[1] The United States defeated Russia 3–2 to win the bronze medal.

[2] The medals for the competition were presented by Shamil Tarpishchev, Russia; Habu Gumel, Nigeria; and Bernard Rajzman, Brazil; Members of the International Olympic Committee and Carlos Arthur Nuzman, Honorary member of the International Olympic Committee and President of the Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and the gifts were presented by Ary Graça, Dr. Rafael Lloreda Currea and Dr. Amr Elwani, President and Executive Vice-Presidents of the FIVB.

The four highest ranked teams in each pool advanced to the knockout stage (quarterfinals).

Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of October 2015.

[3] FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the World Ranking.