Korea beat Thailand 3-1 to finish the rostrum
Jiangmen, China, July 9, 2024 – China had been topped champions of the twenty second Asian Ladies’s U20 Volleyball Championship following epic tie-break win in opposition to reigning and consecutive two-time champions Japan within the highly-anticipated remaining showdown on the Jiangmen Sports activities Heart Gymnasium right here on Tuesday evening.
The Chinese language turned the electrical ambiance of the gymnasium into one of many absolute pleasure with the dramatic 3-2 (23-25, 25-21, 25-17, 14-25, 15-10) victory in opposition to Japan within the gold medal match of the twenty second version of the championship that handed the host nation the thirteenth title with outstanding unbeaten file and made the house crowd of roughly 4,000 contained in the competitors web site erupted in celebration.
With the thirteenth title achieved on Tuesday evening, China had already captured titles in 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2024. Moreover, the Chinese language have already confronted off in opposition to Japan in 13 finals of this topflight championship and clinched eight titles, leaving Japan to take the remaining 5.
The China’s win was additionally a candy revenge for his or her loss two instances in succession to Japan within the earlier two editions. In 2018 in Bac Ninh, Vietnam, China misplaced to Japan in straight units within the remaining conflict and once more on the 2022 version in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, they went down in one other straight units to Japan within the upset showdown.
Within the Wednesday’s conflict, outdoors hitter Dong Yuhan delivered 20 factors from 13 kills, 3 blocks and 4 aces for China, whereas fellow outdoors hitter Li Chenxuan and reverse and skipper Wang Yindi added 16 and 12 factors respectively. Exterior hitter Miku Akimoto scored a match-high 26 factors from 25 kills and one ace on the Japan’s loss. One other two outdoors hitters Anna Uemura and Sae Omuri contributed 15 and 12 factors respectively.
The Chinese language dominated the blocking recreation, getting 14 stuffs to Japan’s six and did an excellent job of main their opponents in aces (10 to 2), beside benefitted from extra opponent errors (22 to twenty). Japan fared higher in kills (70 to 56).
The nine-day championship served because the Asian qualification event for the 2025 FIVB Volleyball Ladies’s U21 World Championship. As China, present world champions, have routinely certified, the remaining prime 4 groups in Jiangmen – Japan (second place), Korea (third place), Thailand (fourth place) and Vietnam (fifth place) will even qualify for the following yr’s world meet.
Within the bronze-medal match earlier, formidable Korea pulled off hard-fought 3-1 (25-21, 18-25, 25-22, 25-23) win in opposition to Thailand, the crew they misplaced 2-3 within the third-place playoff conflict on the earlier version in Kazakhstan two years in the past, within the bronze medal match on Tuesday.
The victory within the bronze medal match in Jiangmen introduced Korea again to the rostrum within the championship for the primary time since 2014 in Chinese language Taipei, after they claimed bronze following dramatic 3-2 win in opposition to Thailand.
Center blocker Lee Jiyun delivered 18 factors from 13 kills, 4 blocks and one ace for Korea, whereas Kim Sebeen and Lee Jua saved good firm to contribute 15 and 14 factors respectively. Warisara Seetaloed was the most efficient participant on this match, however couldn’t steer Thailand to the win. She scored a match-high 29 factors together with 26 assaults from 61 makes an attempt on the crew’s loss.
In the meantime, Fifth-Eighth place playoff matches got here to an in depth on Monday, whereas the classification spherical for Ninth-Twelfth locations had been utterly contested on Sunday.
Vietnam completed fifth place, whereas Chinese language Taipei led to sixth place. Kazakhstan got here in seventh place, with India in eighth place. Iran returned with the ninth, whereas New Zealand, Australia and Hong Kong China completed tenth, eleventh and Twelfth locations respectively.
The awards presentation and shutting ceremony came about shortly after the ultimate match on Tuesday evening. Newly-crowned champions China stretched their aura of invincibility to 13 titles, avenging Japan for his or her straight-set loss within the showdown in 2018 and 2022 respectively.
China took the Champions’ Trophy and gold medals.
Japan picked up silver.
Korea claimed bronze medals.
The person awards had been additionally offered to gamers with excellent performances, whereas the organisers offered China’s outdoors hitter and skipper Wang Yindi the Most Useful Participant recognition, a well-deserved reward for her top-level efficiency all through this very profitable competitors.
INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
BEST OUTSIDE HITTERS: Warisara Seetaloed (No.12 Thailand) and Li Chenxuan (No.5 China)
BEST MIDDLE BLOCKER: Chen Houyu (No.8 China)
BEST MIDDLE BLOCKER: Lee Jiyun (No.15 Korea)
BEST OPPOSITE SPIKER: Miku Akimoto (No.1 Japan)
BEST SETTER: Nina Kumagai (No.12 Japan)
BEST LIBERO: Solar Wanton (No.12 China)
MOST VALUABLE PLAYER: Wang Yindi (No.6 China)
FINAL RANKING
1. CHINA
2. JAPAN
3. KOREA
4. THAILAND
5. VIETNAM
6. Chinese language Taipei
7. Kazakhstan
8. India
9. Iran
10. New Zealand
11. Australia
12. Hong Kong, China
POOL RANKING 1-4
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