| Competition: | Sitting Volleyball World Cup – Men's event |
| Gender: | svb |
| Continent: | Europe |
| Year: | 2023 |
| Size: | 275 |
| City: | Cairo |
| Dates: | 11–18 November |
| Teams: | 13 |
| Confederations: | 4 |
| Venues: | 1 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Champions: | IRN |
| Second: | EGY |
| Third: | GER |
| Fourth: | UKR |
| Matches: | 37 |
| Website: | Cairo 2023 |
| Last: | 2016 Sitting Volleyball World Cup – Men's event |
| Next: | 2025 Sitting Volleyball World Cup – Men's event |
The 2023 Sitting Volleyball World Cup – Men's event was the 6th edition of this tournament (3rd using the World Cup moniker)[1] [2] and was, for the first time, held in Cairo, Egypt.[3] The winners or highest ranked team not yet qualified, will advance to the 2024 Summer Paralympics. The defending champions are Iran, and successfully defended their title, overcoming Egypt 3–0 in the final.[4]
Originally, Cairo was chosen as the replacement venue for the 2020 edition in Hangzhou, China after the Chinese withdrew because of the Covid-19 pandemic (the competition dates were 24–30 April).[5] [6] However, on 12 March, it was confirmed the event would be postponed until further notice.[7] The tournament was going to commence on 10–15 December 2021. Although, for a second time, the event was postponed.[8] [9] After multiple postponements, Cairo, Egypt was given the hosting rights on the 13 September 2022 for the 2023 edition.[3] This marks Egypt's first time organising the event.
Host (1)
Participating teams (12)
The venue was the New Capital Sports Hall in the New Administrative Capital, near Cairo.[10] Despite the tournament being held just outside of Cairo, the event was still called Cairo 2023.
| New Administrative Capital | ||
|---|---|---|
| New Capital Sports Hall | ||
| Capacity: 7,500 | ||
Every game was broadcast on the World ParaVolley YouTube channel.
Squads ranged from 8 to 14 players for the tournament.[11]
13 teams are divided into three groups of three and a group of four. The top two in each group plays in the quarterfinals, while the eliminated teams plays in the classification group.
The five teams who failed to make quarterfinals all play each other in a five team group to decide the places 9–13.
Since Iran qualified for the Paralympics via winning the world championship, and Egypt qualified due to winning the African championship, Germany took the ticket to the Paralympics.[12]
| Rank | Team | |
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| width=10px bgcolor=#ccffcc | Team Qualified for the 2024 Paralympics |
The awards were as follows:
MVP
Davoud AlipourianBest Setter
Davoud AlipourianBest Attacker
Hesham Salahadeen Abdel MaksodBest Receiver
Meisam Ali PourBest Server
Elsayed Moussa Saad MoussaBest Blocker
Best Libero
Abdelnaby Hassan Ahmed Abdellatif