So China and Japan qualified for the 2022 WCH, right??
From 44th AVC Board of Administration Meeting (Bangkok, Thailand : Tue August 24, 2021)
“Unfortunately, we have to cancel the Asian Senior Women’s Championship due to initially take place in Philippines in August. AVC Headquarters and Philippines had been instructed to move the Championship to October, but that period will be affected by the FIVB calendar. So, it seems that this year’s Asian Senior Women’s Championship may not be held and we decided to put the afore-mentioned Championship in May 2022 instead. If the COVID-19 is still there next year, we have to consider the event case by case if we can move on or not,” Dr Eom said.
Regarding this matter, AVC Executive Director Mr Shanrit, himself former AVC Sports Events Council Chairperson, explained the situation how Asian teams, according to the FIVB regulations, qualify for the next year’s World Championship as it’s likely that the Asian Senior Women’s Championship cannot be held this year.
“The first qualification for the next year’s World Championship is the Continental Championship. For men, AVC has no problem with qualification because Japan can organise the Asian Senior Men’s Championship this year, but for women, AVC cannot organise the Championship. Therefore, according to FIVB regulations concerning the qualified teams for the World Championship, top two teams of the Continental Championship of all Confederations will qualify. For AVC, in case that the Asian Senior Women’s Championship cannot be organised this year, FIVB Volleyball Department has proposed to use continental ranking to select the two qualified teams instead. The remaining qualified teams will then depend upon world ranking,” Shanrit was quoted as saying.
“Because of this, according to FIVB proposals, China and Japan are the top two teams qualified for the World Championship. In general, at this moment, another three teams, Korea, Thailand and Kazakhstan stand a chance to qualify via world ranking. AVC has to send the letter to FIVB within tomorrow (Wed August 25, 2021) indicating the two qualified teams and the proposal to organise the Asian Senior Women’s Championship in May 2022 in order that Asian teams can earn more ranking points for seedings or qualification for FIVB events next year,” he concluded.
The 44th AVC Board of Administration Meeting
And JVA said (August 26, 2021)
The current AVC continent as a participating team of the FIVB World Championship scheduled to be held in the Netherlands and Poland in 2022. The top two teams in the ranking, China and Japan, have been selected as representatives of Asia.
Announcement of postponement of the 21st Asian Women's Championship
AVC Senior Continental Ranking - Women