TEAM COMPOSITION

CHN / China - Team Composition

Team manager	Xu Li
Head coach	Yu Juemin
Assistant coach	Lai Yawen
Doctor	Wei Yongji
Therapist / trainer	Hu Jin (Also Deputy Team Manager)
Journalist

	No.	Name	Lastname	Shirt Name	Birthdate	Height	Weight	Spike	Block
	1	Yimei	WANG	WANG Y.M.	11.01.1988	190	90	318	305
	2	Yang	MI	MI Y.	24.01.1989	180	70	305	298
	3	Jie	YANG	YANG J.	01.03.1994	192	72	308	300
	4	Ruoqi	HUI	HUI R.Q.	04.03.1991	189	70	312	305
L	7	Xian	ZHANG	ZHANG X.	16.03.1985	167	57	290	280
C	8	Qiuyue	WEI	WEI Q.Y.	26.09.1988	182	65	305	300
	9	Junjing	YANG	YANG J.J.	15.05.1989	190	70	308	300
L	10	Danna	SHAN	SHAN D.N.	08.10.1991	168	60	295	285
	11	Yunli	XU	XU Y.L.	02.08.1987	196	75	317	315
	13	Zhou	YANG	YANG Z.	21.04.1992	187	71	308	295
	14	Liyi	CHEN	CHEN L.Y.	27.04.1989	184	75	310	290
	15	Yunwen	MA	MA Y.W.	19.10.1986	189	76	315	307
	17	Lei	ZHANG	ZHANG L.	11.01.1985	181	71	316	310
	18	Linlin	FAN	FAN L.L.	01.12.1991	190	77	316	301

C=Captain L=Libero

Team profile

As one of the top women’s volleyball teams in the world China’s recent results haven’t quite lived up to expectation. Under the guidance of Chen Zhonghe from 2001 to 2008, China won Olympic gold and bronze medals, and World Grand Prix and World Cup titles in 2003 before the former China junior women’s team coach Cai Bin came in from 2009, which saw China miss out on their first ever World Grand Champions Cup after a surprise loss to Thailand in the Asia Continental Championship final.

In 2010 Wang Baoquan was the new coach for the World Grand Prix, where China, featuring many new faces, finished fourth. But the lack of recent coaching consistency continued when Baoquan stood down for health reasons, making Yu Juemin China’s third coach in 18 months. Although the changes at the helm have proved unsettling, the two-time world champions have class and with Wang Yimei, a player of devastating attacking quality.

In 2010, China won the Asian Champions Cup and the Asian Games but this was offset by a disappointing 10th place finish at the Women’s World Championship. In 2011, China called in a number of new players looking to carry forward the older generation’s mantra of working hard to strive for success but their eighth place finish in the World Grand Prix means there is still plenty of work to do.

Coach profile

Yu Juemin is a former player who competed at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games before turning his hand to coaching in 1989 with Zhejiang, leading them to the 1994 China Championship. From 2001 to 2004, he was assistant coach of the Chinese men’s team, after which he moved to a similar position with the women’s team, working with them at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. In August 2010 he was named coach of the Chinese women’s team and since then he has led them to 10th at the FIVB World Championship and eighth at the FIVB World Grand Prix 2011.