2022 Sitting Volleyball World Championships – Men's event explained

Competition:WPV Sitting Volleyball World Championships – Men's event
Gender:svb
Continent:World
Year:2022
Size:275
City:Sarajevo
Dates:4–11 November
Teams:16
Confederations:4
Venues:1
Cities:1
Champions:IRN
Title Number:8
Second:BIH
Third:BRA
Fourth:EGY
Website:Sarajevo 2022
Last:2018 Sitting Volleyball World Championships – Men's event
Next:2026 Sitting Volleyball World Championships – Men's event

The 2022 Sitting Volleyball World Championships – Men's event was the 13th edition of this tournament. For the first time, the competition was held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1] [2] The winners secure a ticket to the 2024 Summer Paralympics. Iran were the defending champions and successfully defended their title triumphing over Bosnia and Herzegovina in straight sets.[3] [4] [5]

Host selection

Originally, the tournament was supposed to be in Hangzhou, China on the 18–24 May.[6] But due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament was postponed and China had to withdraw as hosts.

On 1 April 2022, the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, was awarded the hosting rights in the new dates of 4–11 November.[1] [2]

Qualified teams

The teams who were invited to participate are as follows, the numbers next to the countries are their world rankings prior to the tournament:[7]

Africa (2)

Americas (3)

Asia (4)

Europe (7)

Seeding

The seeding and groups were as follows:

width=25%Pool A width=25%Pool B width=25%Pool C width=25%Pool D
(1)
(8)
(9)
(16)
(2)
(7)
(10)
(15)
(3)
(6)
(11)
(14)
(4)
(5)
(12)
(13)

Venue

The venue was the Arena Hotel Hills in Sarajevo.

Sarajevo
Arena Hotel Hills
Capacity: unknown

Broadcasting rights

Radio and Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BHRT) is the host broadcaster for the 2022 WPV Sitting Volleyball World Championships. The games involving Bosnia and Herzegovina were broadcast on (BHRT), while every game not broadcast is on YouTube.

Format

16 teams are split into four groups of four, where every team advances to the Round of 16. In the Round of 16, teams who finished 1st play the teams that finished fourth, and the teams who finished 2nd play the teams that finished third. The eight winners advance to the Quarter Finals, while the eight losers play in a 9–16 classification bracket.

Group stage

Pool D

Knockout stage

Classification rounds

5–8th place bracket
9–16th place bracket
13–16th place bracket

Gold Medal match

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15th place match

Final standing

width=40Rankwidth=200Team
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
width=10px bgcolor=#ccffccQualified for the 2024 Summer Paralympics

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sarajevo to host the 2022 Sitting Volleyball World Championships > World ParaVolley. April 1, 2022.
  2. Web site: Sarajevo to host rearranged 2022 Sitting Volleyball World Championships. April 3, 2022. www.insidethegames.biz.
  3. Web site: 12 November 2022. Mehrzad: We should be the heroes of our lives. World ParaVolley.
  4. Web site: Iran wins 2022 Sitting Volleyball World Champs . 12 November 2022 .
  5. Web site: Iran Wins Eighth Men's Title at Sitting Volleyball World Championships - Sports news. Tasnim News Agency.
  6. Web site: China to host 2022 Sitting Volleyball World Championships > World ParaVolley. November 27, 2020.
  7. Web site: WPV announces official invitation list for 2022 Sitting Volleyball World Championships > World ParaVolley. June 20, 2022.