Women's volleyball at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Venue	Jamsil Gymnasium Saemaul Sports Hall Hanyang University Gymnasium
Date	20–29 September
Competitors	96 from 8 nations
Medalists
Soviet Union (4th title)  Peru  China
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The1988 women's Olympic volleyball tournament was the seventh edition of the event, organised by the world's governing body, theFIVB in conjunction with theInternational Olympic Committee. The competition inSeoul, South Korea was held from 20 to 29 September 1988.^[1]

Qualifiers	Date	Host	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Country	30 September 1981	Baden-Baden	1	South Korea
1984 Olympic Games	30 Jul – 7 Aug 1984	Los Angeles	1	China
1986 World Championship	2–13 September 1986	Prague	1	Cuba  Peru
1987 Asian Championsnip	6–14 June 1987	Shanghai	1	Japan*
1987 NORCECA Championship	12-19 June 1987	Havana	1	United States*
1987 South American Championship	20-29 September 1987	Punta del Este	1	Brazil
1987 European Championship	25 Sep – 3 Oct 1987	Auderghem	1	East Germany
1988 Olympic qualification tournament		Italy	1	Soviet Union
Total			8

* Notes:^[1]

1. Cuba was the 1986 World Championship runners-up (champions China had already qualified as 1984 Olympic champions), but together with 6 another countries,boycotted the games and their spot was given to Peru, as the team finished in the 3rd place at the1986 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship.

2. Peru won the 1987 Women's South American Volleyball Championship, but as they had already qualified, the South American place was reassigned to Brazil.

3. Japan was the 1987 Asian Championship runners-up (champions China had already qualified as 1984 Olympic champions).

4. United States was the 1987 NORCECA Championship runners-up (champions Cuba had already qualified as 1986 World Championship runners-up).

The tournament was played in two different stages. In thePreliminary round (first stage), the eight participants were divided into two pools of four teams. Asingle round-robin format was played within each pool to determine the teams position in the pool. TheFinal round (second stage) was played in asingle elimination format, where the preliminary round two highest ranked teams in each group advanced to the semifinals and the two lowest ranked teams advanced to the 5th–8th place semifinals.

Pool A	Pool B
South Korea	China
Soviet Union	United States
Japan	Brazil
East Germany	Peru

• Jamsil Gymnasium,Seoul,South Korea
• Saemaul Sports Hall,Seoul,South Korea
• Hanyang University Gymnasium,Seoul,South Korea

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Soviet Union	3	2	1	5	8	3	2.667	154	114	1.351	1st–4th semifinals
2	Japan	3	2	1	5	8	6	1.333	173	159	1.088
3	South Korea	3	1	2	4	4	7	0.571	116	137	0.847	5th–8th semifinals
4	East Germany	3	1	2	4	4	8	0.500	127	160	0.794

20 September 1988	Japan	3–2	Soviet Union
	(15–2, 8–15, 15–12, 10–15, 19–17) Report

20 September 1988	East Germany	1–3	South Korea
	(6–15, 16–14, 10–15, 7–15) Report

23 September 1988	East Germany	3–2	Japan
	(11–15, 16–14, 4–15, 15–2 ,15–7) Report

23 September 1988	Soviet Union	3–0	South Korea
	(15–5, 15–8, 15–7) Report

25 September 1988	East Germany	0–3	Soviet Union
	(16–18, 7–15, 4–15) Report

25 September 1988	Japan	3–1	South Korea
	(8–15, 15–3 ,15–11, 15–8) Report

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Peru	3	3	0	6	9	4	2.250	177	142	1.246	1st–4th semifinals
2	China	3	2	1	5	8	4	2.000	161	132	1.220
3	United States	3	1	2	4	5	8	0.625	140	167	0.838	5th–8th semifinals
4	Brazil	3	0	3	3	3	9	0.333	126	163	0.773

20 September 1988	China	3–0	United States
	(15–9, 15–5, 15–7) Report

20 September 1988	Peru	3–0	Brazil
	(15–11, 15–11, 15–3) Report

23 September 1988	Brazil	2–3	United States
	(16–14, 5–15, 13–15, 15–12, 7–15) Report

23 September 1988	China	2–3	Peru
	(15–13, 13–15, 15–7, 12–15, 14–16) Report

25 September 1988	China	3–1	Brazil
	(2–15, 15–7, 15–12, 15–11) Report

25 September 1988	Peru	3–2	United States
	(12–15, 9–15, 15–4, 15–5, 15–9) Report

	5–8th place				5th place
	27 September
	South Korea	2
					29 September
	Brazil	3
					Brazil	1
	27 September
					East Germany	3
	East Germany	3
	United States	1
					7th place
					29 September
					South Korea	2
					United States	3

27 September 1988	South Korea	2–3	Brazil
	(6–15, 17–15, 15–8, 4–15, 15–17) Report

27 September 1988	East Germany	3–1	United States
	(15–13, 15–11, 10–15, 15–8) Report

29 September 1988	South Korea	2–3	United States
	(4–15, 15–12, 15–13, 9–15, 8–15) Report

29 September 1988	Brazil	1–3	East Germany
	(9–15, 4–15, 15–11, 11–15) Report

	Semi-finals				Final
	27 September
	Soviet Union	3
					29 September
	China	0
					Soviet Union	3
	27 September
					Peru	2
	Japan	2
	Peru	3
					Third place
					29 September
					China	3
					Japan	0

27 September 1988	Soviet Union	3–0	China
	(15–0, 15–9, 15–2) Report

27 September 1988	Japan	2–3	Peru
	(9–15, 6–15, 15–6, 15–10, 13–15) Report

29 September 1988	China	3–0	Japan
	(15–13, 15–6, 15–6 Report

29 September 1988	Soviet Union	3–2	Peru
	(10–15, 12–15, 15–13, 15–7, 17–15 Report

Place Team  Soviet Union  Peru  China 4  Japan 5  East Germany 6  Brazil 7  United States 8  South Korea

1988 Women's Olympic champions  Soviet Union 4th title 12-woman roster Valentina Ogiyenko,Yelena Volkova,Marina Kumysh,Irina Smirnova,Tatyana Sidorenko,Irina Parkhomchuk,Tatyana Kraynova,Olga Shkurnova,Marina Nikulina,Yelena Ovchinnikova,Olga Krivosheyeva,Svetlana Korytova Head coach Nikolay Karpol

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Soviet Union (URS) Valentina Ogiyenko Yelena Volkova Marina Kumysh Irina Smirnova Tatyana Sidorenko Irina Parkhomchuk Tatyana Kraynova Olga Shkurnova Marina Nikulina Yelena Ovchinnikova Olga Krivosheyeva Svetlana Korytova Head coach:Nikolay Karpol	Peru (PER) Katherine Horny Cenaida Uribe Rosa García Miriam Gallardo Gaby Pérez Sonia Heredia Cecilia Tait Luisa Cervera Denisse Fajardo Alejandra de la Guerra Gina Torrealva Natalia Málaga Head coach:Park Man-bok	China (CHN) Li Guojun Zhao Hong Hou Yuzhu Wang Yajun Yang Xilan Su Huijuan Jiang Ying Cui Yongmei Yang Xiaojun Zheng Meizhu Wu Dan Li Yueming Head coach:Li Yaoxian

Best scorers

Rank	Name	Total Points	Spike	Block	Serve
1	SMINRNOVA, Irina	115	104	7	4
2	OBAYASHI, Motoko	109	101	5	3
3	PEREZ DEL SOLAR, Gabriela	108	89	16	3
4	TAIT, Cecilia	103	96	4	3
5	HOU Yuzhu	98	90	3	5
6	RAMOS, Ana Claudia	94	88	3	3
7	KEMNER, Caren	90	77	6	7
8	LAHME, Susanne	88	69	18	2
9	SIDORENKO, Tatyana	85	80	3	2
10	FAJARDO, Denise	80	73	4	2

Best attackers

Rank	Name	Total kills	Efficiency%
1	ODEN, Kimberly	65	39.27
2	OVCHINNIKOVA, eLENA	72	37.65
3	WU Dan	66	36.44
4	SMIRNOVA, Irina	104	34.53
5	JENSEN, Grit	61	33.46

Best blockers

Rank	Name	Total blocks	Avg by set
1	LAHME, Susanne	18	1.98
2	PEREZ DEL SOLAR, Gabriela	16	1.63
3	URIBE, Cenaida	15	1.22
4	MALAGA, Natalia	11	0.92
5	LI Yueming	10	0.88

Best servers

Rank	Name	Total aces	Avg by set
1	JENSEN, Grit	10	0.77
2	SACHIKO, Fujita	9	0.64
3	SUGIYAMA, Akemi	8	0.62
4	ROCK, Angela	8	0.57
5	SIDORENKO, Tatyana	6	0.48

Best diggers

Rank	Name	Total digs	Avg by set
1	ARITT, Maike	39	1.82
2	WU Dan	33	1.58
3	GARCIA, Rosa	31	1.37
4	MASAKAYAN, Liz	31	1.35
5	PARK Min Hee	30	1.28

Best setters

Rank	Name	Excellent	Avg by set
1	YANG Xilan	210	11.28
2	PARKHOMCHUK, Irina	196	10.52
3	NAKADA, Ikumi	165	8.83
4	GARCIA, Rosa	148	7.43
5	KIM Yun-hye	128	6.72
6	KESSEL, Laurel	103	5.37
7	RICHA, Ana Maria	97	5.22
8	STUDEMANN, Dorte	84	3.98

Best receivers

Rank	Name	Excellent%
1	PARK Mi-Hee	67.40
2	FAJARDO, Denise	67.00
3	ARIT, Maike	65.42
4	MARUYAMA, Yumi	64.89
5	KEMNER, Caren	62.82

• Volleyball at the Summer Olympics
• Volleyball at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

• Results
• Final standings (1964–2000) at FIVB.org
• Official results (pgs. 625–627, 635–638)

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• Volleyball at the 1988 Summer Olympics
• Women's volleyball in South Korea
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