Volleyball at the 2006 Asian Games
Both indoor volleyball and beach volleyball was contested at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. All matches played at the Al-Rayyan Indoor Hall.
Medalists
Indoor
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men |
 South Korea (KOR)Shin Jin-sik Kwon Young-min Moon Sung-min Yeo Oh-hyun Song Byung-il Lee Sun-kyu Who In-jung Yun Bong-woo Lee Kyung-soo Kim Yo-han Ha Kyoung-min Chang Byung-chul |
 China (CHN)Cui Xiaodong Yuan Zhi Guo Peng Wang Haichuan Tang Miao Cui Jianjun Li Chun Yu Dawei Shen Qiong Jiang Fudong Ren Qi Sui Shengsheng |
 Saudi Arabia (KSA)Ahmed Al-Bakhit Naif Al-Buhassoun Yahya Hanash Ibrahim Al-Harbi Abdullah Al-Bahli Sharif Al-Khalifa Khalil Hajji Thamer Al-Dossari Khalid Ozaibi Ismail Al-Khaibari Masfer Al-Bishi Yasser Al-Makawni |
| Women |
China (CHN) Wang Yimei Feng Kun Yang Hao Liu Yanan Chu Jinling Li Shan Zhou Suhong Li Juan Song Nina Zhang Na Xu Yunli Zhang Ping |
 Japan (JPN)Yoshie Takeshita Miyuki Takahashi Kaoru Sugayama Makiko Horai Sachiko Sugiyama Midori Takahashi Erika Araki Saori Kimura Shuka Oyama Mari Ochiai Akiko Ino Yuki Ishikawa |
 Chinese Taipei (TPE)Yeh Hui-hsuan Lin Chun-yi Chen Hui-chen Chen Mei-ching Kou Nai-han Chiu Wen-ying Chen Shu-li Szu Hui-fang Lin Ching-i Tseng Hua-yu Wu Hsiao-li Juan Pei-chi |
Beach
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men |
China (CHN) Zhou Shun Li Jian |
China (CHN) Wu Penggen Xu Linyin |
 Indonesia (INA)Agus Salim Supriadi |
| Women |
China (CHN) Xue Chen Zhang Xi |
Japan (JPN) Shinako Tanaka Eiko Koizumi |
China (CHN) Wang Jie Tian Jia |
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China (CHN) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Indonesia (INA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Saudi Arabia (KSA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Total | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | |
Draw
The draw ceremony for the team sports was held on 7 September 2006 at Doha.[1]
Men
Due to scheduling conflicts with 2006 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, China, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan and South Korea alongside the host team Qatar qualified directly to the quarterfinal stage. The remaining teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2005 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship. India and Thailand, the next top two teams started the competition from the preliminary round.
|
|
|
|
* Withdrew.
|
|
- Quarterfinals
Qatar (Host) vs. 1st Preliminary – Pool B- Asia Rank 1 vs. 1st Preliminary – Pool A
- Asia Rank 2 vs. Asia Rank 5
- Asia Rank 3 vs. Asia Rank 4
The teams were seeded based on their performance at the 2006 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship.
| Team | Rank | Pts | PR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 8 | Asia Rank 1 | ||
| China | 17 | 7 | Asia Rank 2 | |
| South Korea | 17 | 6 | Asia Rank 3 | |
 Iran | 21 | 5 | 0.835 | Asia Rank 4 |
 Kazakhstan | 21 | 5 | 0.832 | Asia Rank 5 |
Women
The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2005 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship.
|
|
Participating nations
A total of 23 teams from 15 nations competed in men's beach volleyball at the 2006 Asian Games:
|
A total of 14 teams from 10 nations competed in women's beach volleyball at the 2006 Asian Games:
|
|
.svg.png){kind=small}
Final standing
Men
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
South Korea | 3 | 3 | 0 |
 |
China | 3 | 2 | 1 |
 |
Saudi Arabia | 8 | 7 | 1 |
| 4 | Qatar | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Japan | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 6 | Iran | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | Kazakhstan | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 |  Bahrain | 9 | 6 | 3 |
| 9 | Chinese Taipei | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| 9 |  India | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 11 |  Kuwait | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 11 |  Thailand | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 |  Hong Kong | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 13 |  Lebanon | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 15 |  Macau | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 15 |  United Arab Emirates | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 17 |  Maldives | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 17 |  Mongolia | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 17 |  Palestine | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Women
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
China | 6 | 6 | 0 |
|
Japan | 7 | 6 | 1 |
|
Chinese Taipei | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | Thailand | 7 | 3 | 4 |
| 5 | South Korea | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| 6 | Kazakhstan | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| 7 |  Vietnam | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 8 | Mongolia | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| 9 |  Tajikistan | 4 | 0 | 4 |
References
- ↑ "Draw for Asian Games volleyball competition". People's Daily . 8 September 2006. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
External links
| ||||||||||||||||
_pictogram.svg.png)
_pictogram.svg.png)