The1967FIVB Women's World Championship was the fifth edition of the tournament, organised by the world's governing body, theFIVB. It was held from 25 to 29 January 1967 at theNippon Budokan inTokyo,Japan.
Since its inaugural edition in 1952, the women's andmen's World Championships were hosted by the same country. TheFIVB decided to split the tournaments, awarding men's and women's to different countries, for 1966 the men's was held inCzechoslovakia and the women's was planned to be held inLima,Peru between 12 and 29 October. Lima withdrew as organizer and the tournament was delayed until a new host could be found. WithJapan chosen as host (the first time the World Championships were played in Asia), the tournament went ahead in January 1967. Due to international political tensions caused by theCold War, hosts Japan warned it would not display the flags nor have the national anthems ofNorth Korea andEast Germany played. Both teams together with theEastern Bloc countries (Czechoslovakia,Hungary,Poland,Soviet Union) andChina forfeited the tournament, leaving only four teams as participants.[1][2][3]
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The tournament was played in a singleround-robin format, all four participant teams in a single pool and played each other once.
| | 1967 Women's World champions |
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Japan
2nd title |
| Team roster | | Toyoko Iwahara,Wakako Kumasaka,Katsumi Matsumura,Sumie Oinuma,Aiko Onozawa,Setsuko Sasaki,Eiko Haga,Yoko Shinozaki,Kunie Shishikura,Suzue Takayama,Teruko Yamada,Setsuko Yoshida | | Head coach | | Sigeo Yamada |
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Japan
United States
South Korea
Peru
South Korea
