2013 Women's Junior Pan-American Volleyball Cup Explained

Competition:Women's Junior Pan-American Volleyball Cup
Gender:women
Continent:Americas
Year:2013
Host: Cuba
Dates:March 18 – 23, 2013
Teams:8
Venues:1
Cities:Havana
Champions:MEX
Title Number:1
Mvp:Alejandra Isiordia
Last:2011 Women's Junior Pan-American Volleyball Cup
Next:2015 Women's Junior Pan-American Volleyball Cup

The 2013 Women's Junior Pan-American Volleyball Cup was the second edition of the bi-annual women's volleyball tournament, played by eight countries from March 18 – 23, 2013 in Havana, Cuba.[1]

This was the last qualifier to the 2013 FIVB Women's Junior World Championship for American teams,[2] Puerto Rico earned the last berth winning Pool B over hosts Cuba[3]

Competing Nations

Teams who were able to participate in this tournament are those who took part at their respective continental junior championships, South America and NORCECA.[4] Puerto Rico entered after Argentina declined to participate and Guatemala and Nicaragua failed to apply.

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Competition format

The competition format for the 2013 Junior Pan American Volleyball Cup divides the 8 participating teams in 2 groups of 4, a seeded group consisting of countries already qualified to the 2013 FIVB Women's Junior World Championship, and another group of non-qualified countries. Both groups will play a Round-Robyn round after which the best team from Group B will earn the last berth to the World Championship.

The best two teams from Group A will advance to the semifinals, the best two teams from Group B will play the quarterfinals against the worst two teams from Pool A. The worst two from Group B will play the classification matches from 5th to 8th.[5]

Pool standing procedure

Match won 3–0: 5 points for the winner, 0 point for the loser
Match won 3–1: 4 points for the winner, 1 points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 3 points for the winner, 2 points for the loser
In case of tie, the teams were classified according to the following criteria:
points ratio and sets ratio[6]

Preliminary round

Group B

Final round

Final

Final standing

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Individual awards

Notes and References

  1. http://www.fivb.org/en/volleyball/Calendar.asp FIVB Calendar
  2. Web site: Colombia se impuso ante Uruguay en el Sudamericano de Voleibol. Señal Colombia Deportes. 2012-10-27. señalcolombia.tv. Spanish. 2012-12-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20140304100836/http://www.senalcolombia.tv/senaldeportes/1504-sudamericano-juvenil-masculino-voleibol.html. 2014-03-04. dead.
  3. Web site: Puerto Rico wins ticket to Czech Republic. 2013-03-20. norceca.net. NORCECA.
  4. Web site: Copa Panamericana sub-20 de voleibol, La Habana por un boleto al Mundial. Spanish. 2013-02-28.
  5. http://norceca.net/2013%20Events/U20%20Pan%20American%20Cup%20CUB/Reg/Competition_Regulation%20WOMEN%20JUNIOR%20_U20_PanAm%20Cup_.pdf Competition Regulations - 2013 U20 Pan American Volleyball Cup
  6. Web site: 2012 Men's Pan Am Cup competition regulation. NORCECA. 2012-07-08. PDF.