{"id":53039,"date":"2020-07-06T18:41:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T18:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/?p=53039"},"modified":"2020-07-06T18:47:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T18:47:13","slug":"ding-xia-backbone-of-chinese-volleyball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/ding-xia-backbone-of-chinese-volleyball\/","title":{"rendered":"DING XIA: BACKBONE OF CHINESE VOLLEYBALL"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>Lausanne, Switzerland, July 6, 2020 &#8211; Ding Xia has been setting up China for triumphs for over half a decade, helping her team&#8217;s top scorers bring the points and keeping opponents guessing where the next attack is coming from.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old setter, whose career highlight has certainly been the gold medal at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, first became involved with volleyball in the youth categories of Hebei Volleyball, before moving to Liaoning in 2009 and staying there ever since, competing in the Chinese Volleyball League.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53044\" src=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/a.jpg 640w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/a-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/a-600x899.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Ding Xia in action at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, where she led China to gold.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ding was first called to the national team in 2014, ahead of the Asian Cup and Asian Games of that year, where she helped China pick up gold and silver &#8211; her first medals at international level. She was selected for the Dream Team of that Asian Cup as best setter of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Following the triumph at Rio 2016, Ding continued to mastermind China&#8217;s national team, including successes in the FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix, FIVB Volleyball World Grand Champions Cup, FIVB Volleyball Women&#8217;s World Championship and FIVB Volleyball Nations League, as well as back-to-back gold medals in the FIVB Volleyball World Cups of 2015 and 2019.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Ding Xia \u4e01\u971e - Best Setter | World Cup Dream Team 2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N-U_i5_FWhg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Adding to her personal individual awards, Ding was named on the Dream Team of last year&#8217;s World Cup.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Related links of AVC<br \/>\nAVC Website: click www.asianvolleyball.net<br \/>\nAVC Facebook: click www.Facebook.com\/AsianVolleyballConfederation<br \/>\nAVC Twitter: click: https:\/\/twitter.com\/avcvolley<br \/>\nAVC Instagram: click: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/avcvolley\/?hl=en<br \/>\nAVC Youtube: click: Asian Volleyball Confederation<br \/>\nAVC WeChat: Asian Volleyball Confederation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lausanne, Switzerland, July 6, 2020 &#8211; Ding Xia has been setting up China for triumphs for over half a decade, helping her team&#8217;s top scorers bring the points and keeping&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":53040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-volleyball-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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