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1997 FIVB Women's World Grand Champions Cup
The Second Volleyball World Grand Champions Cup women's volleyball 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 (Osaka) *Hiroshima Green Arena ( Hiroshima) *Yoyogi National Gymnasium (Tokyo) Results Osaka round Hiroshima round Tokyo round Final standing Team Roster Yelena Vasilevskaya, Natalya Morozova, Yelena Batukhtina, Yelena Godina, Yevgeniya Artamonova, Olga Chukanova, Tatyana Gracheva, Elizaveta Tishchenko, Anastasiya Belikova, Natalya Safronova, Anna Artamonova, Irina Tebenikhina Head Coach: Nikolay Karpol Awards *MVP: Yevgeniya Artamonova *Best Scorer: Yevgeniya Artamonova *Best Spiker: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans an archipelago of 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated and urbanized. About three-fourths of the country's terrain is mountainous, concentrating its population of 123.2 million on narrow coastal plains. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions. The Greater Tokyo Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Championship in Japan and the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She also competed at the 1996 and 2008 Summer Olympics. She participated at the 2004 FIVB World Grand Prix. Notes *Height: 1.97 m *Weight: 73 kg *Shoe size: 47 (EU) / 14 (US) Honours * 1998 World Championship – 3rd place * 1999 World Cup – 2nd place * 2000 Olympic Games – 2nd place * 2002 World Championship – 3rd place * 2006 World Championship – 1st place * 2008 Olympic Games The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 In Volleyball
File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of the most observed comets of the 20th century; Golden Bauhinia Square, where sovereignty of Hong Kong is handed over from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China; the 1997 Central European flood kills 114 people in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Germany; Korean Air Flight 801 crashes during heavy rain on Guam, killing 229; Mars Pathfinder and Sojourner land on Mars; flowers left outside Kensington Palace following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in a car crash in Paris., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Titanic (1997 film) rect 200 0 400 200 Harry Potter rect 400 0 600 200 Comet Hale-Bopp rect 0 200 300 400 Death of Diana, Princess of Wales rect 300 200 600 400 Handover of Hong Kong rect 0 400 200 600 Mars Pathfind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIVB Volleyball Women's 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 after radical changes made on the biggest tournaments organised by the FIVB. The main goal was not to have a single year without two high-profile world-level volleyball competitions, alongside the pre-existing men's and women's world championship, men's and women's world cup and the volleyball tournament at the Olympic Games which are all quadrennial and the annual men's and women's Nations League. The World Grand Champions Cup is therefore played quadrennially the year after the Olympic Games and is always hosted by the Japan Volleyball Association. It does not give any points for the World Ranking. Brazil has been the most successful team in the men's tournament, having won five of the seven editions. Brazil has also finished ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taismary Agüero . In 1993 she won the junior women's volleyball world championship and then joined the senior national team. She did not participate in the 1994 FIVB Women's World Champion ...
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 World Championship, 1999 FIVB World Cup and 2000 Sydney Olympic Games for Cuba; 2007 FIVB World Cup for Italy). Life Born in Yaguajay in the province of Sancti Spiritus, when she began to play volleyball when she was eight years old. Two years later, she entered in the Cerro Pelado Training Center in Havana Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroko Tsukumo
Hiroko Tsukumo (born September 11, 1970 in Hiroshima) is a retired volleyball player from Japan, who competed for the Japan women's national team in the 1990s. She was named ''Best Digger'' and ''Best Receiver'' at the 1998 FIVB Women's World Championship The 1998 FIVB Women's World Championship was the thirteenth edition of the tournament, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB. It was held from 3 to 12 November 1998 in Tokyo, Tokuyama, Matsumoto, Kagoshima, Nagoya, Fukuoka, and Osak .... Tsukumo played as a libero. Individual awards * '' 1998 World Championship "Best Digger"'' * '' 1998 World Championship "Best Receiver"'' * '' 1999 FIVB World Cup "Best Digger"'' References Profile 1970 births Living people Japanese women's volleyball players Sportspeople from Hiroshima Asian Games medalists in volleyball Volleyball players at the 1998 Asian Games Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan {{Japan-volleyball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 three gold medals in a row at the Summer Olympics, in 1992, 1996 and 2000. She won two gold medals in a row at the FIVB Women's World Championships, in 1994, and 1998. She also won four gold medals in a row at the FIVB Women's World Cup, in 1989, 1991, 1995, and 1999. For the regular season of the 2008/2009 Spanish Superliga, Bell was elected MVP and Best Scorer after hitting 439 kills during that regular league. Bell played for São Caetano/Blausiegel in Brazil for the 2009/2010 season. She played for the Indonesian club Monokwari Valeria during the 2012-2013 season of the Indonesian volleyball league and later signed up for a two-month contract with PLDT HOME TVolution a Philippine volleyball team which participated at the 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 usually earning a last call on the Olympic podium, winning gold medals in 1980 and 1988 and taking the silver medals in 1992, 2000 and 2004 for a total of five Olympic medals. In 2020, he set a new world record by coaching Uralochka for 51 years. Honours Olympic Games (as coach): * 1980, 1988 – gold, * 1992, 2000, 2004 – silver. World Championships: * 1990 – gold, * 1994, 1998, 2002 – bronze. Championships of Europe: * 1977 (coach), 1979, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2001 – gold For lifetime dedication and great career, he was inducted in 2009 to the Volleyball Hall of Fame. Croatian journalist and publicist Tomislav Birtic published a book Karpol: Lunatics - That's What I Need. Honours and awards * Order of Friendship o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 she made her debut in 1997. Honours * 1997 FIVB World Grand Prix — 1st place * 1997 European Championship — 1st place * 1998 World Championship — 3rd place * 1998 FIVB World Grand Prix — 2nd place * 1999 FIVB World Grand Prix — 1st place * 2003 FIVB World Grand Prix — 2nd place * 2004 Olympic Games The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ... — 2nd place References Profile 1978 births Living people Russian women's volleyball players Volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 of the annual women's 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 oth .... On club level she played for Zareche in 2006. References External links Profileat ''FIVB.org'' 1980 births Living people Russian women's volleyball players Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Russian women 21st-century Russian women {{Russia-volleyball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 she collapsed during training after suffering a stroke. She was in coma for 18 days and only regained her speech a year after the incident took place. She continues to recover from the stroke with her volleyball career likely to be over. Clubs * Uralochka Ekaterinburgo (1994–1998) * JT Marvelous (1998–1999) * Uralochka Ekaterinburgo (1999–2004) * Zarechie Odintsovo (2006–2008) * Dynamo Moscow MGO VFSO "Dynamo" (russian: МГО ВФСО «Динамо»), commonly known as Dynamo Moscow (russian: Динамо Москва) is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. Founded by Felix Dzerzhinsky on 18 April 1923, Dynamo Moscow was the first ... (2008–2009) Awards Individuals * 2006–07 CEV Cup "Best Attacker" References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 national team that won the silver medal in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a multi .... External linksUralochka VC profile* 1979 births Living people Sportspeople from Chelyabinsk Russian women's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players of Russia Volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Russia Olympic medalists in volleyball Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics 20th-century Russian women 21st-century Russian women {{Russia-volleyball-bio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
