Olympic Indoor Volleyball 2016: Men's Medal Winners, Scores and Results

The men's volleyball tournament at the 2016 Rio Olympics concluded Sunday, with the United States facing Russia in the bronze-medal game and Italy taking on host nation Brazil for the gold.Below, we'll break down all of the day's action and medal winners.Bronze Medal: United States Beats Russia, 3-2The United States battled all the way back from a two-set deficit Sunday to earn the bronze medal in men's volleyball.The game, in a sense, was a microcosm of the team's Olympics in general. The Americans lost their first two games of this tournament before rattling off four straight wins. Italy beat them for a second time in the semifinals, but the United States recovered to win the bronze against Russia.Matthew Anderson led the way for the United States, winning 18 points on spikes (34.2 percent efficiency). Reid Priddy was efficient, meanwhile, winning 61.5 percent of his spike attempts for 17 points total.After the contest, both the team's captain and coach had nothing but praise for Priddy, per the FIVB:Anderson, David Lee and Maxwell Holt had two blocks apiece, while Erik Shoji led the team with nine digs. And Micah Christenson was the table-setter with 60 total sets.In total, the United States held the advantage in spikes (72-52) and serves (8-5), while Russia had more blocks (12-8). Russia also committed more errors (32-21), a major factor in its blown lead.But it was also a gutsy comeback on a day that didn't appear it would go the Americans' way before the match even began, as Tony Andracki of NBCOlympics.com reported:The Americans were just three points away from the gold medal match in the fourth set of the semifinal Friday, but Italy rattled off six straight points and then took the fifth set to send the U.S. to a devastating loss.Russia, meanwhile, lost in three sets to host Brazil in the semifinal.To add insult to injury, the U.S. team not only had to psychologically move past the heartache of missing out on gold, but then had a traveling snafu Sunday morning where their bus didn't have the right credentials and they were forced to walk several blocks to the Maracanazinho arena in the pouring rain in advance of the bronze medal match.Egor Kliuka led the way for Russia with 13 spikes, while Alexey Verbov and Sergey Tetyukhin notched seven digs apiece and Sergey Grankin finished with 45 sets.Russia coachVladimirAlekno looked on the bright side after the loss."We didn't win a medal but we have a good team and a bright future," he said,per theFIVB. All stats via Rio2016.com. You can follow TimothyRapponTwitter.
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