Volleyball at the 1968 Summer Olympics

2nd Volleyball Olympic Tournament
Mexico City 1968
Tournament details
Olympics	1968 Summer Olympics
Host nation	Mexico
City	Mexico City
Dates	October 13 – 26
Men's Medals(10 teams)
Gold	Soviet Union
Silver	Japan
Bronze	Czechoslovakia
Women's Medals(8 teams)
Gold	Soviet Union
Silver	Japan
Bronze	Poland

Volleyball at the 1968 Summer Olympics was represented by two events: men's team and women's team. ^[1] The Olympic Committee initially dropped volleyball for the 1968 Olympics, meeting protests. ^[2]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	2	0	0	2
2	Japan	0	2	0	2
3	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		2	2	2	6

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's indoor details	Soviet Union  (URS) Eduard Sibiryakov Yuri Poyarkov Georgi Mondzolevsky Valeri Kravchenko Volodymyr Byelyayev Yevgeni Lapinsky Ivan Bugaenkov Oleg Antropov Vasilius Matushevas Viktor Mikhalchuk Boris Tereshchuk Vladimir Ivanov Head coach: Yuri Chesnokov	Japan  (JPN) Masayuki Minami Katsutoshi Nekoda Mamoru Shiragami Isao Koizumi Kenji Kimura Yasuaki Mitsumori Naohiro Ikeda Jungo Morita Tadayoshi Yokota Seiji Oko Tetsuo Satō Kenji Shimaoka Head coach: Yasutaka Matsudaira	Czechoslovakia  (TCH) Bohumil Golián Antonin Prochazka Petr Kop Jiri Svoboda Josef Musil Lubomir Zajisek Josef Smolka Vladimir Petlak Frantisek Sokol Zdenek Groessel Pavel Schenk Drahomir Koudelka Head coach: Vladimir Matiásek
Women's indoor details	Soviet Union  (URS) Lyudmila Buldakova Lyudmila Mikhailkovskaya Tatyana Veinberga Vera Lantratova Vera Galushka-Duyunova Tatyana Sarycheva Tatyana Ponyaeva-Tretyakova Nina Smoleeva Inna Ryskal Galina Leontyeva Roza Salikhova Valentina Kamenek-Vinogradova Head coach: Givi Akhvlediani	Japan  (JPN) Setsuko Yosjida Suzue Takayama Toyoko Iwahara Youko Kasahara Aiko Onozawa Yukiyo Kojima Sachiko Fukanaka Kunie Shishikura Setsuko Inoue Sumie Oinuma Makiko Furakawa Keiko Hama Head coach: Shigeo Yamada	Poland  (POL) Elżbieta Porzec Zofia Szczęśniewska Wanda Wiecha Barbara Hermela-Niemczyk Krystyna Ostromęcka Krystyna Krupa Jadwiga Książek Józefa Ledwig Krystyna Jakubowska Lidia Chmielnicka Krystyna Czajkowska Halina Aszkiełowicz Head coach: Benedykt Krysik

References

1. "Volleyball at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
2. Black Belt Vol. 2, No. 2. Active Interest Media, Inc. Mar 1964. p. 27.

External links

• Official Olympic Report Archived 2007-06-12 at the Wayback Machine