–21, 18–21)
Report
2 August 2012
15:30 		 Erdmann – Matysik (GER) 2–1  Hernández – Villafañe (VEN) Horse Guards Parade
(20–22, 21–16, 15–11)
Report

Pool F

Pos Team Pld W L Pts SW SL SR SPW SPL SPR Qualification
1  Ricardo – Cunha (BRA) 3 3 0 6 6 0 MAX 129 101 1.277 Round of 16
2  Skarlund – Spinnangr (NOR) 3 2 1 5 4 2 2.000 117 107 1.093
3  Binstock – Reader (CAN) 3 1 2 4 2 4 0.500 114 119 0.958 3rd place/Lucky Loser playoffs
4  Garcia Thompson – Grotowski (GBR) 3 0 3 3 0 6 0.000 94 127 0.740 Eliminated
Source: [citation needed]
28 July 2012
16:30 		 Garcia Thompson – Grotowski (GBR) 0–2  Binstock – Reader (CAN) Horse Guards Parade
(19–21, 13–21)
Report
28 July 2012
20:00 		 Ricardo – Cunha (BRA) 2–0  Skarlund – Spinnangr (NOR) Horse Guards Parade
(21–14, 21–18)
Report
30 July 2012
11:00 		 Skarlund – Spinnangr (NOR) 2–0  Binstock – Reader (CAN) Horse Guards Parade
(21–14, 21–18)
Report
30 July 2012
17:30 		 Garcia Thompson – Grotowski (GBR) 0–2  Ricardo – Cunha (BRA) Horse Guards Parade
(17–21, 12–21)
Report
1 August 2012
17:30 		 Garcia Thompson – Grotowski (GBR) 0–2  Skarlund – Spinnangr (NOR) Horse Guards Parade
(20–22, 13–21)
Report
1 August 2012
20:00 		 Ricardo – Cunha (BRA) 2–0  Binstock – Reader (CAN) Horse Guards Parade
(21–18, 24–22)
Report

Lucky loser

Of the 6 teams that are placed third in their pools, two directly qualify for the playoffs. From the four remaining third placed teams, another two teams qualify for the playoffs by winning a Lucky Loser match.

This table shows the results of the third placed teams after the pool play, and before the Lucky Loser matches.

Pos Team Pld W L Pts SW SL SR SPW SPL SPR Qualification
1  Samoilovs – Sorokins (LAT) 3 2 1 5 4 3 1.333 116 113 1.027 Round of 16
2  Prokopiev – Semenov (RUS) 3 1 2 4 3 5 0.600 157 163 0.963
3  Erdmann – Matysik (GER) 3 1 2 4 3 5 0.600 132 148 0.892 Lucky loser play-offs
4  Binstock – Reader (CAN) 3 1 2 4 2 4 0.500 114 119 0.958
5  Lupo – Nicolai (ITA) 3 1 2 4 2 4 0.500 119 126 0.944
6  Beneš – Kubala (CZE) 3 1 2 4 2 5 0.400 120 128 0.938
Source: [citation needed]

Lucky loser play-offs

2 August 2012
23:00 		 Binstock – Reader (CAN) 0–2  Lupo – Nicolai (ITA) Horse Guards Parade
(16–21, 20–22)
Report
2 August 2012
23:00 		 Erdmann – Matysik (GER) 2–1  Beneš – Kubala (CZE) Horse Guards Parade
(15–21, 21–19, 15–13)
Report

Playoffs

Round of 16

3 August 2012
10:00 		 Fijałek – Prudel (POL) 2–0  Chevallier – Heyer (SUI) Horse Guards Parade
(21–18, 21–17)
Report
3 August 2012
13:00 		 Pļaviņš – Šmēdiņš (LAT) 2–0  Skarlund – Spinnangr (NOR) Horse Guards Parade
(21–18, 21–16)
Report
3 August 2012
18:00 		 Lupo – Nicolai (ITA) 2–0  Dalhausser – Rogers (USA) Horse Guards Parade
(21–17, 21–19)
Report
3 August 2012
21:00 		 Gavira – Herrera (ESP) 0–2  Ricardo – Cunha (BRA) Horse Guards Parade
(18–21, 19–21)
Report
4 August 2012
10:00 		 Alison – Emanuel (BRA) 2–0  Erdmann – Matysik (GER) Horse Guards Parade
(21–16, 21–14)
Report
4 August 2012
14:00 		 Nummerdor – Schuil (NED) 2–0  Bellaguarda – Heuscher (SUI) Horse Guards Parade
(22–20, 21–15)
Report
4 August 2012
17:00 		 Brink – Reckermann (GER) 2–0  Samoilovs – Sorokins (LAT) Horse Guards Parade
(21–12, 21–17)
Report
4 August 2012
22:00 		 Prokopiev – Semenov (RUS) 0–2  Gibb – Rosenthal (USA) Horse Guards Parade
(14–21, 20–22)
Report

Finals overview

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
               
1  Alison – Emanuel (BRA) 21 16 17
9  Fijałek – Prudel (POL) 17 21 15
1  Alison – Emanuel (BRA) 21 22
17  Pļaviņš – Šmēdiņš (LAT) 15 20
17  Pļaviņš – Šmēdiņš (LAT) 19 21 15
4  Gibb – Rosenthal (USA) 21 18 11
1  Alison – Emanuel (BRA) 21 21 14
3  Brink – Reckermann (GER) 23 16 16
3  Brink – Reckermann (GER) 21 21
7  Ricardo – Cunha (BRA) 15 19
3  Brink – Reckermann (GER) 21 21 Bronze medal match
5  Nummerdor – Schuil (NED) 14 16
5  Nummerdor – Schuil (NED) 21 21 17  Pļaviņš – Šmēdiņš (LAT) 19 21 15
13  Lupo – Nicolai (ITA) 16 18 5  Nummerdor – Schuil (NED) 21 19 11

Quarter-finals

6 August 2012
18:00 		 Alison – Emanuel (BRA) 2–1  Fijałek – Prudel (POL) Horse Guards Parade
(21–17, 16–21, 17–15)
Report
6 August 2012
19:00 		 Pļaviņš – Šmēdiņš (LAT) 2–1  Gibb – Rosenthal (USA) Horse Guards Parade
(19–21, 21–18, 15–11)
Report
6 August 2012
22:00 		 Brink – Reckermann (GER) 2–0  Ricardo – Cunha (BRA) Horse Guards Parade
(21–15, 21–19)
Report
6 August 2012
23:00 		 Nummerdor – Schuil (NED) 2–0  Lupo – Nicolai (ITA) Horse Guards Parade
(21–16, 21–18)
Report

Semi-finals

7 August 2012
17:00 		 Alison – Emanuel (BRA) 2–0  Pļaviņš – Šmēdiņš (LAT) Horse Guards Parade
(21–15, 22–20)
Report
7 August 2012
23:00 		 Brink – Reckermann (GER) 2–0  Nummerdor – Schuil (NED) Horse Guards Parade
(21–14, 21–16)
Report

Bronze medal match

9 August 2012
19:00 		 Pļaviņš – Šmēdiņš (LAT) 2–1  Nummerdor – Schuil (NED) Horse Guards Parade
(19–21, 21–19, 15–11)
Report

Final

9 August 2012
21:00 		 Alison – Emanuel (BRA) 1–2  Brink – Reckermann (GER) Horse Guards Parade
(21–23, 21–16, 14–16)
Report

Final ranking

Rank Team Seed
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Julius Brink – Jonas Reckermann (GER) 3
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Alison Cerutti – Emanuel Rego (BRA) 1
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Mārtiņš Pļaviņš – Jānis Šmēdiņš (LAT) 17
4.  Reinder Nummerdor – Richard Schuil (NED) 5
5.  Jake Gibb – Sean Rosenthal (USA) 4
 Ricardo Santos – Pedro Cunha (BRA) 7
 Grzegorz Fijałek – Mariusz Prudel (POL) 9
 Daniele Lupo – Paolo Nicolai (ITA) 13
9.  Phil Dalhausser – Todd Rogers (USA) 2
 Jonathan Erdmann – Kay Matysik (GER) 8
 Adrián Gavira – Pablo Herrera (ESP) 11
 Jefferson Bellaguarda – Patrick Heuscher (SUI) 12
 Sébastien Chevallier – Sascha Heyer (SUI) 15
 Aleksandrs Samoilovs – Ruslans Sorokins (LAT) 16
 Tarjei Skarlund – Martin Spinnangr (NOR) 18
 Sergey Prokopiev – Konstantin Semenov (RUS) 22
17.  Petr Beneš – Přemysl Kubala (CZE) 14
 Josh Binstock – Martin Reader (CAN) 19
19.  John Garcia Thompson – Steve Grotowski (GBR) 6
 Wu Penggen – Xu Linyin (CHN) 10
 Igor Hernández – Jesus Villafañe (VEN) 20
 Freedom Chiya – Grant Goldschmidt (RSA) 21
 Kentaro Asahi – Katsuhiro Shiratori (JPN) 23
 Clemens Doppler – Alexander Horst (AUT) 24

See also

References

  1. ^ Beach volleyball venues. Spectators
  2. ^ Olympic Qualifying process confirmed for Volleyball and Beach Volleyball, FIVB, 17 May 2010.
  3. ^ Olympic beach volleyball pool draw completed in Klagenfurt, FIVB, 19 July 2012.
  4. ^ a b c d "London 2012 Olympic Games Beach Volleyball Media Guide". FIVB. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  5. ^ Olympic Games beach volleyball schedule confirmed, FIVB, 20 July 2012.