Both Korean men and women are struggling due to weakened power… Struggling to get a medal
In the men’s division, veteran setter Han was urgently deployed… Women’s division declines after Kim Yeon-kyung’s retirement
Women’s national volleyball team opens training at Jincheon Athletes’ Village
(Jincheon = Yonhap News) Reporter Cheon Gyeong-hwan = On the 17th, about a month before the 19th Hangzhou Asian Games, players of the women’s national volleyball team are training publicly at the Jincheon Athletes’ Village in North Chungcheong Province. 2023.8.17 kw@yna.co.kr
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Han Nam-jik = Volleyball is the first Korean ball game to reach a global level.
Women’s volleyball won a bronze medal at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, becoming the first ball game to win an Olympic medal in Korean sports history.
They succeeded in advancing to the semifinals of the Olympic Games in London in 2012 and Tokyo in 2021.
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Men’s volleyball also surprised the world by reaching the semifinals of the 1978 World Championships in Italy.
However, both men and women are now in a position where they cannot be confident of winning a medal at the Asian Games.
‘Six-a-side volleyball’ as it is today became an official event in the Asian Games starting with the 1958 Tokyo Games for the men’s team and the 1962 Jakarta Games for the women’s team.
Korean men’s volleyball has reached the podium in 14 consecutive tournaments, from the 1966 Bangkok Tournament to the 2018 Jakarta/Palembang Tournament.
He won gold medals in Bangkok in 1978, Busan in 2002, and Doha in 2006. He took second place seven times and third place four times.
At the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang competition, he won a silver medal.
Korean women’s volleyball finished fifth in the 2006 Doha Games, but won medals in all 14 other competitions.
He reached the top in Hiroshima in 1994 and Incheon in 2014, and added eight silver medals and two bronze medals. In 2018, it ranked 3rd.
National volleyball team training in public
(Jincheon = Yonhap News) Reporter Cheon Gyeong-hwan = On the 21st, the national volleyball team is conducting open training at the Jincheon National Team Training Center in North Chungcheong Province in preparation for the Hangzhou Asian Games and the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) Challenger Cup. 2023.6.21 kw@yna.co.kr
The outlook for the Hangzhou Games is very bleak.
Korean men’s volleyball ranks 27th in the world, fourth in Asia after Japan (5th), Iran (11th), and Qatar (17th).
In the 2023 Asia Challenge Cup, where Japan and China (29th) did not participate, they finished in 3rd place after losing to Bahrain (73rd) in the semifinals, and at the 2023 Asian Volleyball Championships, they ended up in 5th place after struggling, including losing to China in the semifinals.
Korean men’s national team coach Lim Do-heon attempted to turn the atmosphere around by including veteran setter Han Seon-su (Korean Air) in the Asian Games national team.
Player Han and experienced outside heaters Jeong Ji-seok (Korean Air) and Jeon Kwang-in (Hyundai Capital) will play a stable role, and young aposite spikers Heo Soo-bong (Hyundai Capital) and Lim Dong-hyuk (Korean Air) are expected to show their strength.
The fact that Japan, Iran, Qatar, and China will hold the Paris Olympic qualifiers starting on the 30th after completing the Asian Games schedule could also be good news for Korea. Korea, which did not qualify for the Paris Olympic qualifiers, is focusing on the Asian Games.
The Hangzhou Asian Games opens on the 23rd, but men’s volleyball, in which 19 teams participate, begins on the 19th and holds the final on the 26th.
The host country, China, adjusted the Asian Games men’s volleyball schedule in order to send the ‘first team’ to the Asian Games and Paris Olympic qualifiers.
Japan, Iran, and Qatar plan to field national teams with an emphasis on qualifying for the Paris Olympics.
The Korean men’s national team will play the Group C preliminary round against India (72nd) and Cambodia (ranking not calculated), and the top two will advance to the round of 12. Afterwards, the medal challenge begins in earnest.
Kim Yeon-kyung, Yang Hyo-jin, and Kim Su-ji taking a commemorative photo at the 2018 Asian Games (from right)
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The Korean women’s volleyball team continues to struggle as Kim Yeon-kyung, Kim Su-ji (Heungkuk Life Insurance), and Yang Hyo-jin (Hyundai Engineering & Construction) announced their retirement from the national team after the Tokyo Olympics.
The world ranking fell to 36th.
In Asia, there are four teams with higher world rankings than Korea, from China (6th) to Japan (8th), Thailand (14th), and Kazakhstan (33rd).
Korean women’s volleyball realized the harsh reality by finishing in 6th place at the 2023 Asian Volleyball Championships.
The Hangzhou Asian Games women’s volleyball, in which 13 teams will participate, will be held from the 30th to October 7th.
Korea, China, Japan, and Thailand will come to Hangzhou after holding the Paris Olympic preliminaries on the 16th to 24th.
China and Japan, who are holding the Paris Olympics preliminaries in their own countries, do not have a large physical burden. Korea and Thailand, who are holding the Paris Olympic qualifiers in Poland, also have to contend with ‘time difference’.
The Korean women’s national team, led by coach Cesar Hernández González, utilizes wing strikers Park Jeong-ah (Pepper Savings Bank) and Kang So-hwi (GS Caltex), and middle blockers Da-hyun Lee (Hyundai Engineering & Construction), Joo-ah Lee (Heungkuk Life Insurance), Ho-young Jeong, and Eun-jin Park (Kwan-jang Jeong). Challenge yourself to win an Asian Games medal.
The Korean women’s national team will compete in the Group C preliminary round against Vietnam (40th) and Nepal (ranking not calculated). The top two teams advance to the quarterfinals.
Beach volleyball, a two-a-side volleyball game played on the beach, will be held in Ningbo from the 19th to the 28th.
In Korea, Kim Myeong-jin and Bae In-ho (Yeongcheon City Sports Council), Lee Dong-seok and Kim Jun-young (Hwaseong City Hall) will participate in the men’s division, and Lee Ho-bin, Shin Ji-eun, Jeon Ha-ri, and Kim Se-yeon (Kyungil University) will participate in the women’s division.
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