1956 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship

1956 FIVB Women's World Championship

Championnat du monde féminin France 1956
Official poster
Tournament details
Host nation	France
City	Paris
Dates	30 August – 12 September
Teams	17
Venue(s)	3 (in 1 host city)
Champions	Soviet Union (2nd title)
Runners-up	Romania
Third place	Poland
Fourth place	Czechoslovakia
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The 1956 FIVB Women's World Championship was the second edition of the tournament, contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. It was held from 30 August to 12 September 1956 in France.^[1]

Teams[]

Squads[]

Source:^[2]

Venues[]

Paris 1956 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship (France)	Paris
	Stade Pierre de Coubertin	Salle Japy	Palais des Sports
	Capacity: 4,016	Capacity: 1,500	Capacity: 4,600

Format[]

The tournament was played in two different stages (first and final rounds). In the First round, the 17 participants were divided in five groups (two groups of four teams and three groups of three teams). A single round-robin format was played within each group to determine the teams group position, all teams progressed to the next round.

In the Final round, two groups were created (1st-10th and 11th-17th), teams were allocated to a group according to their First round group position (best two teams of each group going to 1st-10th and the remaining teams to 11th-17th). A single round-robin format was played within each group with matches already played between teams in the First round also counted in this round.^[1]

Pools composition[]

Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D	Pool E
Israel	Austria	Belgium	Bulgaria	Brazil
	China	Czechoslovakia	East Germany	North Korea
Soviet Union	Poland	Netherlands	France	Romania
United States	West Germany

Results[]

First round[]

Pool A[]

		Pts	Matches		Sets			Points
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Soviet Union	6	3	0	9	0	MAX	135	25	5.400
2	United States	5	2	1	6	3	2.000	107	54	1.981
3	Israel	4	1	2	3	6	0.500	56	108	0.519
4		3	0	3	0	9	0.000	24	135	0.178

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
30 Aug	Soviet Union	3–0		15–1	15–2	15–1			45–4
30 Aug	United States	3–0	Israel	15–1	15–4	15–2			45–7
31 Aug	Israel	3–0		15–7	15–5	15–6			45–18
31 Aug	Soviet Union	3–0	United States	15–7	15–4	15–6			45–17
1 Sep	Soviet Union	3–0	Israel	15–2	15–2	15–0			45–4
1 Sep	United States	3–0		15–0	15–1	15–1			45–2

Pool B[]

		Pts	Matches		Sets			Points
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Poland	6	3	0	9	1	9.000	151	53	2.849
2	China	5	2	1	7	3	2.333	133	72	1.847
3	Austria	4	1	2	3	6	0.500	59	107	0.551
4	West Germany	3	0	3	0	9	0.000	24	135	0.178

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
30 Aug	Poland	3–0	West Germany	15–0	15–0	15–1			45–1
30 Aug	China	3–0	Austria	15–1	15–2	15–2			45–5
31 Aug	Austria	3–0	West Germany	15–10	15–7	15–0			45–17
31 Aug	Poland	3–1	China	17–15	14–16	15–6	15–6		61–43
1 Sep	China	3–0	West Germany	15–1	15–3	15–2			45–6
1 Sep	Poland	3–0	Austria	15–5	15–3	15–1			45–9

Pool C[]

		Pts	Matches		Sets			Points
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Czechoslovakia	4	2	0	6	0	MAX	90	13	6.923
2	Netherlands	3	1	1	3	3	1.000	52	67	0.776
3	Belgium	2	0	2	0	6	0.000	28	90	0.311

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
30 Aug	Czechoslovakia	3–0	Belgium	15–1	15–1	15–4			45–6
31 Aug	Netherlands	3–0	Belgium	15–10	15–7	15–5			45–22
1 Sep	Czechoslovakia	3–0	Netherlands	15–3	15–4	15–0			45–7

Pool D[]

		Pts	Matches		Sets			Points
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Bulgaria	4	2	0	6	1	6.000	104	59	1.763
2	East Germany	3	1	1	3	3	1.000	66	81	0.815
3	France	2	0	2	1	6	0.167	74	104	0.712

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
30 Aug	East Germany	3–0	France	15–13	15–11	15–12			45–36
31 Aug	Bulgaria	3–1	France	15–3	15–8	14–16	15–11		59–38
1 Sep	Bulgaria	3–0	East Germany	15–7	15–7	15–7			45–21

Pool E[]

		Pts	Matches		Sets			Points
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Romania	4	2	0	6	0	MAX	92	54	1.704
2	North Korea	3	1	1	3	4	0.750	88	78	1.128
3	Brazil	2	0	2	1	6	0.167	55	103	0.534

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
30 Aug	North Korea	3–1	Brazil	15–6	11–15	15–3	15–9		56–33
31 Aug	Romania	3–0	Brazil	17–15	15–4	15–3			47–22
1 Sep	Romania	3–0	North Korea	15–11	15–11	15–10			45–32

Final round[]

The results and the points of the matches between the same teams that were already played during the first round are taken into account for the final round.

11th–17th places[]

		Pts	Matches		Sets			Points
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
11	Brazil	12	6	0	18	1	18.000	286	100	2.860
12	France	11	5	1	16	3	5.333	275	129	2.132
13	Belgium	10	4	2	12	7	1.714	233	206	1.131
14	Israel	9	3	3	10	10	1.000	215	216	0.995
15	Austria	8	2	4	7	12	0.583	183	227	0.806
16	West Germany	7	1	5	3	16	0.188	132	274	0.482
17		6	0	6	1	18	0.056	108	280	0.386

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
2 Sep	Belgium	3–1	Israel	15–9	17–15	5–15	15–11		52–50
2 Sep	France	3–0		15–1	15–0	15–1			45–2
2 Sep	Brazil	3–0	West Germany	15–1	15–0	15–4			45–5
3 Sep	France	3–0	Austria	15–6	15–6	15–4			45–16
3 Sep	Belgium	3–0	West Germany	15–10	15–2	15–8			45–20
3 Sep	Brazil	3–0		15–1	15–1	15–0			45–2
5 Sep	Israel	3–0	West Germany	15–11	15–7	15–3			45–21
5 Sep	Belgium	3–0		15–0	15–8	15–5			45–13
5 Sep	Brazil	3–0	Austria	15–0	15–6	15–3			45–9
6 Sep	Belgium	3–0	Austria	15–6	15–13	16–14			46–33
6 Sep	Brazil	3–1	France	15–13	17–15	14–16	15–6		61–50
8 Sep	France	3–0	Belgium	15–7	15–8	15–6			45–21
8 Sep	West Germany	3–1		15–5	15–13	7–15	18–16		55–49
8 Sep	Israel	3–1	Austria	5–15	15–3	15–8	15–9		50–35
9 Sep	France	3–0	Israel	15–2	15–11	15–2			45–15
9 Sep	Brazil	3–0	Belgium	15–5	15–10	15–9			45–24
10 Sep	Austria	3–0		15–3	15–9	15–12			45–24
10 Sep	Brazil	3–0	Israel	15–5	15–3	15–2			45–10
10 Sep	France	3–0	West Germany	15–4	15–5	15–5			45–14

Final places[]

		Pts	Matches		Sets			Points
Rank	Team		W	L	W	L	Ratio	W	L	Ratio
1	Soviet Union	18	9	0	27	2	13.500	439	218	2.014
2	Romania	17	8	1	26	11	2.364	510	382	1.335
3	Poland	15	6	3	22	13	1.692	461	386	1.194
4	Czechoslovakia	15	6	3	22	10	2.200	423	285	1.484
5	Bulgaria	14	5	4	18	14	1.286	390	359	1.086
6	China	12	3	6	14	21	0.667	366	446	0.821
7	North Korea	12	3	6	10	23	0.435	368	434	0.848
8	East Germany	12	3	6	13	21	0.619	337	451	0.747
9	United States	11	2	7	11	23	0.478	329	448	0.734
10	Netherlands	9	0	9	3	27	0.111	222	436	0.509

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
2 Sep	United States	3–0	Netherlands	15–3	15–6	15–9			45–18
2 Sep	Czechoslovakia	3–1	Bulgaria	15–3	7–15	15–12	15–12		52–42
2 Sep	East Germany	3–1	Poland	15–12	15–12	13–15	16–14		59–53
2 Sep	Soviet Union	3–0	China	15–8	15–0	15–9			45–17
3 Sep	Poland	3–2	Czechoslovakia	10–15	15–6	15–13	7–15	16–14	63–63
3 Sep	Romania	3–0	East Germany	15–6	16–14	15–7			46–27
3 Sep	North Korea	3–1	Netherlands	15–5	15–12	9–15	15–8		54–40
3 Sep	Bulgaria	3–1	China	8–15	15–5	15–5	15–12		53–37
5 Sep	Soviet Union	3–0	North Korea	15–6	15–6	17–15			47–27
5 Sep	Bulgaria	3–1	United States	15–3	15–17	15–5	15–5		60–30
5 Sep	Czechoslovakia	3–0	East Germany	15–5	15–7	15–5			45–17
5 Sep	Romania	3–0	Netherlands	15–6	15–10	15–5			45–21
6 Sep	Poland	3–0	United States	15–4	15–10	15–6			45–20
6 Sep	East Germany	3–1	Netherlands	15–9	15–9	10–15	15–6		55–39
6 Sep	Soviet Union	3–2	Romania	12–15	11–15	15–6	15–12	15–8	68–56
6 Sep	Bulgaria	3–0	North Korea	15–9	15–13	15–9			45–31
6 Sep	Czechoslovakia	3–0	China	15–0	15–2	15–4			45–6
8 Sep	Poland	3–1	North Korea	14–16	15–8	15–10	15–4		59–38
8 Sep	Soviet Union	3–0	Netherlands	15–2	15–4	15–3			45–9
8 Sep	Czechoslovakia	3–0	United States	15–5	15–10	15–3			45–18
8 Sep	Romania	3–2	Bulgaria	10–15	13–15	15–9	15–9	15–8	68–56
8 Sep	China	3–2	East Germany	15–1	4–15	14–16	15–9	15–10	63–51
9 Sep	Czechoslovakia	3–0	North Korea	15–3	15–13	15–5			45–21
9 Sep	Soviet Union	3–0	East Germany	15–1	15–3	15–1			45–5
9 Sep	United States	3–2	China	10–15	10–15	15–12	15–8	15–9	65–59
9 Sep	Bulgaria	3–0	Netherlands	15–11	15–7	15–12			45–30
9 Sep	Romania	3–2	Poland	15–11	12–15	15–4	13–15	16–14	71–59
10 Sep	Romania	3–2	Czechoslovakia	10–15	11–15	15–6	15–8	15–13	66–57
10 Sep	China	3–0	North Korea	16–14	15–10	15–12			46–36
10 Sep	Soviet Union	3–0	Bulgaria	15–13	15–7	15–10			45–30
10 Sep	East Germany	3–1	United States	15–13	16–14	7–15	15–10		53–52
10 Sep	Poland	3–0	Netherlands	15–9	15–3	15–12			45–24
11 Sep	North Korea	3–2	United States	15–13	15–3	7–15	14–16	15–11	66–58
11 Sep	Romania	3–1	China	15–8	15–8	11–15	15–7		56–38
11 Sep	Soviet Union	3–1	Poland	15–4	9–15	15–6	15–6		54–31
12 Sep	Poland	3–0	Bulgaria	15–3	15–9	15–2			45–14
12 Sep	Romania	3–1	United States	12–15	15–2	15–4	15–3		57–24
12 Sep	North Korea	3–2	East Germany	15–5	5–15	13–15	15–8	15–6	63–49
12 Sep	China	3–1	Netherlands	15–3	15–11	12–15	15–5		57–34
12 Sep	Soviet Union	3–0	Czechoslovakia	15–13	15–8	15–5			45–26

Final standing[]

Rank Team  Soviet Union  Romania  Poland 4  Czechoslovakia 5  Bulgaria 6  China 7  North Korea 8  East Germany 9  United States 10  Netherlands 11  Brazil 12  France 13  Belgium 14  Israel 15  Austria 16  West Germany 17

1956 Women's World Champions  Soviet Union 2nd title Team roster , Ludmila Buldakova, Aleksandra Tschudina, , , , , , Lidia Kalenjik, , , , Head coach

References[]

External links[]

• FIVB Results
• Results - todor66
• Results^{[dead link]}
• Federation Internationale de Volleyball