| Round Robin | w | l | pf | pa | points | ratio |  | 1. Soviet Union | 8 | 1 | 26: | 8 | 464/326 | 1.423 |  | 2. Japan | 7 | 2 | 24: | 6 | 430/258 | 1.667 |  | 3. Czechoslovakia | 7 | 2 | 22: | 15 | 454/417 | 1.089 |  | 4. East Germany | 6 | 3 | 22: | 12 | 449/374 | 1.201 |  | 5. Poland | 6 | 3 | 18: | 11 | 371/281 | 1.320 |  | 6. Bulgaria | 4 | 5 | 16: | 17 | 379/385 | 0.984 |  | 7. United States | 4 | 5 | 15: | 18 | 383/414 | 0.925 |  | 8. Belgium | 2 | 7 | 6: | 24 | 239/407 | 0.587 |  | 9. Brazil | 1 | 8 | 8: | 25 | 343/453 | 0.587 |  | 10.Mexico | 0 | 9 | 6: | 27 | 263/460 | 0.572 |   
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| Team | Sovi | Japa | Czec | EaGe | Pola | Bulg | Unit | Belg | Braz | Mexi |  | Soviet Union | --- | 3:1 | 3:0 | 3:2 | 3:0 | 3:0 |   | 3:0 | 3:1 | 3:1 |  | Japan |   | --- |   | 3:0 | 3:0 | 3:0 | 3:0 | 3:0 | 3:0 | 3:0 |  | Czechoslovakia |   | 3:2 | --- | 3:2 |   | 3:2 | 3:1 | 3:0 | 3:2 | 3:0 |  | East Germany |   |   |   | --- | 3:0 | 3:2 | 3:0 | 3:0 | 3:1 | 3:0 |  | Poland |   |   | 3:1 |   | --- | 3:0 | 3:0 | 3:0 | 3:0 | 3:1 |  | Bulgaria |   |   |   |   |   | --- | 3:2 | 3:0 | 3:0 | 3:0 |  | United States | 3:2 |   |   |   |   |   | --- | 3:0 | 3:0 | 3:1 |  | Belgium |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | --- | 3:1 | 3:2 |  | Brazil |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | --- | 3:1 |  | Mexico |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | --- |   
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| date | time | team 1 | score | team 2 | pts | g1 | g2 | g3 | g4 | g5 | dur |  |  Round 1 |  | 13.10 | 10:00 |   Japan | 3-0 |   Poland | 45-30 | 15-9 | 15-11 | 15-10 |   | 1:30 |  | 13.10 | 10:00 |   Belgium | 3-1 |   Brazil | 55-42 | 15-7 | 16-14 | 9-15 | 15-6 |   | 1:30 |  | 13.10 | 17:00 |   Bulgaria | 3-0 |   Mexico | 45-19 | 15-9 | 15-4 | 15-6 |   | 1:02 |  | 13.10 | 17:00 |   United States | 3-2 |   Soviet Union | 66-56 | 11-15 | 15-10 | 10-15 | 15-10 | 15-6 | 1:52 |  | 13.10 | 19:00 |   Czechoslovakia | 3-2 |   East Germany | 74-65 | 15-12 | 15-17 | 14-16 | 15-11 | 15-9 | 2:36  |  |  Round 2 |  | 16.10 | 10:00 |   Bulgaria | 3-0 |   Belgium | 45-16 | 15-10 | 15-1 | 15-5 |   | 0:55 |  | 16.10 | 12:00 |   Czechoslovakia | 3-1 |   United States | 55-29 | 15-0 | 10-15 | 15-7 | 15-7 |   | 1:20 |  | 16.10 | 17:00 |   Poland | 3-1 |   Mexico | 52-32 | 15-10 | 7-15 | 15-4 | 15-3 |   | 1:35 |  | 16.10 | 17:00 |   Soviet Union | 3-1 |   Brazil | 56-35 | 11-15 | 15-2 | 15-9 | 15-9 |   | 1:39  |  | 16.10 | 19:00 |   Japan | 3-0 |   East Germany | 45-27 | 15-6 | 15-8 | 15-13 |   | 1:26 |  |  Round 3 |  | 17.10 | 10:00 |   East Germany | 3-0 |   Mexico | 45-14 | 15-3 | 15-5 | 15-6 |   | 1:03 |  | 17.10 | 10:00 |   Soviet Union | 3-0 |   Bulgaria | 45-29 | 15-10 | 15-9 | 15-10 |   | 1:20 |  | 17.10 | 12:00 |   Poland | 3-0 |   Belgium | 45-19 | 15-6 | 15-5 | 15-8 |   | 1:11 |  | 17.10 | 17:00 |   United States | 3-0 |   Brazil | 45-29 | 15-12 | 15-7 | 15-10 |   | 0:50 |  | 17.10 | 19:00 |   Czechoslovakia | 3-2 |   Japan | 50-65 | 2-15 | 3-15 | 15-12 | 15-12 | 15-11 | 2:19 |  |  Round 4 |  | 19.10 | 10:00 |   Japan | 3-0 |   Mexico | 45-15 | 15-1 | 15-3 | 15-11 |   | 0:55 |  | 19.10 | 10:00 |   Bulgaria | 3-2 |   United States | 65-66 | 10-15 | 17-15 | 7-15 | 15-7 | 16-14 | 1:49 |  | 19.10 | 12:00 |   Soviet Union | 3-0 |   Poland | 45-29 | 15-9 | 15-10 | 15-10 |   | 1:27 |  | 19.10 | 17:00 |   Czechoslovakia | 3-2 |   Brazil | 71-61 | 15-12 | 15-10 | 13-15 | 13-15 | 15-9 | 2:25  |  | 19.10 | 19:00 |   East Germany | 3-0 |   Belgium | 45-15 | 15-1 | 15-7 | 15-7 |   | 0:53 |  |  Round 5 |  | 20.10 | 12:00 |   Japan | 3-0 |   Belgium | 45-14 | 15-5 | 15-5 | 15-4 |   | 0:52 |  | 20.10 | 12:00 |   Bulgaria | 3-0 |   Brazil | 48-27 | 15-8 | 18-16 | 15-3 |   | 1:22 |  | 20.10 | 17:00 |   Czechoslovakia | 3-0 |   Mexico | 45-26 | 15-10 | 15-8 | 15-8 |   | 2:16 |  | 20.10 | 17:00 |   Poland | 3-0 |   United States | 45-18 | 15-5 | 15-5 | 15-8 |   | 0:49 |  | 20.10 | 19:00 |   Soviet Union | 3-2 |   East Germany | 67-55 | 10-15 | 15-9 | 15-11 | 12-15 | 15-5 | 2:34  |  |  Round 6 |  | 21.10 | 10:00 |   Czechoslovakia | 3-2 |   Bulgaria | 59-53 | 15-7 | 10-15 | 15-9 | 4-15 | 15-7 | 1:47  |  | 21.10 | 12:00 |   Belgium | 3-2 |   Mexico | 66-49 | 15-11 | 5-15 | 13-15 | 18-16 | 15-2 | 2:16  |  | 21.10 | 12:00 |   East Germany | 3-0 |   United States | 45-30 | 15-8 | 15-12 | 15-10 |   | 1:43 |  | 21.10 | 17:00 |   Poland | 3-0 |   Brazil | 45-23 | 15-12 | 15-4 | 15-7 |   | 1:10 |  | 21.10 | 19:00 |   Soviet Union | 3-1 |   Japan | 49-50 | 4-15 | 15-13 | 15-9 | 15-13 |   | 2:04 |  |  Round 7 |  | 23.10 | 10:00 |   Poland | 3-0 |   Bulgaria | 45-18 | 15-3 | 15-5 | 15-10 |   | 1:03 |  | 23.10 | 10:00 |   Soviet Union | 3-1 |   Mexico | 56-33 | 15-5 | 15-8 | 11-15 | 15-5 |   | 1:15 |  | 23.10 | 12:00 |   Japan | 3-0 |   United States | 45-24 | 15-5 | 15-8 | 15-11 |   | 1:14 |  | 23.10 | 12:00 |   East Germany | 3-1 |   Brazil | 59-48 | 15-13 | 15-7 | 14-16 | 15-12 |   | 1:51 |  | 23.10 | 19:00 |   Czechoslovakia | 3-0 |   Belgium | 45-16 | 15-0 | 15-4 | 15-12 |   | 0:56 |  |  Round 8 |  | 24.10 | 10:00 |   Japan | 3-0 |   Brazil | 45-31 | 15-8 | 15-11 | 15-12 |   | 1:00 |  | 24.10 | 10:00 |   East Germany | 3-2 |   Bulgaria | 63-58 | 15-11 | 8-15 | 15-10 | 10-15 | 15-7 | 1:58 |  | 24.10 | 12:00 |   United States | 3-1 |   Mexico | 59-46 | 14-16 | 15-10 | 15-9 | 15-11 |   | 1:56 |  | 24.10 | 17:00 |   Poland | 3-1 |   Czechoslovakia | 57-36 | 15-5 | 15-3 | 12-15 | 15-13 |   | 1:26 |  | 24.10 | 19:00 |   Soviet Union | 3-0 |   Belgium | 45-10 | 15-2 | 15-3 | 15-5 |   | 0:44 |  |  Round 9 |  | 25.10 | 10:00 |   Japan | 3-0 |   Bulgaria | 45-18 | 15-7 | 15-6 | 15-5 |   | 0:59 |  | 25.10 | 12:00 |   United States | 3-0 |   Belgium | 46-28 | 15-4 | 16-14 | 15-10 |   | 1:08 |  | 25.10 | 17:00 |   Brazil | 3-1 |   Mexico | 47-29 | 14-16 | 15-6 | 17-15 | 15-8 |   | 1:39 |  | 25.10 | 19:00 |   East Germany | 3-0 |   Poland | 45-23 | 15-11 | 15-6 | 15-6 |   | 1:06 |  | 25.10 | 20:00 |   Soviet Union | 3-0 |   Czechoslovakia | 45-19 | 15-7 | 15-4 | 15-8 |   | 0:57 |   
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| team | replaced | from | pl |  | Bulgaria | Tunisia | World Men 1966 | 7th |  | Belgium | Romania | invitation |   
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| 1. Soviet Union |  | Eduard Sibiryakov |  | Yury Poyarkov |  | Georgy Mondzolevsky |  | Valery Kravchenko |  | Vladimir Belyayev |  | Yevgeny Lapinsky |  | Ivans Bugajenkovs |  | Antropovs Oļegs |  | Vasilijus Matuševas |  | Viktor Mikhalchuk |  | Boris Tereshchuk |  | Vladimir Ivanov |   
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| 2. Japan |  | Masayuki Minami |  | Katsutoshi Nekoda |  | Mamoru Shiragami |  | Isao Koizumi |  | Kenji Kimura |  | Yasuaki Mitsumori |  | Jungo Morita |  | Tadayoshi Yokota |  | Seiji Oko |  | Tetsuo Sato |  | Kenji Shimaoka |   
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| 3. Czechoslovakia |  | Bohumil Golián |  | Antonín Procházka |  | Petr Kop |  | Jiří Svoboda |  | Josef Musil |  | Lubomír Zajíček |  | Josef Smolka |  | Vladimír Petlák |  | František Sokol |  | Zdeněk Groessl |  | Pavel Schenk |  | Drahomír Koudelka |   
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| 4. East Germany |  | Arnold Schulz |  | Eckehard Pietzsch |  | Eckhard Tielscher |  | Horst Peter |  | Freiwald Jürgen |  | Kessel Jürgen |  | Manfred Heine |  | Rainer Tscharke |  | Rudi Schumann |  | Siegfried Schneider |  | Walter Toussaint |  | Wolfgang Webner |   
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|  5. Poland |  | 1. Stanisław Zduńczyk  |  | 2. Aleksander Skiba  |  | 3. Jerzy Szymczyk  |  | 4. Edward Skorek  |  | 5. Zbigniew Jasiukiewicz  |  | 6. Tadeusz Siwek  |  | 7. Zdzisław Ambroziak  |  | 8. Stanisław Gościniak  |  | 9. Romuald Paszkiewicz  |  | 10.Hubert Jerzy Wagner  |  | 11.Wojciech Rutkowski  |  | 12.Zbigniew Zarzycki  |  | Coach: Tadeusz Szlagor |   
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| 6. Bulgaria |  | Aleksandar Aleksandrov |  | Aleksandar Trenev |  | Angel Koritarov |  | Dimitar Karov |  | Dimitar Zlatanov |  | Dinko Atanasov |  | Gramen Prinov |  | Kiril Slavov |  | Milcho Milev |  | Petar Krachmarov |  | Stoyan Stoyanov |  | Zdravko Simeonov |   
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| 7. United States |  | John Alstrom |  | Mike Bright |  | Winthrop Davenport |  | Horace Duke |  | Tom Haine |  | John Henn |  | Robert May |  | Daniel Patterson |  | Larry Rundle |  | Jon Stanley |  | Rudy Suwara |  | Pedro Velasco, Jr. |  | Women's Volleyball |   
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| 8. Belgium |  | Benno Saelens |  | Bernard Vaillant |  | Berto Poosen |  | Fernand Walder |  | Hugo Huybrechts |  | Jozef Mol |  | Leo Dierckx |  | Paul Mestdagh |  | Roger Maes |  | Roger Vandergoten |  | Ronald Vandewal |  | Willem Bossaerts |   
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| 9. Brazil |  | Antônio Carlos Moreno |  | Feitosa |  | Décio de Azevedo |  | Gerson Schuck |  | João Jens |  | Jorge Souza |  | José da Costa |  | Marco Antônio Volpi |  | Dunlop Mário |  | Paulo Peterle |  | Pinheiro Sérgio |  | Victor Borges |   
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| 10.Mexico |  | Antonio Barbet |  | Carlos Aguirre |  | Carlos Barron |  | Osuna César |  | Eduardo Jiménez |  | Eduardo Sixtos |  | Francisco González |  | Jesús Loya |  | Joël Calva |  | Juan Manuel Duran |  | Leopoldo Reyna |  | Luis Martell |   
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