Beach volleyball at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics – Boys' tournament

The boys' beach volleyball tournament at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China, took place between 17 and 27 August at Nanjing Olympic Sports Center.

Beach volleyball at the
2014 Summer Youth Olympics
Events
BoysGirls

Thirty-Six pairs were competing, the host country China withdrew their pair. Africa and Asia hosted a single qualification tournament while Europe created a Youth Continental Cup with different zonal stages ending with a final qualification tournament. South America created a six legged tour, though only five events were held where the six countries with the most points qualified and North, Central America and Caribbean hosted four zonal tournaments where the winners qualified to the Youth Olympics and a final tournament where the top two nations qualified. The remaining were Wild Cards.[1]

To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 1999.[2]

Qualification
EventLocationDateTotal TeamsQualified
Host Nation--0 China
EVCA Zone Qualification Tournament[3] Pigeon Point18–20 October 20131 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
CAZOVA Zone Qualification Tournament[4] Maracus Bay26–28 November 20131 Jamaica
Central Zone Qualification Tournament[5] Fajardo6–8 December 20131 Canada
AFECAVOL Zone Qualification Tournament[6] Guatemala City1–2 February 20141 Guatemala
AVC Qualification Tournament[7] Nakhon Si Thammarat4–6 April 20146 Indonesia
 Iran
 Kazakhstan
 New Zealand
 Sri Lanka
 Thailand
CAVB Qualification Tournament[8] Accra11–13 April 20146 Burundi
 Republic of the Congo
 Ghana
 Nigeria
 Rwanda
 Sierra Leone
NORCECA Final Qualification Tournament[9] Carolina12–13 April 20142 Puerto Rico
 United States
2014 CEV Youth Continental Cup Final[10][11] Antalya15–17 May 20146 Finland
 France
 Germany
 Poland
 Russia
 Ukraine
CSV Youth Tour Final Rankings[12]-19 May 20146 Uruguay
 Argentina
 Venezuela
 Peru
 Paraguay
 Brazil
Tripartite Invitation[13]--3 Oman
 São Tomé and Príncipe
 Virgin Islands
Reallocation[13]--3 Austria
 Lithuania
 Norway
TOTAL36

Main draw

Teams were seeded is the preliminary round according to the following draw:

Rank Team NOC
1 Samuel Morris – Phillip Ayobami[14]  Nigeria
2 Nate Moore – Kahurangi Robinson  New Zealand
3 Arnaud Gauthier-Rat – Arnaud Loiseau  France
4 Surin Jongklang – Banlue Nakprakhong  Thailand
5 Renato Bogarin – Elioth Frutos  Paraguay
6 Dominik Kmiecik – Jakub Macura  Poland
7 Elias Ndagano – Sylvestre Ndayisabye  Rwanda
8 Anders Berntsen Mol – Mathias Berntsen  Norway
9 Santiago Aulisi – Leo Aveiro  Argentina
10 Lumi Bramont – Jimy Heredia  Peru
11 Niklas Rudolf – Eric Stadie  Germany
12 Miro Määttänen – Santeri Siren  Finland
13 Samiei Alhammadi – Ahid Alsahi  Oman
14 Bryan Shavar – Rojey Hutchinson  Jamaica
15 Sergio Luis Figueroa – Daniel Rivera  Puerto Rico
16 Illia Kovalov – Oleh Plotnytskyi  Ukraine
17 Bosco Ndayishimiye – Fiston Niyongabo  Burundi
18 Rendy Licardo – Mohammad Ashfiya  Indonesia
19 Louis Richard – Torey DeFalco  United States
20 Oleg Stoyanovskiy – Artem Yarzutkin  Russia
21 Patrick Lombi – Abu Bakarr Kamara[14]  Sierra Leone
22 Mohammadreza Shobeiri – Keyvan Sahneh  Iran
23 Arthur Lanci – George Wanderley  Brazil
24 Mauricio Vieyto – Marco Cairus  Uruguay
25 Delshun Welcome – Rodall Fraser  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
26 Edvinas Vaškelis – Matas Navickas  Lithuania
27 Carlos Rosa – Ajai Sweeney  Virgin Islands
28 Andrew Richards – Jake MacNeil  Canada
29 Erik Flores – Mark Álvarez  Guatemala
30 Tigrito Gómez – Rolando Hernández  Venezuela
31 Johannes Kratz – Moritz Pristauz-Telsnigg  Austria
32 Thantrige Perera Mallawa – Isuru Madushan Siddihaluge  Sri Lanka
33 Aloisio De Souza – Alex Quaresma Marques  São Tomé and Príncipe
34 Philip Amissah – Nicholas Tetteh  Ghana
35 Moussa Botouli Ilombola – Johfrat Veldich Itoua Ossolo  Republic of the Congo
36 Yegor Dmitriyev – Sergey Polichshuk  Kazakhstan

Competition Formula

The competition formula consist of two rounds, the first a pool round where the 36 teams have been divided into six pools of six, each pool will play round robin. After the pool round is completed, the best team from each pool plus the two best second place teams will advance to the eight-finals; the rest of the second place teams plus the third and fourth place teams from each pool will advance to the Round of 24. The Round of 24 is a single elimination round, the winning teams will play against the eight-finalists in another single elimination round; next the quarterfinals, semifinals and final matches.[15]

On August 17, it was announced that two pools will only consist of five teams due to two pairings being restricted from competition due to an Ebola outbreak in their countries. The results of the matches against these two teams will be a direct forfeit.[14]

Preliminary round
     Team advances to Round of 16
     Team advances to Round of 24

Pool A
Pts Matches Points Sets
Rank Team W L W L Ratio W L Ratio
1 Vieyto–Cairus 6 3 0 90 73 1.233 6 1 6.000
2 Dmitriyev–Polichshuk 6 3 0 97 83 1.169 6 1 6.000
3 Määttänen–Siren 5 2 1 133 91 1.462 5 2 2.500
4 Delshun–Fraser 4 1 2 69 97 0.711 3 4 0.750
5 Alhammadi–Alashi 3 0 3 81 126 0.643 0 6 0.000
6 Morris–Ayobami 0 0 0 0 126 0.000 0 6 0.000
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total Report
17 Aug 09:00 Määttänen–Siren 2–0 Delshun–Fraser 21–11 21–11   42–22  
17 Aug 09:00 Alhammadi–Alashi 0–2 Vieyto–Cairus 12–21 12–21   24–42  
18 Aug 21:00 Vieyto–Cairus 2–1 Määttänen–Siren 21–14 11–21 16–14 48–49  
18 Aug 21:00 Dmitriyev–Polichshuk 2–0 Alhammadi–Alashi 21–17 21–19   42–36  
19 Aug 19:00 Alhammadi–Alashi 0–2 Määttänen–Siren 11–21 10–21   21–42  
19 Aug 19:00 Dmitriyev–Polichshuk 2–1 Delshun–Fraser 19–21 21–14 15–12 55–47  
21 Aug 15:00 Määttänen–Siren – Dmitriyev–Polichshuk       –  
21 Aug 15:00 Delshun–Fraser – Vieyto–Cairus       –  
22 Aug 09:00 Vieyto–Cairus – Dmitriyev–Polichshuk       –  
22 Aug 09:00 Delshun–Fraser – Alhammadi–Alashi       –  

Pool B
Pts Matches Points Sets
Rank Team W L W L Ratio W L Ratio
1 Rudolf–Stadie 6 3 0 145 120 1.208 6 1 6.000
2 Arthur–George 5 2 1 142 108 1.315 5 2 2.500
3 Moore–Robinson 5 2 1 112 107 1.047 4 2 2.000
4 Vaskelis–Navickas 4 1 2 121 129 0.938 2 4 0.500
5 Botouli Ilombola–Itoua Ossolo 4 1 2 117 130 0.900 2 4 0.500
6 Shavar–Hutchinson 3 0 3 85 128 0.664 0 6 0.000
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total Report
17 Aug 10:00 Moore–Robinson 2–0 Botouli Ilombola–Itoua Ossolo 21–8 22–20   43–28  
17 Aug 10:00 Vaskelis–Navickas 0–2 Rudolf–Stadie 17–21 18–21   35–42  
17 Aug 11:00 Arthur–George 2–0 Shavar–Hutchinson 21–8 21–12   42–20  
18 Aug 10:00 Rudolf–Stadie 2–1 Arthur–George 24–26 22–20 15–12 61–58  
18 Aug 19:00 Moore–Robinson 2–0 Vaskelis–Navickas 21–19 21–18   42–37  
18 Aug 20:00 Botouli Ilombola–Itoua Ossolo 2–0 Shavar–Hutchinson 23–21 21–17   44–38  
19 Aug 20:00 Arthur–George 2–0 Moore–Robinson 21–17 21–10   42–27  
19 Aug 21:00 Rudolf–Stadie 2–0 Shavar–Hutchinson 21–12 21–15   42–27  
19 Aug 21:00 Vaskelis–Navickas 2–0 Botouli Ilombola–Itoua Ossolo 21–19 28–26   49–45  
21 Aug 16:00 Shavar–Hutchinson – Moore–Robinson – –   –  
21 Aug 16:00 Botouli Ilombola–Itoua Ossolo – Rudolf–Stadie – –   –  
21 Aug 19:00 Arthur–George – Vaskelis–Navickas – –   –  
22 Aug 10:00 Rudolf–Stadie – Moore–Robinson – –   –  
22 Aug 10:00 Vaskelis–Navickas – Shavar–Hutchinson – –   –  
22 Aug 11:00 Botouli Ilombola–Itoua Ossolo – Arthur–George – –   –  

Pool C
Pts Matches Points Sets
Rank Team W L W L Ratio W L Ratio
1 Gauthier-Rat–Loiseau 6 3 0 126 55 2.291 6 0 MAX
2 Figueroa–Rivera 6 3 0 126 83 1.518 6 0 MAX
3 Lumi–Jimy 5 2 1 132 115 1.148 4 3 1.333
4 Amissah–Tetteh 4 1 2 104 127 0.819 2 5 0.400
5 Shobeiri–Sahneh 3 0 3 103 144 0.715 1 6 0.167
6 Rosa – Sweeney 3 0 3 77 139 0.554 1 6 0.167

Pool D
Pts Matches Points Sets
Rank Team W L W L Ratio W L Ratio
1 Kovalov–Plotnytskyi 6 3 0 84 54 1.556 6 0 MAX
2 Richards–MacNeil 5 2 1 131 113 1.159 5 2 2.500
3 Jongklang–Nakprakhong 5 2 1 80 63 1.270 4 2 2.000
4 Aulisi–Aveiro 5 2 1 83 88 0.943 4 3 1.333
5 De Souza–Marques 3 0 3 66 126 0.524 0 6 0.000
6 Lombi–Kamara 0 0 0 0 126 0.000 0 6 0.000

Pool E
Pts Matches Points Sets
Rank Team W L W L Ratio W L Ratio
1 Stoyanovskiy–Yarzutkin 6 3 0 126 86 1.465 6 0 MAX
2 Mol–Berntsen 5 2 1 119 86 1.384 4 2 2.000
3 Mallawa–Siddihaluge 5 2 1 146 122 1.197 5 3 1.667
4 Bogarin–Frutos 4 1 2 109 127 0.858 3 4 0.750
5 Flores–Álvarez 4 1 2 109 134 0.813 2 5 0.400
6 Ndayishimiye–Niyongabo 3 0 3 72 126 0.571 0 6 0.000

Pool F
Pts Matches Points Sets
Rank Team W L W L Ratio W L Ratio
1 Licardo–Ashfiya 6 3 0 127 97 1.309 6 0 MAX
2 Gómez–Hernández 6 3 0 135 91 1.484 6 1 6.000
3 Kmiecik–Macura 4 1 2 115 128 0.898 3 4 0.750
4 Kratz–Pristauz-Telsnigg 4 1 2 114 115 0.991 2 4 0.500
5 Richard–DeFalco 4 1 2 109 110 0.991 2 4 0.500
6 Ndagano–Ndayisabye 3 0 3 67 126 0.532 0 6 0.000

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