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Volleyball<br />
The volleyball competitions at the<br />
Games were held from July 20 to<br />
August 1 in two indoor facilities of<br />
Lenin Central Stadium—the Minor<br />
Arena (8,300 seats) and the Druzhba<br />
gym (seating capacity—3,900).<br />
The playing courts had the Taraflex<br />
Sport-M covering, put out by the<br />
Bat Taraflex firm (France).<br />
The game arenas were equipped<br />
with a multi-purpose electronic<br />
scoreboard (Electroimpex, Hungary)<br />
with two demonstration panels each:<br />
in Druzhba—an electro-mechanical<br />
panel from the Fock Djem plant with<br />
twelve lines of 36 light planes per<br />
panel; in the Minor Arena—the VBKM-<br />
Villes scoreboard with 11 lines of 30<br />
light planes and a matrix last line on<br />
each panel.<br />
Immovable stands and judges'<br />
hydraulic chairs produced by the firm<br />
Schelde International (Netherlands-<br />
Belgium) were installed. VL—200-MS-<br />
Super Micasa balls produced by Myojuo<br />
Rubber Industry Co. Ltd. (Japan)<br />
and nets by ASIKS Corporation<br />
(Japan) were used.<br />
The FIVB Administration Council<br />
appointed 52 technical officials (referees,<br />
secretaries and members of<br />
special arbitration and other working<br />
FIVB commissions and juries of ap-<br />
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peal). They represented 22 countries,<br />
including the USSR (16 persons).<br />
Soviet auxiliary personnel numbered<br />
75 persons.<br />
The FIVB headquarters was<br />
housed in the Minor Sports Arena.<br />
As at the previous Games, 10<br />
men's and 8 women's teams (216<br />
players from 13 countries) took part in<br />
the volleyball competitions.<br />
The men's volleyball competitions<br />
consisted of preliminary, semi-final<br />
and final matches. The preliminary<br />
games were held in two groups of five<br />
teams per group—according to the<br />
round-robin system. Then the winning<br />
team from group A played the team<br />
which placed second in group B, and<br />
the winning team from group B played<br />
the team which placed second in<br />
group A. The winners of the semifinals<br />
met in a match for first and<br />
second places; the losing teams<br />
played for third place.<br />
The remaining teams of both<br />
groups also contested places 5-10<br />
according to the "criss-cross" system,<br />
The women's competitions likewise<br />
consisted of preliminary, semi-final<br />
and final matches. The preliminaries<br />
were held in two groups of four teams<br />
each. The tournament formula was the<br />
same as for the men's teams.
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