| Date | 16 October 1968 — 19:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Gimnasio Olímpico Juan de la Barrera, Ciudad de México | |
| Referee #1 | Ryszard Buczyński |  POL | 
| Referee #2 | Arnaldo Rincón |  MEX | 
| Details | Match Time: 1-26 | 
| Number | Competitor | NOC | Sets Won | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | Japan |  JPN | 3 | 15 | 15 | 15 | |
| – | East Germany |  GDR | 0 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 
 Japan
Japan| Pos | Number | Competitor | Points | Side Outs | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Masayuki Minami | 0.5 | 3.5 | ||||
| 3 | Katsutoshi Nekoda | 3.5 | 2.5 | ||||
| 4 | Mamoru Shiragami | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
| 5 | Isao Koizumi | 3.5 | 7.0 | ||||
| 6 | Kenji Kimura | 2.0 | 18.0 | ||||
| 7 | Yasuaki Mitsumori | 1.0 | 4.0 | ||||
| 8 | Jungo Morita | 9.5 | 15.0 | ||||
| 9 | Tadayoshi Yokota | 8.0 | 11.0 | ||||
| 10 | Seiji Oko | 8.0 | 3.0 | ||||
| Team Totals | 45 | – | |||||
| Coach | Yasutaka Matsudaira | ||||||
 East Germany
East Germany| Pos | Number | Competitor | Points | Side Outs | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Horst Peter | 2.5 | 6.0 | ||||
| 2 | Eckhard Tielscher | 3.0 | 4.0 | ||||
| 3 | Siegfried Schneider | 3.0 | 9.0 | ||||
| 4 | Manfred Heine | 0.0 | 2.0 | ||||
| 6 | Eckehard Pietzsch | 0.5 | 5.0 | ||||
| 7 | Arnold Schulz | 2.0 | 9.0 | ||||
| 8 | Rudi Schumann | 1.0 | 2.0 | ||||
| 9 | Jürgen Kessel | 5.0 | 2.0 | ||||
| 10 | Walter Toussaint | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
| 11 | Jürgen Freiwald | 1.0 | 4.0 | ||||
| 12 | Wolfgang Webner | 2.0 | 12.0 | ||||
| Team Totals | 27 | – | |||||
| Coach | Herbert Jenter | ||||||