Volleyball_at_the_1964_Summer_Olympics References

1st Volleyball Olympic Tournament
1st Volleyball Olympic Tournament
Tokyo 1964
Tournament details
Olympics	1964 Summer Olympics
Host nation	Japan
City	Tokyo
Dates	October 11 – 23
Men's Medals(10 teams)
Gold	Soviet Union
Silver	Czechoslovakia
Bronze	Japan
Women's Medals(6 teams)
Gold	Japan
Silver	Soviet Union
Bronze	Poland

The 1964 Summer Olympics was the first time that volleyball had been held as an Olympic sport. The sport would feature two medals during this games with the men's and women's indoor teams events. In both tournaments, the format was the same with a single round robin between all of the teams that was competing in the tournament.^[1]

In the men's competition, the Soviet Union took out the gold medal as they won eight out of their nine games with the only loss being in Japan who came third. Finishing behind only on sets difference was Czechoslovakia who had only their single loss against the Soviet Union. In the women's competition, Japan won all five of their games to take the gold medal ahead of the Soviet Union and Poland who claimed silver and bronze respectively.^[1]

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	1	1	0	2
2	Japan	1	0	1	2
3	Czechoslovakia	0	1	0	1
4	Poland	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		2	2	2	6

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's indoor details	Soviet Union (URS) Ivans Bugajenkovs Nikolay Burobin Yuri Chesnokov Vazha K'ach'arava Valeri Kalachikhin Vitali Kovalenko Staņislavs Lugailo Georgy Mondzolevski Yuriy Poyarkov Eduard Sibiryakov Yury Vengerovsky Dmitri Voskoboynikov Head coach: Yuri Chesnokov	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Milan Čuda Bohumil Golián Zdeněk Humhal Petr Kop Josef Labuda Josef Musil Karel Paulus Boris Perušič Pavel Schenk Václav Šmídl Josef Šorm Ladislav Toman Head coach: Josef Brož	Japan (JPN) Yutaka Demachi Tsutomu Koyama Sadatoshi Sugahara Naohiro Ikeda Yasutaka Sato Toshiaki Kosedo Tokihiko Higuchi Masayuki Minami Takeshi Tokutomi Teruhisa Moriyama Yūzo Nakamura Katsutoshi Nekoda Head coach: Yasutaka Matsudaira
Women's indoor details	Japan (JPN) Masae Kasai ( c) Emiko Miyamoto Kinuko Tanida Yuriko Handa Yoshiko Matsumura Sata Isobe Katsumi Matsumura Yoko Shinozaki Setsuko Sasaki Yuko Fujimoto Maseko Kondo Ayano Shibuki Head coach: Hirofumi Daimatsu	Soviet Union (URS) Antonina Ryzhova Astra Biltauer Ninel Lukanina Lyudmila Buldakova Nelli Abramova Tamara Tikhonina Valentina Kamenyok-Vinogradova Inna Ryskal Marita Katusheva Tatyana Roshchina Valentina Mishak Lyudmila Gureyeva Head coach: Oleg Chekov	Poland (POL) Krystyna Czajkowska Józefa Ledwig Maria Golimowska Jadwiga Rutkowska Danuta Kordaczuk Krystyna Jakubowska Jadwiga Książek Maria Śliwka Zofia Szczęśniewska Krystyna Krupa Hanna Krystyna Busz Barbara Hermela-Niemczyk Head coach: Benedykt Krysik

Gallery

1964 Tokyo Olympics Women's Volleyball

Sata Isobe spiking ball against Soviet Union National Team, 1964 Tokyo Olympics Women's Volleyball
Masae Kasai standing in the center of podium as the team leader, 1964 Tokyo Olympics Women's Volleyball