Volleyball at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

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]

Women's volleyball at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venue	Montréal Forum Paul Sauvé Arena
Date	19–30 July
Competitors	96 from 8 nations
Medalists
Japan  Soviet Union  South Korea

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

Qualifiers	Date	Host	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Country	12 May 1970	Amsterdam	1	Canada
1972 Olympic Games	27 Aug. – 7 Sep. 1972	Munich	1	Soviet Union
1974 World Championship	12–28 October 1974	Guadalajara	1	Japan
1975 Asian Championsnip	17–28 August 1975	Melbourne	1	South Korea*
1975 NORCECA Championship	1975	Los Angeles	1	Cuba
1975 South American Championship	1975	Asunción	1	Peru
1975 European Championship	18–25 October 1975	Belgrade	1	Hungary*
Special Tournament		Heidelberg	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, West Germany.[1]

Format

The tournament was played in two different stages. In the Preliminary round (first stage), the eight participants were divided into two pools of four teams. A single round-robin format was played within each pool to determine the teams position in the pool. The Final round (second stage) was played in a single elimination format, where the preliminary round two highest ranked teams in each group advanced to the semifinals and the two lowest ranked teams advanced to the 5th–8th place semifinals.

Pools composition

Pool A	Pool B
Canada	Cuba
Hungary	East Germany
Japan	South Korea
Peru	Soviet Union

Rosters

Venues

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

Preliminary round

• venue: Paul Sauvé Arena.

(A)	Advance to 1st–4th semifinals
(a)	Advance to 5th–8th semifinals

Group A

		Pts	Matches		Sets			Points
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Japan (A)	6	3	0	9	0	MAX	135	43	3.140
2	Hungary (A)	5	2	1	6	5	1.200	120	132	0.909
3	Peru (a)	4	1	2	4	8	0.500	124	154	0.805
4	Canada (a)	3	0	3	3	9	0.333	113	163	0.693

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
19 Jul	Hungary	0–3	Japan	6–15	3–15	4–15			13–45	Report
19 Jul	Canada	2–3	Peru	15–12	4–15	10–15	15–7	12–15	56–64	Report
21 Jul	Peru	0–3	Japan	7–15	4–15	9–15			20–45	Report
21 Jul	Canada	1–3	Hungary	13–15	10–15	15–9	9–15		47–54	Report
23 Jul	Hungary	3–1	Peru	7–15	15–8	15–3	16–14		53–40	Report
23 Jul	Japan	3–0	Canada	15–6	15–2	15–2			45–10	Report

Group B

		Pts	Matches		Sets			Points
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Soviet Union (A)	6	3	0	9	4	2.250	186	137	1.358
2	South Korea (A)	5	2	1	7	7	1.000	179	171	1.047
3	Cuba (a)	4	1	2	6	7	0.857	150	168	0.893
4	East Germany (a)	3	0	3	5	9	0.556	144	183	0.787

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
20 Jul	South Korea	1–3	Soviet Union	14–16	15–12	2–15	14–16		45–59	Report
20 Jul	East Germany	1–3	Cuba	15–7	5–15	5–15	13–15		38–52	Report
22 Jul	Cuba	1–3	Soviet Union	9–15	15–13	11–15	10–15		45–58	Report
22 Jul	East Germany	2–3	South Korea	15–5	15–11	14–16	2–15	13–15	59–62	Report
24 Jul	South Korea	3–2	Cuba	14–16	15–4	15–8	13–15	15–10	72–53	Report
24 Jul	Soviet Union	3–2	East Germany	15–11	13–15	11–15	15–5	15–1	69–47	Report

Final round

5th–8th place

• venue: Paul Sauvé Arena.

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

5th–8th place semifinals

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
26 Jul	Canada	2–3	Cuba	15–13	7–15	16–14	9–15	3–15	50–72	Report
26 Jul	Peru	2–3	East Germany	11–15	9–15	15–8	15–8	8–15	58–61	Report

7th place match

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
27 Jul	Canada	1–3	Peru	9–15	15–12	4–15	7–15		35–57	Report

5th place match

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
27 Jul	East Germany	0–3	Cuba	12–15	12–15	8–15			32–45	Report

Final

• venue: Montréal Forum.

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

Semifinals

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
29 Jul	Hungary	0–3	Soviet Union	10–15	10–15	9–15			29–45	Report
29 Jul	Japan	3–0	South Korea	15–13	15–6	15–5			45–24	Report

Bronze medal match

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
30 Jul	South Korea	3–1	Hungary	12–15	15–12	15–10	15–6		57–43	Report

Gold medal match

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

Final standing

Rank Team  Japan  Soviet Union  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[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 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 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

1. "Volleyball at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games: Women's Volleyball". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
2. "1976 Summer Olympics". www.databaseolympics.com/. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2014.

External links

• Volleyball
• Final standings (1964-2000) at FIVB.org
• Official results (pgs. 596-609)