1967 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship explained

Competition:FIVB Women's World Championship
Gender:women
Continent:World
Year:1967
City:Tokyo
Dates:25–29 January
Teams:4
Venues:Nippon Budokan
Champions:Japan
Title Number:2
Second:United States
Third:South Korea
Fourth:Peru
Last:1962 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship
Next:1970 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship

The 1967 FIVB Women's World Championship was the fifth edition of the tournament, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB. It was held from 25 to 29 January 1967 at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan.

Background

Since its inaugural edition in 1952, the women's and men's World Championships were hosted by the same country. The FIVB decided to split the tournaments, awarding men's and women's to different countries, for 1966 the men's was held in Czechoslovakia and the women's was planned to be held in Lima, Peru between 12 and 29 October. Lima withdrew as organizer and the tournament was delayed until a new host could be found. With Japan chosen as host (the first time the World Championships were played in Asia), the tournament went ahead in January 1967. Due to international political tensions caused by the Cold War, hosts Japan warned it would not display the flags nor have the national anthems of North Korea and East Germany played. Both teams together with the Eastern Bloc countries (Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Soviet Union) and China forfeited the tournament, leaving only four teams as participants.[1] [2]

Squads

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Venue

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Tokyo
Nippon Budokan
Capacity: 14,000
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Format

The tournament was played in a single round-robin format, all four participant teams in a single pool and played each other once.

Final standing

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Team roster
Toyoko Iwahara, Wakako Kumasaka, Katsumi Matsumura, Sumie Oinuma, Aiko Onozawa, Setsuko Sasaki, Eiko Haga, Yoko Shinozaki, Kunie Shishikura, Suzue Takayama, Teruko Yamada, Setsuko Yoshida
Head coach
Sigeo Yamada

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 1967: o Mundial de Vôlei que a Guerra Fria encurtou . Portuguese . João . Batista Junior . 29 January 2017 . . 17 October 2017.
  2. Web site: World Championships - FIVB WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS FINALS - Japan 1967 . . 17 October 2017.
  3. Web site: Women Volleyball V World Championship 1967 Tokyo . todor66.com . 16 October 2017.