| Date | 2 October 1988 — 12:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Jam-sil Che-yuk-gwan, Seoul Sports Complex, Seoul | |
| Referee #1 | Hiroshi Sasaki |  JPN |
| Referee #2 | Hassan Ahmed |  EGY |
| Attendance | 13,000 | |
| Details | Match Time: 2-05 Set #1 Time: 0-40 Set #2 Time: 0-31 Set #3 Time: 0-19 Set #4 Time: 0-28 |
| Number | Competitor | NOC | Sets Won | Set #1 | Set #2 | Set #3 | Set #4 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | United States |  USA | 3 | 13 | 15 | 15 | 15 | |
| – | Soviet Union |  URS | 1 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 8 |
United States| Pos | Number | Competitor | Points | Side Outs | Service Points | Spike Points / Side-Outs | Block Points / Side-Outs | Sets | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Troy Tanner | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||
| 2 | Dave Saunders | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| 4 | Bob Ctvrtlik | 10 | 19 | 0 | 25 | 4 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Doug Partie | 8 | 16 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 4 | ||||
| 6 | Steve Timmons | 15 | 30 | 0 | 38 | 7 | 4 | ||||
| 7 | Craig Buck | 13 | 12 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 4 | ||||
| 8 | Scott Fortune | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| 9 | Ricci Luyties | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| 10 | Jeff Stork | 3 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| 11 | Eric Sato | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||||
| 15 | Karch Kiraly | 12 | 21 | 0 | 26 | 7 | 4 | ||||
| Team Totals | 58 | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Coach | Marv Dunphy | ||||||||||
Soviet Union| Pos | Number | Competitor | Points | Side Outs | Service Points | Spike Points / Side-Outs | Block Points / Side-Outs | Sets | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yury Panchenko | 3 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| 2 | Andrey Kuznetsov | 3 | 17 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| 3 | Vyacheslav Zaytsev | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Igor Runov | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 5 | Vladimir Shkurikhin | 1 | 13 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| 7 | Raimonds Vilde | 5 | 20 | 0 | 15 | 10 | 4 | ||||
| 8 | Valery Losev | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| 9 | Yury Sapega | 2 | 16 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 10 | Aleksandr Sorokolet | 5 | 23 | 1 | 23 | 4 | 4 | ||||
| 11 | Yaroslav Antonov | 10 | 20 | 1 | 24 | 5 | 4 | ||||
| 12 | Yury Cherednik | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||||
| Team Totals | 37 | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Coach | Vladimir Kondra | ||||||||||
