Volleyball at the 1974 Asian Games

Volleyball was one of the many sports which was held at the 1974 Asian Games in Tehran, Iran. All matches played at the Volleyball Hall in Aryamehr Sport Complex.

Volleyball at the 1974 Asian Games
Venue	Aryamehr Volleyball Hall
Dates	2–15 September 1974
Nations	9

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Japan Yoshihide Fukao Kenji Kimura Yuzo Nakamura Katsutoshi Nekoda Tetsuo Nishimoto Katsumi Oda Tetsuo Sato Kenji Shimaoka Mikiyasu Tanaka Shoichi Yanagimoto Yasunori Yasuda Tadayoshi Yokota	South Korea Chung Kang-sup Jin Jun-tak Kang Man-soo Kim Chung-han Kim Kun-bong Lee Choun-pyo Lee In Lee Sun-koo Lee Yong-kwan Park Ki-won Suk Kyung-hong	China Chen Fulin Dong Chuanqiang Fu Yuting Jiang Shensheng Wang Chuan Wang Dexue Yu Youwei Yuan Liubin Yuan Weimin Zhang Yuan Zhao Chengqing Zhu Jiaming
Women	Japan Yuko Arakida Toshimi Furuta Takako Iida Katsuko Kanesaka Kiyomi Kato Echiko Maeda Noriko Matsuda Mariko Okamoto Harue Saito Takako Shirai Hiromi Yano Juri Yokoyama	South Korea Choi Eun-hee Jo Hea-jung Jung Soon-ok Lee Hyo-sun Lee Kyung-sook Lee Kyung-sun Lee Soon-bok Noh Chang-hee Park In-sil Park Jung-hui Yu Jung-hye Yu Kyung-hwa	China Cao Jinxiu Fan Guixiang Ge Weiping Liang Caihui Liu Di Qi Lixia Wu Guoying Xu Liyun Xu Xiumei Yu Liwen Zhang Qingru Zhang Shuhua

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	2	0	0	2
2	South Korea (KOR)	0	2	0	2
3	China (CHN)	0	0	2	2
Totals (3 entries)		2	2	2	6

Draw

The draw was held in Tehran. The men were drawn into two groups of four teams, the women were played in round robin format, six teams were registered but Khmer Republic later withdrew.

Group A

• China
• Japan
• Philippines
• India

Group B

• Iran
• South Korea
• Kuwait
• Pakistan

Results

Men

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Japan	3	3	0	6	9	0	MAX	135	57	2.368	Semifinals
2	China	3	2	1	5	6	4	1.500	128	90	1.422
3	India	3	1	2	4	3	7	0.429	89	119	0.748	Classification 5th–8th
4	Philippines	3	0	3	3	2	9	0.222	71	157	0.452

Source: Results

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
02 Sep	09:00	India	0–3	China	3–15	6–15	5–15			14–45
02 Sep	16:00	Philippines	0–3	Japan	0–15	6–15	5–15			11–45
04 Sep	16:00	China	3–1	Philippines	14–16	15–4	15–5	15–6		59–31
04 Sep	17:30	Japan	3–0	India	15–6	15–6	15–10			45–22
06 Sep	10:00	India	3–1	Philippines	8–15	15–2	15–3	15–9		53–29
06 Sep	16:00	Japan	3–0	China	15–5	15–11	15–8			45–24

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	South Korea	3	3	0	6	9	0	MAX	135	46	2.935	Semifinals
2	Iran	3	2	1	5	6	3	2.000	116	85	1.365
3	Pakistan	3	1	2	4	3	6	0.500	77	117	0.658	Classification 5th–8th
4	Kuwait	3	0	3	3	0	9	0.000	56	136	0.412

Source: Results

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
03 Sep	09:00	South Korea	3–0	Kuwait	15–1	15–6	15–2			45–9
03 Sep	16:00	Iran	3–0	Pakistan	15–1	15–8	15–11			45–20
05 Sep	10:00	Pakistan	3–0	Kuwait	15–5	15–8	16–14			46–27
05 Sep	17:30	South Korea	3–0	Iran	15–13	15–3	15–10			45–26
07 Sep	16:00	Pakistan	0–3	South Korea	5–15	6–15	0–15			11–45
07 Sep	17:30	Iran	3–0	Kuwait	15–6	15–5	15–9			45–20

Classification 5th–8th

	Classification 5th–8th				5th place match
	8 September
	India	3
					11 September
	Kuwait	0
					India	3
	9 September
					Philippines	1
	Pakistan	1
	Philippines	3
					7th place match
					10 September
					Kuwait	0
					Pakistan	3

Semifinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
08 Sep	18:30	India	3–0	Kuwait	15–4	15–2	15–6			45–12
09 Sep	16:00	Pakistan	1–3	Philippines	7–15	16–14	11–15	10–15		44–59

7th place match

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
10 Sep	09:00	Kuwait	0–3	Pakistan	3–15	5–15	12–15			20–45

5th place match

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
11 Sep	17:30	India	3–1	Philippines	15–2	13–15	15–6	15–1		58–24

Final round

	Semifinals				Gold medal match
	9 September
	Japan	3
					15 September
	Iran	0
					Japan	3
	10 September
					South Korea	1
	South Korea	3
	China	1
					Bronze medal match
					12 September
					Iran	1
					China	3

Semifinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
09 Sep	17:30	Japan	3–0	Iran	15–3	15–3	15–10			45–16
10 Sep	16:00	South Korea	3–1	China	15–7	15–11	14–16	15–5		59–39

Bronze medal match

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
12 Sep	16:00	Iran	1–3	China	3–15	4–15	15–11	12–15		34–56

Gold medal match

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
15 Sep	16:00	Japan	3–1	South Korea	15–12	16–14	10–15	15–12		56–53

Final standing

Rank	Team
	Japan
	South Korea
	China
4	Iran
5	India
6	Philippines
7	Pakistan
8	Kuwait

Women

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR
1	Japan	4	4	0	8	12	2	6.000	198	94	2.106
2	South Korea	4	3	1	7	10	3	3.333	166	100	1.660
3	China	4	2	2	6	7	8	0.875	152	170	0.894
4	North Korea	4	1	3	5	5	9	0.556	158	160	0.988
5	Iran	4	0	4	4	0	12	0.000	30	180	0.167

Source: Results

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
02 Sep	10:30	Iran	0–3	China	4–15	8–15	1–15			13–45
03 Sep	17:30	North Korea	0–3	South Korea	6–15	5–15	9–15			20–45
05 Sep	16:00	South Korea	3–0	China	15–8	15–3	15–8			45–19
06 Sep	17:30	Japan	3–0	North Korea	15–11	15–13	15–11			45–35
07 Sep	10:00	South Korea	3–0	Iran	15–0	15–3	15–4			45–7
08 Sep	17:30	China	1–3	Japan	6–15	15–9	3–15	0–15		24–54
10 Sep	17:30	North Korea	2–3	China	15–13	15–5	6–15	14–16	8–15	58–64
11 Sep	16:00	Iran	0–3	Japan	1–15	3–15	0–15			4–45
13 Sep		North Korea	3–0	Iran	15–3	15–3	15–0			45–6
14 Sep	17:30	Japan	3–1	South Korea	9–15	15–2	15–8	15–6		54–31

References

• Men's Results
• Women's Results