The boys' beach volleyball tournament at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China, took place between 17 and 27 August at Nanjing Olympic Sports Center.

Thirty-Six pairs were competing, the host country China withdrew their pair. Africa and Asia hosted a single qualification tournament while Europe created a Youth Continental Cup with different zonal stages ending with a final qualification tournament. South America created a six legged tour, though only five events were held where the six countries with the most points qualified and North, Central America and Caribbean hosted four zonal tournaments where the winners qualified to the Youth Olympics and a final tournament where the top two nations qualified. The remaining were Wild Cards.

To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 1999.

Qualification

Event Location Date Total Teams QualifiedHost Nation - - 0 EVCA Zone Qualification Tournament Pigeon Point 18–20 October 2013 1 CAZOVA Zone Qualification Tournament Maracus Bay 26–28 November 2013 1 Central Zone Qualification Tournament Fajardo 6–8 December 2013 1 AFECAVOL Zone Qualification Tournament Guatemala City 1–2 February 2014 1 AVC Qualification Tournament Nakhon Si Thammarat 4–6 April 2014 6 CAVB Qualification Tournament Accra 11–13 April 2014 6 NORCECA Final Qualification Tournament Carolina 12–13 April 2014 2 2014 CEV Youth Continental Cup Final Antalya 15–17 May 2014 6 CSV Youth Tour Final Rankings - 19 May 2014 6 Tripartite Invitation - - 3 Reallocation - - 3 TOTAL 36

Main draw Teams were seeded is the preliminary round according to the following draw: RankTeamNOC1Samuel Morris – Phillip Ayobami2Nate Moore – Kahurangi Robinson3Arnaud Gauthier-Rat – Arnaud Loiseau4Surin Jongklang – Banlue Nakprakhong5Renato Bogarin – Elioth Frutos6Dominik Kmiecik – Jakub Macura7Elias Ndagano – Sylvestre Ndayisabye8Anders Berntsen Mol – Mathias Berntsen9Santiago Aulisi – Leo Aveiro10Lumi Bramont – Jimy Heredia11Niklas Rudolf – Eric Stadie12Miro Määttänen – Santeri Siren13Samiei Alhammadi – Ahid Alsahi14Bryan Shavar – Rojey Hutchinson15Sergio Luis Figueroa – Daniel Rivera16Illia Kovalov – Oleh Plotnytskyi17Bosco Ndayishimiye – Fiston Niyongabo18Rendy Licardo – Mohammad Ashfiya19Louis Richard – Torey DeFalco20Oleg Stoyanovskiy – Artem Yarzutkin21Patrick Lombi – Abu Bakarr Kamara22Mohammadreza Shobeiri – Keyvan Sahneh23Arthur Lanci – George Wanderley24Mauricio Vieyto – Marco Cairus25Delshun Welcome – Rodall Fraser26Edvinas Vaškelis – Matas Navickas27Carlos Rosa – Ajai Sweeney28Andrew Richards – Jake MacNeil29Erik Flores – Mark Álvarez30Tigrito Gómez – Rolando Hernández31Johannes Kratz – Moritz Pristauz-Telsnigg3233Aloisio De Souza – Alex Quaresma Marques34Philip Amissah – Nicholas Tetteh35Moussa Botouli Ilombola – Johfrat Veldich Itoua Ossolo36Yegor Dmitriyev – Sergey Polichshuk

Competition Formula The competition formula consist of two rounds, the first a pool round where the 36 teams have been divided into six pools of six, each pool will play round robin. After the pool round is completed, the best team from each pool plus the two best second place teams will advance to the eight-finals; the rest of the second place teams plus the third and fourth place teams from each pool will advance to the Round of 24. The Round of 24 is a single elimination round, the winning teams will play against the eight-finalists in another single elimination round; next the quarterfinals, semifinals and final matches.FIVB: YOG Nanjing 2014 Event Format and Schedule

On August 17, it was announced that two pools will only consist of five teams due to two pairings being restricted from competition due to an Ebola outbreak in their countries. The results of the matches against these two teams will be a direct forfeit.

Preliminary round Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Pool E

Pool F

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