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Volleyball, Men

Date	13 – 26 October 1968
Status	Olympic
Location	Gimnasio Olímpico Juan de la Barrera, Ciudad de México / Pista de Hielo Revolución, Ciudad de México
Participants	119 from 10 countries
Format	Round-robin tournament.

The tournament was again a pure round-robin of ten teams. The qualifying consisted of the top seven teams from the 1966 World Championships. Romania withdrew and was replaced by Belgium. The United States and Brazil were added from the results of the 1967 Pan-American Games, joined by host nation Mexico, which had no volleyball tradition.

The two top teams were the gold and silver medalists from 1964, the USSR and Czechoslovakia. The Soviets had won the 1967 Europeans but Czechoslovakia was World Champion in 1966. Although the sport had been invented in the United States, the US was not considered in the same league as the top European powers. But in their first match they faced the favored Soviet team and defeated them in five sets, winning 15-6 in the fifth. The US would win only three other matches and the Soviets would not be defeated again. In the final match, the USSR played Czechoslovakia, both teams tied with records of 7-1, but the Soviets won in straights, 7, 4, and 8.

The Soviet Union was quite fortunate. It had not been playing well of late, and had recently lost three matches to the GDR (East Germany). In their Olympic match against East Germany, the Soviet team bus was stuck in traffic and they were 90 minutes late for the match. The East Germans could have taken a forfeit, but elected not to, and the USSR won the match in five sets. Had the USSR defaulted, Czechoslovakia would have won the gold medal, and East Germany would likely have won a medal. After returning home, the supposedly amateur East German players received the same rewards from the government usually accorded to silver medalists.

Pos	Number	Team	NOC	Matches Played	Wins	Losses	Points	Sets	Set Ratio	Points	Points Ratio	Side Outs
1	–	Soviet Union	URS	9	8	1	17	26-8	3.250	464-326	1.423	–	Gold
	1	Eduard Sibiryakov		9	–	–	41.6	–-–	–	–-–	–	110.0
	2	Valery Kravchenko		8	–	–	38.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	105.5
	3	Vladimir Belyayev		8	–	–	15.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	60.0
	4	Yevgeny Lapinsky		9	–	–	40.3	–-–	–	–-–	–	87.5
	5	Oļegs Antropovs		4	–	–	4.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	8.5
	6	Vasilijus Matuševas		2	–	–	2.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	5.0
	7	Viktor Mikhalchuk		8	–	–	13.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	12.0
	8	Yury Poyarkov		9	–	–	32.1	–-–	–	–-–	–	26.5
	9	Boris Tereshchuk		8	–	–	9.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	7.5
	10	Vladimir Ivanov		8	–	–	19.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	44.5
	11	Ivans Bugajenkovs		8	–	–	64.3	–-–	–	–-–	–	133.0
	12	Georgy Mondzolevsky		9	–	–	10.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	7.0
Coach		Yury Kleshchov
2	–	Japan	JPN	9	7	2	16	24-6	4.000	430-258	1.667	–	Silver
	2	Masayuki Minami		7	–	–	16.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	18.0
	3	Katsutoshi Nekoda		9	–	–	16.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	20.5
	4	Mamoru Shiragami		9	–	–	0.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	1.0
	5	Isao Koizumi		9	–	–	24.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	55.5
	6	Kenji Kimura		9	–	–	37.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	81.0
	7	Yasuaki Mitsumori		9	–	–	9.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	38.0
	8	Jungo Morita		9	–	–	49.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	116.5
	9	Tadayoshi Yokota		9	–	–	53.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	78.0
	10	Seiji Oko		9	–	–	53.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	82.5
	11	Tetsuo Sato		2	–	–	0.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	0.0
	12	Kenji Shimaoka		4	–	–	4.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	5.0
	1	Naohiro Ikeda-Nakano DNS		–	–	–	–	–-–	–	–-–	–	–
Coach		Yasutaka Matsudaira
3	–	Czechoslovakia	TCH	9	7	2	16	22-15	1.467	454-417	1.089	–	Bronze
	1	Antonín Procházka		8	–	–	10.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	26.5
	2	Jiří Svoboda		9	–	–	35.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	54.5
	3	Lubomír Zajíček		2	–	–	4.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	3.0
	4	Josef Musil		9	–	–	7.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	10.5
	5	Josef Smolka		7	–	–	0.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	0.0
	6	Vladimír Petlák		9	–	–	52.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	103.0
	7	Petr Kop		8	–	–	18.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	45.3
	8	František Sokol		8	–	–	15.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	32.0
	9	Bohumil Golián		7	–	–	14.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	26.0
	10	Zdeněk Groessl		9	–	–	51.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	99.3
	11	Pavel Schenk		6	–	–	28.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	64.5
	12	Drahomír Koudelka		9	–	–	34.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	84.3
Coach		Václav Matiásek
4	–	East Germany	GDR	9	6	3	15	22-12	1.833	449-374	1.201	–
	1	Horst Peter		7	–	–	15.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	15.5
	2	Eckhard Tielscher		6	–	–	3.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	4.0
	3	Siegfried Schneider		9	–	–	47.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	87.0
	4	Manfred Heine		4	–	–	3.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	11.5
	5	Rainer Tscharke		6	–	–	8.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	15.0
	6	Eckehard Pietzsch		8	–	–	16.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	20.0
	7	Arnold Schulz		9	–	–	54.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	94.0
	8	Rudi Schumann		5	–	–	3.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	6.0
	9	Jürgen Kessel		6	–	–	9.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	7.0
	10	Walter Toussaint		9	–	–	13.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	29.5
	11	Jürgen Freiwald		9	–	–	58.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	95.5
	12	Wolfgang Webner		8	–	–	42.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	85.0
Coach		Herbert Jenter
5	–	Poland	POL	9	6	3	15	18-11	1.636	371-281	1.320	–
	1	Stanisław Zduńczyk		9	–	–	13.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	39.0
	2	Aleksander Skiba		6	–	–	2.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	1.0
	3	Jerzy Szymczyk		9	–	–	7.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	18.5
	4	Edward Skorek		9	–	–	49.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	121.5
	5	Zbigniew Jasiukiewicz		8	–	–	12.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	28.0
	6	Tadeusz Siwek		9	–	–	10.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	23.0
	7	Zdzisław Ambroziak		9	–	–	33.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	73.5
	8	Stanisław Gościniak		8	–	–	2.8	–-–	–	–-–	–	2.0
	9	Romuald Paszkiewicz		9	–	–	45.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	84.0
	10	Hubert Wagner		9	–	–	8.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	21.5
	11	Wojciech Rutkowski		6	–	–	4.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	15.5
	12	Zbigniew Zarzycki		9	–	–	22.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	52.0
Coach		Tadeusz Szlagor
6	–	Bulgaria	BUL	9	4	5	13	16-17	0.941	379-385	0.984	–
	1	Aleksandar Trenev		8	–	–	1.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	4.0
	2	Dimitar Zlatanov		9	–	–	33.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	99.5
	3	Gramen Prinov		9	–	–	3.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	8.0
	4	Petar Krachmarov		9	–	–	25.1	–-–	–	–-–	–	50.8
	5	Aleksandar Aleksandrov		9	–	–	44.2	–-–	–	–-–	–	68.0
	6	Zdravko Simeonov		9	–	–	23.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	60.0
	7	Milcho Milev		5	–	–	2.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	2.5
	8	Dimitar Karov		9	–	–	24.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	33.5
	9	Kiril Slavov		9	–	–	20.7	–-–	–	–-–	–	36.0
	10	Dinko Atanasov		7	–	–	28.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	54.0
	11	Angel Koritarov		4	–	–	0.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	0.0
	12	Stoyan Stoyanov		8	–	–	13.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	41.5
Coach		Dimitar Zahariev
7	–	United States	USA	9	4	5	13	15-18	0.833	383-414	0.925	–
	1	Danny Patterson		9	–	–	3.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	5.0
	2	Pete Velasco, Jr.		9	–	–	18.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	27.5
	3	Jack Henn		9	–	–	27.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	33.0
	4	Butch May		5	–	–	13.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	16.0
	5	Larry Rundle		4	–	–	8.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	23.5
	6	Mike Bright		9	–	–	21.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	77.0
	7	Smitty Duke		9	–	–	22.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	46.0
	8	John Alstrom		9	–	–	28.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	42.0
	9	Jon Stanley		9	–	–	24.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	63.0
	10	Tom Haine		7	–	–	6.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	12.5
	11	Rudy Suwara		9	–	–	46.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	109.0
	12	Wink Davenport		7	–	–	4.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	9.0
Coach		Jim Coleman
8	–	Belgium	BEL	9	2	7	11	6-24	0.250	239-417	0.573	–
	1	Jozef Mol		5	–	–	7.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	15.0
	2	Paul Mestdagh		7	–	–	1.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	18.0
	3	Fernand Walder		9	–	–	2.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	5.5
	4	Willem Bossaerts		6	–	–	11.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	39.5
	5	Bernard Vaillant		3	–	–	3.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	5.0
	6	Roger Maes		6	–	–	18.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	64.5
	7	Ronald Vandewal		6	–	–	10.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	23.0
	8	Hugo Huybrechts		6	–	–	19.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	62.0
	9	Roger Vandergoten		9	–	–	7.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	18.5
	10	Benno Saelens		6	–	–	5.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	18.5
	11	Berto Poosen		6	–	–	25.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	66.5
	12	Leo Dierckx		6	–	–	14.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	27.5
Coach		Paul Clerck
9	–	Brazil	BRA	9	1	8	10	8-25	0.320	357-469	0.761	–
	1	Jorge de Souza		5	–	–	26.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	29.0
	2	Sérgio Pinheiro		9	–	–	11.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	49.5
	3	João Jens		7	–	–	14.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	30.0
	4	Gérson Schuch		9	–	–	31.8	–-–	–	–-–	–	33.5
	5	José da Costa		4	–	–	1.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	2.0
	6	Marco Antônio Volpi		9	–	–	16.3	–-–	–	–-–	–	60.5
	7	Mário Dunlop		6	–	–	12.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	26.5
	8	Antônio Carlos Moreno		9	–	–	24.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	68.0
	9	Décio de Azevedo		9	–	–	11.9	–-–	–	–-–	–	24.0
	10	Víctor Barcellos		8	–	–	26.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	55.0
	11	Feitosa		6	–	–	8.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	52.0
	12	Paulo Petterle		8	–	–	19.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	76.0
Coach		Paulo Matta
10	–	Mexico	MEX	9	0	9	9	6-27	0.222	289-474	0.610	–
	1	César Osuna		6	–	–	7.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	15.5
	2	Joel Calvo		7	–	–	9.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	10.0
	3	Jesús Loya		7	–	–	0.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	8.0
	4	Eduardo Sixtos		9	–	–	34.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	93.5
	5	Francisco González		6	–	–	0.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	2.0
	6	Juan Manuel Durán		9	–	–	6.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	15.0
	7	Carlos Aguirre		9	–	–	18.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	27.0
	8	Leopoldo Reyna		9	–	–	26.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	87.0
	9	César Barrón		9	–	–	26.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	101.0
	10	Antonio Barbet		9	–	–	23.5	–-–	–	–-–	–	76.5
	11	Luis Martell		9	–	–	17.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	46.0
	12	Eduardo Jiménez		9	–	–	12.0	–-–	–	–-–	–	29.5
Coach		?

Round-Robin

Date	13 – 26 October 1968

Match	Date/Time	Competitors	NOC	Result	Competitors	NOC
Match #1	15 Oct 10:00	Japan	JPN	15-9, 15-11, 15-10	Poland	POL
Match #2	15 Oct 17:00	Bulgaria	BUL	15-9, 15-4, 15-6	Mexico	MEX
Match #3	15 Oct 19:00	Czechoslovakia	TCH	15-12, 15-17, 14-16, 15-11, 15-9	East Germany	GDR
Match #4	15 Oct 10:00	Belgium	BEL	15-7, 16-14, 9-15, 15-6	Brazil	BRA
Match #5	15 Oct 12:00	United States	USA	11-15, 15-10, 10-15, 15-10, 15-6	Soviet Union	URS
Match #6	16 Oct 12:00	Czechoslovakia	TCH	15-0, 10-15, 15-7, 15-7	United States	USA
Match #7	16 Oct 17:00	Poland	POL	15-10, 7-15, 15-4, 15-3	Mexico	MEX
Match #8	16 Oct 19:00	Japan	JPN	15-6, 15-8, 15-13	East Germany	GDR
Match #9	16 Oct 10:00	Bulgaria	BUL	15-10, 15-1, 15-5	Belgium	BEL
Match #10	16 Oct 17:00	Soviet Union	URS	11-15, 15-2, 15-9, 15-9	Brazil	BRA
Match #11	17 Oct 10:00	East Germany	GDR	15-3, 15-5, 15-6	Mexico	MEX
Match #12	17 Oct 12:00	Poland	POL	15-6, 15-5, 15-8	Belgium	BEL
Match #13	17 Oct 19:00	Czechoslovakia	TCH	2-15, 3-15, 15-12, 15-12, 15-11	Japan	JPN
Match #14	17 Oct 10:00	Soviet Union	URS	15-10, 15-9, 15-10	Bulgaria	BUL
Match #15	17 Oct 17:00	United States	USA	15-12, 15-7, 15-10	Brazil	BRA
Match #16	19 Oct 10:00	Japan	JPN	15-1, 15-3, 15-11	Mexico	MEX
Match #17	19 Oct 12:00	Soviet Union	URS	15-9, 15-10, 15-10	Poland	POL
Match #18	19 Oct 19:00	East Germany	GDR	15-1, 15-7, 15-7	Belgium	BEL
Match #19	19 Oct 10:00	Bulgaria	BUL	10-15, 17-15, 7-15, 15-7, 16-14	United States	USA
Match #20	19 Oct 17:00	Czechoslovakia	TCH	15-12, 15-10, 13-15, 13-15, 15-9	Brazil	BRA
Match #21	20 Oct 12:00	Japan	JPN	15-5, 15-5, 15-4	Belgium	BEL
Match #22	20 Oct 17:00	Czechoslovakia	TCH	15-10, 15-8, 15-8	Mexico	MEX
Match #23	20 Oct 19:00	Soviet Union	URS	10-15, 15-9, 15-11, 12-15, 15-5	East Germany	GDR
Match #24	20 Oct 12:00	Bulgaria	BUL	15-8, 18-16, 15-3	Brazil	BRA
Match #25	20 Oct 17:00	Poland	POL	15-5, 15-5, 15-8	United States	USA
Match #26	21 Oct 12:00	Belgium	BEL	15-11, 5-15, 13-15, 18-16, 15-2	Mexico	MEX
Match #27	21 Oct 17:00	Soviet Union	URS	4-15, 15-13, 15-9, 15-13	Japan	JPN
Match #28	21 Oct 12:00	East Germany	GDR	15-8, 15-12, 15-10	United States	USA
Match #29	21 Oct 10:00	Czechoslovakia	TCH	15-7, 10-15, 15-9, 4-15, 15-7	Bulgaria	BUL
Match #30	21 Oct 17:00	Poland	POL	15-12, 15-4, 15-7	Brazil	BRA
Match #31	23 Oct 10:00	Poland	POL	15-3, 15-5, 15-10	Bulgaria	BUL
Match #32	23 Oct 12:00	Japan	JPN	15-5, 15-8, 15-11	United States	USA
Match #33	23 Oct 19:00	Czechoslovakia	TCH	15-0, 15-4, 15-12	Belgium	BEL
Match #34	23 Oct 10:00	Soviet Union	URS	15-5, 15-8, 11-15, 15-5	Mexico	MEX
Match #35	23 Oct 12:00	East Germany	GDR	15-13, 15-7, 14-16, 15-12	Brazil	BRA
Match #36	24 Oct 10:00	Japan	JPN	15-8, 15-11, 15-12	Brazil	BRA
Match #37	24 Oct 12:00	United States	USA	14-16, 15-10, 15-9, 15-11	Mexico	MEX
Match #38	24 Oct 19:00	Soviet Union	URS	15-2, 15-3, 15-5	Belgium	BEL
Match #39	24 Oct 10:00	East Germany	GDR	15-11, 8-15, 15-10, 10-15, 15-7	Bulgaria	BUL
Match #40	24 Oct 17:00	Poland	POL	15-5, 15-3, 12-15, 15-13	Czechoslovakia	TCH
Match #41	25 Oct 17:00	Brazil	BRA	14-16, 15-6, 17-15, 15-8	Mexico	MEX
Match #42	25 Oct 19:00	East Germany	GDR	15-11, 15-6, 15-6	Poland	POL
Match #43	25 Oct 10:00	Japan	JPN	15-7, 15-6, 15-5	Bulgaria	BUL
Match #44	25 Oct 12:00	United States	USA	15-4, 16-14, 15-10	Belgium	BEL
Match #45	26 Oct 20:00	Soviet Union	URS	15-7, 15-4, 15-8	Czechoslovakia	TCH