The Second

Volleyball World Grand Champions Cup The FIVB Volleyball World Grand Champions Cup is an international volleyball competition contested by the senior men's and women's national teams of the members of ' (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The tournament was created in 1993 af ...

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volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

was held in Japan at 14 to 23 November 1997.

Teams

Squads

Competition formula

The competition formula of the 1997 Women's World Grand Champions Cup is the single Round-Robin system. Each team plays once against each of the 5 remaining teams. Points are accumulated during the whole tournament, and the final standing is determined by the total points gained.

Venues

Osaka-jō Hall is a multi-purpose arena located in the Kyōbashi area of Osaka, Japan. The hall opened in 1983 and can seat up to 16,000 people. Built on a site area of 36,351 square meters, part of its form uses stone walls, modeled after those of the Cast ...

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Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2. ...

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Hiroshima Green Arena is an indoor arena located in Hiroshima, Japan. The original arena was built sometime shortly after World War II. The arena was rebuilt for the 1994 Asian Games. It hosted some of the group games for the 2006 FIVB Men's World Championship and ...

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Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui h ...

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Yoyogi National Gymnasium Yoyogi National Gymnasium, officially is an indoor arena located at Yoyogi Park in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, which is famous for its suspension roof design. It was designed by Kenzo Tange and built between 1961 and 1964 to house swimming and d ...

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Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

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Results

Osaka round

Hiroshima round

Tokyo round

Final standing

Team Roster

Yelena Vasilevskaya Yelena Vasilyevna Vasilevskaya (russian: Елена Васильевна Василевская), (born 27 February 1978 in Sverdlovsk) is a Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the national team that won the silver medal in the Sydn ...

Natalya Morozova Natalya Igorevna Morozova (russian: Наталья Игоревна Морозова), (born 28 January 1973 in Sverdlovsk) is a Russian volleyball player who was a member of the national team that won the silver medals at the 1992 Summer Olympi ...

Yelena Batukhtina Elena Tyurina-Batukhtina (born 12 April 1971 in Sverdlovsk) is a retired female volleyball player from Russia who made her debut for the Soviet national team in 1989. She competed consecutively in four Olympic Games. She was part of the Soviet ...

Yelena Godina Yelena Mikhailovna Godina (russian: Елена Михайловна Година) (born 17 September 1977, in Sverdlovsk) is a Russian volleyball player, who was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at 2006 Volleyball World Cha ...

Yevgeniya Artamonova Yevgeniya Viktorovna Estes (russian: Евге́ния Ви́кторовна Э́стес, born 17 July 1975 in Sverdlovsk), née Artamonova (Артамонова), is a Russian volleyball player who was a member of the national team and one of ...

Olga Chukanova Olga Viktorovna Khrzhanovskaya (russian: Ольга Викторовна Хржановская, née Chukanova (russian: Чуканова) (born 9 June 1980 in Temirtau) is a Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the national team that ...

Tatyana Gracheva Tatyana Aleksandrovna Grachova (russian: Татьяна Александровна Грачёва, born 23 February 1973 in Sverdlovsk) is a Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the national team that won the silver medal in the Sydn ...

Elizaveta Tishchenko Yelizaveta Tishchenko (born 7 February 1975 in Kiev, last name also spelled Tichtchenko) is a retired female volleyball player from Russia, who made her debut for the Soviet national team in 1991. She competed in three consecutive Olympic Games ...

Anastasiya Belikova Anastasiya Aleksandrovna Kodirova (russian: Анастасия Александровна Кодирова), née Belikova (russian: Беликова), (born 22 July 1979 in Chelyabinsk) is a Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the nat ...

Natalya Safronova Natalya Safronova (born 6 February 1979, in Krasnoyarsk), is a volleyball player from Russia. During her time playing with the Russian club Zarechie Odintsovo, she won the "Best Attacker" award at the 2006–07 CEV Cup. On 3 December 2009 sh ...

Anna Artamonova Anna Artamonova (born ) is a Russian female volleyball player. She was part of the Russia women's national volleyball team. She participated in the 2006 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix The FIVB World Grand Prix 2006 was the fourteenth edition ...

Irina Tebenikhina Irina Tebenikhina (born 5 December 1978 in Fergana) is a volleyball player from Russia, who represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There she won the silver medal with the Women's National Team, for which s ...

Head Coach:

Nikolay Karpol Nikolay Vasilyevich Karpol (russian: Николай Васильевич Карполь; 1 May 1938) is a Soviet and Russian women's volleyball coach. Known as ''The Howling Bear'', Karpol was a regular at the Olympic Games, with his teams usuall ...

Awards

*MVP:

*Best Scorer:

*Best Spiker:

Regla Bell Regla Maritza Bell MacKenzie (July 6, 1970 in Havana) is a volleyball player from Cuba who won the gold medal three times at the Olympic Games from 1992–2000, and the World Championship in 1998 with the Cuban national team. Career She won thre ...

*Best Blocker:

*Best Server:

*Best Digger: Hiroko Tsukumo *Best Setter:

Taismary Agüero Taismary Agüero Leiva (born March 5, 1977) is a Cuban-born Italian volleyball player. She is the only player to represent two women's volleyball national team to win Major titles (1995 FIVB World Cup, 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, 1998 FIVB Worl ...

*Best Receiver:

External links

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