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Volleyball At The 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's Tournament
The inaugural Women's Volleyball Tournament in the Summer Olympic Games was held during Olympic Games of Tokyo, from October 11 to October 23, 1964. Japan won the gold medal, with the Soviet Union and Poland taking silver and bronze, respectively. Qualification *North Korea did not send athletes to the Olympic Games due to bad relations with Japan. Format The tournament was played in a single round-robin format, all teams were placed into a single pool and faced each other once. Rosters Venues * Komazawa Volleyball Courts in Tokyo *Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium in Yokohama Round robin *All times are Japan Standard Time ( UTC+09:00). Final standings Medalists Gallery References External links Brazilian site with full resultsOfficial results(pgs. 621, 656-668) Video of the moments of victory and of awarding gold medal in 1964 Tokyo Olympics {{DEFAULTSORT:Volleyball At The 1964 Summer Olympics - Women's Volleyball 1964 O Women's voll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masae Kasai
Masae Kasai (河西 昌枝 ''Kasai Masae'', 14 July 1933 – 3 October 2013) was a volleyball player from Japan, who was a member of the Japan Women's National Team, Oriental Witches, that won the gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Masae Kasai was born in Minami-Alps, Yamanashi, and started playing volleyball when the sport was still played with nine players a side in Japan (six are used internationally). She joined the Nichibo fiber spinning company right out of high school, first playing for corporation's Ashikaga (Tochigi) team, later for the one from Kaizuka (Osaka). The latter team dominated the women's sport in the late 1950s and 1960s, and when the Japanese started playing according to international rules, Nichibo Kaizuka's players formed the national team. Kasai and her team mates débuted at the 1960 World Championships, finishing behind the Soviet Union. Two years later, the Japanese won the title, defeating the Soviet squad before a Moscow audience. When volle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yokohama
is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu. Yokohama is also the major economic, cultural, and commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area along the Keihin region, Keihin Industrial Zone. Yokohama was one of the cities to open for trade with the Western world, West following the 1859 end of the Sakoku, policy of seclusion and has since been known as a cosmopolitan port city, after Kobe opened in 1853. Yokohama is the home of many Japan's firsts in the Meiji (era), Meiji period, including the first foreign trading port and Chinatown (1859), European-style sport venues (1860s), English-language newspaper (1861), confectionery and beer manufacturing (1865), daily newspaper (1870), gas-powered street lamps (1870s), railway station (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayano Shibuki
is a Japanese volleyball player and Olympic champion. She was a member of the Japanese winning team, , at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...."1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan – Volleyball" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on September 7, 2008) References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massako Kondo
is a Japanese volleyball player and Olympic champion. She was a member of the Japanese winning team, , at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...."1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan – Volleyball" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on September 7, 2008) References External links *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuko Fujimoto
is a Japanese volleyball player and Olympic champion. She was a member of the Japanese winning team, , at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...."1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan – Volleyball" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on September 7, 2008) References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Setsuko Sassaki
is a Japanese volleyball player and Olympic champion. She was a member of the Japanese winning team, , at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...."1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan – Volleyball" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on September 7, 2008) References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoko Shinozaki
is a Japanese volleyball player and Olympic champion. She was a major player to help Japanese women's national volleyball team to dominate the World in 1962-67 by winning 1962 FIVB Women's World Championship, 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games and 1967 FIVB Women's World Championship The 1967 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, 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, ... in row."1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan – Volleyball" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on September 7, 2008) References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katsumi Matsumura
is a Japanese volleyball player and Olympic champion. She was a major player to help Japanese women's national volleyball team to dominate the World in 1962-67 by winning 1962 FIVB Women's World Championship, 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games and 1967 FIVB Women's World Championship in row."1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan – Volleyball" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on September 7, 2008) She also competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics
The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an i ...
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Sata Issobe
was a Japanese volleyball player. She was a member of the Japanese winning teams, , at the 1962 World Championships and 1964 Summer Olympics. She died at 72 in 2016. It is reported by THE SANKEI NEWS that she lost her parents because of World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ... but never lost her patience, warm personality and strength."Sata Maruyama who suddenly died could not go cheer on her son, Japanese national team swimmer." THE SANKEI NEWS 2016.12.20 11:54 References External links Video of 1964 Tokyo Olympics Women's Volleyball（the person who appears as the 1st Japanese server and 2nd Japanese spiker in this video）Sata Maruyama (née Isobe) passed away at 72. (The second player from the right in the photograph) / THE MAINICHI NEWSPAPERS* ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshiko Matsumura
is a Japanese volleyball player and Olympic champion. She was a member of the Japanese winning team, , at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...."1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan – Volleyball" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on September 7, 2008) References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuriko Handa
is a retired Japanese volleyball player. She was a member of the Japanese winning teams, , at the 1962 World Championships and 1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 ( ja, 東京1964), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this ho .... References External links Video of the moments of victory and of awarding gold medal in 1964 Tokyo Olympics* 1940 births Living people Olympic volleyball players of Japan Volleyball players at the 1964 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Japan Japanese women's volleyball players Olympic medalists in volleyball Sportspeople from Tochigi Prefecture Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics 20th-century Japanese women 21st-century Japanese women {{Japan-volleyball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinuko Tanida
was a Japanese volleyball player and Olympic champion. She was a member of the Japanese winning team, , at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...."1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan – Volleyball" ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on September 7, 2008) References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
