The final match for women's volleyball at the Paris Olympics, the 2024 Women's Volleyball World League, will kick off on the 14th. The Japan Volleyball Association recently announced the list of 14 Japanese players who will participate in the first stop in Turkey. According to the schedule, the Japanese women's volleyball team, ranked 9th in the world, will challenge the world's No. 1 Turkey in the first match on the 15th (early morning of the 16th Japan time).
The main attacker of the Japanese women's volleyball team, Sarina Koga
It is reported that the main attackers of the Japanese women's volleyball team are Captain Sarina Koga, Mayu Ishikawa, who grew up in the Italian First Division, and Ai Kurogo, who returned to the national team after 3 seasons. The setters are Nanami Sekina and Komi Iwasaki, a 35-year-old veteran. The secondary attack position registered 4 people including 22-year-old Sayaka Araki, and the liberty registered 2 people including Emi Fukuru. Compared to last autumn's qualifiers for the Paris Olympics, there have been some changes to the squad.
The players for the Japanese team to participate in the first week of the 2024 Women's Volleyball World League in Turkey have been confirmed. This includes 14 people, including Captain Sarina Koga and Masuke Ishikawa
As it stands, the host country, France, as well as the United States, Serbia, Brazil, Turkey, Poland and the Dominican Republic, have been sent straight to Paris. The highest-ranked team from the African region will also secure a quota place for the Games. As a result, there are only four places left for the women's volleyball team to be divided for the Paris Olympics, which will be allocated according to the world rankings after the three sub-tournaments of this year's World Women's Volleyball League. Japanese media said that because there are no countries in Asia and Africa that have direct access to Paris, the Japanese women's volleyball team, which did not have the right to play in the Olympic qualifiers, will qualify for 6 consecutive Olympic Games if it becomes the No. 1 Asian ranking after the three-stop tournament, or enters the top 3 in addition to the teams that have already won the Paris Olympics ticket.
The Chinese women's volleyball team in the game
The Chinese women's volleyball team, which is also looking forward to participating in the 2024 World Women's Volleyball League to catch the last train of the Olympics, is currently the biggest competitor of the Chinese women's volleyball team is Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and Canada. For the Chinese women's volleyball team, even if it fails to rank in the top four after the three sub-tournaments of the World League, as long as the points are pressed by Japan, it can still enter Paris as the highest-ranked team in Asia.
◇The Japanese women's volleyball team in Turkey is as follows.
▽ Main attack: Hayashi Kotona, Rina Kokan, Shinsuke Ishikawa, Risa Inoue, Huang Hou, Yukiko Wada
Komi Iwasaki, Nanami Uchina
▽ Secondary attack: Watanabe Aya , Yamada 200ka, Miyabe Blue Pear, Araki Sayaka
▽ Free people: Minami Kodami, Keimi Fukudome
◇The schedule of the Japanese women's volleyball team in Turkey
▽ 15th (2 am JST on the 16th) VS Turkey
▽ 16th (11 p.m. on the same day) VS Bulgaria
▽ 17th (8 p.m. on the same day) VS Germany
▽ 19th (11pm on the same day) VS Poland