The International Volleyball Federation released the latest issue of the women's volleyball world rankings, the Chinese women's volleyball team is still in the top three ranks, currently ranked 3rd with 350 points, the champion and runner-up of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the United States team and the Brazilian team ranked 1st and 2nd respectively, for this year's first international competition World Women's Volleyball League, each game may have different degrees of changes in the point rankings, the Chinese women's volleyball team only plays well in every game to maintain or rise the world ranking. The Cuban women's volleyball team, which has won eight consecutive world championships in the three major competitions, rose to 30th place.
In the latest edition of the world rankings, the top 10 points are: 1. The United States 379 points 2. Brazil 366 points 3. China 350 points 4 Turkey 331 points 5. Serbia 306 points 6. Italy 304 points 7. Dominica 303 points 8. Russia 278 points 9, Japan 266 points 10, Netherlands 265 points.
Although the Chinese women's volleyball team only ranked 9th in the Tokyo Olympic Games, and due to the impact of the epidemic caused by the suspension of the Asian Championships, there was no increase in points, so it is not easy to maintain the 3rd place in the past year, while the Asian neighbor Japan team has fallen to 9th, the South Korean team although it reached the semi-finals of the Tokyo Olympic Games, but the 2021 World Women's Volleyball League results are dismal only ranked 14th, and the Thai women's volleyball team ranks 19th. The 2022 World Women's Volleyball League will be a huge test for the points of the Chinese women's volleyball team, last year was in this competition, the Chinese women's volleyball team fell from the world's 1st to the 3rd, this year's competition if you can not win more games, the points ranking will inevitably decline.
At present, the gap between the top 4 in the world ranking is not large, the difference between each other and the team next to the ranking is less than 20 points, the main lineup of the US women's volleyball team may be retained, Baqi, Ogbogu, Washington, etc. are still the main force that impacted the World Championships and the World Women's Volleyball League championship this year, the only hidden danger is that the second setter Port is currently injured, I don't know if I can participate at that time. The golden generation of the Brazilian women's volleyball team really withdrew from the national team, and veterans such as Sierra, Taiza, and Figare will no longer represent the national team, but the young players Christina, Lorrenne and others have risen, plus Gabi, Biya, etc. Still have the capital to compete with the US women's volleyball team.
The difference between the 5-7 teams in the ranking is even smaller, Serbia, Italy, and Dominica have only a 3-point gap, and the victory or defeat of each game of the World Women's Volleyball League may cause a change in ranking. The Russian women's volleyball team, which ranks 8th, has not participated in the world league and the world championship because of the ban, and it is estimated that the ranking may decline significantly, and it is chased by many teams behind.
Former rival Cuban women's ranking rose 1 place to 30th, this "Caribbean black rubber" that competed with the Chinese women's volleyball team in the 80s of the last century, the world ranking was once ranked outside the 30th, not only in the world women's volleyball competition is not competitive, in the North and South American Caribbean region is often missed the top four, by the United States, Dominica far behind, but also lost to Mexico, Canada, Puerto Rico and other teams. The Cuban women's volleyball team is not without powerful players, Vargas, Carcasses, Silva, etc. are playing in the top leagues in Europe, Vargas has even been naturalized by Turkey, or policy problems have led to a serious loss of players, and the inability to retain talents has become the main reason for the defeat of the former hegemon.