HCMC – The Chinese team won the 15th Asian Junior Women’s Volleyball Championship, also called Salonpas Cup 2010, which concluded on Monday at HCMC’s Phan Dinh Phung Gymnasium.
China won the international youth volleyball tournament title after defeating archrivals South Korea 3-0 in the final game.
South Korea played well in the beginning of the first set but eight-time champions China recouped strongly to win the set 25-18. A stronger Chinese team dominated the next set with the score at 25-21 then again dominated in the third 25-17.
Former champion Japan overcame Thailand 25-22, 25-19, 26-24 to take number three place and Chinese Taipei beat Kazakhstan 3-0 to come fifth.
Third-placed Japan together with champion China and runners-up South Korea also secured three tickets for the World Youth Volleyball Championships 2011 in Turkey.
Meanwhile, hosts Vietnam finished eighth after losing to Indonesia 16-25, 19-25, 13-25. Vietnam needs to invest more in women’s volleyball if it wants to maintain its number two rank in Southeast Asia after their poor performance in the tournament.
The best player of the tournament was awarded to Liu Yanhan from China. The top scorer went to Park Jeong-ah from South Korea while Mari Horikawa of Japan won the best serve and spiker. Yang Zhou of China was voted the best blocker and his teammate Wu Bei the best setter while Sumiko Mori of Japan won best libero and Japanese girl Futami Azusa was voted the most beautiful player.
Fifteen countries and territories across Asia participated in the Championship including Australia, China, Chinese Taipei, Fiji, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, New Zealand, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand and host Vietnam.
The teams were divided into four pools and competed at Tan Binh and Phan Dinh Phung Gymnasiums from September 12 to 20. Groups played in the round-robin format with two top teams advancing to the next round.
The teams from Vietnam, Kazakhstan and New Zealand were in Pool A while Pool B comprised of top-notched Asian women teams - Japan, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka. Thailand, Fiji, Chinese Taipei and India competed in Pool C and Pool D had Iran, China, Australia and Korea.
This was the second time Vietnam has organized the event. The first time took place in Phan Dinh Phung Gymnasium eight years ago. Both were sponsored by Hisamitsu Vietnam.
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