Volleyball at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

The men's tournament in volleyball at the 2000 Summer Olympics was the 10th edition of the event at the Summer Olympics, organized by the world's governing body, the FIVB in conjunction with the IOC. It was held in Sydney, Australia from 17 September to 1 October 2000.

Pools composition
Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of January 2000. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts.

Preliminary round

 * The top four teams in each pool qualified for the quarterfinals.

Pool A


  

  

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Quarterfinals
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5th–8th semifinals
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Semifinals
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Awards

 * Most valuable player
 * Bas van de Goor
 * Best scorer
 * 🇦🇷 Marcos Milinkovic
 * Best spiker
 * 🇦🇺 Daniel Howard
 * Best blocker
 * Andrija Gerić
 * Best server
 * 🇨🇺 Osvaldo Hernández
 * Best digger
 * Vasa Mijić
 * Best setter
 * Peter Blangé
 * Best libero
 * 🇷🇺 Evgeni Mitkov
 * Best receiver
 * 🇦🇷 Pablo Meana