2017 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship explained

Competition:	FIVB Girls' U18 World Championship
Other Titles:	Campeonato Mundial de Femenino Sub-18 Argentina 2017
Continent:	World
Gender:	women
Type:	18
Year:	2017
Size:	280
Dates:	18–27 August
Teams:	20
Venues:	2
Cities:	2
Champions:	ITA
Title Number:	2
Mvp:	Elena Pietrini
Website:	Official website
Last:	2015 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship
Next:	2019 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship

The 2017 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship was the fifteenth edition of the international volleyball tournament and the world championship for women's national teams under the age of 18, organized by the sport's world governing body, FIVB. The tournament was hosted by Argentina in the cities of Rosario and Santa Fe from 18 to 27 August 2017.^[1] 20 teams from the 5 confederations competed in the tournament.

Italy won its second title in the competition, after also winning the previous edition, defeating Dominican Republic in the final.^[2] Russia defeated Turkey for the bronze medal.^[3] Elena Pietrini from Italy was elected the MVP.^[4]

Qualification

The FIVB Sports Events Council revealed a proposal to streamline the number of teams participating in the Age Group World Championships.^[5]

width=32% colspan="2"	Means of qualification!	width=21%	Date!	width=18%	Venue!	width=6%	Vacancies!	width=20%	Qualifier
Host country		2 February 2016	Lausanne	1
2016 South American Championship		24–28 August 2016	Lima	2
2016 NORCECA Championship		2–7 September 2016	San Juan	2
2017 Asian Championship		5–13 March 2017	Chongqing	4
2017 Pan-American Cup	for CSV	28 March – 2 April 2017	Havana	1
	for NORCECA			2
2017 European Championship		1–9 April 2017	Arnhem	6
World Ranking^[6]		As per 1 January 2017	Lausanne	2
Total				20

Pools composition

The drawing of lots was held in Rosario, Argentina on 10 May 2017.^[7] Argentina as a host country team were seeded in the top position of pool A, And the top seven teams from World ranking as per January 2017 were seed in serpentine system in first two rows. 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. Numbers in brackets denote the World ranking.

width=25%	Pool A	width=25%	Pool B	width=25%	Pool C	width=25%	Pool D
(10)	(1)	(2)	(3)
(7)	(6)	(5)	(4)
(37)	(45)	(15)	(8)
(18)	(9)	(22)	(14)
(29)	(16)	(16)	(12)

Squads

See main article: 2017 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship squads.

Venues

width=50%	Pool C, D and Final round	width=50%	Pool A, B and Final round
Rosario, Argentina	Santa Fe, Argentina
Estadio Cubierto Newell's Old Boys	Estadio Universidad Tecnológica de Santa Fe
Capacity: 7,500	Capacity: 5,000

Referees

AVC (4)

• Carla Hoorweg
• Wang Ziling
• Kang Joo-Hee
• Maissaa Hachem

CAVB (2)

• Marthe Clémence Eyike
• Waleed El Kheshen

CEV (5)

• Olivier Guillet
• Sonja Simonovska
• Sokol Katarzyna
• Kozlova Nadezhda
• Mykhaylo Medvid

CSV (5)

• Concia Pedro Fabia
• Silvio Silveira
• Jorge Ernesto Erazo Maldonado
• Rocio Aida Huarcaya Lopez
• Denis Fabián Carbajal Mozzo

NORCECA (4)

• Lourdes Perez Perez
• Daniel Gonzalez
• Brian Charles
• Patricia Rolf

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

• All times are Argentina Standard Time .

Pool D

Final round

• All times are Argentina Standard Time .

Championship bracket

Final

5th–8th places

5th place match

9th–16th places

9th place match

17th–20th places

Final standing

width=40	Rank	Team
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20

12–woman roster
Terry Enweonwu, Valeria Battista, Marina Lubian, Sarah Fahr, Fatime Kone, Elena Pietrini, Alessia Populini (c), Sara Panetoni, Francesca Scola, Alice Tanase, Rachele Morello, Virginia Peruzzo
Head coach
Marco Mencarelli

Awards

• Most valuable player

Elena Pietrini

• Best setter

Rachele Morello

• Best outside spikers

Madeline Guillen

Ebrar Karakurt

• Best middle blockers

Victoriia Pushina

Sarah Fahr

• Best opposite spiker

Terry Enweonwu

• Best libero

Yaneirys Rodríguez

See also

• 2017 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: FOUR AGE GROUP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS HOSTS CONFIRMED. FIVB. 10 April 2016.
2. Web site: Italy retain Girls’ U18 crown after four-set thriller against Dominican Republic. FIVB. 27 August 2017.
3. Web site: Yakushina helps Russia to collect bronze medal by defeating Turkey. FIVB. 27 August 2017.
4. Web site: Fantastic Italy once again atop of Girls’ U18 World Championship. FIVB. 27 August 2017.
5. News: GIRLS' U18 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFICATION PROCESS TO RESTART IN MARCH. FIVB. 6 November 2016.
6. Web site: FIVB World Ranking - Girls U18 (as per January 2017) . . January 2017.
7. News: Twenty teams learn fate in Girls' U18 World Championship draw. FIVB. 10 May 2017.