Korean women’s volleyball suffered the humiliation of no medal at the Asian Games (AG) for the second time in history.
South Korea suffered a complete defeat with a set score of 0-3 (12-25, 21-25, 16-25) in the first match of the 2022 Hangzhou AG Women’s Volleyball Quarterfinals against North Korea held at the Changqian Campus Gymnasium of Hangzhou Normal University, China on the 4th.
Korea, which lost 2-3 to Vietnam in the second match of Group C, advanced to the quarterfinals with one loss. Because Vietnam won against North Korea that day, the only way to advance to the semifinals was to win all of the remaining matches between China and North Korea to스포츠토토 gain 6 points. They lost immediately in the match against China and failed to advance to the semifinals regardless of the remaining games.
Since 1962, when volleyball was adopted as an official sport in Jakarta AG, Korea has won medals in all but one competition (Doha, 2006). He won gold medals at the 1994 Hiroshima and 2014 Incheon Games. After 17 years, it ended up being a ‘no medal’ again.
It was a predicted fall. Korean women’s volleyball’s competitiveness in international competitions has fallen sharply after the ’empress’ Kim Yeon-kyung and Yang Hyo-jin and Kim Su-ji, who were part of the golden generation, returned the Taegeuk symbol. Following 2022, they suffered all losses in the 2023 International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Volleyball Nations League (VNL), and also finished in last place with 7 losses in the Paris Olympic qualifiers held in early September. Even on the Asian stage, it was relegated to being a ‘neighborhood book’. The gap with China, Japan, and Thailand widened significantly, and the team also struggled in games with other countries such as Vietnam. At the Asian Championships held in September, they finished in the lowest place ever (6th).
On this day, the possibility of victory in the first game of the quarterfinals of Hangzhou AG was low. China, the highest ranked team in Asia (6th), was the opponent. In the first set, Korea had an attack success rate of only 21.9%. There was no blocking. The second set was a close match until the score reached 20 points, but it collapsed after that. With the tide already turned, the third set was helpless.
South Korea will play the second round of the quarterfinals against North Korea on the 5th and then play for 5th to 8th place for two days starting on the 6th.
