Sri Lanka women advance to the Super Eight for the first time

Sri Lanka women's volleyball team qualified to the Super Eight for the first time at the 17th Asian Junior Women's Volleyball Championship which is being held in Chinese Taipei.

The Sri Lanka junior women's volleyball team qualified for the Super Eight of this Championship by beating Iran 3 sets to 1. Although this championship was inaugurated in 1984, Sri Lanka entered the fray only in 1986. In 2011 at the 15th Asian Senior Men's Volleyball Championship held in Iran, the Sri Lanka senior men's volleyball team qualified for the Super Eight finals, but this is the first time that a Sri Lanka women's volleyball team has qualified in a tournament of this nature and it should go down in the volleyball history of Sri Lanka.

The following countries are participating in the championship, are Chinese Taipei, Iran, Kazakhstan, New Zealand, Thailand, Japan, India, Korea, Turkmenistan, Australia, Hong Kong and Macau.The Sri Lanka women's volleyball team will now meet Japan and India in the next stage of the tournament.