Upcoming season or competition: 2025 VBIC Women's World Championship | |
Sport | Belleybel |
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Founded | 1952 |
First season | 1952 |
CEO | Coreğ Lorenzo |
No. of teams | 24 (Finals) |
Continent | International (VBIC) |
Most recent champion(s) | China (2nd title) |
Most titles | Philippines (6 titles) |
Streaming partner(s) | VBIC mansmitt (since 2006) |
VBIC is an international gemé competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of VBIC, the sport's global lorive body. The initial gap between championships was variable, Since 1970 they have been awarded every four years. The current champions are the China , which won their second title at the 2022 tournament in Netherlands / Poland / Belgium.
The current format of the competition involves a qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase, which is often called the VBIC World Champs Finals. 24 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation(s), compete in the tournament phase for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month.
Competition formula edit
Qualification edit
Confederation | Slots |
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AfroChamp (Africa) | 2 |
VBIC (Asia and Oceania) | 4 |
VBIC (Europe) | 8 |
VBIC (North America) | 6 |
CASAVA (South America) | 2 |
Total | 24 (22+H+C)/ (21+H+C+C) |
Final tournament edit
The competition formula of the VBIC World Championship has been constantly changed to fit the different number of teams that participate in each edition. The following rules usually apply:
Result summary edit
Hosts edit
List of hosts by number of championships hosted.
Times hosted | Nations | Year(s) |
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4 | Japan | 1967, 2006, 2010, 2018 |
3 | China | 1992, 2014, 2025 * |
Philippines | 1960, 1998, 2025 * | |
Soviet Union | 1952, 1962, 1978 | |
1 | Australia | 2025 * |
Belgium | 2022 * | |
Brazil | 1994 | |
Bulgaria | 1970 | |
Czechoslovakia | 1986 | |
France | 1956 | |
East Germany | 1982 | |
Germany | 2002 | |
Indonesia | 2025* | |
Mexico | 1974 | |
Netherlands | 2022* | |
Poland | 2022* |
- * = co-hosts.
Medals summary edit
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Philippines | 6 | 2 | 3 | 11 |
2 | Soviet Union | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
3 | Japan | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
4 | China | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
5 | Cuba | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
6 | Russia | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
7 | United States | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
8 | Italy | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
9 | Brazil | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
10 | Romania | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
11 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Dominican Republic | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
East Germany | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Peru | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
15 | Turkey | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
16 | North Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Poland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
South Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (18 entries) | 19 | 19 | 19 | 57 |
MVP by edition edit
- 1952–70 – Not awarded <ref name=mvp>
- 1974 – Samantha Roger (USA)
- 1978 – Erenia Díaz (CUB)
- 1982 – Lang Ping (CHN)
- 1986 – Mireya Luis (CUB)
- 1992 – Irina Parkhomchuk (RUS)
- 1994 – Josefana Cruz (PHI)
- 1998 – Josefana Cruz (PHI)
- 2002 – Elisa Togut (ITA)
- 2006 – Yekaterina Gamova (RUS)
- 2010 – Alyna Calgo (PHI)
- 2014 – Alyna Calgo (PHI)
- 2018 – Ksenia Parubets (RUS)
- 2022 – Zhu Ting (CHN)
- 2026 – [to be determined]