The 2015 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship was the eighteenth edition of the
Asian Championship, a biennial international
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 ...
tournament organised by the
Asian Volleyball Confederation
The Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) is one of five continental bodies of governance in volleyball. It governs indoor volleyball, beach volleyball and other disciplines in Asia and Oceania, excluding the transcontinental countries of Russi ...
(AVC) with
Chinese Volleyball Association
Chinese Volleyball Association (中国排球协会) is a national non-governmental, nonprofit sports organization in the People's Republic of China. It represents China in the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball and the Asian Volleyball Con ...
(CVA). The tournament was held in
Tianjin
Tianjin is a direct-administered municipality in North China, northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the National Central City, nine national central cities, with a total population of 13,866,009 inhabitants at the time of the ...
,
China
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from 20 to 28 May 2015.
Qualification
If there were fewer than 16 teams applied for participation, all teams compete in the tournament.
If there were more than 16 teams applied for participation, participated teams would be determined by:
– The host nation
– Top 10 ranked teams from the
previous edition
– Representatives from each of the five
Asian Volleyball Confederation Zonal Associations
Qualified teams
Pools composition
The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the
2013 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship. The host country and the top 7 ranked teams were seed in the
Serpentine system
The serpentine system, also known as snake seeding, is a method of organization used in competitions to define the seeded teams and arrange them into pools. The ''n'' ranked teams that will be involved in the tournament are distributed in ''m'' ...
. The 8 remaining teams were drawn on 11 February 2015 in
Bangkok
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, Thailand. Ranking from the
previous edition was shown in brackets except the host (who ranked 4th) and the teams who did not participate, which were denoted by (-). Japan played in the Asian Championship with their U-23 national team.
''* Withdrew''
Venues
Squads
Pool standing procedure
# Numbers of matches won
# Match points
# Sets ratio
# Points ratio
# Result of the last match between the tied teams
Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser
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Preliminary round
* All times are
China standard time
The time in China follows a single standard UTC offset, time offset of UTC+08:00, where Beijing is located, even though the country spans five geographical time zones. It is the largest sovereign nation in the world that officially observes only ...
(
UTC+08:00).
Pool A
Pool B
Pool C
Pool D
Second round
*All times are
China standard time
The time in China follows a single standard UTC offset, time offset of UTC+08:00, where Beijing is located, even though the country spans five geographical time zones. It is the largest sovereign nation in the world that officially observes only ...
(
UTC+08:00).
* '' The results and the points of the matches between the same teams that were already played during the preliminary round shall be taken into account for the classification round.''
Pool E
Pool F
Pool G
Pool H
Classification round
*All times are
China standard time
The time in China follows a single standard UTC offset, time offset of UTC+08:00, where Beijing is located, even though the country spans five geographical time zones. It is the largest sovereign nation in the world that officially observes only ...
(
UTC+08:00).
Classification 9th–12th
Semifinals
11th place
9th place
Final round
*All times are
China standard time
The time in China follows a single standard UTC offset, time offset of UTC+08:00, where Beijing is located, even though the country spans five geographical time zones. It is the largest sovereign nation in the world that officially observes only ...
(
UTC+08:00).
Final eight
Quarterfinals
5th–8th semifinals
Semifinals
7th place
5th place
3rd place
Final
Final standing
Awards
*Most valuable player
*:
Zhu Ting
*Best setter
*:
Shen Jingsi
*Best outside spikers
*:
Zhu Ting
*:
Kim Yeon-koung
*Best middle blocker
*:
Pleumjit Thinkaow
*Best opposite spiker
*:
Zeng Chunlei
*Best libero
*:
Nam Jie-youn
See also
*
2015 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship
References
External links
Official WebsiteRegulations
{{Asian Women's Volleyball Championship
2015
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Events
January
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2015 in Chinese women's sport
Asian Women's Volleyball Championship
The Asian Women's Volleyball Championship is an international volleyball competition in Asia and Oceania contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), the sport's continent governing body ...
International volleyball competitions hosted by China
Sports competitions in Tianjin
May 2015 sports events in China
21st century in Tianjin