1972 Summer Olympics / Volleyball

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Logo Munich 1972
1972 Summer Olympics
(volleyball medal table)
space team G S. B. Total
1 JapanJapan JPN 1 1 - 2
2 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union URS 1 - 1 2
3 Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR - 1 - 1
4th Korea NorthNorth Korea PKR - - 1 1

At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich there was a volleyball competition for women and men. The venue was the volleyball hall in the Olympic Park from August 27 to September 9, 1972 .

qualification

Twelve teams qualified for the men. In addition to the host Germany , the Soviet Union was the defending champion. The GDR , Bulgaria and Japan qualified with their top positions at the 1970 World Cup . The Czechoslovakia as European Vice Champion and Cuba ( NORCECA ), Brazil ( South America ), South Korea ( Asia ) and Tunisia ( Africa ) secured their Olympic participation at the continental championships. The last two starting places went to Poland and Romania at a tournament in France.

Eight teams qualified for the women. In addition to the host Germany , the Soviet Union was the defending champion. Japan , North Korea and Hungary benefited from their good placements at the 1970 World Cup . The Czechoslovakia qualified as a finalist of the European Championship 1971 . South Korea ( Asia ) and Cuba ( Pan American Games ) won continental qualifications.

mode

volleyball

For the men, the twelve qualified teams were drawn in two groups with six participants each. The preliminary round was held according to the "everyone against everyone" mode. The two best teams in each group met each other in the semi-finals. The remaining teams played from places five to twelve.

For women there were two groups with four participants each. The two best teams in each group met each other in the semi-finals. The remaining teams played from places five to eight.

The games were played in Munich from August 27th to September 9th. The venue was the hall in the Olympic Park.

New rules

The weight of the ball was set at 250 to 280 grams for the first time at the Olympic tournament. Flexible antennas were also installed on the net so that the referees could better see whether a ball was crossing the net within the boundaries of the playing field.

Schedule men

Preliminary round

In Group A, the Soviet Union remained unbeaten with only three lost sets. Bulgaria finished second with four wins. In group B, the two German teams met. In a direct duel, the GDR selection beat the West German team in three sets. The East Germans were also more successful overall. They reached the semi-finals behind Japan, which did not drop a single set, with four wins in second place in the group. The West Germans, however, remained without a win.

Group A
space team sentences Points
1. Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 15: 3 10
2. Bulgaria 1971Bulgaria Bulgaria 13: 8 8th
3. CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 11: 6 6th
4th Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 7:10 4th
5. Poland 1944Poland Poland 8:12 2
6th TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 0:15 0
Group B
space team sentences Points
1. JapanJapan Japan 15: 0 10
2. Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR 12: 4 8th
3. Romania 1965Romania Romania 8: 9 4th
4th Brazil 1968Brazil Brazil 9:13 4th
5. CubaCuba Cuba 6:13 4th
6th Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 4:15 0
August 27 Soviet Union Tunisia 3-0
Czechoslovakia Poland 3-0
Bulgaria South Korea 3: 1
29th August Poland Tunisia 3-0
Soviet Union South Korea 3-0
Bulgaria Czechoslovakia 3: 2
August 31 Czechoslovakia Tunisia 3-0
South Korea Poland 3: 1
Soviet Union Bulgaria 3: 1
September 2nd South Korea Tunisia 3-0
Soviet Union Czechoslovakia 3-0
Bulgaria Poland 3: 2
5th September Bulgaria Tunisia 3-0
Czechoslovakia South Korea 3-0
Soviet Union Poland 3: 2
August 28th GDR Cuba 3-0
Japan Romania 3: 1
Brazil BR Germany 3: 2
August 30th GDR Brazil 3: 1
Japan Cuba 3-0
Romania BR Germany 3-0
September 1 Brazil Romania 3: 2
Japan GDR 3-0
Cuba BR Germany 3: 2
September 3 GDR BR Germany 3-0
Japan Brazil 3-0
Romania Cuba 3-0
5th September Cuba Brazil 3: 2
GDR Romania 3-0
Japan BR Germany 3-0

Final round

The team of the Federal Republic of Germany defeated Tunisia 3-1 in the placement game and finished eleventh. Poland finished ninth after beating Cuba 3-0.

In the semifinals on September 8, the GDR dethroned the defending champion from the Soviet Union, who ultimately only got the bronze medal after his overall victories at the first two Olympic volleyball tournaments. Second in the final were the Japanese, who defeated Bulgaria in five sets. The fight for the gold medal on September 9 was finally decided by Japan with a 3-1 win against the GDR selection.

  Semifinals final
       
 JapanJapan Japan 3
 Bulgaria 1971Bulgaria Bulgaria 2  
   
 
 JapanJapan Japan 3
   Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR 1
 
place 3
   
 Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR 3  Bulgaria 1971Bulgaria Bulgaria 0
 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 1    Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 3
  5th place 5th place
       
 Romania 1965Romania Romania 3
 Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 0  
   
 
 Romania 1965Romania Romania 3
   CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 1
 
7th place
   
 CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 3  Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 3
 Brazil 1968Brazil Brazil 0    Brazil 1968Brazil Brazil 0

Schedule women

Preliminary round

In Group A, the German women had no chance and did not win a single set. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, won all of their three games and only gave two sets. Two victories were enough for South Korea to reach the semifinals. In group B the Asians dominated. Japan did not give a single sentence, the North Koreans took second place.

Group A
space team sentences Points
1. Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 9: 2 6th
2. Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 7: 3 4th
3. Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary 4: 6 2
4th Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 0: 9 0
Group B
space team sentences Points
1. JapanJapan Japan 9-0 6th
2. Korea NorthNorth Korea North Korea 6: 3 4th
3. CubaCuba Cuba 3: 7 2
4th CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 1: 9 0
August 27 Hungary BR Germany 3-0
Soviet Union South Korea 3: 1
29th August South Korea Hungary 3-0
Soviet Union BR Germany 3-0
August 31 Soviet Union Hungary 3: 1
South Korea BR Germany 3-0
August 28th North Korea Cuba 3-0
Japan Czechoslovakia 3-0
August 30th Japan Cuba 3-0
North Korea Czechoslovakia 3-0
September 1 Cuba Czechoslovakia 3: 1
Japan North Korea 3-0

Final round

The German women also lost both placement games against Cuba and Czechoslovakia 3-0, finishing last. In the semifinals on September 2, Japan won the Asian duel against South Korea, while North Korea was defeated by the Soviet Union. The Koreans met in a duel for bronze, which the women from the north won in three sets. In the game for gold on September 7th between the teams from the USSR and Japan, the decision was made in the tiebreak in favor of the Soviet selection.

  Semifinals final
       
 JapanJapan Japan 3
 Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 0  
   
 
 JapanJapan Japan 2
   Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 3
 
place 3
   
 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 3  Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 0
 Korea NorthNorth Korea North Korea 1    Korea NorthNorth Korea North Korea 3
  5th place 5th place
       
 CubaCuba Cuba 3
 Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 0  
   
 
 CubaCuba Cuba 2
   Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary 3
 
7th place
   
 Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary 3  Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 0
 CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 2    CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 3

criticism

After losing the bronze medal, the South Korean team filed a protest claiming North Korean Kim Jung-bok was a man. However, the protest was dismissed because the medical commission had issued the accused player with a femininity certificate. The South Koreans then claimed that their team-mate Han Jong-suk, who had not been included in the Olympic selection, had shown up for the sex test in Kim's place .

Medals

Men

space country player
1 JapanJapan Japan Katsutoshi Nekoda, Kenji Kimura, Jungo Morita, Seiji Oko, Tadayoshi Yokota, Kenji Shimaoko, Tetsuo Nishimoto , Yoshihide Fukao , Yuzo Nakamura, Yasuhiro Noguchi, Masayuki Minami, Tetsuo Sato
2 Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR Siegfried Schneider , Rudi Schumann , Arnold Schulz , Rainer Tscharke , Eckehard Pietzsch , Wolfgang Webner , Wolfgang Weise , Wolfgang Löwe , Jürgen Maune , Horst Peter , Horst Hagen , Wolfgang Maibohm . Trainer: Herbert Jenter
3 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union Valeri Kravchenko, Yefim Tschulak Vladimir Putjatow Vladimir Patkin, Leonid Saiko, Yuri Starunski Yevgeny Lapinski, Yuri Poyarkov , Vyacheslav Domani, Alexander Saprykin Victor Borstsch Vladimir Kondra
11 Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany Klaus-Dieter Buschle , Bernhard Endrich , Hans-Ulrich Graßhoff , Rüdiger Hild , Klaus Meetz , Hatto Nolte , Hans-Georg von der Ohe , Volker Paulus , Toni Rimrod , Wolfgang Simon , Ulf Tütken , Uwe Zitranski

Women

space country player
1 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union Lyudmila Buldakowa , Wera Dujunowa , Lyudmila Borosna , Inna Ryskal , Nina Smolejewa , Tatiana Gonoboblejewa , Lyubow Tjurina, Galina Leontjewa , Tatiana Tretyakova, Rosa Salichowa , Tatiana Sarycheva, Natalja Kudrewa
2 JapanJapan Japan Noriko Yamashita, Sumie Olnuma, Seiko Shimakage, Makiko Furukawa, Takako Iida, Katsumi Matsumura, Michiko Shiokawa, Takako Shirai , Mariko Okamoto, Keiko Hama, Yaeko Yamazaki, Toyoko Iwahara
3 Korea NorthNorth Korea North Korea Chun Ok-Ri, Myong Suk-Kim, Zung Bok-Kim, Ok Sun-Kang, Yeun Ja-Kim, He Suk- Hwang, Ok Rim-Jang, Myong Suk-Paek, Chun Ja-Ryom, Su Dae-Kim, Ok Jin-Jong, Chun Ok-Ri
8th Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany Birgit Drechsel , Annette Ellerbracke , Erika Heucke , Marianne Lepa , Ingrid Lorenz , Birgit Pörner , Regina Pütz , Annedore Richter , Rike Ruschenburg , Traute Schaefer , Margret Stender , Uschi Westphal

Effects in Germany

Due to the Olympic tournament in Germany, volleyball experienced a boom. The success of the GDR team and the media presence created a special enthusiasm. The number of volleyball players registered with the German Sports Association rose from 46,000 to 133,000 within four years. The then Romanian setter Stelian Moculescu used the tournament to escape and established himself in the following decades as a successful coach in the volleyball Bundesliga and the German national team.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Summer Olympic Games. (No longer available online.) German Volleyball Association , archived from the original on January 10, 2016 ; Retrieved October 5, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.volleyball-verband.de
  2. ^ Olympia Munich 1972 ( Memento from June 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Olympia in Munich. volleyball.de, accessed on August 24, 2012 .
  4. The insatiable volleyball site manager. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 12, 2006, accessed October 5, 2010 .