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

Qualification

EventLocationDateTotal TeamsQualified
Host Nation--0
EVCA Zone Qualification Tournament Pigeon Point18–20 October 20131
CAZOVA Zone Qualification Tournament Maracus Bay26–28 November 20131
Central Zone Qualification Tournament Fajardo6–8 December 20131
AFECAVOL Zone Qualification Tournament Guatemala City1–2 February 20141
AVC Qualification Tournament Nakhon Si Thammarat4–6 April 20146
CAVB Qualification Tournament Accra11–13 April 20146
NORCECA Final Qualification Tournament Carolina12–13 April 20142
2014 CEV Youth Continental Cup Final Antalya15–17 May 20146
CSV Youth Tour Final Rankings-19 May 20146
Tripartite Invitation--3
Reallocation--3
TOTAL36

Main draw

Teams were seeded is the preliminary round according to the following draw:
RankTeamNOC
1Samuel Morris – Phillip Ayobami
2Nate MooreKahurangi Robinson
3Arnaud Gauthier-RatArnaud Loiseau
4Surin JongklangBanlue Nakprakhong
5Renato BogarinElioth Frutos
6Dominik KmiecikJakub Macura
7Elias NdaganoSylvestre Ndayisabye
8Anders Berntsen MolMathias Berntsen
9Santiago AulisiLeo Aveiro
10Lumi BramontJimy Heredia
11Niklas RudolfEric Stadie
12Miro MäättänenSanteri Siren
13Samiei AlhammadiAhid Alsahi
14Bryan ShavarRojey Hutchinson
15Sergio Luis FigueroaDaniel Rivera
16Illia KovalovOleh Plotnytskyi
17Bosco NdayishimiyeFiston Niyongabo
18Rendy LicardoMohammad Ashfiya
19Louis RichardTorey DeFalco
20Oleg StoyanovskiyArtem Yarzutkin
21Patrick Lombi – Abu Bakarr Kamara
22Mohammadreza ShobeiriKeyvan Sahneh
23Arthur LanciGeorge Wanderley
24Mauricio VieytoMarco Cairus
25Delshun WelcomeRodall Fraser
26Edvinas VaškelisMatas Navickas
27Carlos RosaAjai Sweeney
28Andrew RichardsJake MacNeil
29Erik FloresMark Álvarez
30Tigrito GómezRolando Hernández
31Johannes KratzMoritz Pristauz-Telsnigg
32
33Aloisio De SouzaAlex Quaresma Marques
34Philip AmissahNicholas Tetteh
35Moussa Botouli IlombolaJohfrat Veldich Itoua Ossolo
36Yegor DmitriyevSergey Polichshuk

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.
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.

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Pool E

Pool F