FIVB Women's VOLLEYBALL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2010JAPAN

The World Championship is the very first world competition created by the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the international governing body for the sport of volleyball. The FIVB World Championships are held once every four years to determine the world’s top volleyball team.

The Volleyball World Championships of men's and women's are the oldest and most prestigious international indoor volleyball competition and involve teams from more than one continent.
The men's inaugural championship was played in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1949 while the first women's championship was held in Moscow in 1952.

The Volleyball World Championships boast tradition and prestige on a par with the World Cup of soccer.
In 2006, Japan successfully hosted both the men’s and women’s FIVB Volleyball World Championship games. Japan hosted the FIVB Women’s Championships four times, of which the most recent two editions were held in successive years.
To participate in the 2010 Championships, 96 teams competed in the continental qualifying rounds, as compared to 77 in the previous edition, and 22 teams qualified. Of these, defending champion Russia and the host Japan will vie to become the world’s top team.

The FIVB World Championships, which are rich in history and tradition, surpass the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup from the perspective of rank and scale. The World Championships are surely the competition to determine the true international volleyball champion.