FIVB Volleyball Empowerment supported Thailand earned the women’s volleyball bronze medals at the Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026. China celebrated the gold medals, while hosts Japan settled for silver.
The Thailand Volleyball Association has been granted a total of USD 420,000 in FIVB Volleyball Empowerment coach support for their national volleyball teams, in addition to USD 138,000 worth of volleyball equipment and another USD 6,000 for a national volleyball team coach development knowledge transfer program. Their women’s teams are working under the supervision of coaches Kiattipong Radchatagriengkai and China’s Feng Kun.
Thailand (pictured in the main photo; credits: AINAGOC) cruised through Pool C of the first stage of the women’s volleyball tournament held in Komaki and Okazaki with three straight-set victories – over Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan and Chinese Taipei – to top the pool strandings undefeated. They added another clean sweep in the quarterfinals – 3-0 (25-10, 29-27, 25-16) over Indonesia.
A five-set 3-2 (23-25, 25-21, 25-11, 26-28, 15-6) battle with China inflicted Thailand their first and only loss of the tournament. They bounced back with another shutout – 3-0 (25-20, 25-19, 25-23) against Korea in the third-place playoff – to bring home the bronze.
China also reached the semifinals on a perfect streak of straight-set victories – over the Philippines and Kazakhstan in Pool B, and over Vietnam in the quarterfinals. After dropping their only sets of the competition against Thailand, China mastered a 3-0 (25-19, 25-20, 25-23) sweep of Tuesday’s final against hosts Japan.
The home team beat Nepal and Indonesia in Pool A, and Chinese Taipei in the quarterfinals. After a 3-0 (25-20, 25-22, 25-16) shutout of Korea in the semifinals, they had to settled for silver.
Korea, Chinese Taipei, Indonesia, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Nepal, Kyrgyzstan and Qatar, in that order, lined up in the places from fourth to 14th in the final standings.
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