China women's volleyball team began to take off under the leadership of Yuan Weimin in 1980s.
198 1 year, the third world cup was held in Japan. After seven rounds of 28 matches, China women's volleyball team defeated the defending host country, Japan, and won the championship, becoming the first world champion in three major events (football, basketball and volleyball) in China. Yuan Weimin, Sun Jinfang and Lang Ping were awarded the best coach, the best setter and the best player. In this game, the most classic game is that the Soviet women's volleyball team won with a score of 3-0 (the score is 15-4, 16- 14, 15-0), but the opponent didn't score a point in the last game, which happened to be/kloc-.
1982, China women's volleyball team participated in the 9th World Volleyball Championship held in Peru. 0-3 sets of preliminaries lost to the United States, and even fell into a qualifying crisis. Head coach Yuan Weimin decisively replaced young players Liang Yan and Zheng Meizhu with Zhou Xiaolan and Chen Zhaodi. As a result, China women's volleyball team defeated Cuba 3-0 and won the key battle to turn the tide. China women's volleyball team won the semi-final seats after beating Hungarian, Cuban, Soviet and Australian teams in straight sets. In the semi-final, China women's volleyball team defeated the former Japanese team 3-0 in straight sets, while the rival team USA was unexpectedly eliminated by the host team Peru. In the end, China women's volleyball team defeated Peru in straight sets in the final and won the world women's volleyball championship for the first time.
Although China women's volleyball team lost to the Japanese in the final of the Asian Championship on 1983, it is still the favourite to win the championship in the Los Angeles Olympic Games. 1984, China women's volleyball team participated in the Los Angeles Olympic Games held in Los Angeles. Although China's women's volleyball team was defeated by the old enemy American team in the group stage, it became more and more brave. In the end, China won the gold medal for the first time and won the women's volleyball championship three times in a row in the final.