Volleyball at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Women's volleyball at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venue	Montréal Forum, Paul Sauvé Arena
Date	19–30 July
Medalists
Japan    Soviet Union    South Korea

The 1976 Women's Olympic Volleyball Tournament was the 4th edition of the event, organized by the world's governing body, the FIVB in conjunction with the IOC. It was held in Montréal, Québec, Canada from July 19 to 30, 1976.^[1]

This is the second time the Japanese Women's National Volleyball Team won in the Olympics. The team was coached by Shigeo Yamada.^[1]

Qualification

Volleyball Women	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Nation	1	Canada
Munich Olympic Games	1	Soviet Union
1974 World Championship	1	Japan
1975 Asian Championsnip	1	South Korea*
1975 NORCECA Championship	1	Cuba
1975 South American Championship	1	Peru
1975 European Championship	1	Hungary*
Special Tournament	1	East Germany**
Total	8

* South Korea and Hungary qualified as next best team as Japan and Soviet Union are already qualified.
** East Germany qualified after a special tournament held in Heidelberg, Germany.

Pools Composition

Venues

• Montréal Forum, Québec, Canada
• Paul Sauvé Arena, Québec, Canada

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	P	W	L	SF	SA	PF	PA	Pts
Japan	3	3	0	9	0	135	43	6
Hungary	3	2	1	6	5	120	132	5
Peru	3	1	2	4	8	124	154	4
Canada	3	0	3	3	9	113	163	3

Group B

Team	P	W	L	SF	SA	PF	PA	Pts
Soviet Union	3	3	0	9	4	186	137	6
South Korea	3	2	1	7	7	179	171	5
Cuba	3	1	2	6	7	150	168	4
East Germany	3	0	3	5	9	144	183	3

Brackets

Championship bracket

	Semifinals				Gold medal match
	July 29
	Soviet Union	3
	Hungary	0
					July 30
					Japan	3
					Soviet Union	0
					Bronze medal match
	July 29			July 30
	Japan	3		South Korea	3
	South Korea	0			Hungary	1

5th–8th places bracket

	5th–8th places				5th place
	July 26
	Cuba	3
	Canada	2
					July 27
					Cuba	3
					East Germany	0
					7th place
	July26			July 27
	East Germany	3		Peru	3
	Peru	2			Canada	1

Clasification round

5th-8th places

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
26 Jul	Cuba	3–2	Canada	–	–	–			–
26 Jul	East Germany	3–2	Peru	–	–	–			–

Semi-finals

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
29 Jul	Soviet Union	3–0	Hungary	–	–	–			–
29 Jul	Japan	3–0	South Korea	–	–	–			–

Finals

7th place

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
27 Jul	Peru	3–1	Canada	–	–	–			–

5th place

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
27 Jul	Cuba	3–0	East Germany	–	–	–			–

Bronze medal match

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
30 Jul	South Korea	3–1	Hungary	–	–	–			–

Gold medal match

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
30 Jul	Japan	3–0	Soviet Union	15–7	15–8	15–2			45–17

Final standing

Rank Team 01 !  Japan 02 !  Soviet Union 03 !  South Korea 4  Hungary 5  Cuba 6  East Germany 7  Peru 8  Canada

1976 Women's Olympic Champions  Japan 2nd title

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Japan (JPN)[2] Shoko Takayanagi Juri Yokoyama Mariko Yoshida Hiromi Yano Takako Shirai Mariko Okamoto Echiko Maeda Noriko Matsuda Yuko Arakida Kiyomi Kato Katsuko Kanesaka Takako Iida	Soviet Union (URS) Lyudmila Chernysova Larisa Bergen Olga Kozakova Natalya Kushnir Nina Muradyan Liliya Osadchaya Nina Smoleyeva Lyudmila Shchetinina Inna Ryskal Anna Rostova Lyubov Rudovskaya Zoya Yusova	South Korea (KOR) Yu Jung-Hye Yu Kyung-Hwa Jung Soon-Ok Yoon Young-Nae Park Mi-Kum Ma Kum-Ja Lee Soon-Ok Lee Soon-Bok Baik Myung-Sun Jo Hea-Jung Byon Kyung-Ja Chang Hee-Sook

References

External links

• Volleyball
• Final standings (1964-2000) at FIVB.org

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