2006 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Total Report
8 Nov 11:00 South Korea 0-3 Serbia and Montenegro 23-25 19-25 22-25 64-75 P2 P3
8 Nov 13:00 Poland 0-3 Italy 19-25 22-25 13-25 54-75 P2 P3
8 Nov 15:00 Chinese Taipei 1-3 Turkey 17-25 16-25 25-21 75-96 P2 P3
8 Nov 18:00 Japan 1-3 Cuba 25-22 23-25 22-25 92-97 P2 P3
9 Nov 11:00 Poland 0-3 Serbia and Montenegro 15-25 22-25 14-25 51-75 P2 P3
9 Nov 13:00 Chinese Taipei 0-3 Cuba 21-25 20-25 14-25 55-75 P2 P3
9 Nov 15:00 South Korea 0-3 Italy 18-25 19-25 13-25 50-75 P2 P3
9 Nov 18:00 Japan 3-1 Turkey 30-28 22-25 25-21 102-91 P2 P3
11 Nov 11:00 Chinese Taipei 0-3 Italy 15-25 13-25 14-25 42-75 P2 P3
11 Nov 13:00 South Korea 0-3 Cuba 19-25 14-25 22-25 55-75 P2 P3
11 Nov 15:00 Poland 0-3 Turkey 18-25 22-25 19-25 59-75 P2 P3
11 Nov 18:00 Japan 3-2 Serbia and Montenegro 18-25 22-25 25-18 105-100 P2 P3
12 Nov 11:00 Poland 0-3 Cuba 18-25 26-28 23-25 67-78 P2 P3
12 Nov 13:00 Chinese Taipei 2-3 Serbia and Montenegro 22-25 26-24 25-19 101-108 P2 P3
12 Nov 15:30 South Korea 3-0 Turkey 25-14 25-13 25-22 75-49 P2 P3
12 Nov 18:00 Japan 0-3 Italy 17-25 26-28 23-25 66-78 P2 P3
Second round -- Pool E
venue : Nagoya Rainbow Hall , Nagoya Pts Matches Points Sets Rank Team W L W L Ratio W L Ratio 1 Italy ( I ) 13 6 1 568 448 1.268 19 4 4.750 2 Serbia and Montenegro ( I ) 13 6 1 628 563 1.115 20 7 2.857 3 Cuba ( II ) 12 5 2 578 532 1.086 17 7 2.429 4 Japan ( II ) 11 4 3 652 644 1.012 14 14 1.000 5 Chinese Taipei ( III ) 10 3 4 574 636 0.903 12 16 0.750 6 Turkey ( III ) 9 2 5 493 540 0.913 7 16 0.438 7 South Korea 8 1 6 552 592 0.932 8 18 0.444 8 Poland 8 1 6 524 614 0.853 5 20 0.250
The 2006 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship was the 15th staging of the FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The final tournament was held in Japan from 31 October to 16 November 2006. Japan played hosts for this event for the third time. The final four was held at the Osaka Municipal Central Gymnasium in Osaka. The finals involved 24 teams, of which 22 came through qualifying competitions, while the host nation and reign champion qualified automatically. Of the 32 teams, 16 had also appeared in the previous tournament in 2002, while Cameroon, Costa Rica, Kazakhstan, Turkey and Serbia and Montenegro made their first appearances at a FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship. Russia won their sixth world title, defeating Brazil in five sets at the final. Serbia and Montenegro won the 3rd place match, defeating Italy in straight sets Yoshie Takeshita from Japan was elected the MVP.