2017 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship explained

Competition:Men's U21 World Championship
Continent:World
Year:2017
Dates:23 June – 2 July
Teams:16
Confederations:5
Venues:2
Cities:2
Title Number:3
Mvp: Jakub Kochanowski
Setter: Łukasz Kozub
Outside Spikers: Bartosz Kwolek
Anton Semyshev
Middle Blockers: Aleksei Kononov
José Masso
Opposite Spiker: Miguel Gutiérrez
Libero: Maique Nascimento
Website:FIVB Men's U21 World Championship
Last:2015 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship
Next:2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship

The 2017 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship was the nineteenth edition of the FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship, contested by the men's national teams under the age of 21 of the members of the FIVB, the sport's global governing body. The tournament was held in Brno and České Budějovice, Czech Republic from 23 June to 2 July 2017.[1] 16 teams participated.

Players must be born on or after 1 January 1997.

Poland defeated Cuba in the final to capture their third title in the competition.[2] Russia, which won the previously three editions of the tournament, won the bronze medal after defeating Brazil in the 3rd place match.[3] Jakub Kochanowski from Poland 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 Country2 February 2016 Lausanne1
2016 NORCECA Championship5–10 July 2016 Gatineau1
2016 Asian Championship9–17 July 2016 Kaohsiung2
2016 African Championship22–23 September 2016 Casablanca1
2016 South American Championship17–24 October 2016 Bariloche1
2017 Pan-American Cupfor CSV16–21 May 2017 Fort McMurray1
for NORCECA1
European QualifierPool E18–20 May 2017 Požarevac1
Pool F19–21 May 2017 Berlin1
World RankingJanuary 2017[6] Lausanne6
Total16

Pools composition

First round

Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the serpentine system according to their FIVB U21 World Ranking as of January 2017. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the U21 World Ranking. All teams not seeded were drawn to take other available positions in the remaining lines, following the U21 World Ranking.[7] The draw was held in Brno, Czech Republic on 31 May 2017.[8] Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 35th.

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(5)
(6)
(7)		 (8)
(9)
(11)
(11)		 (13)
(14)
(15)
(15)
Draw

Second round

width=50% colspan=4Final eightwidth=50% colspan=49th–16th places
width=25% colspan=2Pool Ewidth=25% colspan=2Pool Fwidth=25% colspan=2Pool Gwidth=25% colspan=2Pool H
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Squads

See main article: 2017 FIVB Volleyball Men's U21 World Championship squads.

Venues

width=50%Pool A, B, E, F, 5th–8th places
and Final four		width=50%Pool C, D, G, H, 13th–16th places
and 9th–12th places
Brno, Czech Republic České Budějovice, Czech Republic
DRFG ArenaBudvar Arena
Capacity: 7,700Capacity: 6,421

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

First round

Pool D

Second round

Pool H

Final round

13th–16th places

13th place match

9th–12th places

9th place match

5th–8th places

5th place match

Final four

Final

Final standing

width=40RankTeam
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
12–man roster
Bartosz Kwolek, Jakub Kochanowski (c), Łukasz Kozub, Radosław Gil, Szymon Jakubiszak, Jędrzej Gruszczyński, Jakub Ziobrowski, Damian Domagała, Mateusz Masłowski, Norbert Huber, Jarosław Mucha, Tomasz Fornal
Head coach
Sebastian Pawlik

Awards

Jakub Kochanowski

Łukasz Kozub

Bartosz Kwolek

Anton Semyshev

Aleksei Kononov

José Masso

Miguel Gutiérrez

Maique Nascimento

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: Poland shut out Cuba to triumph with U21 World Championship gold! . 2 July 2017 . . 2 July 2017.
  3. Web site: Alexei Kononov leads Russia to U21 World Championship bronze . 2 July 2017 . . 2 July 2017.
  4. Web site: Poland's Kochanowski is U21 World Championship MVP . 2 July 2017 . . 2 July 2017.
  5. Web site: Argentina set for 2017 Men's U21 World Championship . 2 November 2016 . . 2 November 2016.
  6. Web site: FIVB World Ranking - Men U21 (as of January 2017) . January 2017 . FIVB.
  7. Web site: FIVB – EVENT REGULATIONS – Volleyball . 5 May 2017 . . 17–18 . 25 June 2017.
  8. Web site: Hosts Czech Republic learn fate in Men's U21 World Championship draw . 31 May 2017 . . 31 May 2017.

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