Cuba women's national volleyball team
The Cuba women's national volleyball team was the first team to break the domination of the USSR and Japan in the world women's volleyball by winning the 1978 World Women's Volleyball Championship.
The Cuba women's national volleyball team dominated the world in the last decade of the 20th century, winning eight times in a row as FIVB World Champions in straight.
The team's nickname was Las Espectaculares Morenas del Caribe.
Results
Olympic Games
- 1964 – did not participate
- 1968 – did not participate
- 1972 – 6th place
- 1976 – 6th place
- 1980 – 6th place
- 1984 – did not participate
- 1988 – did not participate
- 1992 – Gold Medal
- 1996 – Gold Medal
- 2000 – Gold Medal
- 2004 – Bronze Medal
- 2008 – 4th place
- 2012 – did not participate
- 2016 – did not participate
- 2020 – did not participate
- 2024 – did not participate
World Championship
- 1952 – did not compete
- 1956 – did not compete
- 1960 – did not compete
- 1962 – did not compete
- 1967 – did not compete
- 1970 – 8th place
- 1974 – 7th place
- 1978 – Gold Medal
- 1982 – 5th place
- 1986 – Silver Medal
- 1990 – 4th place
- 1994 – Gold Medal
- 1998 – Gold Medal
- 2002 – 5th place
- 2006 – 7th place
- 2010 – 12th place
- 2014 – 21st place
- 2018 – 22nd place
- 2022 – did not compete
- 2025 — 23rd place
World Cup
- 1973 – 5th place
- 1977 – Silver Medal
- 1981 – 6th place
- 1985 – Silver Medal
- 1989 – Gold Medal
- 1991 – Gold Medal
- 1995 – Gold Medal
- 1999 – Gold Medal
- 2003 – 6th place
- 2007 – 4th place
- 2011 – did not qualify
- 2015 – 9th place
- 2019 – did not qualify
- 2023 – did not qualify
World Grand Prix
- 1993 – Gold Medal
- 1994 – Silver Medal
- 1995 – Bronze Medal
- 1996 – Silver Medal
- 1997 – Silver Medal
- 1998 – Bronze Medal
- 1999 – 5th place
- 2000 – Gold Medal
- 2001 – 4th place
- 2002 – 7th place
- 2003 – 11th place
- 2004 – 4th place
- 2005 – 4th place
- 2006 – 4th place
- 2007 – 7th place
- 2008 – Silver Medal
- 2009 – did not participate
- 2010 – did not participate
- 2011 – 11th place
- 2012 – 6th place
- 2013 – 19th place
- 2014 – 20th place
- 2015 – 25th place
- 2016 – 25th place
FIVB World Grand Champions Cup
Pan American Games
- 1955 – did not participate
- 1959 – did not participate
- 1963 – did not participate
- 1967 – Bronze Medal
- 1971 – Gold Medal
- 1975 – Gold Medal
- 1979 – Gold Medal
- 1983 – Gold Medal
- 1987 – Gold Medal
- 1991 – Gold Medal
- 1995 – Gold Medal
- 1999 – Silver Medal
- 2003 – Silver Medal
- 2007 – Gold Medal
- 2011 – Silver Medal
- 2015 – 5th place
Pan-American Cup
- 2002 – Gold Medal
- 2003 – Bronze Medal
- 2004 – Gold Medal
- 2005 – Gold Medal
- 2006 – Silver Medal
- 2007 – Gold Medal
- 2008 – 11th place
- 2009 – did not participate
- 2010 – 4th place
- 2011 – 4th place
- 2012 – Bronze Medal
- 2013 – 6th place
- 2014 – 5th place
- 2015 – 4th place
- 2016 – 4th place
- 2017 – 5th place
- 2018 – 7th place
- 2019 – 8th place
- 2020 – 5th place
- 2021 – 5th place
Final Four Cup
Current squad
The following is the Cuban roster in the 2018 World Championship.Head coach: Tomás Fernández
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