Pakistan Beat China 3-0 to Win Asian Games Volleyball Bronze

Pakistan beat China 3-0 to win the men's volleyball bronze medal at the Asian Games on Saturday 3 October 2026. The set scores were 25-18, 25-16 and 25-18. The match in Okazaki, Japan, took 67 minutes. Murad Khan led Pakistan with 18 points.

It is Pakistan's first Asian Games volleyball medal since a bronze at Djakarta in 1962, 64 years ago. We read the result on the official Asian Games 2026 results system, where it is marked official. You can read the match build-up in our Pakistan vs China volleyball bronze medal preview.

Pakistan beat China 3-0 for the volleyball bronze

Pakistan won the bronze medal match against China in straight sets, 3-0. They won every set by at least seven points: 25-18, 25-16 and 25-18. The match started at about 12:05 pm Pakistan time and finished at about 1:15 pm.

The match was Match 47 in the official system, the Men's Bronze Medal Final, played at the Okazaki Chuo Sogo Park Gymnasium. China finish fourth.

Murad Khan scored 18 points to lead Pakistan

Murad Khan, Pakistan's opposite hitter, was the top scorer with 18 points. He scored 14 from spikes, 2 from blocks and 2 from aces. Usman Faryad Ali and Afaq Khan added 14 points each, so three players scored 46 of Pakistan's 75 points.

Usman Faryad Ali was the most accurate attacker on the court. He won 14 of his 20 spikes. Afaq Khan won 10 spikes and blocked China four times. Middle blocker Musawer Khan scored 8 points, including 4 blocks and an ace.

Setter Hamid Yazman and middle blocker Muhammad Hamad scored 4 points each.

Pakistan won the match at the net

Pakistan won the attack and the block by wide margins. They won 46 of 72 spikes, a rate of 64 per cent. China won 27 of 70, under 40 per cent. Pakistan made 13 blocks to China's 3.

This was a big change from the semi-final. Against Iran on Friday, Pakistan made only 1 block and won 27 of 81 spikes. Against China, the blockers stopped the attack again and again.

Pakistan's weak point was the serve. They made 13 serve faults, against 7 by China. Each fault gives the other team a point. China's top scorer was Wang Bin with 10 points. Wen Zihua, Yu Yuantai and Zhang Zhejia scored 6 each.

Pakistan now have 10 medals at the 2026 Asian Games

The volleyball bronze was Pakistan's ninth medal of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. The hockey bronze an hour later made it ten. Before these two matches Pakistan had eight: silver in men's squash and cricket, and six bronze. Now they have two silver and eight bronze, with no gold.

The cricket silver came this morning, when India beat Pakistan by 19 runs in the cricket final. The men's hockey team played at the same time and beat Korea 5-3 for the hockey bronze. Our Pakistan medal tally lists every medal.

Pakistan's road to the bronze medal

Pakistan won four of their six matches at these Games. They lost only to the two finalists, Japan and Iran. The official results show every match, in this order:

1. 27 September: beat Kazakhstan 3-1 in Pool A.
2. 28 September: beat Uzbekistan 3-0 in Pool A.
3. 29 September: lost 3-0 to Japan, with a close 29-27 first set.
4. 1 October: beat India 3-0 in the quarter-final.
5. 2 October: lost 3-0 to Iran in the semi-final, see our Pakistan vs Iran semi-final result.
6. 3 October: beat China 3-0 for the bronze medal.

Iran and Japan play for gold at 3:20 pm Pakistan time on the same day. The head coach of Pakistan's team is Luis Alberto Toribio Gutierrez, as listed in the official match record.

Common questions

Did Pakistan win a medal in volleyball at the Asian Games 2026?

Yes. Pakistan won the men's bronze medal by beating China 3-0 on 3 October 2026 in Okazaki, Japan.

What were the set scores of Pakistan vs China?

Pakistan won the three sets 25-18, 25-16 and 25-18. The match lasted 67 minutes.

Who was Pakistan's top scorer against China?

Murad Khan scored 18 points. Usman Faryad Ali and Afaq Khan scored 14 points each.

When did Pakistan last win an Asian Games volleyball medal?

In 1962 at Djakarta, where the men's team won bronze. That is the only earlier volleyball medal in the Pakistan Olympic Association's Asian Games list.

How many medals has Pakistan won at the Asian Games 2026?

Ten after the volleyball and hockey bronzes on 3 October: two silver, from squash and cricket, and eight bronze. Pakistan have not won a gold.

Who plays in the volleyball final?

Iran play Japan for the gold medal at 3:20 pm Pakistan time on 3 October 2026.

How we verified this

What we checked, where we read it, and what we could not confirm.

We read the official match record of the bronze medal match on the Asian Games 2026 results system at about 1:55 pm PKT on 3 October 2026, when it was marked official. All scores, set times, player points and team figures above come from that record. The 1962 bronze comes from the Pakistan Olympic Association's Asian Games medal list, which we read the same afternoon. Pakistan's earlier results at these Games were read from the same official system on 1 and 2 October.