Volleyball at the 2006 Asian Games

Volleyball ; at the 2006 Asian Games
Venue	Al-Rayyan Indoor Hall
Dates	26 November – 14 December
Competitors	332 from 21 nations
Medalists
	South Korea (men); China (women)
	China (men); Japan (women)
	Saudi Arabia (men); Chinese Taipei (women)

Indoor volleyball was contested at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. All matches played at the Al-Rayyan Indoor Hall.

Schedule

P	Preliminary round	S	Second round	¼	Quarterfinals	½	Semifinals	F	Finals

Event↓/Date →	26th Sun	27th Mon	28th Tue	29th Wed	30th Thu	1st Fri	2nd Sat	3rd Sun	4th Mon	5th Tue	6th Wed	7th Thu	8th Fri	9th Sat	10th Sun	11th Mon	12th Tue	13th Wed	14th Thu
Men	P	P	P				S	S	S	S		S		S		¼		½	F
Women					P		P	P	P	P	P		¼		½		F

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	South Korea Shin Jin-sik Kwon Young-min Moon Sung-min Yeo Oh-hyun Song Byung-il Lee Sun-kyu Who In-jung Yun Bong-woo Lee Kyung-soo Kim Yo-han Ha Kyoung-min Chang Byung-chul	China Cui Xiaodong Yuan Zhi Guo Peng Wang Haichuan Tang Miao Cui Jianjun Li Chun Yu Dawei Shen Qiong Jiang Fudong Ren Qi Sui Shengsheng	Saudi Arabia Ahmed Al-Bakhit Naif Al-Buhassoun Yahya Hanash Ibrahim Al-Harbi Abdullah Al-Bahli Sharif Al-Khalifa Khalil Hajji Thamer Al-Dossari Khalid Ozaibi Ismail Al-Khaibari Masfer Al-Bishi Yasser Al-Makawni
Women	China Wang Yimei Feng Kun Yang Hao Liu Yanan Chu Jinling Li Shan Zhou Suhong Li Juan Song Nina Zhang Na Xu Yunli Zhang Ping	Japan Yoshie Takeshita Miyuki Takahashi Kaoru Sugayama Makiko Horai Sachiko Sugiyama Midori Takahashi Erika Araki Saori Kimura Shuka Oyama Mari Ochiai Akiko Ino Yuki Ishikawa	Chinese Taipei Yeh Hui-hsuan Lin Chun-yi Chen Hui-chen Chen Mei-ching Kou Nai-han Chiu Wen-ying Chen Shu-li Szu Hui-fang Lin Ching-i Tseng Hua-yu Wu Hsiao-li Juan Pei-chi


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	1	1	0	2
2	South Korea (KOR)	1	0	0	1
3	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
4	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	0	1	1
4	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 nations)		2	2	2	6

The draw ceremony for the team sports was held on 7 September 2006 at Doha.[1]

Due to scheduling conflicts with 2006 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, China, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan and South Korea alongside the host team Qatar qualified directly to the quarterfinal stage. The remaining teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2005 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship. India and Thailand, the next top two teams started the competition from the preliminary round.

* Withdrew.

The teams were seeded based on their performance at the 2006 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship.

The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2005 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship.

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