The Asian Men's Volleyball Championship was the tenth staging of the

Asian Men's Volleyball Championship The Asian Men's Volleyball Championship is an international volleyball competition in Asia and Oceania contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), the sport's continent governing body. The i ...

, a biennial international

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

tournament organised by the

Asian Volleyball Confederation The Asian Volleyball Confederation, commonly known by the acronym AVC, is the continental governing body for the sports of indoor, beach, and grass volleyball in Asia and Oceania. It has 65 member associations, mostly located in the Asia-Pacif ...

(AVC) with

Islamic Republic of Iran Volleyball Federation The Islamic Republic of Iran Volleyball Federation (I.R.I.V.F.) is the governing body for Volleyball in Iran. It was founded in 1945, and has been a member of FIVB. It was a part of Iranian Basketball Federation till 1957. It is also a member o ...

(IRIVF). The tournament was held in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

, Iran from 2 to 9 September 1999.

Venues

Pools composition

The teams are seeded based on their final ranking at the 1997 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship.

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Quarterfinals

* ''The results and the points of the matches between the same teams that were already played during the preliminary round shall be taken into account for the Quarterfinals.''

Pool E

Pool F

Pool G

Pool H

Final round

* ''The results and the points of the matches between the same teams that were already played during the previous rounds shall be taken into account for the final round.''

Classification 13th–14th

Classification 9th–12th

Classification 5th–8th

Championship

Final standing

Awards

*MVP: Behnam Mahmoudi *Best scorer:

Benjamin Hardy Benjamin Kirk Hardy (born 21 September 1974) is an Australian former volleyball player. Career Hardy played for Australia's volleyball team at the 2000 Olympics. He was a captain of Australian national team. He won a gold medal at the 2007 Asi ...

*Best spiker:

*Best blocker:

Kim Se-jin Kim Se-jin ( ko, 김세진; born January 30, 1974) is a retired volleyball player from South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and ...

*Best server:

Zhu Gang Zhu or ZHU may refer to: * Zhu (surname), common Chinese surnames *Zhu River, or Pearl River, in southern China *Zhu (state), ancient Chinese state, later renamed Zou *House of Zhu, the ruling house of the Ming dynasty in Chinese history *Zhu (str ...

*Best setter:

Zhou Jianan Zhou Jian'an () is a Chinese former volleyball player and current volleyball coach. Zhou has been the head coach of the China men's national volleyball team The China men's national volleyball team ( zh, 中国国家男子排球队) represe ...

*Best digger:

Koichi Nishimura Koichi "Nishi" Nishimura (born 30 June 1973 in Kyoto, Japan) is a beach volleyball player from Japan. Nishimura began his career as an indoor volleyball player and played Libero for the Japanese National Team. In 2002 Nishimura switched to bea ...

*Best receiver:

Li Tieming Li, li, or LI may refer to: Businesses and organizations * Landscape Institute, a British professional body for landscape architects * Leadership Institute, a non-profit organization located in Arlington, Virginia, US, that teaches "political te ...

References

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