Volleyball at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

The 1972 Women's Olympic Volleyball Tournament was the 3rd edition of the event, organized by the world's governing body, the FIVB in conjunction with the IOC. It was held in Munich, West Germany from 27 August to 7 September 1972.

Women's volleyball at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Venue	Volleyball Hall
Date	27 August – 7 September
Competitors	93 from 8 nations
Medalists
Soviet Union (2nd title) Japan North Korea

Qualification

Qualifiers	Date	Host	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Country	26 April 1966	Rome	1	West Germany
1968 Olympic Games	13–26 October 1968	Mexico City	1	Soviet Union
1970 World Championship	22 Sep. – 2 Oct. 1970	Varna	3	Japan North Korea Hungary
1970 Asian Games	10 - 19 Oct. 1970	Bangkok	1	South Korea*
1971 European Championship	23 Sep. – 1 Oct. 1971	Reggio Emilia	1	Czechoslovakia
1971 Pan American Games	31 July – 11 Aug. 1971	Cali	1	Cuba
Total			8

* South Korea qualified as next best Asian team as Japan is already qualified.

Format

The tournament was played in two different stages. In the Preliminary round (first stage), the eight participants were divided into two pools of four teams. A single round-robin format was played within each pool to determine the teams position in the pool. The Final round (second stage) was played in a single elimination format, where the preliminary round two highest ranked teams in each group advanced to the semifinals and the two lowest ranked teams advanced to the 5th–8th place semifinals.

Pools composition

Pool A	Pool B
West Germany	Japan
Hungary	Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union	North Korea
South Korea	Cuba

Rosters

Main article: Volleyball at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's team rosters

Venue

• Volleyball Hall, Munich, West Germany

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Soviet Union	3	3	0	6	9	2	4.500	159	96	1.656	1st–4th semifinals
2	South Korea	3	2	1	5	7	3	2.333	127	99	1.283
3	Hungary	3	1	2	4	4	6	0.667	114	131	0.870	5th–8th semifinals
4	West Germany	3	0	3	3	0	9	0.000	61	135	0.452

Source:

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
27 Aug	Hungary	3–0	West Germany	15–8	15–11	15–9			45–28	Report
27 Aug	South Korea	1–3	Soviet Union	15–11	8–15	7–15	7–15		37–56	Report
29 Aug	Hungary	0–3	South Korea	7–15	13–15	11–15			31–45	Report
29 Aug	Soviet Union	3–0	West Germany	15–5	15–7	15–9			45–21	Report
31 Aug	Hungary	1–3	Soviet Union	12–15	2–15	15–13	9–15		38–58	Report
31 Aug	South Korea	3–0	West Germany	15–2	15–8	15–2			45–12	Report

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Japan	3	3	0	6	9	0	MAX	136	56	2.429	1st–4th semifinals
2	North Korea	3	2	1	5	6	3	2.000	119	76	1.566
3	Cuba	3	1	2	4	3	7	0.429	73	140	0.521	5th–8th semifinals
4	Czechoslovakia	3	0	3	3	1	9	0.111	85	141	0.603

Source:

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
28 Aug	Cuba	0–3	North Korea	1–15	8–15	3–15			12–45	Report
28 Aug	Japan	3–0	Czechoslovakia	15–1	15–7	15–9			45–17	Report
30 Aug	Cuba	0–3	Japan	2–15	3–15	5–15			10–45	Report
30 Aug	Czechoslovakia	0–3	North Korea	3–15	7–15	8–15			18–45	Report
1 Sep	Cuba	3–1	Czechoslovakia	6–15	15–12	15–10	15–13		51–50	Report
1 Sep	Japan	3–0	North Korea	15–3	15–2	16–14			46–19	Report

Final round

5th–8th place

	5th–8th places				5th place
	2 September
	West Germany	0
					7 September
	Cuba	3
					Cuba	2
	2 September
					Hungary	3
	Hungary	3
	Czechoslovakia	2
					7th place
					7 September
					Czechoslovakia	3
					West Germany	0

5th–8th place semifinals

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
2 Sep	West Germany	0–3	Cuba	11–15	13–15	15–17			39–47	Report
2 Sep	Hungary	3–2	Czechoslovakia	15–9	13–15	11–15	15–10	15–11	69–60	Report

7th place match

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
7 Sep	Czechoslovakia	3–0	West Germany	15–13	15–4	16–14			46–31	Report

5th place match

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
7 Sep	Cuba	2–3	Hungary	15–13	16–14	14–16	5–15	11–15	61–73	Report

Final

	Semifinals				Gold medal match
	3 September
	South Korea	0
					7 September
	Japan	3
					Japan	2
	3 September
					Soviet Union	3
	Soviet Union	3
	North Korea	1
					Bronze medal match
					7 September
					South Korea	0
					North Korea	3

Semifinals

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
3 Sep	South Korea	0–3	Japan	3–15	5–15	9–15			17–45	Report
3 Sep	Soviet Union	3–1	North Korea	15–10	16–14	7–15	15–8		53–47	Report

Bronze medal match

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
7 Sep	South Korea	0–3	North Korea	7–15	9–15	9–15			25–45	Report

Gold medal match

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
7 Sep	Japan	2–3	Soviet Union	11–15	15–4	11–15	15–9	11–15	63–58	Report

Final standing

Rank	Team
	Soviet Union
	Japan
	North Korea
4	South Korea
5	Hungary
6	Cuba
7	Czechoslovakia
8	West Germany

1972 Women's Olympic champions
Soviet Union 2nd title

12-woman roster

Vera Galushka-Duyunova, Tatyana Ponyayeva-Tretyakova, Nina Smoleeva, Roza Salikhova, Lyudmila Buldakova, Tatyana Gonobobleva, Lyubov Turina, Galina Leontyeva, Inna Ryskal, Tatyana Sarycheva, Lyudmila Borozna, Nataliya Kudreva

Head coach

Givi Akhvlediani

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Soviet Union (URS) Vera Galushka-Duyunova Tatyana Ponyayeva-Tretyakova Nina Smoleeva Roza Salikhova Lyudmila Buldakova Tatyana Gonobobleva Lyubov Turina Galina Leontyeva Inna Ryskal Tatyana Sarycheva Lyudmila Borozna Nataliya Kudreva Head coach: Givi Akhvlediani	Japan (JPN) Sumie Oinuma Noriko Yamashita Seiko Shimakage Makiko Furukawa Takako Iida Katsumi Matsumura Michiko Shiokawa Takako Shirai Mariko Okamoto Keiko Hama Yaeko Yamazaki Toyoko Iwahara Head coach: Kōji Kojima	North Korea (PRK) Ri Chun-Ok Kim Myong-Suk Kim Zung-Bok Kang Ok-Sun Kim Yeun-Ja Hwang He-Suk Jang Ok-Rim Paek Myong-Suk Ryom Chun-Ja Kim Su-Dae Jong Ok-Jin Head coach:

External links

• Final standings (1964–2000) at FIVB.org
• Results at Todor66.com
• Results at Sports123.com
• Official results (pgs. 438-441, 450-454)