Volleyball at the 1972 Summer Olympics

3rd Volleyball Olympic Tournament

Munich 1972
Tournament details
Olympics| 1972 Summer Olympics
Host nation|  West Germany
City| Munich
Dates| August 27 – September 9
Men's Medals(12 teams)
Gold|  Japan
Silver|  East Germany
Bronze|  Soviet Union
Women's Medals(8 teams)
Gold|  Soviet Union
Silver|  Japan
Bronze|  North Korea

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

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Japan| 1| 1| 0| 2
2|  Soviet Union| 1| 0| 1| 2
3|  East Germany| 0| 1| 0| 1
4|  North Korea| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (4 entries)| 2| 2| 2| 6

## Medal summary

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Men's indoor
details |  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

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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

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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

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Head coach:

Yuri Chesnokov

Women's indoor
details |  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

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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

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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

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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.

## External links

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Volleyball at the Summer Olympics

Tournaments|

* 1896–1960
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Qualifications|

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