The 1964 Summer Olympics was the first time that volleyball had been held as an Olympic sport. The sport would feature two medals during this games with the men's and women's indoor teams events. In both tournaments, the format was the same with a single round robin between all of the teams that were competing in the tournament.
In the men's competition, the Soviet Union took out the gold medal as they won eight out of their nine games with the only loss being in Japan who came third. Finishing behind only on sets difference was Czechoslovakia who had only their single loss against the Soviet Union. In the women's competition, Japan won all five of their games to take the gold medal ahead of the Soviet Union and Poland who claimed silver and bronze respectively.
Medal table
Medal summary Men's indoorIvans BugajenkovsNikolay BurobinYuri ChesnokovVazha K'ach'aravaValeri KalachikhinVitali KovalenkoStaņislavs LugailoGeorgy MondzolevskiYuriy PoyarkovEduard SibiryakovYury VengerovskyDmitri VoskoboynikovMilan ČudaBohumil GoliánZdeněk HumhalPetr KopJosef LabudaJosef MusilKarel PaulusBoris PerušičPavel SchenkVáclav ŠmídlJosef ŠormLadislav TomanYutaka DemachiTsutomu KoyamaSadatoshi SugaharaNaohiro IkedaYasutaka SatoToshiaki KosedoTokihiko HiguchiMasayuki MinamiTakeshi TokutomiTeruhisa MoriyamaYūzo NakamuraKatsutoshi NekodaWomen's indoorMasae Kasai (c)Emiko MiyamotoKinuko TanidaYuriko HandaYoshiko MatsumuraSata IsobeKatsumi MatsumuraYoko ShinozakiSetsuko SasakiYuko FujimotoMaseko KondoAyano ShibukiAntonina RyzhovaAstra BiltauerNinel LukaninaLyudmila BuldakovaNelli AbramovaTamara TikhoninaValentina Kamenyok-VinogradovaInna RyskalMarita KatushevaTatyana RoshchinaValentina MishakLyudmila GureyevaKrystyna CzajkowskaJózefa LedwigMaria GolimowskaJadwiga RutkowskaDanuta KordaczukKrystyna JakubowskaJadwiga KsiążekMaria ŚliwkaZofia SzczęśniewskaKrystyna KrupaHanna Krystyna BuszBarbara Hermela-Niemczyk
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References
External links
Official Olympic Report Video of the moments of victory and of awarding gold medal in Tokyo Olympics