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 Final ranking:
1. Lithuania
2. Italy
3. France
4. Poland
5. Estonia
6. Latvia
7. Czechoslovakia
8. Egypt
Results
Preliminary round
The preliminary round consisted of the eight teams being separated into
two groups of four. Each group played a round-robin format tournament,
with the top two teams in each group advancing to the semifinals and the
bottom two playing in the lower classification matches. Wins counted for
2 points, losses for 1 point.
Group A
1 Lithuania 3-0
2 Italy 2-1
3 Estonia 1-2
4 Egypt 0-3
Italy 30 - 20 Estonia
Estonia 44 - 15 Egypt
Lithuania 22 - 20 Italy
Lithuania 20 - 15 Estonia
Lithuania 21 - 7 Egypt
Italy 2 - 0 Egypt (withdrew)
Group B
1 Poland 2-1
2 France 2-1
3 Latvia 2-1
4 Czechoslovakia 0-3
France 26 - 19 Czechoslovakia
France 29 - 24 Poland
Poland 28 - 19 Czechoslovakia
Poland 32 - 25 Latvia
Latvia 44 - 11 Czechoslovakia
Latvia 26 - 20 France
Unfortunate to hosts, Latvia, they are classificated here third,
because of scores differences between France-Poland-Latvia, (Latvia has
-1, Poland +2 and France -1) and the next factor - points scored (Latvia
has 26, France 29).
Classification 5-8
The bottom four teams from the preliminary group faced off in the
classification matches.
Classification semifinals
Estonia 30 - 20 Czechoslovakia
Latvia 2 - 0 Egypt (withdrew)
7th/8th playoff
Czechoslovakia 2 - 0 Egypt (withdrew)
5th/6th playoff
Estonia 41 - 19 Latvia
Semifinals
The semifinals pitted the four top teams of the preliminary round
against each other. Winners advanced to the final, with the losers
playing in a match for 3rd and 4th place.
Italy 36 - 32 France
Lithuania 31 - 25 Poland
Bronze medal: France 27 - 24 Poland
Final: Lithuania 24 - 23 Italy
Rosters
1. Lithuania: Feliksas Kriauciunas, Pranas Talzunas, Stasys
Sackus, Juozas Zukas, Leonas Baltrunas, Zenonas Puzinauskas, Arturas
Andrulis, Leopoldas Kepalas, Pranas Mazeika, Ceslovas Dauksa, Leonas
Petrauskas, Eugenijus Nikolskis (Coach: Feliksas Kriauciunas)
2. Italy: Livio Franceschini, Ambrogio Bessi, Galeazzo Dondi, Emilio
Giassetti, Giancarlo Marinelli, Camillo Marinone, Sergio Paganella, Mino
Pasquini, Michele Pelliccia, Ezio Varisco
3. France: Pierre Boel, Robert Cohu, Jacques Flouret, Henri Hell,
Edmond Leclere, Henri Lesmayoux, Fernand Prudhomme, Etienne Roland,
Eugene Ronner, Marcel Verot (Coach: Henri Kretzschmar)
4. Poland: Pawel Stok, Michal Czajczyk, Stefan Gendera, Florian
Grzechowiak, Zdzislaw Kasprzak, Janusz Patrzykont, Andrzej Plucinski,
Zbigniew Resich, Zenon Rozycki, Jaroslaw Smigielski (Coach: Walenty
Klyszejko)
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