Bangkok, Thailand, June 20, 2024 – With the AVC Continental Cup Semifinals coming to an finish on Tuesday, the main focus now turns to the Finals, that are set to get underway from June 21 to 23 on the similar competitors venue at Ningbo Banbianshan Seaside Volleyball Heart in Ningbo, Xiangshan, China.
The highly-anticipated AVC Continental Cup Finals, which function the final cease for Asian qualification to qualify one crew (Nationwide Federation) apiece in every gender to the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games, function eight elite groups apiece within the males’s and ladies’s occasions.
Groups (NFs) certified for the boys’s occasion comprised hosts China, defending champions Australia and winners from 5 zones consisting of Indonesia (Southeast Asia), Iran (Central Zone), Japan (Jap Zone), New Zealand (Oceania) and Qatar (Western Zone) and Oman, the eventual winners from the Semifinals.
Within the ladies’s occasion, the certified groups function hosts and defending champions China and winners from 5 zones that includes Japan (Jap Zone), Kazakhstan (Central Zone), Lebanon (Western Zone), New Zealand (Oceania) and Thailand (Southeast Asia). Indonesia and Vanuatu, which completed high two groups from the ladies’s Semifinals a pair days in the past, fully filed out the ladies’s checklist.
On Friday, the primary day of the boys’s knock-out part, high seeds China, led by veterans Ha Likejiang/Wu Jiaxin, silver medallists on the rescheduled Hangzhou Asian Video games in 2023, tackle eighth seeds Oman, which dashed Thailand’s excessive hopes on advancing to the Finals that they had been by way of earlier than on the 2020 version.
Fourth seeds Japan play fifth seeds Iran, second seeds Australia, having achieved their best-ever outcome on the Volleyball World Seaside Professional Tour with a fourth place end on the Problem occasion in Chiang Mai, Thailand in 2022 and who claimed gold on the 2023 Penghu Open in Chinese language Taipei, struggle it out with seventh seeds Qatar and third seeds New Zealand problem sixth seeds Indonesia.
The ladies’s elimination spherical on the identical day sees second seeds Japan battle it out with seventh seeds Indonesia, third seeds Thailand, strengthened by Taravadee naraphornrapat/worapeerachayakorn kongphopsarutawadee, gold medallists on the 2021 Asian Championship and silver medallists on the 2023 version, face sixth seeds Kazakhstan, fourth seeds New Zealand tackle fifth seeds Vanuatu and high seeds China battle it out with eighth seeds Lebanon.
To make sure that all is about for the top-tier competitors, the Basic Technical Assembly was held on Thursday in Yixian Corridor inside Employee’s Banbianshan Resort, with Mr Xiang Qian, Director of Seaside Volleyball from China Volleyball Affiliation and Member of the AVC Seaside Volleyball Committee, presiding and Technical Delegate Mr Srinivasan Jayaraman from India and Referee Delegate Ms Mariko Satomi conducting the groups’ briefing.
Additionally in attendance have been Ms Nattalida Sumdangdech from AVC Seaside Volleyball Division and crew officers and gamers from all taking part groups.
Mr Xiang on Thursday welcomed all members to the AVC Continental Cup Finals, wishing them the easiest of luck within the three-day occasion and a pleasant keep in Ningbo, China. Mr Srinivasan knowledgeable the assembly of the technical and administrative preparations for the conduct of the competitors in addition to related points, whereas Ms Mariko raised the matters on refereeing issues.
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