2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup

The 2019 FIVB Women's World Cup was the 13th edition of the event, contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The tournament was held from 14 to 29 September 2019 in Japan.[1] This was the first time that the FIVB did not distribute Olympics places since 1991 due to Japan hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics, but points for the FIVB World Rankings were given.

2019 Women's World Cup
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日本 2019
Official logo
Tournament details
Host nation Japan
CityYokohama, Hamamatsu, Sapporo, Toyama, Osaka
Dates14–29 September
Teams12 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)6 (in 5 host cities)
Champions China (5th title)
Runners-up United States
Third place Russia
Fourth place Brazil
Tournament awards
MVP Zhu Ting
Best Setter Ding Xia
Best OH Zhu Ting
Kelsey Robinson
Best MB Irina Koroleva
Yan Ni
Best OPP Andrea Drews
Best Libero Wang Mengjie
Tournament statistics
Matches played66
Attendance219,802 (3,330 per match)
Best scorer Nataliya Goncharova
Ana Bjelica (209 points)
Best spiker Zhu Ting (54.64%)
Best blocker Irina Koroleva (1.00 Avg)
Best server Yamila Nizetich (0.53 Avg)
Best setter Miya Sato (6.83 Avg)
Best digger Kim Hae-ran (3.95 Avg)
Best receiver Kelsey Robinson (33.13%)
Official website
FIVB Volleyball World Cup 2019

China won their historic fifth title, following titles from 1981, 1985, 2003, and 2015. China surpassed Cuba's earlier record of four titles in the history of the competition. Defending their title as the reigning champions in 2015, China reigned to sweep all eleven matches in Yokohama, Sapporo and Osaka. USA and Russia complete the 2019 podium as silver medallists and bronze medallists respectively.[2]

Zhu Ting, outside hitter and captain of the Chinese women's volleyball national team, was selected as the World Cup's MVP, retaining her title from 2015.[3] Zhu was joined in the Dream Team by three members of the gold medal-winning Chinese side – Yan Ni as Best Middle Blocker, Wang Mengjie as Best Libero, and Ding Xia as Best Setter. Two members of the USA squad that finished second to the Chinese Team also made the Dream Team, as Kelsey Robinson and Andrea Drews won the Best Outside Spiker and Best Opposite awards, respectively. Russia's Irina Koroleva also won as Best Blocker.

Qualification

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Twelve teams qualified for the competition as the top two teams of FIVB World Rankings of each continental federation on 1 January 2019. (except Japan who qualified as host, and Serbia who qualified as 2018 World Champion)

Qualified to 2019 FIVB World Cup
Host and 2018 World champion
Rank Team WC 2015 OG 2016 WGP 2017 WCH 2018 Total Note
1   Serbia 90 90 42 100 322 2018 World champion
2   China 100 100 40 80 320 AVC first team
3   United States 80 80 38 58 256 NORCECA first team
4   Brazil 50 50 50 50 200 CSV first team
5   Russia 70 50 28 50 198 CEV first team
6   Japan 50 50 32 58 190 Host
7   Netherlands 0 70 38 70 178 CEV second team
8   Italy 0 30 45 90 165
9   South Korea 40 50 18 30 138 AVC second team
10   Dominican Republic 30 3 30 45 108 NORCECA second team
11   Argentina 25 30 8 30 93 CSV second team
12   Turkey 0 3 24 45 72
13   Puerto Rico 0 20 14 36 70
14   Thailand 0 3 26 36 65
15   Germany 0 2 17 40 59
16   Bulgaria 0 0 15 40 55
17   Cameroon 0 20 2 25 47 CAVB first team
18   Canada 0 2 12 30 44
19   Belgium 0 2 22 18 42
20   Kenya 5 0 2 30 37 CAVB second team

Qualified teams

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Team Confederation Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances
Total First Last
  Japan AVC Host country 31 January 2013 12 1973 2015
  Serbia CEV World champions 20 October 2018 3 2007 2015
  China AVC World ranking for AVC 1 January 2019 10 1977 2015
  South Korea 12 1973 2015
  Cameroon CAVB World ranking for CAVB 0
  Kenya 5 1991 2015
  Russia1 CEV World ranking for CEV 8 1973 2015
  Netherlands 1 1995 1995
  Brazil CSV World ranking for CSV 9 1973 2011
  Argentina 5 1973 2015
  United States NORCECA World ranking for NORCECA 10 1973 2015
  Dominican Republic 4 2003 2015
Notes
1 Competed as Soviet Union from 1973 to 1991; 3rd appearance as Russia.

Squads

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Coaches

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Players

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Venues

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Site First round Second round Third round
A Yokohama Sapporo Osaka
Yokohama Arena Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center Osaka Municipal Central Gymnasium
(Maruzen Intec Arena Osaka)
Capacity: 12,000 Capacity: 7,000 Capacity: 8,000
     
B Hamamatsu Toyama Osaka
Hamamatsu Arena Toyama City Gymnasium Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium
(Edion Arena Osaka)
Capacity: 5,000 Capacity: 5,000 Capacity: 5,000
     

Format

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Group 1 Group 2
  Japan (Host)   Serbia (1)
  China (2)   United States (3)
  Russia (5)   Brazil (4)
  South Korea (9)   Netherlands (7)
  Dominican Republic (10)   Argentina (11)
  Cameroon (17)   Kenya (20)

The competition system of the 2019 World Cup was the single Round-Robin system. Each team played once against each of the 11 remaining teams.

The teams were divided into 2 pools of 6 teams each. In round 1, total 30 matches in 5 days, each teams played against the other teams from the same pool. For rounds 2 and 3, total 36 matches in 6 days, each team played against the teams from another pool.[4]

Numbers in brackets denoted the FIVB World Ranking as of 1 January 2019 except the hosts who ranked 6th.

Pool standing procedure

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  1. Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost)
  2. In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: The teams will be ranked by the most point gained per match as follows:
    • Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser
    • Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser
    • Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser
  3. If teams are still tied after examining the number of victories and points gained, then the FIVB will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order:
    • Set quotient: if two or more teams are tied on the number of points gained, they will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all set won by the number of all sets lost.
    • Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the set quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets.
    • If the tie persists based on the point quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match of the Round Robin Phase between the tied teams. When the tie in point quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.

Results

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Pos Team Pld W L Pts SW SL SR SPW SPL SPR
1   China 11 11 0 32 33 3 11.000 881 627 1.405
2   United States 11 10 1 28 30 10 3.000 929 773 1.202
3   Russia 11 8 3 23 27 14 1.929 948 818 1.159
4   Brazil 11 7 4 21 24 16 1.500 922 832 1.108
5   Japan 11 6 5 19 23 19 1.211 918 899 1.021
6   South Korea 11 6 5 18 21 19 1.105 898 888 1.011
7   Dominican Republic 11 6 5 17 22 21 1.048 933 949 0.983
8   Netherlands 11 5 6 17 21 19 1.105 890 865 1.029
9   Serbia 11 4 7 13 20 24 0.833 927 954 0.972
10   Argentina 11 2 9 5 9 29 0.310 736 890 0.827
11   Kenya 11 1 10 3 3 31 0.097 590 835 0.707
12   Cameroon 11 0 11 2 5 33 0.152 670 912 0.735
Source: [citation needed]

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).

First round

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Site A

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Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
14 Sep 12:30 Cameroon   0–3   Russia 14–25 15–25 10–25     39–75 Report
14 Sep 15:00 China   3–0   South Korea 25–21 25–15 25–14     75–50 Report
14 Sep 19:20 Dominican Republic   1–3   Japan 21–25 11–25 26–24 14–25   72–99 Report
15 Sep 12:30 Cameroon   0–3   China 18–25 14–25 19–25     51–75 Report
15 Sep 15:00 South Korea   1–3   Dominican Republic 17–25 26–24 23–25 23–25   89–99 Report
15 Sep 19:20 Russia   3–2   Japan 25–11 23–25 25–27 25–19 15–7 113–89 Report
16 Sep 12:30 Dominican Republic   3–2   Cameroon 25–17 25–15 23–25 28–30 15–10 116–97 Report
16 Sep 15:40 China   3–0   Russia 25–22 25–16 25–18     75–56 Report
16 Sep 19:20 Japan   1–3   South Korea 25–23 19–25 22–25 25–27   91–100 Report
18 Sep 12:30 Russia   3–0   South Korea 25–18 29–27 25–12     79–57 Report
18 Sep 15:00 China   3–0   Dominican Republic 25–19 25–21 25–19     75–59 Report
18 Sep 19:20 Cameroon   0–3   Japan 17–25 17–25 20–25     54–75 Report
19 Sep 12:30 Dominican Republic   2–3   Russia 16–25 23–25 25–23 25–23 5–15 94–111 Report
19 Sep 15:00 South Korea   3–0   Cameroon 25–21 25–18 25–18     75–57 Report
19 Sep 19:20 Japan   0–3   China 17–25 10–25 17–25     44–75 Report

Site B

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Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
14 Sep 11:00 United States   3–0   Kenya 25–14 25–20 25–14     75–48 Report
14 Sep 14:00 Argentina   0–3   Netherlands 16–25 17–25 19–25     52–75 Report
14 Sep 17:00 Serbia   2–3   Brazil 20–25 25–23 18–25 25–22 12–15 100–110 Report
15 Sep 11:00 Kenya   0–3   Netherlands 12–25 19–25 17–25     48–75 Report
15 Sep 14:00 United States   3–1   Serbia 23–25 25–17 25–16 25–15   98–73 Report
15 Sep 17:00 Brazil   3–0   Argentina 25–17 25–19 25–16     75–52 Report
16 Sep 11:00 Serbia   3–0   Kenya 25–13 25–11 25–17     75–41 Report
16 Sep 14:00 Argentina   1–3   United States 21–25 18–25 25–18 11–25   75–93 Report
16 Sep 17:00 Netherlands   3–0   Brazil 25–23 25–21 25–22     75–66 Report
18 Sep 11:00 Serbia   3–1   Argentina 25–15 23–25 25–23 25–23   98–86 Report
18 Sep 14:00 United States   3–0   Netherlands 25–23 25–18 25–19     75–60 Report
18 Sep 18:00 Kenya   0–3   Brazil 20–25 17–25 14–25     51–75 Report
19 Sep 11:00 Netherlands   2–3   Serbia 25–18 25–23 19–25 24–26 9–15 102–107 Report
19 Sep 14:00 Argentina   3–0   Kenya 25–14 25–19 25–15     75–48 Report
19 Sep 18:00 Brazil   0–3   United States 22–25 18–25 19–25     59–75 Report

Second round

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Site A

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Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
22 Sep 12:30 Dominican Republic   3–0   Kenya 25–17 25–19 25–19     75–55 Report
22 Sep 15:00 China   3–2   Brazil 25–23 23–25 22–25 25–19 15–9 110–101 Report
22 Sep 19:20 Japan   2–3   United States 24–26 25–22 21–25 25–23 8–15 103–111 Report
23 Sep 12:30 Dominican Republic   1–3   Brazil 16–25 25–23 19–25 22–25   82–98 Report
23 Sep 15:00 China   3–0   United States 25–16 25–17 25–22     75–55 Report
23 Sep 19:20 Japan   3–0   Kenya 25–18 25–22 25–20     75–60 Report
24 Sep 12:30 Dominican Republic   0–3   United States 22–25 23–25 9–25     54–75 Report
24 Sep 15:00 China   3–0   Kenya 25–12 25–12 25–14     75–38 Report
24 Sep 19:20 Japan   0–3   Brazil 14–25 21–25 23–25     58–75 Report

Site B

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Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
22 Sep 11:00 South Korea   3–1   Argentina 25–19 21–25 25–19 25–9   96–72 Report
22 Sep 14:00 Cameroon   0–3   Netherlands 15–25 14–25 18–25     47–75 Report
22 Sep 17:00 Russia   3–1   Serbia 25–16 20–25 25–23 25–16   95–80 Report
23 Sep 11:00 South Korea   1–3   Netherlands 19–25 25–21 22–25 23–25   89–96 Report
23 Sep 14:00 Cameroon   0–3   Serbia 22–25 14–25 17–25     53–75 Report
23 Sep 17:00 Russia   3–0   Argentina 25–21 25–16 25–21     75–58 Report
24 Sep 11:00 South Korea   3–1   Serbia 25–21 25–18 15–25 25–23   90–87 Report
24 Sep 14:00 Cameroon   2–3   Argentina 25–21 25–20 20–25 20–25 12–15 102–106 Report
24 Sep 18:00 Russia   3–0   Netherlands 26–24 25–18 25–20     76–62 Report

Third round

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Site A

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Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
27 Sep 12:30 Dominican Republic   3–0   Argentina 25–16 25–23 27–25     77–64 Report
27 Sep 15:00 China   3–1   Netherlands 25–19 25–16 21–25 25–19   96–79 Report
27 Sep 19:20 Japan   3–2   Serbia 21–25 21–25 25–20 25–20 15–6 107–96 Report
28 Sep 12:30 Dominican Republic   3–2   Netherlands 25–23 25–22 25–27 18–25 15–4 108–101 Report
28 Sep 15:00 China   3–0   Serbia 25–14 25–21 25–16     75–51 Report
28 Sep 19:20 Japan   3–0   Argentina 26–24 25–15 25–14     76–53 Report
29 Sep 12:30 Dominican Republic   3–1   Serbia 25–22 25–21 22–25 25–17   97–85 Report
29 Sep 15:00 China   3–0   Argentina 25–17 25–14 25–12     75–43 Report
29 Sep 19:20 Japan   3–1   Netherlands 25–18 27–25 24–26 25–21   101–90 Report

Site B

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Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
27 Sep 11:00 South Korea   3–0   Kenya 25–15 25–16 25–21     75–52 Report
27 Sep 14:00 Cameroon   0–3   Brazil 11–25 17–25 18–25     46–75 Report
27 Sep 18:00 Russia   2–3   United States 26–24 22–25 22–25 25–17 8–15 103–106 Report
28 Sep 11:00 South Korea   3–1   Brazil 25–23 18–25 25–20 25–21   93–89 Report
28 Sep 14:00 Cameroon   0–3   United States 19–25 15–25 5–25     39–75 Report
28 Sep 17:00 Russia   3–0   Kenya 25–16 25–21 25–22     75–59 Report
29 Sep 11:00 South Korea   1–3   United States 21–25 16–25 25–16 22–25   84–91 Report
29 Sep 14:00 Russia   1–3   Brazil 26–28 20–25 25–21 19–25   90–99 Report
29 Sep 17:00 Cameroon   1–3   Kenya 15–25 24–26 25–14 21–25   85–90 Report

Final standing

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Awards

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Statistics leaders

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The statistics of each group follows the vis reports P2 and P3. The statistics include 6 volleyball skills; serve, reception, set, spike, block, and dig. The table below shows the top 5 ranked players in each skill plus top scorers as of 29 September 2019.[5]

Best Scorers

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Best scorers determined by scored points from attack, block and serve.

Player Attacks Blocks Serves Total
1   Nataliya Goncharova 184 20 5 209
  Ana Bjelica 187 13 9 209
3   Brayelin Martínez 181 13 3 197
4   Zhu Ting 153 16 9 178
5   Lonneke Slöetjes 156 13 2 171

Best Attackers

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Best attackers determined by successful attacks in percentage.

Player Spikes Faults Shots Total %
1   Zhu Ting 153 22 105 280 54.64
2   Zhang Changning 97 28 76 201 48.26
3   Andrea Drews 105 29 91 225 46.67
4   Ksenia Parubets 113 38 98 249 45.38
5   Brayelin Martínez 181 41 177 399 45.36

Best Blockers

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Best blockers determined by the average of stuff blocks per set.

Player Blocks Faults Rebounds Total Avg
1   Irina Koroleva 41 61 70 172 1.00
2   Yan Ni 34 26 59 119 0.94
3   Ekaterina Efimova 33 29 60 122 0.80
4   Chiaka Ogbogu 32 40 72 144 0.80
5   Maja Aleksić 30 38 82 150 0.68

Best Servers

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Best servers determined by the average of aces per set.

Player Aces Faults Hits Total Avg
1   Yamila Nizetich 20 13 79 112 0.53
2   Bethania de la Cruz 18 14 118 150 0.42
3   Juliët Lohuis 12 16 70 98 0.30
4   Zhang Changning 10 10 74 94 0.28
  Ding Xia 10 6 105 121 0.28

Best Setters

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Best setters determined by the average of running sets per set.

Player Running Faults Still Total Avg
1   Miya Sato 287 4 897 1188 6.83
2   Niverka Marte 250 7 869 1126 5.81
3   Victoria Mayer 210 5 762 977 5.53
4   Macris Carneiro 219 7 579 805 5.48
5   Ding Xia 192 5 497 694 5.33

Best Diggers

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Best diggers determined by the average of successful digs per set.

Player Digs Faults Receptions Total Avg
1   Kim Hae-ran 158 26 15 199 3.95
2   Larysmer Martínez Caro 169 41 35 245 3.93
3   Myrthe Schoot 134 38 28 200 3.35
4   Teodora Pušić 139 38 36 213 3.16
5   Mako Kobata 129 33 27 189 3.07

Best Receivers

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Best receivers determined by efficient receptions in percentage.

Player Excellents Faults Serve Total %
1   Kelsey Robinson 60 5 101 166 33.13
2   Mako Kobata 59 7 105 171 30.41
3   Gabriela Guimarães 78 7 156 241 29.46
4   Gong Xiangyu 41 4 90 135 27.41
5   Yuki Ishii 63 7 139 209 26.79

References

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  1. ^ "FIVB World Cup to return to Japan in 2019 ahead of Tokyo 2020 Olympics". FIVB. 20 October 2018. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  2. ^ "China Crowned World Cup Champions Anew". FIVB. 29 September 2019. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  3. ^ "President XI Congratulates China on Historic Win". FIVB. 30 September 2019. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  4. ^ "Olympic and World champions to meet in World Cup". FIVB. 22 June 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  5. ^ "Statistics". FIVB.org. 19 September 2019.