Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's Beach Volleyball

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....

event at the 2004 Summer Olympics

2004 Summer Olympics

The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...

in Athens

Athens

Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...

, Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

, was held at the Olympic Beach Volleyball Centre located at the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

The Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Sports Complex is a complex in the coastal zone of Athens, Greece. It consists of two indoor arenas and a beach volleyball stadium, and it hosted Handball, Taekwondo, and volleyball events at the 2004 Summer Olympics...

. The gold medal went to Kerri Walsh

Kerri Walsh

Kerri Lee Walsh-Jennings is an American professional beach volleyball player.Walsh-Jennings and teammate Misty May-Treanor were the gold medalists in beach volleyball at both the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics...

and Misty May who had a perfect record in the tournament, losing not a single set.
The reigning champions from the 2000 Olympics

Volleyball at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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, Natalie Cook

Natalie Cook

Natalie Louise Cook OAM is an Australian professional beach volleyball player and Olympic gold medallist.-Early life:...

and Kerri Ann Pottharst

Kerri Pottharst

Kerri Ann Pottharst OAM is an Australian professional beach volleyball player and Olympic gold medallist.Pottharst was born in Adelaide, South Australia and currently resides in Sydney....

, both had new partners for Athens and coincidentally met at the last sixteen stage where Cook's team took the honours. Adriana Behar and Shelda Bede repeated their 2000 Olympic

Volleyball at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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result, taking silver.

Medalists


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Pool play

The 24 competing teams were split equally into six pools of four, and each team played each of the other teams in their pool a best of three set match (so that the number of pool matches, P, played by each team was 3).

The teams in each pool were ranked first through fourth based on the number of matches won, W. In the event of a two-way tie, the winning team in the head-to-head match finished ahead. In a three-team tie, the total number of points each team won and lost during all matches involving only the three tied teams were added up, and the bottom-ranked team of the three was decided by the points for to points against ratio; the other two teams were then ranked according to the outcome of the head-to-head match. The top two teams from each pool and the four best third placed teams (based on: first, matches won; second (in the event of a tie), set ratio SF/SA; and third (if there is still a tie), points ratio PF/PA) progressed through to the round of sixteen (single elimination tournament).

Two points (Pts) were awarded for each match win (W) and one point was given for each loss (L).

In individual matches, all winners are shown in bold.

In group tables, advancing teams are highlighted.

Pool A

Team	P:	W:	L:	SF:	SA:	PF:	PA:	Pts:
	3	3	0	6	0	126	83	6
	gaby is the best	2	1	4	2	120	110	5
	3	1	2	2	5	109	137	4
	3	0	3	1	6	110	135	3

Pool A Results

August 15	11:00	Celbová & Nováková	2	-	0	Kadijk & Leenstra
August 15	20:00	Walsh & May	2	-	0	Tokuno & Kusuhara
August 17	10:00	Celbová & Nováková	2	-	0	Tokuno & Kusuhara
August 17	21:00	Walsh & May	2	-	0	Kadijk & Leenstra
August 19	12:00	Kadijk & Leenstra	1	-	2	Tokuno & Kusuhara
August 19	21:00	Walsh & May	2	-	0	Celbová & Nováková

Pool B

Team	P:	W:	L:	SF:	SA:	PF:	PA:	Pts:
	3	3	0	6	0	126	84	6
	3	2	1	4	3	129	125	5
	3	1	2	3	4	124	128	4
	3	0	3	0	6	84	126	3

Pool B Results

August 15	17:30	Fernández & Larrea	2	-	1	Gattelli & Perrotta
August 15	22:00	Bede & Behar	2	-	0	Naidoo & Willard
August 17	12:00	Fernández & Larrea	2	-	0	Naidoo & Willard
August 17	16:30	Bede & Behar	2	-	0	Gattelli & Perrotta
August 19	11:00	Gattelli & Perrotta	2	-	0	Naidoo & Willard
August 19	15:30	Bede & Behar	2	-	0	Fernández & Larrea

Pool C

Team	P:	W:	L:	SF:	SA:	PF:	PA:	Pts:
	3	2	1	5	4	156	143	5
	3	2	1	5	2	131	118	5
	3	1	2	3	5	131	140	4
	3	1	2	3	5	132	149	4

Pool C Results

August 15	15:30	Ana Paula & Sandra Pires	2	-	0	Håkedal & Tørlen
August 15	21:00	Lahme & Müsch	2	-	1	Arvaniti & Koutroumanidou
August 17	17:30	Ana Paula & Sandra Pires	2	-	0	Arvaniti & Koutroumanidou
August 17	23:00	Lahme & Müsch	1	-	2	Håkedal & Tørlen
August 19	17:30	Ana Paula & Sandra Pires	1	-	2	Lahme & Müsch
August 19	23:00	Arvaniti & Koutroumanidou	2	-	1	Håkedal & Tørlen

Pool D

Team	P:	W:	L:	SF:	SA:	PF:	PA:	Pts:
	3	3	0	6	2	148	124	6
	3	2	1	5	2	135	123	5
	3	1	2	2	5	127	144	4
	3	0	3	2	6	134	153	3

Pool D Results

August 14	14:30	Schnyder & Kuhn	0	-	2	Dumont & Martin
August 14	20:00	McPeak & Youngs	2	-	0	Maaseide & Glesnes
August 16	17:30	Schnyder & Kuhn	1	-	2	Maaseide & Glesnes
August 16	23:00	McPeak & Youngs	2	-	1	Dumont & Martin
August 18	15:30	Dumont & Martin	2	-	0	Maaseide & Glesnes
August 18	20:00	McPeak & Youngs	2	-	1	Schnyder & Kuhn

Pool E

Team	P:	W:	L:	SF:	SA:	PF:	PA:	Pts:
	3	2	1	5	2	138	119	5
	3	2	1	4	3	127	126	5
	3	2	1	4	3	124	131	5
	3	0	3	1	6	126	139	3

Pool E Results

August 14	12:00	Rau & Pohl	2	-	0	Wang & You
August 14	16:30	Cook & Sanderson	2	-	0	Yanchulova & Yanchulova
August 16	11:00	Rau & Pohl	1	-	2	Yanchulova & Yanchulova
August 16	12:00	Cook & Sanderson	2	-	1	Wang & You
August 18	09:00	Wang & You	0	-	2	Yanchulova & Yanchulova
August 18	23:00	Cook & Sanderson	0	-	2	Rau & Pohl

Pool F

Team	P:	W:	L:	SF:	SA:	PF:	PA:	Pts:
	3	3	0	6	1	142	130	6
	3	2	1	5	2	134	113	5
	3	1	2	2	4	109	118	4
	3	0	3	0	6	108	132	3

Pool F Results

August 14	10:00	Tian & Wang	0	-	2	Lochowicz & Pottharst
August 14	22:00	Karadassiou & Sfyri	2	-	0	García & Gaxiola
August 16	15:30	Tian & Wang	2	-	0	García & Gaxiola
August 16	22:00	Karadassiou & Sfyri	1	-	2	Lochowicz & Pottharst
August 18	10:00	Lochowicz & Pottharst	2	-	0	García & Gaxiola
August 18	22:00	Karadassiou & Sfyri	2	-	0	Tian & Wang

Round of 16

Teams below are highlighted in medal winning colour.

August 21	20:00	Walsh & May	2	-	0	Tian & Wang
August 20	21:00	Fernández & Larrea	0	-	2	Dumont & Martin
August 21	22:00	Arvaniti & Koutroumanidou	1	-	2	Rau & Pohl
August 21	17:30	Celbová & Nováková	0	-	2	McPeak & Youngs
August 20	14:30	Lahme & Musch	1	-	2	Gattelli & Perrotta
August 20	15:30	Lochowicz & Pottharst	0	-	2	Cook & Sanderson
August 20	22:00	Ana Paula & Sandra Pires	2	-	0	Karadassiou & Sfyri
August 21	23:00	Yanchulova & Yanchulova	1	-	2	Bede & Behar

Quarter-Finals

August 22	16:30	Walsh & May	2	-	0	Dumont & Martin
August 22	17:30	McPeak & Youngs	2	-	0	Rau & Pohl
August 22	22:00	Gattelli & Perrotta	1	-	2	Cook & Sanderson
August 22	23:00	Ana Paula & Sandra Pires	1	-	2	Bede & Behar