Volleyball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Volleyball at the XIII Paralympic Games
Paralympic sitting volleyball
Venue	China Agricultural University Gymnasium
Dates	7–15 September 2008
Medalists
Iran (IRI) (men)  China (CHN) (women)  Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) (men)  United States (USA) (women)  Russia (RUS) (men)  Netherlands (NED) (women)
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Volleyball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was held in the China Agricultural University Gymnasium from 7 September to 15 September. Two sitting volleyball team events were held, one for men and one for women.

In the men's sitting event, Bosnia and Herzegovina were the defending champions. Bosnia and Herzegovina and Iran had been the finalists in both 2000 and 2004, with Iran winning in 2000 and Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2004. These two countries met once more in the final in Beijing, with Iran emerging victorious by 3 goals to nil. Egypt, the bronze medal-winners of 2008, finished fourth, beaten 2:3 by Russia, who took bronze.^[1][2]

The Beijing Games marked the second time the women's sitting event was held. China were the defending champions, while the Netherlands had taken silver, and the United States bronze, in 2004. In Beijing, China was again victorious, while the United States and the Netherlands switched places to ascend the podium with silver and bronze, respectively.^[3]

This was the second Summer Paralympic Games without standing volleyball events, which had been included from the introduction of volleyball in 1976 (when sitting volleyball was a demonstration event) through 2000.^[4]

Medalists[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	Iran (IRI) (captain) (libero) Coach: Hadi Rezaei	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) Sabahudin Delalić (captain) (libero) Asim Medić Coach:	Russia (RUS) Dmitriy Gordiyenko (libero) (captain) Coach:
Women's team	China (CHN) Li Liping Liang Fen Liu Lijuan Lu Chunli (captain) (libero) Zhong Haihong Coach:	United States (USA) Allison Aldrich Heather Erickson Alexandra Gouldie Kathryn Holloway SuGui Kriss Kendra Lancaster Hope Lewellen Brenda Maymon (captain) Gina McWilliams Nichole Millage Kari Miller (libero) Lora Webster Coach:	Netherlands (NED) (libero) Karin van der Haar-Kramp Karin Harmsen-Roosen Paula List Djoke van Marum Elvira Stinissen Josien Ten Thije-Voortman Rika de Vries Petra Westerhof (captain) Coach:

Classification[]

Classification is an important work for Paralympic athletes, after the classification, athletes can compete in a fair situation.^[5]
Athletes meeting the disability requirement can take part in this sport, but only 2 minimum requirements player can be on the team, and only 1 of them can be on the court.

Qualification[]

There were 16 teams, 8 male and 8 female taking part in this sport.

Teams[]

Men[]

Bosnia and Herzegovina Sabahudin Delalic Asim Medic	Iraq	China	Russia
Iran	Egypt	Japan	Brazil

Women[]

United States Allison Aldrich Heather Erickson Alexandra Gouldie Katie Holloway Sugui Kriss Kendra Lancaster Hope Lewellen Brenda Maymon Gina McWilliams Nichole Millage Kari Miller Lora Webster	China Li Liping Liang Fen Liu Lijuan Lu Chunli Zhong Haihong	Lithuania	Latvia
Netherlands Rika de Vries Karin Harmsen-Roosen Paula List Elvira Stinissen Josien Ten Thije-Voortman Karin van der Haar-Kramp Djoke van Marum Petra Westerhof	Slovenia Bogomira Jakin	Japan	Ukraine Anzhelika Churkina Larysa Klochkova Galyna Kuznetsova Margaryta Pryvalykhina Ilona Yudina

Men's Tournament[]

Preliminary round[]

Group A[]

Team	P	W	L	Sets	Points
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	3	3	0	9:1	6
Russia (RUS)	3	2	1	7:3	4
China (CHN)	3	1	2	3:6	2
Iraq (IRQ)	3	0	3	0:9	0

2008-09-07 15:30	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	'3'–0	China (CHN)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 1,800 Referees: Khaled Nasr Eld Elhelaly (Egypt)
	(25–14, 25–22, 25–17)

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2008-09-08 11:50	Russia (RUS)	'3'–0	China (CHN)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 2,000 Referees: France Marcoux (Canada)
	(25–22, 25–22, 25–23)

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2008-09-08 19:30	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	'3'–0	Iraq (IRQ)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 500 Referees: Jung Mal Soon (Korea)
	(25–6, 25–14, 25–16)

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2008-09-09 15:30	Iraq (IRQ)	'0–3'	Russia (RUS)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 1,300 Referees: Joseph Campbell (United States)
	(13–25, 8–25, 15–25)

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2008-09-10 11:30	Russia (RUS)	'1–3'	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 400 Referees: Janko Plesnik (Slovenia)
	(21–25, 22–25, 25–18, 16–25)

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2008-09-10 19:30	Iraq (IRQ)	'0–3'	China (CHN)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 4,000 Referees: Ronaldo Tadeu Chaves (Brazil)
	(9–25, 17–25, 12–25)

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Group B[]

Team	P	W	L	Sets	Points
Iran (IRI)	3	3	0	9:0	6
Egypt (EGY)	3	2	1	6:3	4
Brazil (BRA)	3	1	2	3:6	2
Japan (JPN)	3	0	3	0:9	0

2008-09-07 11:30	Iran (IRI)	'3'–0	Japan (JPN)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 1,350 Referees: Matijn Meulenkamp (Netherlands)
	(25–7, 25–7, 25–5)

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2008-09-07 19:30	Egypt (EGY)	'3'–0	Brazil (BRA)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Anton Probst (Germany)
	(25–8, 25–14, 25–17)

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2008-09-08 15:30	Iran (IRI)	'3'–0	Brazil (BRA)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Viktor Feldshteyn (Ukraine)
	(25–9, 25–11, 25–8)

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2008-09-09 11:35	Iran (IRI)	'3'–0	Egypt (EGY)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 1,800 Referees: Khalid Salem Shanishah (Libya)
	(27–25, 25–12, 25–18)

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2008-09-09 19:30	Brazil (BRA)	'3'–0	Japan (JPN)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 1,000 Referees: An Qi (China)
	(25–20, 25–17, 25–10)

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2008-09-10 15:30	Egypt (EGY)	'3'–0	Japan (JPN)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 600 Referees: Xia Xin (China)
	(25–8, 25–11, 25–15)

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Final Round[]

	Semifinals					Gold medal game
	A1		3
	B2	Egypt	0
						A1		0
						B1	Iran	3
	B1	Iran	3
	A2	Russia	0			Bronze medal game
						B2	Egypt	2
						A2	Russia	3

Semifinals[]

2008-09-12 12:30	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	'3'–0	Egypt (EGY)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 400 Referees: Anton Probst (Germany)
	(25–18, 25–21, 25–20)

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2008-09-12 18:00	Iran (IRI)	'3'–0	Russia (RUS)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 2,000 Referees: Gabor Karadi (Hungary)
	(25–22, 25–13, 25–20)

Bronze medal match[]

2008-09-15 16:00	Egypt (EGY)	'2–3'	Russia (RUS)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 2,400 Referees: Martijn Meulenkamp (Netherlands)
	(25–22, 16–25, 25–19, 20–25, 9–15)

Gold medal match[]

2008-09-15 18:30	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	'0–3'	Iran (IRI)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 2,000 Referees: Viktor Feldshteyn (Ukraine)
	(22–25, 18–25, 22–25)

5-8 Classification[]

	5-8 Semifinals					5-6 game
	A3	China	3
	B4	Japan	0
						A3	China	3
						B3	Brazil	1
	B3	Brazil	3
	A4	Iraq	1			7-8 game
						B4	Japan	0
						A4	Iraq	3

Women's Tournament[]

Preliminary round[]

Group A[]

Team	P	W	L	Sets	Points
Netherlands (NED)	3	9	3	9:3	6
Slovenia (SLO)	3	8	5	8:5	4
Ukraine (UKR)	3	5	6	5:6	2
Japan (JPN)	3	1	9	1:9	0

2008-09-07 14:00	Japan (JPN)	'0–3'	Netherlands (NED)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium
	(4–25, 21–25, 18–25)

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2008-09-08 9:00	Slovenia (SLO)	'3'-1	Japan (JPN)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium
	(25–19, 21–25, 25–19, 25–9)

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2008-09-08 12:00	Ukraine (UKR)	'1–3'	Netherlands (NED)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium
	(14–25, 25–23, 21–25, 19–25)

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2008-09-09 16:00	Slovenia (SLO)	'3'-1	Ukraine (UKR)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium
	(11–25, 25–18, 25–17, 25–22)

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2008-09-10 12:00	Ukraine (UKR)	'3'-0	Japan (JPN)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium
	(25–16, 25–14, 25–18)

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2008-09-10 16:00	Slovenia (SLO)	'2–3'	Netherlands (NED)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium
	(25–23, 17–25, 16–25, 25–22, 11–15)

Group B[]

Team	P	W	L	Sets	Points
China (CHN)	3	9	0	9:0	6
United States (USA)	3	6	3	6:3	4
Lithuania (LTU)	3	3	4	3:4	2
Latvia (LAT)	3	1	9	1:9	0

2008-09-07 9:00	Lithuania (LTU)	'0–3'	United States (USA)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium
	(15–25, 18–25, 9–25)

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2008-09-07 21:00	Latvia (LAT)	'0–3'	China (CHN)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium
	(4–25, 7–25, 16–25)

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2008-09-08 9:00	Lithuania (LTU)	'0–3'	China (CHN)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium
	(18–25, 17–25, 14–25)

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2008-09-09 12:00	Latvia (LAT)	'1–3'	Lithuania (LTU)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium
	(25–16, 16–25, 19–25, 19–25)

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2008-09-09 16:00	United States (USA)	'0–3'	China (CHN)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium
	(14–25, 21–25, 19–25)

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2008-09-10 9:00	United States (USA)	'3'–0	Latvia (LAT)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium
	(25–12, 25–17, 25–11)

Final Round[]

	Semifinals					Gold medal game
	A1	Netherlands	2
	B2	United States	3
						B2	United States	0
						A2	China	3
	B1	Slovenia	0
	A2	China	3			Bronze medal game
						A1	Netherlands	3
						B1	Slovenia	0

Semifinals[]

2008-09-11 12:00	Netherlands (NED)	'2–3'	United States (USA)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium
	(25–19, 23–25, 26–28, 27–25, 10–15)

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2008-09-11 19:00	China (CHN)	'0–3'	Slovenia (SLO)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium
	(25–21, 25–12, 25–19)

Bronze medal match[]

2008-09-14 14:00	Slovenia (SLO)	'0–3'	Netherlands (NED)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium
	(17–25, 16–25, 24–25)

Gold medal match[]

2008-09-14 18:00	United States (USA)	'0–3'	China (CHN)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium
	(17–25, 16–25, 24–26)

5-8th Classification[]

	5-8 Semifinals					5-6 game
	A3	Ukraine	3
	B4	Latvia	0
						A3	Ukraine	3
						B3	Lithuania	0
	B3	Lithuania	3
	A4	Japan	1			7-8 game
						B4	Latvia	3
						A4	Japan	2

References[]

• "Schedules and Results - Sitting Volleyball". The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 2008-09-23. Retrieved 2008-09-24.

External links[]

• Official Site of the 2008 Summer Paralympics