| Date | 20 October 1968 — 19:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Gimnasio Olímpico Juan de la Barrera, Ciudad de México | |
| Referee #1 | Rubén Valenzuela | MEX |
| Referee #2 | Jerzy Krol | POL |
| Details | Match Time: 2-34 |
| Number | Competitor | NOC | Sets Won | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | Soviet Union | URS | 3 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 15 | |
| – | East Germany | GDR | 2 | 15 | 9 | 11 | 15 | 5 |
Soviet Union| Pos | Number | Competitor | Points | Side Outs | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eduard Sibiryakov | 9.5 | 15.0 | ||||
| 2 | Valery Kravchenko | 4.5 | 20.5 | ||||
| 3 | Vladimir Belyayev | 3.0 | 12.0 | ||||
| 4 | Yevgeny Lapinsky | 4.0 | 17.0 | ||||
| 7 | Viktor Mikhalchuk | 2.5 | 2.0 | ||||
| 8 | Yury Poyarkov | 5.0 | 4.5 | ||||
| 9 | Boris Tereshchuk | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
| 10 | Vladimir Ivanov | 1.5 | 10.5 | ||||
| 11 | Ivans Bugajenkovs | 9.0 | 31.5 | ||||
| 12 | Georgy Mondzolevsky | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Team Totals | 67 | – | |||||
| Coach | Yury Kleshchov | ||||||
East Germany| Pos | Number | Competitor | Points | Side Outs | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Horst Peter | 1.0 | 2.0 | ||||
| 2 | Eckhard Tielscher | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
| 3 | Siegfried Schneider | 5.0 | 23.0 | ||||
| 4 | Manfred Heine | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
| 5 | Rainer Tscharke | 2.0 | 5.0 | ||||
| 6 | Eckehard Pietzsch | 1.5 | 0.0 | ||||
| 7 | Arnold Schulz | 9.0 | 30.5 | ||||
| 8 | Rudi Schumann | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
| 9 | Jürgen Kessel | 1.0 | 1.0 | ||||
| 10 | Walter Toussaint | 0.0 | 4.5 | ||||
| 11 | Jürgen Freiwald | 9.0 | 26.0 | ||||
| 12 | Wolfgang Webner | 4.5 | 16.0 | ||||
| Team Totals | 55 | – | |||||
| Coach | Herbert Jenter | ||||||