[2] The medals for the competition were presented by Yu Zaiqing, People's Republic of China; Anita DeFrantz, United States of America; and Chang Ung, Democratic People's Republic of Korea; members of the International Olympic Committee, and the gifts were presented by Ary Graça, Cristóbal Marte Hoffiz and Aleksandar Boričić, President and Executive Vice-Presidents of the FIVB.

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.

The four highest ranked teams in each group advanced to the knockout stage (quarter-finals).

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