Volleyball at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Volleyball at the 1972 Summer Olympics was represented by two events: men's team and women's team.[1]

3rd Volleyball Olympic Tournament
Munich 1972
Tournament details
Olympics1972 Summer Olympics
Host nation West Germany
CityMunich
DatesAugust 27 – September 9
Men's Medals(12 teams)
1st place, gold medalist(s) Gold Japan
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Silver East Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Bronze Soviet Union
Women's Medals(8 teams)
1st place, gold medalist(s) Gold Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Silver Japan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Bronze North Korea

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Japan1102
2  Soviet Union1012
3  East Germany0101
4  North Korea0011
Totals (4 entries)2226

Medal summary

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's indoor
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  Japan (JPN)
Masayuki Minami
Katsutoshi Nekoda
Yūzo Nakamura
Tetsuo Nishimoto
Kenji Kimura
Yoshihide Fukao
Yasuhiro Noguchi
Jungo Morita
Tadayoshi Yokota
Seiji Oko
Tetsuo Satō
Kenji Shimaoka

Head coach:

Sasutaka Matsudaira

  East Germany (GDR)
Horst Peter
Horst Hagen
Siegfried Schneider
Wolfgang Löwe
Rainer Tscharke
Eckehard Pietzsch
Arnold Schulz
Wolfgang Maibohm
Wolfgang Weise
Jürgen Maune
Rudi Schumann
Wolfgang Webner

Head coach:

Herbert Jenter

  Soviet Union (URS)
Yuriy Poyarkov
Valeri Kravchenko
Yefim Chulak
Yevhen Lapinsky
Vladimir Putyatov
Viktor Borshch
Vladimir Patkin
Leonid Zayko
Aleksandr Saprykin
Yuri Starunsky
Vyacheslav Domani
Vladimir Kondra

Head coach:

Yuri Chesnokov

Women's indoor
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  Soviet Union (URS)
Lyudmila Buldakova
Lyubov Tyurina
Vera Galushka-Duyunova
Lyudmila Borozna
Tatyana Sarycheva
Nina Smoleyeva
Tatyana Ponyayeva-Tretyakova
Rosa Salikhova
Inna Ryskal
Nataliya Kudreva
Galina Leontyeva
Tatyana Gonobobleva

Head coach:

Givi Akhvlediani

  Japan (JPN)
Katsumi Matsumura
Noriko Yamashita
Toyoko Iwahara
Takako Iida
Sumie Oinuma
Makiko Furukawa
Keiko Hama
Seiko Shimakage
Yaeko Yamazaki
Michiko Shiokawa
Mariko Okamoto
Takako Shirai

Head coach:

Kōji Kojima

  North Korea (PRK)
Ryom Chun-ja
Kim Su-dae
Ri Chun-ok
Paek Myong-suk
Jong Ok-jin
Kim Myong-suk
Jang Ok-rim
Kim Yeun-ja
Kim Zung-bok
Kang Ok-sun
Hwang He-Suk

Head coach:

References

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  1. ^ "Volleyball at the 1972 Munich Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
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