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Chinanews.com, Beijing, August 25 (Reporter Xing Rui) On August 25, Beijing time, the 2024 U17 World Women's Volleyball Championship ended in Peru. In the final, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the Japanese women's volleyball team 3:0 and won the championship. The scores of the three games were: 25:19, 25:22, 25:18.

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The U17 Women's Volleyball World Championships started on August 17th, local time, with a total of 16 teams participating. The Chinese women's volleyball team, led by Zhao Yong, defeated Thailand, Turkey, and Ecuador in the group stage and entered the knockout stage as the first in the group. In the quarter-finals, the girls defeated Croatia and defeated Mexico in the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the Chinese Taipei team.

The Chinese team's opponent in the final is the Japanese team. It is worth mentioning that in last year's U16 Asian Championship, the Chinese women's volleyball team lost to the Japanese team in the final and won the silver medal. This year, the two teams, with last year's lineup as the team, met again in the U17 World Championship final. This time, the Chinese women's volleyball team did not let the championship slip away.

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Against the Japanese women's volleyball team, the Chinese women's volleyball team sent out main attackers Huang Yuexin and Sun Hongyun, secondary attackers Guo Zhongnan and Chen Xiaohui, opposite Yang Shuming, setter Zhang Zixuan, and libero Li Mingjing.

In the first game, the two sides exchanged blows, but the Chinese women's volleyball team got into the game faster. After establishing a leading advantage, the Japanese women's volleyball team called two timeouts when they were behind. The Chinese team continued to maintain the offensive rhythm and won the first game 25:19.

In the second game, the two teams were tied. After the score was tied at 6, the Chinese women's volleyball team scored consecutively, and the Japanese women's volleyball team requested a timeout. After the timeout, the Japanese team made consecutive mistakes, and the Chinese team scored multiple points in serving, attacking, and blocking, winning the second game 25:22.

In the third game, the Japanese women's volleyball team recovered, but the Chinese women's volleyball team changed its lineup to deal with it. In the middle of the game, the Chinese women's volleyball team was already 5 points ahead of their opponents. The Japanese women's volleyball team continued to chase points, and the Chinese women's volleyball team paused to interrupt the opponent's rhythm. After that, Yang Shuming and Huang Yuexin scored spikes and the Chinese team got the championship point. With the block points, the Chinese women's volleyball team finally ended the whole game with 25:18.

Screenshot of the FIVB website.

Technical statistics after the game showed that Yang Shuming was the top scorer of the game with 24 points, Huang Yuexin scored 11 points, Sun Hongyun scored 10 points, Chen Xiaohui scored 9 points, and Guo Zhongnan scored 2 points.

In this tournament, the Chinese women's volleyball team won all seven games, only losing one game against Turkey. Young players such as Yang Shuming, Huang Yuexin, and Chen Xiaohui performed brilliantly. Among them, Chen Xiaohui won the title of "Best Offensive Attack", Zhang Zixuan won the title of "Best Setter", and Yang Shuming won the title of "Best Opponent". She was also named the MVP (Most Valuable Player) of this tournament. (End)

(China News Network)