2013 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship

Volleyball competition held in Czech Republic

The 2013 Women's Junior Volleyball World Championship was held in Czech Republic, for ten days between from 21 to 30 June 2013. This was the first edition of the tournament that features 20 teams.^[1]

Qualification process

Competition Formula

The 20 teams will be divided into four pools of five teams each and will play a round-robin tournament. The bottom-ranked team of each pool will play classification matches for 17th-20th place in a round-robin system.

The other 16 teams progress to the Eight Finals which consists of a playoff (1st of Pool A against 4th of Pool B etc.). The winners of the playoff matches will advance to the quarterfinals, semifinals and finals to be classified from 1st to 8th while the losers of playoff match will play classification matches, with a similar quarterfinals, semifinals and finals system, to be classified from 9th to 16th.

Venues

Kajot Arena and Mestska Hala Micovych Sportu, Brno, Czech Republic.

Preliminary round

Pool A

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Pool B

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Pool C

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Pool D

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Final round

Championship Bracket

Round of 16

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

5th–8th places bracket

Classification 5th and 8th

Classification 7th

Classification 5th

9th and 16th places bracket

13th and 16th places bracket

Classification 9th and 16th

Classification 13th and 16th

Classification 9th and 12th

Classification 15th

Classification 13th

Classification 11th

Classification 9th

Classification 17th and 20th

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Final standing

All-Star Team

• Most valuable player
  •  Zhu Ting (CHN)^[4]
• Best Opposite
  •  Ceyda Aktaş (TUR)
• Best Outside Hitters
  •  Zhu Ting (CHN)
  •  Gabriela Guimarães (BRA)
• Best Middle Blockers
  •  Valquiria Carboni Dullius (BRA)
  •  Irina Fetisova (RUS)
• Best setter
  •  Sladjana Mirkovic (SRB)
• Best libero
  •  Manami Kojima (JPN)

See also

• 2013 FIVB Men's Junior World Championship.

References

1. FIVB (March 18, 2012). "Junior and Youth World Championships expand to 20 teams, hosts confirmed".
2. Voleibol.pe. "PanAmCups ya tienen fecha" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2013-01-04. Retrieved 2012-11-30.
3. NORCECA Calendar
4. "China paint it red for second time in history". Brno, Czech Republic: FIVB. 2013-06-30. Retrieved 2013-07-08.