Volleyball at the 1984 Summer Olympics

This page presents the results of men's and women's volleyball tournaments during the Los Angeles Olympics in the summer of 1984. The competition was held in the Long Beach Arena, which had a capacity of 12,033.

Schedule PPreliminary round½Semi-finalsBBronze medal matchFGold medal match Event↓/Date → 29thSun 30thMon 31stTue 1stWed 2ndThu 3rdFri 4thSat 5thSun 6thMon 7thTue 8thWed 9thThu 10thFri 11thSat Men P P P P P ½ F Women P P P ½ F

Events Two sets of medals were awarded in the following events:

Indoor volleyball – men (10 teams, 118 athletes) Indoor volleyball – women (8 teams, 96 athletes)

Medal table

Medal summary Men's indoorDouglas DvorakDave SaundersSteven SalmonsPaul SunderlandRich DuweliusSteve TimmonsCraig BuckMarc WaldieChris Marlowe (c)Aldis BerzinsPatrick PowersKarch KiralyAmauri RibeiroAntônio Carlos Gueiros RibeiroBernard RajzmanBernardo Rocha de RezendeDomingos Lampariello NetoFernando Roscio de ÁvilaMarcus Vinícius Simões FreireJosé Montanaro JuniorRenan Dal ZottoRui Campos do NascimentoWilliam da Silva (c)XandóFranco BertoliFrancesco Dall'OlioGiancarlo DamettoGuido De LuigiGiovanni ErrichielloGiovanni LanfrancoAndrea LucchettaPier Paolo LucchettaMarco NegriPiero RebaudengoPaolo VecchiFabio VulloWomen's indoor Lang PingLiang YanZhu LingHou YuzhuYang XilanJiang YingLi YanjunYang XiaojunZheng MeizhuZhang Rongfang (c)Su HuijuanZhou Xiaolan Paula WeishoffSue Woodstra (c)Rita CrockettLaurie FlachmeierCarolyn BeckerFlo HymanRose MagersJulie VollertsenDebbie Green-VargasKimberly RuddinsJeanne BeaupreyLinda Chisholm Yumi EgamiKimie MoritaYuko MitsuyaMiyoko HiroseKyoko IshidaYoko KagabuNorie HiroKayoko SugiyamaSachiko OtaniKeiko MiyajimaEmiko OdakaKumi Nakada

Highlights The United States won their first men's title. Brazil took second. It was Karch Kiraly's first Olympic Gold medal. China won the women's title. The United States took second. It was the Iron Hammer Lang Ping's first Olympic Gold medal. The China National Women's Volleyball National Team completed the three-peat (winners in the World Cup 1981, World Volleyball Championships 1982, and Los Angeles Olympic Games 1984).

See also Volleyball at the Friendship Games

References