1964 Summer Olympics / volleyball

At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo , volleyball tournaments were held for women and men for the first time . It was also the first time ever that a team sport was played at the Olympic Games for women.

qualification

The men qualified

• the host Japan
• the first three of the 1962 World Cup, the Soviet Union , Czechoslovakia and Romania
• the winner of a qualifying tournament for Africa Morocco held in Alexandria in December 1963 , which, however, waived, so that Bulgaria moved up to fourth in the World Cup
• the best teams from North and South America at the 1963 Pan American Games USA and Brazil
• the winner of a qualifying tournament for Asia South Korea held in New Delhi in December 1963
• the second (behind Romania) in the 1963 European Championship Hungary
• Since the International Volleyball Federation wanted a representative from "Western Europe", it invited the teams from France , Italy , the Netherlands and Turkey to a qualifying tournament in Brussels in January 1964 . But only Italy and the Netherlands competed. The Netherlands qualified for the Olympics with a 3-2 win. This qualification was only accepted by the NOK of the Netherlands after the Netherlands had also won the Western European Cup, which was held in Hengelo in April 1964, in the final with 3-1 against France.

The women qualified

• the host Japan
• the first two of the 1962 World Cup, the Soviet Union and Poland
• the winner of the 1963 Pan American Games USA
• the second (behind Japan) of the Asian Games 1962 South Korea
• third (behind the Soviet Union and Poland) in the 1963 European Championship Romania

mode

For the men, all ten qualified teams played in a group according to the “everyone against everyone” mode. The most successful team in this round was Olympic champion, the second best won silver, the third bronze.

For women, six teams played on the same principle.

The games were played in Tokyo from October 11th to 23rd.

Schedule men

The Soviet Union did not give up a set in the first four games before they had to go into the fifth set against Czechoslovakia and finally lost to Japan. The Soviet men won the remaining three games 3-0 each time and ultimately became the first Olympic champion in volleyball. Silver medalist Czechoslovakia also had only one defeat with their 2: 3 against the new title holder, but had to give way to the Soviet selection due to the worse set ratio. Host Japan won the bronze medal.

space	team	sentences	Points
1.	Soviet Union	25: 5	16
2.	Czechoslovakia	26:10	16
3.	Japan	22:12	14th
4th	Romania	19:15	12
5.	Bulgaria	20:16	10
6th	Hungary	18:18	8th
7th	Brazil	13:23	6th
8th.	Netherlands	11:24	4th
9.	United States	10:23	4th
10.	South Korea	9:27	0

October 13th	United States	Netherlands	3-0
	Czechoslovakia	Hungary	3: 2
	Bulgaria	Brazil	3-0
	USSR	Romania	3-0
	Japan	South Korea	3-0
October 14th	USSR	Netherlands	3-0
	Romania	Brazil	3-0
	United States	South Korea	3: 2
	Hungary	Japan	3-0
	Czechoslovakia	Bulgaria	3: 2
15th October	Romania	Bulgaria	3: 2
	USSR	South Korea	3-0
	Czechoslovakia	Japan	3: 1
	Netherlands	Brazil	3: 2
	Hungary	United States	3-0
October 17th	Japan	Bulgaria	3: 1
	Czechoslovakia	United States	3-0
	Romania	Netherlands	3-0
	USSR	Hungary	3-0
	Brazil	South Korea	3: 1
October 18	Romania	South Korea	3: 2
	Brazil	Hungary	3: 2
	USSR	Czechoslovakia	3: 2
	Bulgaria	Netherlands	3: 2
	Japan	United States	3: 1
October 19th	Bulgaria	United States	3-0
	Netherlands	South Korea	3: 1
	Japan	USSR	3: 1
	Czechoslovakia	Brazil	3-0
	Romania	Hungary	3: 1
October 21	Japan	Brazil	3: 2
	Bulgaria	South Korea	3: 1
	Czechoslovakia	Romania	3: 1
	Hungary	Netherlands	3: 1
	USSR	United States	3-0
October 22nd	Hungary	South Korea	3: 2
	Czechoslovakia	Netherlands	3: 1
	Brazil	United States	3: 2
	Japan	Romania	3-0
	USSR	Bulgaria	3-0
23rd October	USSR	Brazil	3-0
	Czechoslovakia	South Korea	3-0
	Bulgaria	Hungary	3: 1
	Japan	Netherlands	3: 1
	Romania	United States	3: 1

Schedule women

The decision for the gold medal was made in the final game between the only undefeated teams from Japan and the Soviet Union. In the end, the hosts triumphed 3-0 and became the first Olympic champion in women's volleyball. Behind the Soviet women, Poland secured the bronze medal with a win in their last game against Romania.

space	team	sentences	Points
1.	Japan	15: 1	10
2.	Soviet Union	12: 3	8th
3.	Poland	10: 6	6th
4th	Romania	6: 9	4th
5.	United States	3:12	2
6th	South Korea	0:15	0

October 11th	USSR	Romania	3-0
	Japan	United States	3-0
October 12th	USSR	South Korea	3-0
	Poland	United States	3-0
	Japan	Romania	3-0
October 13th	Romania	United States	3-0
	Poland	South Korea	3-0
October 14th	Japan	South Korea	3-0
15th October	USSR	Poland	3-0
October 17th	USSR	United States	3-0
October 18	Japan	Poland	3: 1
October 19th	Romania	South Korea	3-0
October 21	United States	South Korea	3-0
October 22nd	Poland	Romania	3-0
23rd October	Japan	USSR	3-0

Medals

Men

space	country	player
1	Soviet Union	Juri Tschesnokow , Valeri Kalachichin , Georgi Mondsolewski , Juri Pojarkow , Ivans Bugajenkovs , Nikolai Burobin , Vitali Kovalenko , Eduard Sibiryakov , Dmitri Voskoboinikow , Jurij Wenherowskyj , Wascha Katscharava
2	Czechoslovakia	Vaclav Smidl, Josef Sorm, Zdenek Huhmal, Josef Labuda, Josef Musil , Petr Kop, Milan Cuda, Karel Paulus, Bohumil Golian, Boris Perušič, Pavel Schenk, Ladislav Toman
3	Japan	Yutaka Demachi, Tsutoma Koyama, Sadatoshi Sugahara, Nachiro Ikeda, Yasutaka Sato, Toshiaki Kosedo, Tokihiko Higuchi, Masayuki Minami, Takeshi Tukotomi, Teruhisa Moriyami

Women

space	country	Players
1	Japan	Masae Kasai , Emiko Miyamoto , Kinuko Tanida , Yuriko Handa , Yoshiko Matsumura , Sata Isobe , Katsumi Matsumura , Yoko Shinozaki , Setsuko Sasaki , Yuko Fujimoto , Maseko Kondo , Ayano Shibuki
2	Soviet Union	Lyudmila Buldakowa , Inna Ryskal , Walentina Winogradowa , Astra Biltauere , Marita Viktorovna Katuschewa , Ninel Lukanina , Nelli Abramova , Tatjana Roschtschina , Antonina Ryschowa , Tamara Tichonina , Lyudmyla Hurejewa , Walentyna Myshak
3	Poland	Krystyna Czajkowska, Jozefa Ledwig, Maria Golimowska, Jadwiga Rutkowska, Danuta Kordaczuk, Krystyna Jakubowska, Jedwiga Marko-Ksiazek, Maria Sliwka, Zofia Szczesniewska, Krystyna Krup, Hanna Krystyna Busz-Barbara Niemlaczy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Only after great circumstances in the 1964 games on http://volaren.nl (Dutch)