FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup
The FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup is an international volleyball competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of ' (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. Initially the tournament was played in the year following the Olympic Games, but since 1991 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup, 1991 the World Cup has been awarded in the year preceding the Olympic Games. The current champion is China women's national volleyball team, China, which won its fifth title at the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup, 2019 tournament. The historical format of the competition involves 12 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation Japan women's national volleyball team, Japan, competing in the tournament phase for the title at venues within the host nation over a period of about two weeks. The World Cup (with exception of the 2019 edition) acts as the first qualification event for the following year's Volleyball at the Summer Olympics, Olympic Games wit ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1973 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup
The 1973 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup, FIVB Women's World Cup was held on 19–28 October 1973 in Uruguay. It was the first edition of the tournament and is the only edition of the tournament to have been hosted by a country other than Japan. Results First round Pool A Pool B Final round Semifinals 5th–8th semifinals 9th place match 7th place match 5th place match 3rd place match Final Final standing External links Results {{DEFAULTSORT:1973 Fivb Women's World Cup FIVB Women's Volleyball World Cup, 1973 Women 1973 in women's volleyball, World Cup Women 1973 in Uruguayan women's sport, World Cup Women International volleyball competitions hosted by Uruguay October 1973 sports events in South America Women's volleyball in Uruguay ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Volleyball At The 2024 Summer Olympics
The volleyball tournaments at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris were held from 27 July to 11 August 2024. 24 volleyball teams and 48 beach volleyball teams participated in the tournament. Indoor volleyball competitions occurred at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles with the beach volleyball tournament staged at the Eiffel Tower Stadium in Champ de Mars. This was the first time in the history of the Olympic volleyball competition, each team participating in the Games was entitled to include one non-competing (AP) athlete to replace an athlete for medical reasons. As such, team rosters increased from 12 to 13 athletes. However, only 12 were considered as part of the team. Medal summary Medal table Medalists Beach volleyball Indoor volleyball Qualification summary Summary table Indoor volleyball On 6 April 2022, Fédération Internationale de Volleyball welcomed the International Olympic Committee's decision to approve several changes to the Olympic volleyball program and it ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1999 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup
The 1999 FIVB Women's World Cup was held from 2 to 16 November 1999 in Japan. The winner received a fast lane ticket into the 2000 Summer Olympics. Twelve women's national teams played at several venues across Japan. the teams were the hosts Japan, continental and vice-champions from Asia, Europe, NORCECA and South America, the African continental champion, and two wild-card teams created by the FIVB and the Japan Volleyball Association. Teams played a 66-game single-round robin format match, in two groups (site A and site B). Teams * — Host * — African Champions * — Asian Champions * — European Champions * — NORCECA Champions * — South American Champions * — Asian Vice-champions * — European Vice-champions * — NORCECA Vice-champions * — South American Vice-champions * — Wild-card * — Wild-card Squads Results First round Site A Venue: Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo Site B Venue: Okayama General and Cultural Gymnasium, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1995 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup
The 1995 FIVB Women's World Cup was a volleyball tournament held from 3 to 17 November 1995 in Japan. Twelve national teams played in cities all over Japan for the right to a fast lane ticket into the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, US. Teams * — Host * — African Champions * — Asian Champions * — European Champions * — NORCECA Champions * — South American Champions * — Asian Vice-champions * — European Vice-champions * — NORCECA Vice-champions * — South American Vice-champions * — Wild-card * — Wild-card Squads Results First round Site A Location: Tokyo Site B Location: Matsumoto Second round Site A Location: Fukuoka Site B Location: Fukui Third round Site A Location: Nagoya Site B Location: Okazaki Fourth round Site A Location: Osaka Site B Location: Kobe Kobe ( ; , ), officially , is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. With a p ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1989 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup
The 1989 FIVB Women's World Cup was held from 7 to 14 November 1989 in Japan. Teams Results Final standing Awards * Most valuable player *: Mireya Luis * Best spiker *: Mireya Luis * Best blocker *: Magaly Carvajal * Best setter *: Kumi Nakada is a former professional volleyball player and former coach of Hisamitsu Springs. She was a setter who led Japan to the bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles at 18 years of age. Coaching In October 2016, Nakada became the ... * Best defender *: Ichiko Sato * Best server *: Chang Yoon-hee * Best receiver *: Monica Lueg * Best coach *: Antonio Perdomo * Spirit of fight *: Mayumi Saito External links Results {{DEFAULTSORT:1989 Fivb Women's World Cup 1989 Women's Women's World Cup V V November 1989 sports events in Asia Women's volleyball in Japan ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1985 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup
The 1985 FIVB Women's World Cup was held from 10 to 20 November 1985 in four cities in Japan such as Sapporo, Iwamizawa, Fukuoka, and Tokyo. Qualification Results Location: Sapporo Location: Iwamizawa Location: Sapporo Location: Fukuoka Location: Tokyo Final standing Awards * Most valuable player *: Lang Ping * Best attacker *: Mireya Luis * Best blocker *: Gabriela Pérez del Solar Gabriela "Gaby" Lourdes Pérez del Solar Cuculiza (born 10 July 1968) is a Peruvian former volleyball player and two-time Olympian. Following her sports career, she entered politics and served as a Congresswoman of the Christian People's Par ... * Best setter *: Yang Xilan * Best server *: Sanae Mitsuo * Best receiver *: Ichiko Sato * Best Coach *: Deng Ruozeng * Spirit of fight *: Josefina Capote External links Results {{DEFAULTSORT:1985 Fivb Women's World Cup 1985 Women Women's World Cup V V November 1985 spor ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1981 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup
The 1981 FIVB Women's World Cup was held from 6 to 16 November 1981 in Osaka, Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea .... Teams Results Final standing Awards * Most valuable player *: Sun Jinfang * Best attacker *: Flo Hyman * Best blocker *: Yelena Akhaminova * Best setter *: Sun Jinfang * Best server *: Rieko Mizuhara * Best defender *: Miyoko Hirose * Best Coach *: Yuan Weimin * Spirit of fight *: Mercedez Pérez External links Results {{DEFAULTSORT:1981 Fivb Women's World Cup 1981 Women Women's World Cup 2 2 November 1981 sports events in Asia Sports competitions in Osaka Women's volleyball in Japan 20th century in Osaka ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1977 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup
The 1977 FIVB Women's World Cup was held from 8 to 15 November 1977 in Japan. Teams Results First round Pool A Pool B Final round 5th–8th places Final places Location: Osaka is a Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the List of cities in Japan, third-most populous city in J ... Final standing Awards * Most valuable player *: Takako Shirai * Best attacker *: Mercedes Pomares * Best blocker *: Cao Huiying * Best setter *: Noriko Matsuda * Best server *: Yumi Egami * Best defender *: Jo Hea-jung * Best Coach *: Shigeo Yamada * Spirit of fight *: Cao Huiying External links Results {{DEFAULTSORT:1977 Fivb Women's World Cup 1977 Women's Women's World Cup V November 1977 sports events in Asia Women's volleyball in Japan ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Uruguay
Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast, while bordering the Río de la Plata to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast. It is part of the Southern Cone region of South America. Uruguay covers an area of approximately . It has a population of almost 3.5 million people, of whom nearly 2 million live in Montevideo metropolitan area, the metropolitan area of its capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city, Montevideo. The area that became Uruguay was first inhabited by groups of hunter gatherer, hunter gatherers 13,000 years ago. The first European explorer to reach the region was Juan Díaz de Solís in 1516, but the area was colonized later than its neighbors. At the time of Spanish colonization of the Americas, European arrival, the Charrúa were the predominant tribe, alongside other groups such as the Guaraní people ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; ) are the world's preeminent international Olympic sports, sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a Multi-sport event, variety of competitions. The Olympic Games, Open (sport), open to both amateur and professional athletes, involves more than 200 teams, each team representing a sovereign state or territory. By default, the Games generally substitute for any world championships during the year in which they take place (however, each class usually maintains its own records). The Olympics are staged every four years. Since 1994 Winter Olympics, 1994, they have alternated between the Summer Olympic Games, Summer and Winter Olympics every two years during the four-year Olympiad. Their creation was inspired by the ancient Olympic Games, held in Olympia, Greece, from the 8th century BC to the 4th century AD. Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the Int ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2020 Summer Olympics
The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo was selected as the List of Olympic Games host cities, host city during the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 7 September 2013. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Tokyo Games were postponed until 2021 on 24 March 2020 as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the first such instance in the history of the Olympic Games (some previous editions had been cancelled but not rescheduled). However, the Tokyo 2020 branding was retained for marketing purposes.Multiple sources: * * * The events were largely held Behind closed doors (sport), behind closed doors with no public spectators permitted due to the declaration of a state of emergency in the Greater Tokyo Area in response ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship
The FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship is an international volleyball competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of ' (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The initial gap between championships was variable, but since 1962, they were held every four years. The tournament will be held biennially starting in 2025. The current champion is Italy, who won their fourth title at the 2022 tournament, defeating Poland in the final. The current format of the competition involves a qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase, which is often called the ''World Championship Finals''. The former format was 24 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation(s), compete in the tournament phase for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month. The 20 World Championship tournaments have been won by seven different natio ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |