Volleyball at the Summer Olympics tiebreaker in the quarterfinals. China went on to win the title, their third in Olympic history, by beating Serbia in four sets in the gold medal match. In the process, Lang Ping became the first person to win a gold medal as a player in Los Angeles 1984 and repeat the feat now as a coach in Rio de Janeiro. China also became the first team to win the Olympics after losing three matches in the preliminary round. The United States defeated Netherlands 3–1 to capture the bronze medal. The fourteen editions of the women's tournament were won by only
Singapore at the 2012 Summer Olympics event, 1 more than what they achieved at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Feng Tianwei won the bronze medal for the women's singles event, becoming the first Singaporean athlete to win an individual medal since the 1960 Summer Olympics, where weightlifter Tan Howe Liang won a silver medal. Li Jiawei, Feng Tianwei and Wang Yuegu's win against South Korea for the women's team Bronze medal match marks the first Olympics in Singapore's history where more than one medal were won consecutively in a single Olympic Games. Singapore has qualified 1 athlete. Singapore at the 2012 Summer Olympics Singapore competed at