The 2013

FIVB Volleyball Men's U23 World Championship The FIVB Volleyball Men's U23 World Championship was the world championship of volleyball for male players under the age of 23 organized by ''Fédération Internationale de Volleyball'' ( FIVB). The first edition was staged in 2013 in Uberlândia ...

was held in

Uberlândia Uberlândia () is a city and municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. It is the second largest city in the state of Minas Gerais after the state capital Belo Horizonte. Its population in 2020 was 699,097, making it the si ...

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from 6 to 13 October 2013. This was the first edition of the tournament.

Twenty-one point rule

For this tournament, the first four sets were played over 21 points.

Qualification

The 2013 FIVB Volleyball Men's U23 World Championship will feature two countries per confederation plus the host Brazil and the highest country in the world rankings not already selected by their confederation, in this case Russia.

Pools composition

Teams were seeded following the

Serpentine system The serpentine system, also known as snake seeding, is a method of organization used in competitions to define the seeded teams and arrange them into pools. The ''n'' ranked teams that will be involved in the tournament are distributed in ''m'' ...

according to their

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as of 22 July 2013. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the World Ranking. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 1st.

Venue

Pool standing procedure

# Match points # Number of matches won # Sets ratio # Points ratio # Result of the last match between the tied teams Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser

Preliminary round

*All times are

Brasília Time Time in Brazil is calculated using standard time, and the country (including its offshore islands) is divided into four standard time zones: Fernando de Noronha time (UTC−02:00), Brasília time (UTC−03:00), Amazon time (UTC−04:00), and Acr ...

( UTC−03:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Final round

*All times are

( UTC−03:00).

5th–8th places

5th–8th semifinals

7th place match

5th place match

Final four

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

*Most valuable player *: Ricardo Lucarelli Souza *Best setter *: Dmitry Kovalev *Best Outside Spikers *:

Uroš Kovačević Uroš Kovačević ( sr-cyrl, Урош Ковачевић; born 6 May 1993) is a Serbian professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for Gas Sales Piacenza and the Serbia national team. Kovačević has won 2 European Champion ...

Filip Stoilović Filip Stoilović (born 11 October 1992) is a Serbian volleyball player, who plays as an Volleyball#Player specialization, outside hitter for OK Crvena Zvezda and the Serbia men's national volleyball team. Career Stoilović's home team is OK Crv ...

*Best Middle Blockers *: Ventsislav Ragin *: Matheus Cunda *Best opposite spiker *:

Aleksandar Atanasijević Aleksandar Atanasijević ( sr-cyrl, Александар Атанасијевић; born 4 September 1991) is a Serbian professional volleyball player who plays as an opposite spiker for Olympiacos. Atanasijević took part in 2 Olympic Games (Lon ...

*Best libero *:

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References

External links

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{{FIVB Volleyball U23 World Championship FIVB Men's U23 Volleyball World Championship Fivb Mens U23 Volleyball International volleyball competitions hosted by Brazil Fivb Mens U23 Volleyball