Volleyball at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Volleyball at the 1996 Summer Olympics featured Men's and Women's beach volleyball for the first time as an official Olympic sport.^[1][2] Men's and Women's indoor volleyball tournaments also took place.

Volleyball at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	University of Georgia Coliseum Omni Coliseum (indoor) Clayton County International Park (beach)
Dates	July 20 – August 4, 1996
No. of events	4
Competitors	372 from 13 nations
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Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil	1	1	1	3
2	United States	1	1	0	2
3	Cuba	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands	1	0	0	1
5	China	0	1	0	1
	Italy	0	1	0	1
7	Australia	0	0	1	1
	Canada	0	0	1	1
	FR Yugoslavia	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		4	4	4	12

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's indoor details	Netherlands (NED) Peter Blangé Guido Görtzen Rob Grabert Henk-Jan Held Misha Latuhihin Jan Posthuma Brecht Rodenburg Richard Schuil Bas van de Goor Mike van de Goor Olof van der Meulen Ron Zwerver Head coach: Joop Alberda	Italy (ITA) Lorenzo Bernardi Vigor Bovolenta Marco Bracci Luca Cantagalli Andrea Gardini Andrea Giani Pasquale Gravina Marco Meoni Samuele Papi Andrea Sartoretti Paolo Tofoli Andrea Zorzi Head coach: Julio Velasco	FR Yugoslavia (YUG) Vladimir Batez Dejan Brđović Đorđe Đurić Andrija Gerić Nikola Grbić Vladimir Grbić Rajko Jokanović Slobodan Kovač Đula Mešter Žarko Petrović Željko Tanasković Goran Vujević Head coach: Zoran Gajić
Women's indoor details	Cuba (CUB) Taimaris Aguero Regla Bell Magaly Carvajal Marlenis Costa Ana Fernández Mirka Francia Idalmis Gato Lilia Izquierdo Mireya Luis Raisa O'Farrill Yumilka Ruíz Regla Torres Head coach: Eugenio George	China (CHN) Cui Yong-Mei He Qi Lai Yawen Li Yan Liu Xiaoning Pan Wenli Sun Yue Wang Lina Wang Yi Wang Ziling Wu Yongmei Zhu Yunying Head coach: Lang Ping	Brazil (BRA) Ida Alvares Leila Barros Ericléia Bodziak Hilma Caldeira Ana Paula Connelly Márcia Cunha Virna Dias Ana Moser Ana Flávia Sanglard Hélia Souza Sandra Suruagy Fernanda Venturini Head coach: Bernardinho
Men's beach details	Karch Kiraly and Kent Steffes (USA)	Michael Dodd and Mike Whitmarsh (USA)	John Child and Mark Heese (CAN)
Women's beach details	Jackie Silva and Sandra Pires (BRA)	Mônica Rodrigues and Adriana Samuel (BRA)	Natalie Cook and Kerri Pottharst (AUS)