China - USA (full match)

In front of 12600 thrilled fans in Milan’s Mediolanum Forum, USA overpowered China 3:1 (27:25, 25:20, 16:25, 26:24) to claim their first World Championship title ever. It is a historic night for American volleyball, for this is their first ever title in a major FIVB competition. Best scorer of Sunday’s gold medal match were Kimberly Hill for USA and Chunlei Zeng for China with 20 points each. USA had the edge in blocking (14-9) and serving (6-5). "We came here to make history and we made it. It was a tough battle. I would like to congratulate Lang Ping and her team. They played a marvelous tournament. After we got a 2-0 lead we knew China would never give up. It was a battle to the end and they have some great young players, as do we. I hope that we will be playing against each other in the future. It is just good for the sport to have teams with such history performing at a high level", said by USA coach Karch Kiraly.

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