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Volleyball, Women

Date19 – 30 July 1976
StatusOlympic
LocationLe Forum de Montréal, Montréal, Québec / Centre Paul-Sauvé, Montréal, Québec
Participants96 from 8 countries
FormatRound-robin pools advanced teams to classification matches.

The tournament consisted of eight teams separated into two pools of four, followed by elimination matches. The qualifying was as follows: defending champion (USSR), 1974 World Champion (Japan), host nation (Canada), Asian Games Champion ships (Korea, replacing Japan), European Championship (Hungary, replacing the USSR), North American Champion (Cuba), South American Champion (Peru), and the GDR (East Germany) qualified at a special tournament in Heidelberg, Germany.

Once again the favorites were the Soviet Union and Japan. Japan had won the World Championships in 1974 and the Soviet Union had won the last five European Championships. In the end, Japan absolutely dominated the tournament. They defeated the Soviets in the final, crushing them in straight sets, 15-7, 15-8, 15-2. Japan played five matches and never lost a set, the only time this has happened in Olympic volleyball, and only one team (Korea) even reached double figures in any set (15-13 in the first set in the semi-finals). Nine of the Japanese players represented the Hitachi team, as did their coach, Shigeo Yamada. For the fourth straight Olympics, the gold and silver medals were won by Japan and the Soviet Union, who had now both won two gold and two silver medals. For the Soviets, Inna Ryskal had played on all four medal-winning teams. Through the first 40 years of Olympic volleyball, she is the only player to have won four medals.

PosNumberTeamNOC
1JapanJPNGold
1Takako Iida
2Mariko Okamoto
3Echiko Maeda
4Noriko Matsuda
5Takako Shirai
6Kiyomi Kato
7Yuko Arakida
8Katsuko Kanesaka
9Mariko Yoshida
10Shoko Takayanagi
11Hiromi Yano
12Juri Yokoyama
CoachShigeo Yamada
2Soviet UnionURSSilver
1Anna Rostova
2Lyudmila Shchetinina
3Liliya Osadchaya
4Nataliya Kushnir
5Olga Kozakova
6Nina Smoleyeva
7Lyubov Rudovskaya
8Larisa Bergen
9Inna Ryskal
10Lyudmila Chernyshova
11Zoya Yusova
12Nina Muradyan
CoachGivi Akhvlediani
3Republic of KoreaKORBronze
1Lee Sun-Bok
2Yu Jeong-Hye
3Byeon Gyeong-Ja
4Lee Sun-Ok
5Baek Myeong-Seon
6Jang Hye-Suk
7Ma Geum-Ja
8Yun Yeong-Nae
9Yu Gyeong-Hwa
10Park Mi-Geum
11Jeong Sun-Ok
12Jo Hye-Jeong
CoachKim Han-Soo
4HungaryHUN
1Zsuzsa Szloboda
2Gyöngyi Bardi-Gerevich
3Éva Biszku
4Zsuzsa Biszku
5Lucia Bánhegyi-Radó
6Gabriella Csapó-Fekete
7Ágnes Gajdos-Hubai
8Judit Schlégl-Blaumann
9Ágnes Torma
10Katalin Eichler-Schadek
11Emerencia Siry-Király
12Éva Sebők-Szalay
CoachGabriella Kotsis
5CubaCUB
1Mercedes Pérez
2Imilsis Téllez
3Ana Díaz
4Mercedes Pomares
5Lucila Urgellés
6Mercedes Roca
7Miriam Herrera
8Claudina Villaurrutia
9Melania Tartabull
10Nelly Barnet
11Ana María García
12Evelina Borroto
CoachEugenio George
6East GermanyGDR
1Karla Roffeis
2Johanna Strotzer
3Cornelia Rickert
4Christine Walther-Mummhardt
5Ingrid Mierzwiak
6Helga Offen
7Barbara Czekalla
8Jutta Balster
9Anke Westendorf
10Hannelore Meincke
11Monika Meißner
12Gudrun Gärtner
CoachDieter Grund
7PeruPER
1Mercedes González
2Gaby Cárdenas
3Teresa Núñez
4Irma Cordero
5Ana Cecilia Carrillo
6Luisa Merea
7Delia Córdova
8Silvia Quevedo
9Luisa Fuentes
10María Cecilia del Risco
11María Cervera
12María Ostolaza
CoachPark Man-Bok
8CanadaCAN
1Carole Bishop
2Barbara Dalton
3Kathy Girvan
4Patty Olson
5Regyna Armonas
6Anne Ireland
7Mary Dempster
8Claire Lloyd
9Betty Baxter
10Connie Lebrun
11Debbie Heeps
12Audrey Vandervelden
CoachPark Moo

Preliminary Round

Date19 – 24 July 1976

Group A

Date19 – 23 July 1976
FormatRound-robin pools.
PosCompetitorsNOCWinsLossesPointsSetsSet RatioPointsPoints Ratio
1JapanJPN3069-0135-433.140
2HungaryHUN2156-51.200120-1320.909
3PeruPER1244-80.500124-1540.805
4CanadaCAN0333-90.333113-1630.693
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #119 Jul 15:30JapanJPN15-6, 15-3, 15-4HungaryHUN
Match #219 Jul 19:30PeruPER12-15, 15-4, 15-10, 7-15, 15-12CanadaCAN
Match #321 Jul 15:30JapanJPN15-7, 15-4, 15-9PeruPER
Match #421 Jul 19:30HungaryHUN15-13, 15-10, 9-15, 15-9CanadaCAN
Match #523 Jul 15:30HungaryHUN7-15, 15-8, 15-3, 16-14PeruPER
Match #623 Jul 19:30JapanJPN15-6, 15-2, 15-2CanadaCAN

Group B

Date20 – 24 July 1976
FormatRound-robin pools.
PosCompetitorsNOCWinsLossesPointsSetsSet RatioPointsPoints Ratio
1Soviet UnionURS3069-42.250186-1371.358
2Republic of KoreaKOR2157-71.000179-1711.047
3CubaCUB1246-70.857150-1680.893
4East GermanyGDR0335-90.556144-1830.787
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #120 Jul 15:30Soviet UnionURS16-14, 12-15, 15-2, 16-14Republic of KoreaKOR
Match #220 Jul 19:30CubaCUB7-15, 15-5, 15-5, 15-13East GermanyGDR
Match #322 Jul 15:30Soviet UnionURS15-9, 13-15, 15-11, 15-10CubaCUB
Match #422 Jul 19:30Republic of KoreaKOR5-15, 11-15, 16-14, 15-2, 15-13East GermanyGDR
Match #524 Jul 15:30Republic of KoreaKOR14-16, 15-4, 15-8, 13-15, 15-10CubaCUB
Match #624 Jul 19:30Soviet UnionURS15-11, 13-15, 11-15, 15-5, 15-1East GermanyGDR

Classification Round 5-8

Date26 July 1976
FormatClassification matches.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #126 Jul 13:00CubaCUB13-15, 15-7, 14-16, 15-9, 15-3CanadaCAN
Match #226 Jul 15:00East GermanyGDR15-11, 15-9, 8-15, 8-15, 15-8PeruPER

Semi-Finals

Date26 – 29 July 1976
FormatSingle-elimination.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #129 Jul 13:00Soviet UnionURS15-10, 15-10, 15-9HungaryHUN
Match #229 Jul 15:00JapanJPN15-13, 15-6, 15-5Republic of KoreaKOR

Final Round

Date27 – 30 July 1976
FormatMedal round.
MatchDate/TimeCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match 1/230 Jul 15:00JapanJPN15-7, 15-8, 15-2Soviet UnionURS
Match 3/430 Jul 13:00Republic of KoreaKOR15-12, 12-15, 15-10, 15-6HungaryHUN
Match 5/627 Jul 14:00CubaCUB15-12, 15-12, 15-8East GermanyGDR
Match 7/827 Jul 12:00PeruPER15-9, 12-15, 15-4, 15-7CanadaCAN