2017 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship explained

Competition:Boys' U19 World Championship
Other Titles:بطولة العالم للكرة الطائرة رجال تحت 19 عاما
2017 البحرين
Continent:World
Year:2017
Size:280px
City:Riffa
Dates:18–27 August
Teams:20
Confederations:5
Venues:2
Cities:1
Title Number:2
Mvp: Amirhossein Esfandiar
Setter: Shunsuke Nakamura
Outside Spikers: Amirhossein Esfandiar
Pavel Tetyukhin
Middle Blockers: Artem Melnikov
Amir Hossein Toukhteh
Opposite Spiker: Im Dong-hyeok
Libero: Kenta Ichikawa
Website:FIVB Boys' U19 World Championship
Last:2015 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship
Next:2019 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship

The 2017 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship was the fifteenth edition of the FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship, contested by the men's national teams under the age of 19 of the members of the FIVB, the sport's global governing body. The tournament was held in Riffa, Bahrain from 18 to 27 August 2017.[1] 20 teams from the 5 confederations competed in the tournament.

Players must be born on or after 1 January 1999.

Iran won its second title in the competition, defeating Russia in the final.[2] Japan defeated South Korea for the bronze medal.[3] Amirhossein Esfandiar from Iran was elected the MVP.

Qualification

The FIVB Sports Events Council revealed a proposal to streamline the number of teams participating in the Age Group World Championships.[4]

width=32% colspan="2"Means of qualification!width=21%Date!width=18%Venue!width=6%Vacancies!width=20%Qualifier
Host Country2 February 2016 Lausanne1
2016 NORCECA Championship24–29 June 2016 Havana2
2016 African Championship8–10 September 2016 Kélibia2
2016 South American Championship5–9 October 2016 Lima2
2017 Pan-American Cupfor CSV20–25 March 2017 Monterrey1
for NORCECA2
2017 Asian Championship28 March – 5 April 2017 Naypyidaw4
2017 European Championship22–30 April 2017 Győr & Púchov6
Total20

Pools composition

Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the serpentine system according to their FIVB U19 World Ranking as of January 2017.[5] FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the U19 World Ranking. The twelve remaining teams were drawn in next three rows under the condition that there were not too much country in the same confederation were drawn in the same pool.[6] The draw was held in Manama, Bahrain on 20 May 2017.[7] Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 38th.

Seeded teamswidth=20%Pot 1width=20%Pot 2width=20%Pot 3
width=20% (Hosts)
(1)
(2)
(3)
width=20% (4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(9)
(12)
(18)
(31)
(8)
(11)
(13)
(27)
(10)
(15)
(21)
(32)
Draw

Venues

Pool standing procedure

  1. Number of matches won
  2. Match points
  3. Sets ratio
  4. Points ratio
  5. If the tie continues as per the point ratio between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the last match between them. When the tie in points ratio is between three or more teams, a new classification of these teams in the terms of points 1, 2 and 3 will be made taking into consideration only the matches in which they were opposed to each other.

Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser

Preliminary round

Pool D

Final round

Final sixteen

Final

Final standing

width=40RankTeam
4
5
6
7
8
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10
11
12
13
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15
16
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12–man roster
Mohammad Hossein Rasti, Mehdi Jelveh, Amir Hossein Toukhteh, Amir Mohammad Falahat, Ehsan Daneshdoust, Morteza Sharifi, Mehran Feyz, Amirhossein Esfandiar (c), Hossein Soleiman, Mohammad Reza Hazratpour, Erfan Gholamipour, Porya Yali
Head coach
Mohammad Vakili

Awards

Amirhossein Esfandiar

Shunsuke Nakamura

Amirhossein Esfandiar

Pavel Tetyukhin

Artem Melnikov

Amir Hossein Toukhteh

Im Dong-hyeok

Kenta Ichikawa

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Four Age Group World Championships hosts confirmed . 2 February 2016 . . 10 April 2016.
  2. Web site: Yali powers Iran past Russia for Boys' U19 World Championship gold . 27 August 2017 . . 27 August 2017.
  3. Web site: Miyaura leads Japan past Korea for bronze medal win . 27 August 2017 . . 27 August 2017.
  4. Web site: Six teams qualified for Boys' U19 World Championship . 14 November 2016 . . 14 November 2016.
  5. Web site: FIVB World Ranking - Boys U19 (as of January 2017) . January 2017 . FIVB.
  6. Web site: 2019 Boys' U19 World Championship Drawing of Lots . . 20 July 2019.
  7. Web site: Boys' U19 pools confirmed . 20 May 2017 . . 20 July 2019.