The Second Volleyball World Grand Champions Cup 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 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, Osaka, Kyōbashi area of Osaka, Japan. The hall opened in 1983 and can seat up to 16,000 people. Built on a site area of , part of its form uses stone walls, modeled after those of Osaka Castle ...

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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 ...

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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 t ...

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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 has b ...

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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 Suspended structure, suspension roof design. The arena holds 13,291 people (9,079 stand seats, 4,124 arena sea ...

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Results

Osaka round

Hiroshima round

Tokyo round

Final standing

Team Roster

Yelena Vasilevskaya Yelena Vasilyevna Vasilevskaya (; born 27 February 1978) 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 (Olympics; ) are the wor ...

, Natalya Morozova, Yelena Batukhtina,

Yelena Godina Yelena Mikhailovna Godina (; born 17 September 1977) is a Russian former 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 Olym ...

Yevgeniya Artamonova Yevgeniya Viktorovna Estes (, born 17 July 1975), née Artamonova (Артамонова), is a Russian former volleyball player who was a member of the national team and one of only two volleyball players (along with Sergey Tetyukhin) that compe ...

, Olga Chukanova,

Tatyana Gracheva Tatyana Aleksandrovna Grachova (; born 23 February 1973) is a Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the national team that won the silver medal in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. She also competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics The ...

Elizaveta Tishchenko Yelizaveta Tishchenko (born 7 February 1975; 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 (1996, 2 ...

, Anastasiya Belikova,

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, Irina Tebenikhina
Head Coach:

Nikolay Karpol Nikolay Vasiliyevich Karpol (; born 1 May 1938) is a Russian women's volleyball coach and a longstanding coach of the Soviet Union women's national volleyball team, Soviet national team (then the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics, Common ...

Awards

*MVP:

*Best scorer:

*Best spiker:

Regla Bell Regla Maritza Bell MacKenzie (born 6 July 1970) is a Cuban former volleyball player and three-time Olympian. While playing for the Cuban women's national volleyball team, she won the gold medal three times at the Olympic Games from 1992 to 200 ...

*Best blocker: Anastasiya Belikova *Best server: Natalya Morozova *Best digger: Hiroko Tsukumo *Best setter:

Taismary Agüero Taismary Agüero Leiva (born 5 March 1977) is a Cuban-born Italian volleyball player. She is the only player to have represented two women's national volleyball teams that won major titles (1995 FIVB World Cup, 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, 1998 ...

*Best receiver: Yelena Batukhtina

External links

Competition resultsOfficial WebsiteBest Players
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