Serbia Wins 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championship
World Championship is a very important event in the world of women’s volleyball. The 2018 World Women’s Volleyball Championship began on September 29 and lasted till October 20 in 2018. The tournament took place in six cities of Japan: Hamamatsu, Kobe, Nagoya, Osaka, Sapporo and Yokohama.
The 2018 World Women’s Volleyball Championship has brought together the best 24 women’s national volleyball teams. Among the 24 teams that have participated in the tournament are: Argentina, Japan, United States, Serbia, Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, South Korea, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Canada, Cuba, Cameroon, Kenya, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico as well as Trinidad and Tobago.
The 2018 World Women’s Volleyball Championship is over and the winner is Serbia (Gold medal). Italy took the 2-nd place (Silver medal). China took the 3-rd place (Bronze medal). Netherlands and United States took 4-th and 5-th places respectively.
It’s worth noting that Serbia won the gold at the FIVB world women’s volleyball tournament for the first time in the history of volleyball. This blog post concentrates on the 2018 World Women’s Volleyball Championship. Below, we’ll tell you exactly how the Serbia women’s national volleyball team won the title.
Pools Composition of the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championship
Initially, all 24 teams were divided into 4 pools – Pool A, Pool B, Pool C and Pool D. Serbia women’s national volleyball team was selected to play in Pool D together with other 5 teams such as Brazil, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Kazakhstan and Kenya.
The 1-st Round of the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championship
The Serbia women’s national volleyball team started the competitions very well. During the 1-st round of the 2018 FIVB volleyball women’s world championship Serbia won 5 matches.
Serbia has beaten Dominican Republic 3 – 0 (set 1: 25 – 17, set 2: 25 – 20, set 3: 25 – 22, total: 75 – 59); Serbia has beaten Brazil 3 – 0 (set 1: 25 – 21, set 2: 25 – 18, set 3: 25 – 19, total: 75 – 58); Serbia has beaten Kenya 3 – 0 ( set 1: 25 – 16, set 2: 25 – 9, set 3: 25 – 8, total: 75 – 33); Serbia has beaten Kazakhstan (set 1: 25 – 18, set 2: 25 – 16, set 3: 25 – 13, total: 75 – 47) and Serbia has beaten Puerto Rico 3 – 0 (set 1: 25 – 23, set 2: 25 – 17, set 3: 27 – 25, total: 77 – 65). As a result, the Serbia women’s national volleyball team finished Pool D with the 1-st place.
The 2-nd Round of the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championship
During the 2-nd round of the 2018 FIVB volleyball women’s world championship Serbia played in Pool E together with other 7 teams such as Brazil, Dominican Republic, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands and Puerto Rico.
Serbia has defeated Mexico 3 – 0 (set 1: 25 – 19, set 2: 25 – 17, set 3: 25 – 15, total: 75 – 51); Serbia has defeated Germany 3 – 0 (set 1: 25 – 14, set 2: 25 – 20, set 3: 25 – 20, total: 75 – 54); Serbia lost to Japan 1 – 3 (set 1: 25 – 11, set 2: 23 – 25, set 3: 23 – 25, set 4: 25 – 13, total: 90 – 94) and Serbia lost to Netherland 0 – 3 (set 1: 16 – 25, set 2: 12 – 25, set 3: 20 – 25, total: 75 – 48). As a result, the Serbia women’s national volleyball team finished Pool E with the 3-rd place.
The 3-rd Round of the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championship
During the 3-rd round of the 2018 FIVB volleyball women’s world championship Serbia played in Pool G together with other 2 teams such as Italy and Japan.
Serbia has defeated Japan 3 – 0 (set 1: 25 – 19, set 2: 25 – 18, set 3: 25 – 23, total: 75 – 60) and Serbia has defeated Italy 3 – 1 (set 1: 25 – 21, set 2: 25 – 19, set 3: 23 – 25, set 4: 25 – 23, total: 98 – 88). As a result, the Serbia women’s national volleyball team finished Pool G at the 1-st place and reached semi-finals of the competition.
The Semifinals of the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championship – Serbia vs Netherlands and Italy vs China
The best 4 world’s women’s volleyball teams reached semi-finals of the 2018 World Women’s Volleyball Championship. These are Serbia, Netherlands, China as well as Italy. Serbia played against Netherlands and China played against Italy in semifinals of the tournament.
Serbia has defeated Netherlands 3 – 1 (set 1: 25 – 22, set 2: 26 – 28, set 3: 25 – 19, set 4: 25 – 23, total: 101 – 92). On the other hand, Italy has beaten China 3 – 2 (set 1: 25 – 18, set 2: 21 – 25, set 3: 25 – 16, set 4: 29 – 31, set 5: 17 – 15, total: 117 – 105). As a result, Serbia and Italy reached the final of the 2018 World Women’s Volleyball Championship.
The Final Match of the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championship – Serbia vs Italy
Serbia has defeated Italy 3 – 2 (set 1: 21 – 25, set 2: 25 – 14, set 3: 23 – 25, set 4: 25 – 19, set 5: 15 – 19, total: 109 – 95) in the final match of the 2018 World Women’s Volleyball Championship. As a result, the Serbia women’s national volleyball team won the gold at the 2018 World Women’s Volleyball Championship for the first time in the history of the volleyball sport. Italy won the Silver medal.
The 3-rd Place Match of the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championship – Netherlands vs China
China has defeated Netherlands 3 – 0 (set 1: 21 – 25, set 2: 25 – 14, set 3: 23 – 25, set 4: 25 – 19, set 5: 15 – 12, total: 75 – 55) in the 3-rd place match of the 2018 World Women’s Volleyball Championship. As a result, China won the bronze medal at the 2018 World Women’s Volleyball Championship.
The 5-th Place Match of the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women’s World Championship – Unites States vs Japan
The United States has defeated Japan 3 – 1 (set 1: 25 – 23, set 2: 25 – 16, set 3: 23 – 25, set 4: 25 – 23, total: 98 – 87) in the math for the 5-th place of the 2018 World Women’s Volleyball Championship. As a result, the United States women’s national volleyball team took the 5-th place at the 2018 World Women’s Volleyball Championship.
Serbia Women’s National Volleyball Team
As it was mentioned earlier, Serbia women’s national volleyball team is winning Gold at the 2018 World Women’s Volleyball Championship for the first time in the history of volleyball. If we take a closer look at the history of the team we’ll see that Serbia women’s national volleyball team also won Bronze medal at the World Women’s Volleyball Championship that took place in Japan in 2006. Plus, the Serbia women’s national volleyball team won the Silver medal at the Summer Olympic in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Among other awards of the team are: 1 Silver medal at the World Cup (in Japan in 2015); 3 bronze medals at World Grand Prix (in Macau in 2011, in Sapporo in 2013 and in Nanjing in 2017); 2 Gold medals (in Serbia/Italy in 2011 and in Azerbaijan/Georgia in 2017), 1 Silver medal (in Belgium/Luxembourg in 2007) and 1 Bronze medal (in Netherlands/Belgium in 2015) at European Championship.
Among the players of Serbia women’s national volleyball team, who have participated in the 2018 World Women’s Volleyball Championship, are: Ana Bjelica (opposite heater), Bianka Busa (outside hitter), Bojana Milenkovic (opposite hitter), Bojana Zivkovic (setter), Brankica Mihajlovic (outside hitter), Jovana Stevanovic (middle blocker), Maja Aleksic (middle blocker), Maja Ognjenovic (setter), Milena Rasic (middle blocker), Silvija Popovic (libero), Tijana Boskovic (opposite heater), Teodora Pusic (libero), Stefana Veljkovic (middle blocker) as well as Tijana Malesevic (outside hitter). The head of Serbia women’s national volleyball team is Zoran Terziс.
Thank you so much for reading this article. It goes without saying that Serbia women’s national volleyball team has done the fantastic job and has demonstrated excellent results during at the 2018 World Women’s Volleyball Championship. According to the top 30 rankings as of August 2017, Serbia has 272 points and ranks as number 3 in the list of strongest women’s volleyball teams of the world. Gold medal at the 2018 World Women’s Volleyball Championship is a big win for the team and, of course, it will have a huge positive impact on the team’s FIVB Word Rankings. Congratulations to the Serbia women’s national volleyball team!