| Date | 21 October 1968 — 12:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Gimnasio Olímpico Juan de la Barrera, Ciudad de México | |
| Referee #1 | Dušan Prieložný | TCH |
| Referee #2 | Sergio Freire | BRA |
| Details | Match Time: 1-13 |
| Number | Competitor | NOC | Sets Won | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | East Germany | GDR | 3 | 15 | 15 | 15 | |
| – | United States | USA | 0 | 8 | 12 | 10 |
East Germany| Pos | Number | Competitor | Points | Side Outs | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Siegfried Schneider | 2.0 | 5.0 | ||||
| 5 | Rainer Tscharke | 1.0 | 1.0 | ||||
| 6 | Eckehard Pietzsch | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
| 7 | Arnold Schulz | 5.5 | 10.0 | ||||
| 10 | Walter Toussaint | 2.5 | 2.5 | ||||
| 11 | Jürgen Freiwald | 9.5 | 19.0 | ||||
| 12 | Wolfgang Webner | 0.5 | 8.5 | ||||
| Team Totals | 45 | – | 1 | ||||
| Coach | Herbert Jenter | 2 | |||||
United States| Pos | Number | Competitor | Points | Side Outs | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danny Patterson | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
| 2 | Pete Velasco, Jr. | 2.5 | 2.5 | ||||
| 3 | Jack Henn | 0.0 | 1.0 | ||||
| 4 | Butch May | 2.0 | 0.0 | ||||
| 6 | Mike Bright | 2.5 | 14.0 | ||||
| 7 | Smitty Duke | 4.5 | 5.0 | ||||
| 8 | John Alstrom | 1.0 | 4.0 | ||||
| 9 | Jon Stanley | 5.0 | 8.0 | ||||
| 10 | Tom Haine | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
| 11 | Rudy Suwara | 2.5 | 14.0 | ||||
| 12 | Wink Davenport | 0.0 | 2.0 | ||||
| Team Totals | 30 | – | |||||
| Coach | Jim Coleman | ||||||