Volleyball at the 1972 Summer Olympics explained

Volleyball at the 1972 Summer Olympics was represented by two events: men's team and women's team.^[1]

Medal summary

Men's indoor	valign=top	Masayuki Minami Katsutoshi Nekoda Yūzo Nakamura Tetsuo Nishimoto Kenji Kimura Yoshihide Fukao Yasuhiro Noguchi Jungo Morita Tadayoshi Yokota Seiji Oko Tetsuo Satō Kenji Shimaoka Head coach:Sasutaka Matsudaira	valign=top	Horst Peter Horst Hagen Siegfried Schneider Wolfgang Löwe Rainer Tscharke Eckehard Pietzsch Arnold Schulz Wolfgang Maibohm Wolfgang Weise Jürgen Maune Rudi Schumann Wolfgang Webner Head coach:Herbert Jenter	valign=top	Yuriy Poyarkov Valeri Kravchenko Yefim Chulak Yevhen Lapinsky Vladimir Putyatov Viktor Borshch Vladimir Patkin Leonid Zayko Aleksandr Saprykin Yuri Starunsky Vyacheslav Domani Vladimir Kondra Head coach:Yuri Chesnokov
Women's indoor	valign=top	Lyudmila Buldakova Lyubov Tyurina Vera Galushka-Duyunova Lyudmila Borozna Tatyana Sarycheva Nina Smoleyeva Tatyana Ponyayeva-Tretyakova Rosa Salikhova Inna Ryskal Nataliya Kudreva Galina Leontyeva Tatyana Gonobobleva Head coach:Givi Akhvlediani	valign=top	Katsumi Matsumura Noriko Yamashita Toyoko Iwahara Takako Iida Sumie Oinuma Makiko Furukawa Keiko Hama Seiko Shimakage Yaeko Yamazaki Michiko Shiokawa Mariko Okamoto Takako Shirai Head coach:Kōji Kojima	valign=top	Ryom Chun-ja Kim Su-dae Ri Chun-ok Paek Myong-suk Jong Ok-jin Kim Myong-suk Jang Ok-rim Kim Yeun-ja Kim Zung-bok Kang Ok-sun Hwang He-Suk Head coach:

Web site: Volleyball at the 1972 Munich Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055241/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1972/VOL/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 26 January 2019.