Volleyball at the Friendship Games

Volleyball at the Friendship Games was contested in two events. Men's event took place at the Ciudad Deportiva in Havana, Cuba between 18 and 26 August 1984. Women's event took place in Varna, Bulgaria between 8 and 15 July 1984.

Men's event

Six teams competed in a round-robin tournament.

	Team	Pld	W	L	Sets won	Sets lost	Points
	Soviet Union	5	5	0	15	4	10
	Cuba	5	4	1	13	5	9
	Poland	5	3	2	12	8	8
4	Czechoslovakia	5	2	3	8	10	7
5	Bulgaria	5	1	4	6	12	6
6	Hungary	5	0	5	0	15	5

Results

Results
Soviet Union		3:1	3:1	3:1	3:1	3:0
Cuba	1:3		3:2	3:0	3:0	3:0
Poland	1:3	2:3		3:1	3:1	3:0
Czechoslovakia	1:3	0:3	1:3		3:1	3:0
Bulgaria	1:3	0:3	1:3	1:3		3:0
Hungary	0:3	0:3	0:3	0:3	0:3

Women's event

Ten teams were drawn into two groups.

Group A

Team	Pld	W	L	Sets won	Sets lost	Points
North Korea	4	3	1	11	3	7
East Germany	4	3	1	9	4	7
Bulgaria	4	3	1	10	6	7
France	4	1	3	4	9	5
Czechoslovakia	4	0	4	0	12	4

Results

Results
North Korea		3:0	2:3	3:0	3:0
East Germany	0:3		3:1	3:0	3:0
Bulgaria	3:2	1:3		3:1	3:0
France	0:3	0:3	0:3		3:0
Czechoslovakia	0:3	0:3	0:3	0:3

Group B

Team	Pld	W	L	Sets won	Sets lost	Points
Cuba	4	4	0	12	4	8
Soviet Union	4	3	1	11	3	7
Hungary	4	2	2	7	9	6
Poland	4	1	3	5	10	5
Netherlands	4	0	4	3	12	4

Results

Results
Cuba		3:2	3:1	3:1	3:0
Soviet Union	2:3		3:0	3:0	3:0
Hungary	1:3	0:3		3:1	3:2
Poland	1:3	0:3	1:3		3:1
Netherlands	0:3	0:3	2:3	1:3

Final round

	Semifinals					Final
	A1	North Korea	1
	B2	Soviet Union	3
						Soviet Union		1
						Cuba		3
	B1	Cuba	3
	A2	East Germany	0			Third place
						North Korea		0
						East Germany		3

Final

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
15 Jul	Soviet Union	1–3	Cuba	8–15	16–14	5–15	6–15		35–59

Classification 5th–10th

	5th-8th place					5th place match
	A3	Bulgaria	3
	B4	Poland	2
						Bulgaria		3
						Hungary		1
	B3	Hungary	3
	A4	France	1			7th place match
						Poland		3
						France		0

	9th place match
	A5	Czechoslovakia	1
	B5	Netherlands	3

Winning teams' squads

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	Soviet Union Yaroslav Antonov Viktor Artamonov Albert Dillenburg Aleksandr Ivanov Yuri Panchenko Aleksandr Savin Yuri Sapega Pavel Selivanov Oleg Smugilyev Oleksandr Sorokalet Vladimir Shkurikhin Viacheslav Zaitsev	Cuba Osvaldo Abreu Rodolfo Guillén Eugenio Ortiz Luis Oviedo Águedo Páez Antonio Pérez Roberto Pérez Carlos Ruíz Carlos Sánchez Abel Sarmientos Manuel Torres Raúl Vilches	Poland Wojciech Drzyzga Wacław Golec Ryszard Jurek Marian Kardas Waldemar Kasprzak Ireneusz Kłos Andrzej Martyniuk Włodzimierz Nalazek Jerzy Pawełek Jacek Rychlicki Krzysztof Stefanowicz Zbigniew Zieliński
Women's	Cuba Josefina Capote Ana María Crespo Imilsis Téllez Norka Latamblet Daudinot Josefina O'Farrill Alejandrina Hernández Teresa Hernández Lazara González Mercedes Pomares Nancy González Lucila Savon Rubinelda Henry	Soviet Union Viesma Aistere Yelena Kundaleva Vyera Bondar Yelena Chebukina Irina Kirillova Liubov Kozyreva Olga Krivosheyeva Valentina Ogiyenko Olga Pozdniakova Irina Rizen Tatiana Shapovalova Yelena Volkova	East Germany Maike Arlt Monika Beu Andrea Heim Catrin Heydrich Grit Jensen Ramona Landgraf Heike Lehmann Karia Mügge Ute Oldenburg Ariane Radfan Martina Schwarz Dörte Stüdemann

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Host nation (Cuba). The second host nation, Bulgaria, won no medals.)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)*	1	1	0	2
	Soviet Union (URS)	1	1	0	2
3	East Germany (GDR)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		2	2	2	6

See also

• Volleyball at the 1984 Summer Olympics

References

• Chmielewski, Zbigniew; et al. (1987). Na olimpijskim szlaku 1984. Sarajewo, Los Angeles (in Polish). Warsaw: Sport i Turystyka. pp. 201–203, 227–228. ISBN 83-217-2610-0.
• Trzciński, Tomasz; et al. (1985). Gwiazdy sportu '84 (in Polish). Warsaw: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza. p. 91. ISBN 83-03-01177-4.