VOLLEYBALL TICKETS AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES 1972 IN MUNICH
added on May 6th, 2007
by Charly Biernat, Germany, & Günter Pilz, Guatemala
VOLLEYBALL TICKETS AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES 1972 IN MUNICH |
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added on May 6th, 2007 |
by Charly Biernat, Germany, & Günter Pilz, Guatemala |
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First some general numbers of the Volleyball tickets at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, 1972 |
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number of tickets printed (only Volleyball) |
117.880 | |
| free tickets | 4.175 | |
| tickets not sold (because the seats were directly behind columns, etc) | 4.424 | |
| total number of available tickets | 109.281 | |
| unsold tickets | 5.901 | |
| sold tickets | 103.380 (according to different information 103.348) | |
| total proceeds | DM 787.115,00 | |
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As early as 1967 the Giesecke & Gevrient company
contacted the Munich organizing committee. This company had already produced
the tickets for the 1936 games in Berlin, and was designing the tickets for
the 1968 Mexico games. In order to avoid the falsification of the tickets,
the company recommended the use of special watermarks in the security paper
(with metal threads), which were then used for the first time. Thanks to
these security precautions no counterfeit tickets appeared. The watermark (five Olympic rings and the year 1972), a strong metal thread in field 3 and a “Guilloche” used normally for banknotes in field 4 secured the high quality standards of these tickets. The tickets were produced in DIN A 6 format. The front side had four different fields: Field 1 (on the left hand side) was blue (with the exception of the opening and closing ceremony). It showed the name “Munich” and the place of the competition. A total of 23 venues can be identified. Field 2 was white and shows the five Olympic rings, the logo of the games as well as the logo of the different sports (21 different logos were used). Field 3, which is the biggest o the four, shows the date, time and a schematic representation of the venue. A total of 36 different venues exists. The Volleyball venue (Volleyballhalle Olympiapark) was identified by grey color. Field 4 shows a clock with the time of the event, as well as information about the exact location of the seat (in French, English and German) and the price of the ticket, followed by a code number, identifying each individual event. The color of field 4 depends on the weekday of the event. Seven colors were available, according to the following schedule: Sunday – grey Monday – yellow Tuesday – blue Wednesday – brown Thursday – turquoise Friday – green Saturday – violet The reverse side of the tickets showed a schematic representation of the venue and advertisements. Some tickets were overprinted (with black color): these were free tickets for students (“Schüler – Freikarte”, specially for events scheduled for the morning), for special guests (“Ehrenkarte”), and tickets for the press (“Presse”). Other tickets were overprinted in red color: Again tickets for special guests (“Ehrenkarte”), for participants of the games (“Aktive”), general free tickets (“Freikarte”), tickets for the judges (“Jury”) and for the youth camp (“Olympisches Jugendlager”). Some tickets could not be sold, because it was impossible to watch certain events from different locations, sometimes because of the use of television cameras etc. They exist with a special remark (“Sichtbehinderte Plätze – unverkäuflich”). |
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| The Olympic Volleyball tournament saw action on 13 days from Aug 27th to Sep 9th, 1972, according to the following overview: | ||
| Sunday, August 27, 1972 (grey color on field 4 of the ticket) |
 10.00 |
 14.00 |
 10.00 Ticket for special guest |
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| Monday, August 28, 1972 (yellow color on field 4 of the ticket) |
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| Tuesday, August 29, 1972 (blue color on field 4 of the ticket) | ||
| Wednesday, August 30, 1972 (brown color on field 4 of the ticket) |
 14.00 |
 19.30 |
| Thursday, August 31, 1972 (turquoise color on field 4 of the ticket) |
 10.00 |
 14.00 |
 19.30 |
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| Friday, September 1, 1972 (green color on field 4 of the ticket) |
 10.00 |
 14.00 |
 19.30 |
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| Saturday, September 2, 1972 (violet color on field 4 of the ticket) | ||
| Sunday, September 3, 1972 (grey color on field 4 of the ticket) | ||
| Monday, September 4, 1972 |
no Volleyball games were held on this day |
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| Due to the terrorist attacks all activity was suspended on Monday afternoon. 24 hours later the Olympic programme continued as planned with one day delay, i. e. the ticket of Sep 5 was valid on Sep 6 etc. | ||
| Tuesday, September 5, 1972 (blue color on field 4 of the ticket) |
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| Wednesday, September 6, 1972 (brown color on field 4 of the ticket) | ||
| Thursday, September 7, 1972 (women's final games) (turquoise color on field 4 of the ticket) |
 14.00 |
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| Friday, September 8. 1972 (green color on field 4 of the ticket) |
 19.30 Press ticket |
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| Saturday, September 9, 1972 (men's final games) (violet color on field 4 of the ticket) | ||
| That means that each colour exists from two different days, except for the violet version (Sunday), which exists from one day only. | ||
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| For an overview of all the results of the Volleyball games please click here: RESULTS | ||
| Thanks to Piet van den Berg from Holland for some of the scans for this article. | ||
A general article about the tickets at the 1972 games in
Munich (not only Volleyball) was published in German by the IMOS - group.
You can contact IMOS (Internationale Motivgruppen Olympiaden und Sport) by
clicking here:
 or visit their
website at
IMOS
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