Volleyball at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Volleyball
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Volleyball; at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venue	Gimnasio Olímpico Juan de la Barrera,; Palacio de los Deportes Juan Escutia; and Revolution Ice Rink
Dates	13 – 26 October 1968
No. of events	2
Competitors	206 from 12 nations

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

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's indoor	Soviet Union Eduard Sibiryakov Yuri Poyarkov Georgi Mondzolevsky Valeri Kravchenko Volodymyr Byelyayev Yevgeni Lapinsky Ivan Bugaenkov Oleg Antropov Vasilius Matushevas Viktor Mikhalchuk Boris Tereshchuk Vladimir Ivanov	Japan Masayuki Minami Katsutoshi Nekoda Mamoru Shiragami Isao Koizumi Kenji Kimura Yasuaki Mitsumori Naohiro Ikeda Jungo Morita Tadayoshi Yokota Seiji Oko Tetsuo Satō Kenji Shimaoka	Czechoslovakia Bohumil Golián Antonin Prochazka Petr Kop Jiri Svoboda Josef Musil Lubomir Zajisek Josef Smolka Vladimir Petlak Frantisek Sokol Zdenek Groessel Pavel Schenk Drahomir Koudelka
Women's indoor	Soviet Union 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	Japan Setsuko Yosjida Suzue Takayama Toyoko Iwahara Youko Kasahara Aiko Onozawa Yukiyo Kojima Sachiko Fukanaka Kunie Shishikura Setsuko Inoue Sumie Oinuma Makiko Furakawa Keiko Hama	Poland 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

References

^ "Volleyball at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
^ 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

[SR-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.

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