List of Olympic medalists in volleyball

The Japanese women's team won the gold at the inaugural Olympic volleyball competition, and the silver at the following two Games.

The Montreal Games of 1976 saw the Polish men win the nation's only gold medal in the sport, after the women had won bronze in 1964 and 1968.

[3][4] The United States won its first medals in volleyball at the Los Angeles Games: a gold in the men's competition, and a silver in the women's.

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.

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.

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.

[16] 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.

Chinese Lang Ping was the first player to win gold medals as player and coach, as part of the Los Angeles 1984 People's Republic of China squad and leading the Rio 2016 team (she also led the United States' women to the silver in 2008). [ 1 ]
Brazilian Amauri Ribeiro won silver in 1984 and gold in 1992.
A bronze medalist in 1988, Argentine Daniel Castellani later coached the Polish men's national team . [ 17 ]
Brazilian Sérgio Santos is the only player to reach four straight finals, winning two.
Luigi Mastrangelo has won three medals with the Italian team.
Aleksey Kuleshov is a three-time medalist for Russia.
Russian Sergey Tetyukhin finished in the final four in five straight tournaments, missing a medal only in 2016.
Italian Samuele Papi is one of three men, along with Santos and Tetyukhin, to win four volleyball medals.
Regla Torres won three straight gold medals with Cuba.
Lioubov Kılıç , twice a silver medalist for Russia
Two-time silver medalist Yekaterina Gamova
Christa Harmotto won a silver medal and a bronze with the United States.
Erika Araki won a bronze medal with the Japanese team in 2012.
Taismary Agüero won two gold medals with Cuba, before participating in 2008 with the Italian team. [ 53 ]
Hélia Souza has won three medals, and has participated in five Olympics for Brazil.
Stacy Sykora returns a ball during a warm-up match preceding the 2008 Olympics.
Todd Rogers (left) and Phil Dalhausser (right), gold medalists in 2008, pose with George W. Bush at the Beijing Olympics.
Emanuel Rego appeared in the first five beach volleyball tournaments, winning three medals.
Misty May-Treanor (left) and Kerri Walsh Jennings (right) are the only women's team to earn multiple (3) gold medals in beach volleyball.
Natalie Cook , winner of a gold and a bronze, is the first Australian woman to compete at five Olympic Games. [ 83 ]
Bernardo Rezende won a silver medal as part of the Brazilian team in 1984, and went on to coach both the men and women to six straight medals. [ 89 ]