Volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

NOC is allowed to enter 1 men's and 1 women's qualified team in volleyball tournaments and 2 men's and 2 women's qualified teams in beach volleyball tournaments.

Indoor Volleyball

Men

Volleyball Men Date Host Vacancies Qualified
Host nation - - 1  China
2007 FIVB Men's World Cup Nov 18 - Dec 2, 2007 Japan Japan 3  Brazil
 Russia
 Bulgaria
African Olympic Qualification Tournament February 3–9, 2008 South Africa Durban 1  Egypt
Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament* May 31 - Jun 8, 2008 Japan Tokyo 1  Japan
European Olympic Qualification Tournament January 7–13, 2008 Turkey Izmir 1  Serbia
North American Olympic Qualification Tournament January 6–11, 2008 Puerto Rico Caguas 1  United States
South American Olympic Qualification Tournament January 3–7, 2008 Argentina Formosa 1  Venezuela
World Olympic Qualification Tournament 1 May 23–25, 2008 Germany Düsseldorf 1  Germany
World Olympic Qualification Tournament 2 May 30 - Jun 1, 2008 Portugal Espinho 1  Poland
World Olympic Qualification Tournament 3 May 31 - Jun 8, 2008 Japan Tokyo 1  Italy
TOTAL 12

* The Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament is combined with the World Olympic Qualification Tournament 3. The winner of the tournament will qualify as the champion of the World Olympic Qualification Tournament 3 while the best Asian team except the winner will qualify as the Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament champion.

World Cup

For more details on this topic, see 2007 FIVB Men's World Cup.
Rk Team Points Won Lost PW PL Ratio
1  Brazil 21 10 1 852 673 1.266
2  Russia 20 9 2 899 742 1.212
3  Bulgaria 20 9 2 988 881 1.121
4  United States 19 8 3 947 843 1.123
5  Spain 18 7 4 848 825 1.028
6  Puerto Rico 16 5 6 878 869 1.010
7  Argentina 16 5 6 825 876 0.942
8  Australia 15 4 7 839 940 0.893
9  Japan 14 3 8 865 923 0.937
10  Egypt 14 3 8 829 922 0.899
11  South Korea 13 2 9 818 947 0.864
12  Tunisia 12 1 10 909 1056 0.861

African Qualification Tournament

Rk Team Points Won Lost PW PL Ratio
1  Algeria 8 4 0 322 253 1.273
2  Cameroon 7 3 1 311 265 1.174
3  Nigeria 6 2 2 309 346 0.893
4  South Africa 5 1 3 340 359 0.947
5  Rwanda 4 0 4 295 353 0.836
Rk Team Points Won Lost PW PL Ratio
1  Egypt 8 4 0 340 247 1.377
2  Tunisia 7 3 1 341 248 1.375
3  Morocco 6 2 2 263 236 1.114
4  Gabon 5 1 3 208 286 0.727
5  Mozambique 4 0 4 179 300 0.597
Semi-finals Final
  Algeria  3  
  Tunisia  2  
 
      Algeria  2
    Egypt  3
Third place
  Egypt  3   Cameroon  3
  Cameroon  1     Tunisia  2

European Qualification Tournament

Elimination Round
Team 1 Agg Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Montenegro  6–3  Latvia 3–1 3–2
Georgia  0–6  Romania 0–3 0–3
Austria  3–5  Sweden 3–2 0–3
Azerbaijan  0–6  Denmark 0–3 0–3
Pre-Qualification Tournaments

Tournament 1

Rk Team Points Won Lost SW SL Ratio
1  Finland 4 2 0 6 2 3.000
2  Hungary 3 1 1 3 3 1.000
3  Estonia 2 0 2 2 6 0.333
Rk Team Points Won Lost SW SL Ratio
1  Poland 4 2 0 6 0 MAX
2  Belgium 3 1 1 3 3 1.000
3  Denmark 2 0 2 0 6 0.000
Semi-finals Final
  Finland 3  
  Belgium 0  
 
      Finland 0
    Poland 3
  Poland 3
  Hungary 1  

Tournament 2

Rk Team Points Won Lost SW SL Ratio
1  Germany 3 1 1 5 3 1.667
2  Czech Republic 3 1 1 5 5 1.000
3  Portugal 3 1 1 3 5 0.600
Rk Team Points Won Lost SW SL Ratio
1  France 4 2 0 6 0 MAX
2  Sweden 3 1 1 3 5 0.600
3  Slovakia 2 0 2 2 6 0.333
Semi-finals Final
  Germany 3  
  Sweden 0  
 
      Germany 3
    Czech Republic 2
  France 0
  Czech Republic 3  

Tournament 3

Rk Team Points Won Lost SW SL Ratio
1  Italy 4 2 0 6 2 3.000
2  Croatia 3 1 1 5 4 1.250
3  Montenegro 2 0 2 1 6 0.167
Rk Team Points Won Lost SW SL Ratio
1  Netherlands 4 2 0 6 0 MAX
2  Greece 3 1 1 3 4 0.750
3  Romania 2 0 2 1 6 0.167
Semi-finals Final
  Italy 3  
  Greece 0  
 
      Italy 3
    Netherlands 2
  Netherlands 3
  Croatia 0  
Qualification Tournament
Rk Team Points Won Lost SW SL Ratio
1  Spain 5 2 1 7 7 1.000
2  Netherlands 5 2 1 6 6 1.000
3  Poland 4 1 2 7 6 1.167
4  Italy 4 1 2 5 6 0.833
Rk Team Points Won Lost SW SL Ratio
1  Serbia 5 2 1 8 4 2.000
2  Finland 5 2 1 6 5 1.200
3  Germany 5 2 1 6 7 0.857
4  Turkey 3 0 3 5 9 0.556
Semi-finals Final
  Spain 3  
  Finland 1  
 
      Spain 2
    Serbia 3
  Serbia 3
  Netherlands 0  

North American Qualification Tournament

Rk Team Points Won Lost PW PL Ratio
1  United States 6 3 0 225 157 1.433
2  Puerto Rico 5 2 1 232 202 1.149
3  Dominican Republic 4 1 2 209 221 0.946
4  Barbados 3 0 3 139 225 0.618
Rk Team Points Won Lost PW PL Ratio
1  Canada 6 3 0 246 194 1.268
2  Cuba 5 2 1 242 193 1.254
3  Mexico 4 1 2 201 195 1.031
4  Trinidad and Tobago 3 0 3 118 225 0.524
Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
                   
         
  United States   
 
 Bye     
  United States  3
 
    Cuba  0  
  Cuba  3
 
  Dominican Republic  0  
  United States  3
 
    Puerto Rico  0
  Canada   
 
 Bye     
  Canada  0 Third place
 
    Puerto Rico  3  
  Puerto Rico  3   Cuba  3
  Mexico  2     Canada  1
 

South American Qualification Tournament

Rk Team Points Won Lost PW PL Ratio
1  Venezuela 8 4 0 322 233 1.382
2  Argentina 7 3 1 309 244 1.266
3  Paraguay 6 2 2 301 334 0.901
4  Chile 5 1 3 278 320 0.869
5  Uruguay 4 0 4 244 323 0.755

World Qualification Tournaments

For more details on this topic, see 2008 FIVB Men's World Olympic Qualification Tournaments.

Tournament 1

Rk Team Points Won Lost PW PL Ratio
1  Germany 6302952591.139
2  Cuba 5212712381.139
3  Spain 4122842821.007
4  Chinese Taipei 3031772480.714

Tournament 2

Rk Team Points Won Lost PW PL Ratio
1  Poland 6302261791.263
2  Portugal 5212362061.146
3  Puerto Rico 4121992360.843
4  Indonesia 3031852250.822

Tournament 3

Rk Team Points Won Lost PW PL Ratio
1  Italy 14706154831.273
2  Japan 13616595841.128
3  South Korea 11436225841.065
4  Argentina 11435985891.015
5  Australia 10345225260.992
6  Iran 9255976300.948
7  Algeria 9255015780.867
8  Thailand 7074255650.752

* Japan is counted as The Asian Continental Qualification Tournament Champion since it is the best Asian team except the winner.

Women

Volleyball Women Date Host Vacancies Qualified
Host nation - - 1  China
2007 FIVB Women's World Cup November 2–16, 2007 Japan Japan 3  Italy
 Brazil
 United States
African Olympic Qualification Tournament January 22–26, 2008 Algeria Blida 1  Algeria
Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament* May 17–25, 2008 Japan Tokyo 1  Kazakhstan
European Olympic Qualification Tournament January 15–20, 2008 Germany Halle 1  Russia
North American Olympic Qualification Tournament December 17–22, 2007 Mexico Monterrey 1  Cuba
South American Olympic Qualification Tournament January 3–7, 2008 Peru Lima 1  Venezuela
World Olympic Qualification Tournament May 17–25, 2008 Japan Tokyo 3  Poland
 Serbia
 Japan
TOTAL 12

* The Asian Olympic qualification tournament and the World Olympic Qualification Tournament are combined into one event. The top 3 teams at the tournament will qualify as the medallists of the World Olympic Qualification Tournament while the best Asian team outside the top 3 will qualify as the Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament champion.

World Cup

For more details on this topic, see 2007 FIVB Women's World Cup.
Rk Team Points Won Lost PW PL Ratio
1  Italy 22 11 0 858 604 1.421
2  Brazil 20 9 2 891 671 1.328
3  United States 20 9 2 940 821 1.145
4  Cuba 19 8 3 1020 951 1.073
5  Serbia 18 7 4 910 866 1.051
6  Poland 17 6 5 908 820 1.107
7  Japan 17 6 5 885 866 1.022
8  South Korea 15 4 7 825 848 0.973
9  Dominican Republic 14 3 8 797 911 0.875
10  Thailand 13 2 9 784 924 0.848
11  Peru 12 1 10 681 855 0.796
12  Kenya 11 0 11 498 860 0.579

African Qualification Tournament

Rk Team Points Won Lost PW PL Ratio
1  Algeria 8 4 0 322 201 1.602
2  Kenya 7 3 1 274 216 1.269
3  Cameroon 6 2 2 279 280 0.996
4  Senegal 5 1 3 260 321 0.810
5  South Africa 4 0 4 183 300 0.610

European Qualification Tournament

Pre-Qualification Tournaments

Tournament 1

Rk Team Points Won Lost SW SL Ratio
1  Netherlands 8 4 0 12 1 12.000
2  Ukraine 7 3 1 9 4 2.250
3  Czech Republic 6 2 2 7 8 0.875
4  Azerbaijan 5 1 3 5 11 0.455
5  Hungary 4 0 4 3 12 0.250

Tournament 2

Rk Team Points Won Lost SW SL Ratio
1  Romania 7 3 1 11 3 3.667
2  Bulgaria 7 3 1 10 5 2.000
3  Slovakia 6 2 2 7 8 0.875
4  Belarus 6 2 2 6 7 0.857
5  Belgium 4 0 4 1 12 0.083

Tournament 3

Rk Team Points Won Lost SW SL Ratio
1  Turkey 8 4 0 12 0 MAX
2  Croatia 7 3 1 9 4 2.250
3  Spain 6 2 2 7 6 1.167
4  France 5 1 3 3 11 0.273
5  Austria 4 0 4 2 12 0.167
Qualification Tournament
Rk Team Points Won Lost SW SL Ratio
1  Russia 6 3 0 9 2 4.500
2  Serbia 5 2 1 7 6 1.167
3  Romania 4 1 2 6 8 0.750
4  Croatia 3 0 3 3 9 0.333
Rk Team Points Won Lost SW SL Ratio
1  Poland 6 3 0 9 4 2.250
2  Germany 4 1 2 6 6 1.000
3  Netherlands 4 1 2 5 7 0.714
4  Turkey 4 1 2 4 7 0.571
Semi-finals Final
  Russia 3  
  Germany 0  
 
      Russia 3
    Poland 2
  Poland 3
  Serbia 1  

North American Qualification Tournament

Rk Team Points Won Lost PW PL Ratio
1  Cuba 4 2 0 175 151 1.159
2  Canada 3 1 1 172 182 0.945
3  Puerto Rico 2 0 2 192 206 0.932
Rk Team Points Won Lost PW PL Ratio
1  Dominican Republic 4 2 0 150 89 1.685
2  Mexico 3 1 1 128 116 1.103
3  Trinidad and Tobago 2 0 2 77 150 0.513
Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
                   
         
  Cuba   
 
 Bye     
  Cuba  3
 
    Puerto Rico  0  
  Mexico  0
 
  Puerto Rico  3  
  Cuba  3
 
    Canada  0
  Dominican Republic   
 
 Bye     
  Dominican Republic  0 Third place
 
    Canada  3  
  Canada  3   Puerto Rico  3
  Trinidad and Tobago  0     Dominican Republic  2
 

South American Qualification Tournament

Rk Team Points Won Lost PW PL Ratio
1  Venezuela 8 4 0 358 267 1.341
2  Peru 7 3 1 334 214 1.561
3  Uruguay 6 2 2 290 287 1.010
4  Paraguay 5 1 3 253 319 0.793
5  Bolivia 4 0 4 216 364 0.593

World Qualification Tournament

Rk Team Points Won Lost PW PL Ratio
1  Poland 13 6 1 608 524 1.160
2  Serbia 13 6 1 624 538 1.160
3  Japan 13 6 1 684 619 1.105
4  Dominican Republic 11 4 3 577 554 1.042
5  Kazakhstan 9 2 5 523 572 0.914
6  South Korea 9 2 5 534 609 0.877
7  Thailand 8 1 6 573 617 0.929
8  Puerto Rico 8 1 6 503 593 0.848

* Kazakhstan is counted as The Asian Continental Qualification Tournament Champion since it is the best Asian team outside the top 3.

Beach Volleyball

Qualifying criteria

The main qualifying criteria were the FIVB Beach Volleyball Olympic Ranking lists as of July 21, 2008. It provided a total of 24 pairs in each event. Each NOC was allowed to enter 2 men's and 2 women's qualified teams in beach volleyball tournaments. Each continent and Host nation is guaranteed one entry in each event. If this is not satisfied by the entry selection method, the highest ranking player/pair will be qualified.

Qualifiers

Men

No. Rank Players NOC
1 1 Todd Rogers
Phil Dalhausser		 United States C
2 2 Ricardo Santos
Emanuel Rego		 Brazil C
3 3 Marcio Araujo
Fabio Luiz Magalhães		 Brazil
4 4 Reinder Nummerdor
Richard Schuil		 Netherlands C
5 6 Xu Linyin
Wu Penggen		 China HC
6 7 Julius Brink
Christoph Dieckmann		 Germany
7 8 Dmitri Barsouk
Igor Kolodinsky		 Russia
8 9 David Klemperer
Eric Koreng		 Germany
9 12 Jake Gibb
Sean Rosenthal		 United States
10 13 Andrew Schacht
Joshua Slack		 Australia
11 14 Pablo Herrera
Raul Mesa		 Spain
12 15 Sascha Heyer
Patrick Heuscher		 Switzerland
13 16 Martín Conde
Mariano Baracetti		 Argentina
14 17 Kristjan Kais
Rivo Vesik		 Estonia
15 18 Clemens Doppler
Peter Gartmayer		 Austria
16 19 Emiel Boersma
Bram Ronnes		 Netherlands
17 21 Renato Gomes
Jorge Terceiro		 Georgia
18 22 Jørre Kjemperud
Tarjei Skarlund		 Norway
19 23 Florian Gosch
Alexander Horst		 Austria
20 24 Martin Laciga
Jan Schnider		 Switzerland
21 25 Aleksandrs Samoilovs
Martins Plavins		 Latvia
22 26 Riccardo Lione
Matteo Varnier*		 Italy
23 28 Kentaro Asahi
Katsuhiro Shiratori		 Japan
24 84 Emanuel Fernandes
Morais Abreu		 Angola C

* Matteo Varnier is replaced by Eugenio Amore on the Italian team, because of an injury to Varnier.

H = Host Country Quota
C = Continental Quota

Women

No. Rank Players NOC
1 1 Kerri Walsh
Misty May-Treanor		 United States C
2 2 Tian Jia
Wang Jie		 China HC
3 3 Juliana Felisberta
Larissa França		 Brazil C
4 4 Xue Chen
Zhang Xi		 China
5 5 Nicole Branagh
Elaine Youngs		 United States
6 6 Talita Antunes
Renata Ribeiro		 Brazil
7 9 Vasso Karadassiou
Vassiliki Arvaniti		 Greece C
8 11 Sara Goller
Laura Ludwig		 Germany
9 12 Stephanie Pohl
Okka Rau		 Germany
10 13 Natalie Cook
Tamsin Barnett		 Australia
11 16 Nila Håkedal
Ingrid Tørlen		 Norway
12 20 Kathrine Maaseide
Susanne Glesnes		 Norway
13 21 Dalixia Fernández
Tamara Larrea		 Cuba
14 23 Doris Schwaiger
Stefanie Schwaiger		 Austria
15 25 Liesbet Van Breedam
Liesbeth Mouha		 Belgium
16 26 Imara Esteves
Milagros Crespo		 Cuba
17 27 Efthalia Koutroumanidou
Maria Tsiartsiani		 Greece
18 28 Natalya Uryadova
Alexandra Shiryaeva		 Russia
19 29 Rebekka Kadijk
Merel Mooren		 Netherlands
— 30 Sara Montagnolli
Sabine Swoboda		 Austria*
20 31 Bibiana Candelas
Mayra García		 Mexico
21 32 Mika Teru Saiki
Chiaki Kusuhara		 Japan
22 33 Cristine Santanna
Andrezza Martins		 Georgia
23 34 Simone Kuhn
Lea Schwer		 Switzerland*
24 81 Judith Augoustides
Vita Nel		 South Africa C

* Austrian team Montagnolli - Swoboda is replaced by the Swiss team Kuhn - Schwer, because of medical reasons.

H = Host Country Quota
C = Continental Quota

References

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