Chinese Taipei women's national volleyball team

Chinese Taipei

Association	Chinese Taipei Volleyball Association
Confederation	AVC
FIVB ranking	17 (as of 2008-01-05)
World Championship
Appearances	2 (First in 1990)
Best result	11th (1990)
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The Chinese Taipei women's national volleyball team is the women's national volleyball team of Republic of China (Taiwan). (See Chinese Taipei for team naming issue) Controlled by Chinese Taipei Volleyball Association, it represents the country in international competitions and friendly matches.

After 16 years since 1990, Chinese Taipei women's national volleyball team re-entered FIVB Women's World Championship in 2006. To everyone's surprise, the 23-ranked team gained their first-ever victory over the host Japan (7th) on the opening day^[1], followed by defeated South Korea (8th), Poland (9th), Kenya (11th), and Costa Rica (33rd) in the first round. However, after a good start of five consecutive victories, the team could not continue their impressing form and eventually took the 12th place.

In December, the same squad attended the 2006 Asian Games held in Doha, Qatar. Although the team lost to South Korea and China in the preliminary round, they later beat Kazakhstan and Thailand and won the bronze medal, the first ever medal in women's volleyball at Asian Games^[2].

Results

Olympic Games

• 1964 to 2008 — Did not qualify

FIVB World Cup

• 1973 to 2007 — Did not qualify

World Championship

• 1952 to 1986 — Did not enter or Did not qualify
• 1990 — 11th place
• 1994 — Did not qualify
• 1998 — Did not qualify
• 2002 — Did not qualify
• 2006 — 12th place

FIVB World Grand Prix

• 1994 — 12th place
• 1995 to 2006 — Did not qualify
• 2007 — 12th place
• 2008 to 2009 — Did not qualify
• 2010 — 12th place

Asian Games

• 1998 — 5th place
• 2002 — 4th place
• 2006 — 3rd place

Current squad

The following players were called up for 2006 FIVB Women's World Championship held in Japan and 2006 Asian Games held in Doha.

No. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 Yeh Hui-hsuan (葉慧萱) 1988-04-24 Chung Shan 2 Lin Chun-yi (林均怡) 1983-09-26 TPEC 3 Chen Hui-chen (陳慧貞) 1988-04-23 Chung Shan 6 Chen Mei-ching (陳美靜) 1985-05-19 NTNU 7 Kou Nai-han (顧乃涵) 1982-03-21 TPEC 8 Chiu Wen-ying (邱玟瑛) 1988-04-10 Chung Shan 9 Chen Shu-li (陳淑俐) (captain) 1977-12-28 TPEC 10 Szu Hui-fang (施惠方) (libero) 1984-01-29 NTNU 11 Lin Ching-i (林靜怡) 1985-11-20 NTNU 13 Tseng Hua-yu (曾華鈺) 1986-10-06 NTNU 15 Wu Hsiao-li (吳曉莉) 1983-10-11 NTNU 16 Juan Pei-chi (阮佩琪) 1983-08-10 NTUE

Head coaches

• Lin Kuang-hung (林光宏), ?-present

See also

• Chinese Taipei Volleyball Association
• Chinese Taipei men's national volleyball team

References

1. ^ "FIVB Women’s World Championship: Chinese Taipei shock hosts Japan on the opening day". FIVB. 2006-10-31. http://www.fivb.org/EN/Volleyball/viewPressDB.asp?No=11794. 
2. ^ "Chinese Taipei wins first women's volleyball medal at Asian Games". People's Daily. 2006-12-13. http://english.people.com.cn/200612/13/eng20061213_331840.html. 

External links

• Chinese Taipei women's national team at FIVB