Beach volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament


The men's beach volleyball event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, was held at the Olympic Beach Volleyball Centre located at the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex.

Medalists

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.
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, set ratio SF/SA; and third progressed through to the round of sixteen.
Two points were awarded for each match win and one point was given for each loss.
In individual matches, all winners are shown in bold.
In group tables advancing teams are highlighted.

Pool A

August 15
August 17
August 19

Pool B

August 15
August 17
August 19

Pool C

August 15
August 17
August 19

Pool D

August 14
August 16
August 18

Pool E

August 14
August 16
August 18

Pool F

The Greek pair of Pavlos Beligratis and Athanasios Michalopoulos had to withdraw from their final group game after Beligratis incurred an injury, this gave their opponents Mariano Baracetti and Martín Conde a 21–0, 21–0 straight sets victory.
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August 14
August 16
August 18

Playoffs

Round of 16

20 August
21 August

Quarter-Finals

August 22

Semi-Finals

August 23

Bronze medal match

August 25
This was Switzerland's first medal in beach volleyball.

Gold Medal match

August 25
This was Brazil's first gold medal in men's beach volleyball.

Final ranking

RANKATHLETE NAMESCOUNTRYSEED
Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos1
Javier Bosma and Pablo Herrera15
Patrick Heuscher and Stefan Kobel5
4.Julien Prosser and Mark Williams17
5.Martin Laciga and Paul Laciga3
5.Christoph Dieckmann and Andreas Scheuerpflug11
5.Dax Holdren and Stein Metzger12
5.John Child and Mark Heese20
9.Márcio Araújo and Benjamin Insfran2
9.Markus Dieckmann and Jonas Reckermann4
9.Mariano Baracetti and Martín Conde7
9.Vegard Høidalen and Jørre Kjemperud9
9.Andrew Schacht and Joshua Slack13
9.Björn Berg and Simon Dahl16
9.João Brenha and Miguel Maia18
9.Colin Pocock and Gershon Rorich19
17.Nikolas Berger and Florian Gosch10
17.Francisco Álvarez and Juan Rossell14
19.Pavlos Beligratis and Athanasios Michalopoulos6
19.Dain Blanton and Jeff Nygaard8
19.Ramon Hernández and Raúl Papaleo21
19.Peter Gartmayer and Robert Nowotny22
19.Stéphane Canet and Mathieu Hamel23
19.Iver Horrem and Bjørn Maaseide24