Volleyball at the 1972 Summer Olympics

3rd Volleyball Olympic Tournament Munich 1972
Tournament details
Olympics	1972 Summer Olympics
Host nation	West Germany
City	Munich
Duration	August 27 – September 9
Men's teams	12
Men's medals:
Gold medalists	Japan
Silver medalists	East Germany
Bronze medalists	Soviet Union
Women's teams	8
Women's medals:
Gold medalists	Soviet Union
Silver medalists	Japan
Bronze medalists	North Korea

Volleyball at the 1972 Summer Olympics was represented by two events: men's team and women's team.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	1	1	0	2
2	Soviet Union	1	0	1	2
3	East Germany	0	1	0	1
4	North Korea	0	0	1	1

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's volleyball	Japan (JPN) Yoshihide Fukao Kenji Kimura Masayuki Minami Jungo Morita Yūzo Nakamura Katsutoshi Nekoda Tetsuo Nishimoto Yasuhiro Noguchi Seiji Oko Tetsuo Satō Kenji Shimaoka Tadayoshi Yokota	East Germany (GDR) Horst Hagen Wolfgang Löwe Wolfgang Maibohm Jürgen Maune Horst Peter Eckehard Pietzsch Siegfried Schneider Arnold Schulz Rudi Schumann Rainer Tscharke Wolfgang Webner Wolfgang Weise	Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Borshch Yefim Chulak Vyacheslav Domani Vladimir Kondra Valeri Kravchenko Yevhen Lapinsky Vladimir Patkin Yuriy Poyarkov Vladimir Putyatov Aleksandr Saprykin Yuri Starunsky Leonid Zayko
Women's volleyball	Soviet Union (URS) Lyudmila Borozna Lyudmila Buldakova Vera Galushka-Duyunova Tatyana Gonobobleva Natalya Kudreva Galina Leontyeva Tatyana Ponyayeva-Tretyakova Inna Ryskal Roza Salikhova Tatyana Sarycheva Nina Smoleeva Lyubov Turina	Japan (JPN) Makiko Furukawa Keiko Hama Takako Iida Toyoko Iwahara Katsumi Matsumura Sumie Oinuma Mariko Okamoto Seiko Shimakage Michiko Shiokawa Takako Shirai Noriko Yamashita Yaeko Yamazaki	North Korea (PRK) Hwang He-Suk Jang Ok-Rim Jong Ok-Jin Kang Ok-Sun Kim Zung-Bok Kim Myong-Suk Kim Su-Dae Kim Yeun-Ja Paek Myong-Suk Ri Chun-Ok Ryom Chun-Ja

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