| Competition: | FIVB Women's World Championship |
| Gender: | women |
| Continent: | World |
| Year: | 1962 |
| Dates: | 13–25 October |
| Teams: | 14 |
| Cities: | 4 |
| Champions: | Japan |
| Title Number: | 1 |
| Last: | 1960 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship |
| Next: | 1967 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship |
The 1962 FIVB Women's World Championship was the fourth edition of the tournament, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB. It was held from 13 to 25 October 1962 in the Soviet Union.[1]
As a tournament held once every four years and following its last edition in 1960, the subsequent tournament should have been in 1964. When volleyball became an Olympic sport starting in the 1964 Games, the FIVB decided to move the World Championships from the Olympic years to be played in between Olympic Games, therefore anticipating the 1964 edition to 1962.[2]
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| width=20% | Pool A | width=20% | Pool B | width=60% rowspan=10 | |
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| Riga | Leningrad | ||||
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| width=20% | Pool C, Final round | width=20% | Pool D, Final round | ||
| Kiev | Moscow | ||||
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The tournament was played in two different stages (first and final rounds). In the, the 14 participants were divided in four groups (two groups of four teams and two groups of three teams). A single round-robin format was played within each group to determine the teams group position, all teams progressed to the next round.
In the, two groups were created (1st-8th and 9th-14th), teams were allocated to a group according to their group position (best two teams of each group going to 1st-8th and the remaining teams to 9th-14th). A single round-robin format was played within each group with matches already played between teams in the also counted in this round.[1]
Location: Riga
Location: Leningrad
Location: Kiev
Location: Moscow
The results and the points of the matches between the same teams that were already played during the first round are taken into account for the final round.
Location: Kiev
Location: Moscow
| Rank | Team | |
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| align=center | 4 | |
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| align=center | 6 | |
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| align=center | 9 | |
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| align=center | 11 | |
| align=center | 12 | |
| align=center | 13 | |
| align=center | 14 | |
| Team roster |
| Yoko Aoki, Noriko Honda, Yuriko Handa, Sada Isobe, Masae Kasai, Mitsue Masuo, Katsumi Matsumura, Yoshiko Matsumura, Emiko Miyamoto, Yoko Shinozaki, Kuniko Tanida, Teruko Yamada |
| Head coach |
| Hirofumi Daymatsu |