The 2015

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

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, from 24 to 31 August 2015. This was the second edition of the tournament.

Competition formula

The competition format will see the 12 teams split into two pools of six teams playing in round robin format. The semifinals will feature the top two teams from each pool.

Qualification

The FIVB Sports Events Council confirmed a proposal to streamline the number of teams participating in the Age Group World Championships on 14 December 2013.

Pools composition

Teams were seeded following the

Serpentine system The serpentine system (also called snake seeding) is a method employed in the organization of a competition to define the seeded teams and arrange them in pools. The ''n'' ranked teams that will be involved in the tournament are distributed in ''m ...

according to their FIVB U21 World Ranking as of December 2014. FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the U21 World Ranking. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 72nd.

Squads

Venues

Pool standing procedure

# Number of matches won # Match points # 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 UAE Standard Time ( UTC+04:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Final round

*All times are UAE Standard Time ( UTC+04:00).

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 *:

Egor Kliuka Egor Vasilyevich Kliuka (russian: Егор Васильевич Клюка, , ɪ̯ɪˈɡor ˈklʲukə) (born 15 June 1995) is a Russian volleyball player of Belarusian descent. He is part of the Russia men's national volleyball team. He compete ...

*Best setter *:

Murat Yenipazar Murat Yenipazar (born 1 January 1993) is a Turkish volleyball player. He is a member of the Galatasaray Galatasaray Spor Kulübü (, ''Galatasaray Sports Club'') is a Turkish sports club based on the European side of the city of Istanbul in ...

*Best outside spikers *:

*: Gökhan Gökgöz *Best middle blockers *:

Ivan Demakov Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgari ...

*: Samet Güneş *Best opposite spiker *: Metin Toy *Best libero *: Yonder Garcia

References

External links

Official websiteFinal StandingAwardsStatistics
{{FIVB Volleyball U23 World Championship FIVB Volleyball Men's U23 World Championship

International volleyball competitions hosted by the United Arab Emirates