List Of Olympic Medalists In Volleyball
On 18 September 1993, at the 101st IOC session in Monte Carlo, the Committee voted to add beach volleyball for both men and women to the Olympic programme effective with the 1996 Atlanta Games. A National Olympic Committee is permitted to enter two teams in the beach volleyball tournament; a rule that allowed the United States and Brazil to win both gold and silver in men's and women's beach volleyball respectively that year. Atlanta also saw the Dutch men's indoor team improve their Barcelona silver to a gold. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the host Australian team won the gold medal in the women's beach volleyball competition, and the Russian Federation took home its first volleyball medals as an independent country with silver in both indoor competitions. At the 2004 Athens Olympics, Spain won its only medal in volleyball, a silver in the men's beach volleyball competition. In women's beach volleyball, the United States team of Misty May (now May-Treanor) and Kerri Walsh (now Walsh Jennings) won the first of three consecutive gold medals, the only team to defend a beach volleyball gold medal. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the United States men's indoor team won all their matches on the way to their third gold medal win. This equalled the former Soviet Union's record for the most men's championships. The Soviets won twelve medals in the indoor competition, and Brazilian teams have won thirteen medals in beach competition; respectively the most in each discipline. The Brazilian teams, however, with ten indoor medals lead all nations with a total of twenty medals in volleyball events at the Olympics.
Six athletes have each won four medals in volleyball. Cuban Ana Fernández and American Kerri Walsh Jennings each have three gold and one bronze, Soviet Inna Ryskal and Brazilian Sérgio Santos have two gold and two silver medals, Russian Sergey Tetyukhin has one gold, one silver, and two bronzes, and Italian Samuele Papi has two silvers and two bronzes. Ten athletes have won three gold medals. Seven, including Fernández, were members of the Cuban women's indoor team that won consecutive golds in 1992, 1996 and 2000. May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings, as noted above, won beach volleyball gold medals in 2004, 2008 and 2012. The other is Karch Kiraly, who won gold with the United States men's indoor team in 1984 and 1988 and in beach volleyball in 1996. Kiraly is the only player of either gender to win medals in both indoor and beach volleyball. Kiraly is also one of four people that have won medals both as a player and coach. Apart from May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings of the United States, Ricardo Santos and Emanuel Rego of Brazil are the only athletes with three medals in beach volleyball. They have one gold and one bronze as a team, and each has one silver with other partners.
Volleyball (indoor)
Men
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![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Gigi_Mastrangelo.png/220px-Gigi_Mastrangelo.png)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Aleksey_Kuleshov.jpg/220px-Aleksey_Kuleshov.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Samuele_Papi.jpg/220px-Samuele_Papi.jpg)
Women
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Beach volleyball
Men
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Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1996 Atlanta |
![]() and Kent Steffes (USA) |
![]() and Mike Whitmarsh (USA) |
![]() and Mark Heese (CAN) |
2000 Sydney |
![]() and Eric Fonoimoana (USA) |
![]() and Ricardo Santos (BRA) |
![]() and Jörg Ahmann (GER) |
2004 Athens |
![]() and Emanuel Rego (BRA) |
![]() and Pablo Herrera (ESP) |
![]() and Patrick Heuscher (SUI) |
2008 Beijing |
![]() and Todd Rogers (USA) |
![]() and Fábio Luiz Magalhães (BRA) |
![]() and Emanuel Rego (BRA) |
2012 London |
![]() and Jonas Reckermann (GER) |
![]() and Emanuel Rego (BRA) |
![]() and Jānis Šmēdiņš (LAT) |
2016 Rio de Janeiro |
![]() and Bruno Oscar Schmidt (BRA) |
![]() and Paolo Nicolai (ITA) |
![]() and Robert Meeuwsen (NED) |
2020 Tokyo |
![]() and Christian Sørum (NOR) |
![]() and Oleg Stoyanovskiy (ROC) |
![]() and Cherif Younousse (QAT) |
2024 Paris |
Women
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Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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1996 Atlanta |
![]() and Sandra Pires (BRA) |
![]() and Adriana Samuel (BRA) |
![]() and Kerri Pottharst (AUS) |
2000 Sydney |
![]() and Kerri Pottharst (AUS) |
![]() and Shelda Bede (BRA) |
![]() and Sandra Pires (BRA) |
2004 Athens |
![]() and Misty May (USA) |
![]() and Adriana Behar (BRA) |
![]() and Elaine Youngs (USA) |
2008 Beijing |
![]() and Misty May-Treanor (USA) |
![]() and Tian Jia (CHN) |
![]() and Zhang Xi (CHN) |
2012 London |
![]() and Misty May-Treanor (USA) |
![]() and April Ross (USA) |
![]() and Larissa França (BRA) |
2016 Rio de Janeiro |
![]() and Kira Walkenhorst (GER) |
![]() and Bárbara Seixas (BRA) |
![]() and Kerri Walsh Jennings (USA) |
2020 Tokyo |
![]() and April Ross (USA) |
![]() and Taliqua Clancy (AUS) |
![]() and Anouk Vergé-Dépré (SUI) |
2024 Paris |
Statistics
Medal leaders
Athletes who have won three or more medals are listed below.
Athlete | Nation | Olympics | Total | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Discipline | Gender | |||
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Ana Fernández | ![]() |
1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | Indoor | Female |
Kerri Walsh Jennings | ![]() |
2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | Beach | Female |
Inna Ryskal | ![]() |
1964 | 1968 | 1972 | 1976 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | Indoor | Female |
Sérgio Santos | ![]() |
2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | Indoor | Male |
Sergey Tetyukhin | ![]() |
2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | Indoor | Male |
Samuele Papi | ![]() |
1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2012 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | Indoor | Male |
Karch Kiraly | ![]() |
1984 | 1988 | 1996 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Indoor (2) Beach (1) |
Male | |
Mireya Luis | ![]() |
1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Indoor | Female | |
Marlenis Costa | ![]() |
1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Indoor | Female | |
Regla Torres | ![]() |
1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Indoor | Female | |
Regla Bell | ![]() |
1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Indoor | Female | |
Misty May-Treanor | ![]() |
2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Beach | Female | |
Lyudmila Buldakova | ![]() |
1964 | 1968 | 1972 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | Indoor | Female | |
Nina Smoleeva | ![]() |
1968 | 1972 | 1976 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | Indoor | Female | |
Steve Timmons | ![]() |
1984 | 1988 | 1992 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | Indoor | Male | |
Yumilka Ruíz | ![]() |
1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | Indoor | Female | |
Yuriy Poyarkov | ![]() |
1964 | 1968 | 1972 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | Indoor | Male | |
Vyacheslav Zaytsev | ![]() |
1976 | 1980 | 1988 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Indoor | Male | |
Dante Amaral | ![]() |
2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Indoor | Male | |
Gilberto Godoy Filho | ![]() |
2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Indoor | Male | |
Rodrigo Santana | ![]() |
2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Indoor | Male | |
Bruno Rezende | ![]() |
2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Indoor | Male | |
Masayuki Minami | ![]() |
1964 | 1968 | 1972 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Indoor | Male | |
Katsutoshi Nekoda | ![]() |
1964 | 1968 | 1972 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Indoor | Male | |
Vladimir Kondra | ![]() |
1972 | 1976 | 1980 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Indoor | Male | |
Ricardo Santos | ![]() |
2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Beach | Male | |
Emanuel Rego | ![]() |
2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Beach | Male | |
Hélia Souza | ![]() |
1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | Indoor | Female |
Yelena Tyurina | ![]() |
1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | Indoor | Female |
Yevgeniya Artamonova | ![]() |
1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | Indoor | Female |
Andrea Sartoretti | ![]() |
1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | Indoor | Male | |
Andrea Giani | ![]() |
1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | Indoor | Male | |
Paolo Tofoli | ![]() |
1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | Indoor | Male | |
Vadim Khamuttskikh | ![]() |
2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | Indoor | Male | |
Aleksey Kuleshov | ![]() |
2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | Indoor | Male | |
Alessandro Fei | ![]() |
2000 | 2004 | 2012 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | Indoor | Male | |
Luigi Mastrangelo | ![]() |
2000 | 2004 | 2012 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | Indoor | Male |
Medals as coach and player (indoor only)
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Only four volleyball players won medals and then coached indoor teams to the podium. Aside from Lang Ping, who led the United States' women to the silver in 2008, all were managers of their own country's team.
Athlete | Nation | As player | As coach | Total |
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Bernardo Rezende | ![]() |
1 (Silver, 1984) | 6 (Gold, 2004 and 2016 men; Silver, 2008 and 2012 men; Bronze, 1996 and 2000 women) | 7 |
Lang Ping | ![]() |
1 (Gold, 1984) | 3 (Gold, 2016 women; Silver, 1996 and 2008 women) | 4 |
Karch Kiraly | ![]() |
2 (Gold, 1984 and 1988) | 2 (Gold, 2020 women; Bronze, 2016 women) | 4 |
Yuri Chesnokov | ![]() |
1 (Gold, 1964) | 2 (Silver, 1972 men; Bronze, 1976 men) | 3 |