Membership World Championship hosts Tianjin accept historic silver; rookies Vero Volley declare bronze
Imoco triumph as 2024 membership world champions
Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano climbed again as much as the highest of the world! After profitable the FIVB Volleyball Girls’s Membership World Championship in 2019 and in 2022, the Panthers from Italy triumphed on the 2024 version in Hangzhou that got here to a conclusion on Sunday to gather their third world title in historical past in 4 appearances on the competitors. They earned this one in probably the most convincing of how, with out dropping a single set all through the event. In 2021, Imoco settled for silver.
Imoco’s Polish captain Joanna Wolosz rejoices with the Membership World Championship trophy and gold medal
This yr, the silver went to hosts Tianjin Bohai Financial institution and it was the perfect end result any Chinese language membership has ever managed to attain on the Membership World Championships. Tianjin’s earlier greatest end result was final yr’s bronze. One other Italian staff, Membership World Championship rookies Numia Vero Volley Milan, accomplished the rostrum, claiming the bronze.
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In entrance of packed stands of properly over six thousand followers on the Huanglong Sports activities Middle in Hangzhou, Imoco confirmed no mercy for his or her hosts and, spearheaded by their Swedish star reverse Isabelle Haak, hammered out a 3-0 (25-21, 25-15, 25-20) shutout in Sunday’s gold medal showdown to triumph as membership world champions, whereas dominating in all scoring components.
The unimaginable Haak was on fireplace all through the match and scored a improbable match excessive of 25 factors over the three units of the match. She led the way in which in assault with 19 spike kills, she led the way in which in serving with three aces, and with three stuffs in blocking, she was second solely to her teammate within the center, Sarah Fahr, who raised 4 kill blocks and fired one ace to complete with 11 factors. Enjoying in her native China, Imoco’s outdoors hitter Zhu Ting stroke 14 factors in assault, together with the match winner, whereas her cross-court teammate, Gabriela Guimaraes (Gabi) of Brazil, added one other 1o factors in direction of the victory. Tianjin had been led by Wang Yizhu with 13 factors and Li Yingying with 12.
Hangzhou 2024 membership world runners-up Tianjin Bohai Financial institution
Earlier on Sunday, Numia Vero Volley Milan made positive they adorned their Membership World Championship debut with a medal and shut out Brazil’s Dentil Praia Clube Uberlandia within the third place match, leaving their opponents off the rostrum once more. It was Dentil Praia’s second consecutive and third total fourth-place end within the historical past of the competitors.
On the way in which to an emphatic 3-0 (25-23, 25-16, 25-13) sweep, the Italian staff confirmed their superiority from the serving line with 9-1 in aces, in assault with 34-27 in spiking factors, and most of all, in blocking with 18-4 in stuffs. Vero Volley’s star reverse Paola Egonu led the way in which in all three of those components. She raised six kill blocks, fired three aces and hammered 13 profitable swings in offence in direction of a match-high whole of twenty-two factors. The one different participant to achieve the double digits within the match was her 20-year-old Serbian teammate, center blocker Hena Kurtagic, who put away 5 kill blocks and 5 profitable assaults. Dentil Praia’s most prolific scorer, American outdoors Payton Caffrey, completed with 9 factors.
Paola Egonu in assault throughout the bronze medal match in Hangzhou
Unimaginable Haak does it once more! Collects her third Membership Worlds MVP award
The Swedish star and one other six excellent gamers honoured on the Hangzhou 2024 Dream Crew
Swedish star and Italy’s Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano reverse Isabelle Haak was named the Most Invaluable Participant (MVP) of the 2024 FIVB Volleyball Girls’s Membership World Championship in Hangzhou, China. The 25-year-old 1.96m-tall striker claimed the Membership World Championship’s highest particular person recognition for the third time in her profession, after doing so in 2022 as an Imoco participant and in 2021 as a VakifBank Istanbul athlete as properly.
Haak additionally led a line-up of seven excellent gamers who had been honoured on the symbolic Hangzhou 2024 Dream Crew throughout a memorable awarding ceremony after the ultimate on Sunday:
Setter: Joanna Wolosz (Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano)
Reverse: Isabelle Haak (Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano)
Exterior hitters: Li Yingying (Tianjin Bohai Financial institution) and Zhu Ting (Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano)
Center blockers: Hena Kurtagic (Numia Vero Volley Milan) and Sarah Fahr (Prosecco Doc Imoco Conegliano)
Libero: Liu Liwen (Tianjin Bohai Financial institution)
Haak was Imoco’s main scorer on the Membership World Championship and total third greatest scorer of the event with 68 factors (52 spikes, 9 kill blocks, 7 aces) over the 4 matches she took half in. Above her in that chart had been Li Yingying with 104 factors and Vero Volley’s Paola Egonu with 89. Haak was additionally the third greatest server and the fourth greatest attacker of the competitors.
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2024 FIVB Volleyball Girls’s Membership World Championship: all outcomes
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