Volleyball at the 1972 Summer Olympics was represented by two events: men's team and women's team.^[1]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	1	1	0	2
2	Soviet Union	1	0	1	2
3	East Germany	0	1	0	1
4	North Korea	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		2	2	2	6

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's indoor details	Japan (JPN) Masayuki Minami Katsutoshi Nekoda Yūzo Nakamura Tetsuo Nishimoto Kenji Kimura Yoshihide Fukao Yasuhiro Noguchi Jungo Morita Tadayoshi Yokota Seiji Oko Tetsuo Satō Kenji Shimaoka Head coach: Sasutaka Matsudaira	East Germany (GDR) Horst Peter Horst Hagen Siegfried Schneider Wolfgang Löwe Rainer Tscharke Eckehard Pietzsch Arnold Schulz Wolfgang Maibohm Wolfgang Weise Jürgen Maune Rudi Schumann Wolfgang Webner Head coach: Herbert Jenter	Soviet Union (URS) Yuriy Poyarkov Valeri Kravchenko Yefim Chulak Yevhen Lapinsky Vladimir Putyatov Viktor Borshch Vladimir Patkin Leonid Zayko Aleksandr Saprykin Yuri Starunsky Vyacheslav Domani Vladimir Kondra Head coach: Yuri Chesnokov
Women's indoor details	Soviet Union (URS) Lyudmila Buldakova Lyubov Tyurina Vera Galushka-Duyunova Lyudmila Borozna Tatyana Sarycheva Nina Smoleyeva Tatyana Ponyayeva-Tretyakova Rosa Salikhova Inna Ryskal Nataliya Kudreva Galina Leontyeva Tatyana Gonobobleva Head coach: Givi Akhvlediani	Japan (JPN) Katsumi Matsumura Noriko Yamashita Toyoko Iwahara Takako Iida Sumie Oinuma Makiko Furukawa Keiko Hama Seiko Shimakage Yaeko Yamazaki Michiko Shiokawa Mariko Okamoto Takako Shirai Head coach: Kōji Kojima	North Korea (PRK) Ryom Chun-ja Kim Su-dae Ri Chun-ok Paek Myong-suk Jong Ok-jin Kim Myong-suk Jang Ok-rim Kim Yeun-ja Kim Zung-bok Kang Ok-sun Hwang He-Suk Head coach:

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