Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held from 6 to 21 August 2016 at the Ginásio do Maracanãzinho (indoor) and Copacabana Beach (beach).
Medal Table[]
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Brazil |
2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 |  China |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Germany |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 4 |  Italy |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 |  Serbia |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 |  United States |
0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 7 |  Netherlands |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Medalists[]
| Event | 
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|---|---|---|---|
| Men's indoor | Brazil William Arjona Mauricio Borges Almeide Silva Eder Carbonera Luiz Felipe Marques Fonteles Evandro M. Guerra Ricardo Lucarelli Bruno Mossa Rezende Lucas Saatkamp Sergio Dutra Santos Douglas Correia de Souza Mauricio Luiz de Souza Wallace de Souza |
Italy Oleg Antonov Emanuele Birarelli Simone Buti Massimo Colaci Simone Giannelli Osmany Juantorena Filippo Lanza Matteo Piano Salvatore Rossini Pasquale Sottile Luca Vettori Ivan Zaytsev |
United States Matthew Anderson Micah Christenson Maxwell Holt Thomas Jaeschke David Lee William Reid Priddy Aaron Russell Taylor Sander Erik Shoji Kawika Shoji David Smith Murphy Troy |
| Women indoor | China Ding Xia Gong Xiangyu Hui Ruoqi Lin Li Liu Xiaotong Wei Qiuyue Xu Yunli Yan Ni Yang Fangxu Yuan Xinyue Zhang Changning Zhu Ting |
Serbia Tijana Boskovic Jovana Brakocevic Bianka Busa Tijana Malesevic Brankica Mihajlovic Jelena Nikolic Maja Ognjenovic Silvija Popovic Milena Rasic Jovana Stevanovic Stefana Veljkovic Bojana Zivkovic |
United States Rachael Adams Foluke Akinradewo Kayla Banwarth Christa Harmotto Dietzen Alisha Glass Kimberly Hill Jordan Larson-Burbach Carli Lloyd Karsta Lowe Kelly Murphy Kelsey Robinson Courtney Thompson |
| Men's beach | Alison Cerutti Bruno Oscar Schmidt
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Daniele Lupo Paolo Nicolai
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Alexander Brouwer Robert Meeuwsen
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| Women's beach | Laura Ludwig Kira Walkenhorst
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Agatha Bednarczuk Rippel Barbara Seixas de Freitas
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April Ross Kerri Walsh Jennings
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Statistics[]
- There were 379 total athletes from 31 countries.
- 3 countries participated for the first time in the indoor tournament: Cameroon, Iran and Puerto Rico.
- 7 countries made their debut in the beach volleyball tournament.
- Argentina participated for the first time in the women's indoor tournament.
- Paola Egonu was the youngest participant with 17 years and 232 days.
- Ashraf Abou El-Hassan was the oldest participant with 41 years and 82 days.
- Sergey Tetyukhin was the only participant to be chosen to be a flag bearer at the opening ceremony.
- Brazil won 2 gold medals, more than in any other sport.
- Serbia won their first ever medal in Volleyball.
- Italy won their first ever medal in Beach Volleyball.