TEAM COMPOSITION

CHN / China

Team manager	LAI Yawen
Coach	LANG Ping
Assistant coach	AN Jiajie
Doctor	WEI Yongji, WANG Kai
Physiotherapist	Brittni HSU

	No.	Name	Lastname	Shirt Name	Birthdate	Height	Weight	Spike	Block	Club
	1	Xinyue	Yuan	Yuan X.Y.	21.12.1996	201	78	317	311	Army
	2	Ting	Zhu	Zhu	29.11.1994	198	78	327	300	VakifBank Istanbul (TUR)
	3	Fangxu	Yang	Yang F.X.	06.10.1994	190	82	308	300	Shandong
	4	Zhou	Yang	Yang Z.	21.04.1992	187	71	308	295	Zhejiang
	5	Jingsi	Shen	Shen J.S.	03.05.1989	186	75	305	294	Army
	6	Junjing	Yang	Yang J.J.	15.05.1989	190	70	308	300	Army
	7	Qiuyue	Wei	Wei Q.Y	26.09.1988	182	75	305	300	Tianjin
C	8	Chunlei	Zeng	Zeng C.L.	03.11.1989	187	67	315	315	Beijing
	9	Xiaotong	Liu	Liu X.T.	16.02.1990	188	80	312	300	Beijing
L	10	Danna	Shan	Shan D.N.	08.10.1991	168	60	290	285	Zhejiang
	11	Yunli	Xu	Xu Y.L.	02.08.1987	195	85	325	306	Fujian
	12	Ruoqi	Hui	Hui R.Q.	04.03.1991	192	78	315	305	Jiangsu Volleyball Club
	13	Di	Yao	Yao D.	15.08.1992	182	65	306	298	Tianjin
	14	Ting	Qiao	Qiao T.	02.03.1992	189	66	315	315	Beijing
L	15	Zhan	Chen	Chen Z.	11.10.1990	180	65	300	295	Jiangsu
	16	Huimin	Wang	Wang H.M.	11.11.1992	184	65	305	298	Zhejiang
	17	Na	Wang	Wang N.	25.02.1990	178	63	305	295	Zhejiang
	18	Xia	Ding	Ding X	13.01.1990	180	67	305	300	Liaoning
	19	Jing	Li	Li.J	09.08.1991	186	73	310	295	Zhejiang
	20	Yanhan	Liu	Liu Y.H.	19.01.1993	188	75	315	305	Army
	21	Linfen	Zhu	Zhu.L.F	08.11.1989	181	65	305	294	Army

C=Captain L=Libero

Team profile

Last year’s World Grand Prix silver medallists will be hoping to go one better this year as the Chinese strive to restore their status as an international volleyball powerhouse under the talismanic leadership of Olympic Games hero Lang Ping.

Following her return for a second spell as team coach, Lang revamped the team and put her faith in young players, and her strategy paid off as the silver medal was their best World Grand Prix result since 2007. The team have twice won Olympic Gold gold medals, at Los Angeles 1984 and Athens 2004. In addition to winning the World Grand Prix in 2003, they have also triumphed in the World Championship twice, the World Cup three times and the Grand Champions Cup once.

Volleyball was the first sport at which China succeeded on a global scale and its cultural importance was never more evident than in the 1980s when it enjoyed huge popularity. Drawn in Pool C alongside Italy, Dominican Republic and reigning World Grand Prix champions Brazil, they will be seeking a return to the glory days of the 1980s under coach Lang, who was a leading star in that era of success.

Coach profile

Lang Ping signed up for her second stint as China’s coach last year and led the team to the silver medal in the World Grand Prix. In a glittering playing career, the ‘Iron Hammer’ was a key member of the Chinese teams that won gold medals at the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games, the 1982 World Championship and the 1981 and 1985 World Cups.

As coach, she led her country to bronze at the 1995 World Cup and silver at the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games. She became coach of the United States women’s team in 2005 and her charges claimed Olympic silver at Beijing 2008, famously beating China along the way. She was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2002.