Volleyball at the 2000 Summer Olympics - Women's beach volleyball

This page shows the results of the Women's Beach Volleyball
Beach volleyball
Beach volleyball, or sand volleyball, is an Olympic team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.Like volleyball, the object of the game is to send the ball over the net in order to ground it on the opponent’s court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent....

Tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics
2000 Summer Olympics
The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

in Sydney, Australia, held from September 16 to September 26, 2000.

Preliminary round

Winners advance to Round of 16
- Prawerman/Rigaux, France (15) def. Friedrichsen/Müsch, Germany (10), 16-14 (67 minutes)
- Schmidt/Staub, Germany (8) def. Zhang/Tian, China (17), 17-15 (48)
- May/McPeak, United States (4) def. Hudcova/Tobiasova, Czech Republic (21), 15-5 (22)
- Gooley/Manser, Australia (7) def. Gattelli/Perrotta, Italy (18), 15-9 (38)
- Schuller/Pereira, Portugal (13) def. Zi Xiong/Rong Chi, China (12), 15-5 (28)
- Bruschini/Solazzi, Italy (9) def. Karadassiou/Sfyri, Greece (16), 15-2 (34)
- Takahashi/Saiki, Japan (6) def. Ishizaka/Seike, Japan (19), 15-3 (31)
- Celbova/Dosoudilova, Czech Republic (14) def. Schoon/Kadijk, Netherlands (11), 17-15 (42)
- Pires/ Brazil (5) def. Fernandez Grossat/Larrea Peraza, Cuba (20), 15-4 (25)
- Davis/Johnson Jordan, United States (3) def. Huygens Tholen/Straton, Australia (22), 15-13 (38)
- Adriana/Shelda, Brazil (2) def. L. Yanchulova/P. Yanchulova, Bulgaria (23), 15-3 (25)
- Cook/Pottharst, Australia (1) def. Galindo/Gaxiola, Mexico (24), 15-11 (41)

Preliminary Elimination

Losers eliminated, place 19th
- Gattelli/Perrotta, Italy (18) def. Ishizaka/Rii Seike, Japan (19), 15-5 (44)
- Zi Xiong/Rong Chi, China (12) def. Galindo/Gaxiola, Mexico (24), 16-14 (50)
- Karadassiou/Sfyri, Greece (16) def. Hudcova/Tobiasova, Czech Republic (21), 15-6 (29)
- Friedrichsen/Müsch, Germany (10) def. Huygens Tholen/Straton, Australia (22), 15-9 (38)
- L. Yanchulova/P. Yanchulova, Bulgaria (23) def. Schoon/Kadijk, Netherlands (11), 17-15 (55)
- Fernandez Grossat/Larrea Peraza, Cuba (20) def. Zhang/Tian, China (17), 15-12 (34)
Winners advance to Round of 16 plus team with highest point ratio; losers eliminated, place 17th
- Gattelli/Perrotta, Italy (18) def. Zi Xiong/Rong Chi, China (12), 15-9 (45)
- Friedrichsen/Müsch, Germany (10) def. Karadassiou/Sfyri, Greece (16), 15-7 (36)
- Fernandez Grossat/Larrea Peraza, Cuba (20) def. L. Yanchulova/P. Yanchulova, Bulgaria (23), 15-3 (23)

Round of 16

Losers eliminated, place ninth
- Bruschini/Solazzi, Italy (9) def. Schmidt/Staub, Germany (8), 15-12 (34)
- Takahashi/Teru Saiki, Japan (6) def. Celbova/Dosoudilova, Czech Republic (14), 15-2 (25)
- Gooley/Manser, Australia (7) def. Prawerman/Rigaux, France (15), 15-3 (29)
- Davis/Johnson Jordan, United States (3) def. Fernandez Grossat/Larrea Peraza, Cuba (20), 15-9 (34)
- May/McPeak, United States (4) def. Gattelli/Perrotta, Italy (18), 15-13 (46)
- Pires/Samuel, Brazil (5) def. Schuller/Pereira, Portugal (13), 15-6 (36)
- Adriana/Shelda, Brazil (2) def. Friedrichsen/Müsch, Germany (10), 15-9 (50)
- Cook/Pottharst, Australia (1) def. Zi Xiong/Rong Chi, China (12), 15-2 (30)

Quarter-finals

Losers eliminated, place fifth
- Takahashi/Teru Saiki, Japan (6) def. Davis/Johnson Jordan, United States (3), 15-9 (48)
- Adriana/Shelda, Brazil (2) def. Gooley/Manser, Australia (7), 15-7 (34)
- Cook/Pottharst, Australia (1) def. Bruschini/Solazzi, Italy (9), 15-11 (39)
- Pires/Samuel, Brazil (5) def. May/McPeak, United States (4), 16-14 (49)

Semi-finals

Adriana/Shelda, Brazil (2) def. Takahashi/Saiki, Japan (6), 15-10 (43)
Cook/Pottharst, Australia (1) def. Pires/Samuel, Brazil (5), 15-6 (36)

Bronze medal match

Pires/Samuel, Brazil (5) def. Takahashi/Saiki, Japan (6), 12-4 and 12-6 (53)

Gold Medal match

Cook/Pottharst, Australia (1) def. Adriana/Shelda, Brazil (2), 12-11 and 12-10 (75)

Final ranking

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	23
	11
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