This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2015-09-15 08:21
Item from Sept 15, 1986, in China Daily: Chinese spikers are the queens of modern volleyball and they proved it beyond doubt when they retained the World Women's Volleyball Championships title here on Saturday night ...
The Chinese entered the finals by eliminating Peru, which finished third at the 16-team championships, while Cuba defeated the fast-rising German Democratic Republic en route to the gold-medal showdown.
Cuba, runner-up in the 1985 World Cup, finished second, followed by Peru and the German Democratic Republic at the quadrennial championships.
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