The 2021 Women's African Nations Volleyball Championship is the 20th edition of the

Women's African Volleyball Championship The African Women's Volleyball Championship is a sport competition for national teams, currently held biannually and organized by the African Volleyball Confederation, the Africa volleyball federation. Summary Medal summary Participating nat ...

, a biennial international

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tournament organised by the

African Volleyball Confederation The African Volleyball Confederation (French: ''Confédération Africaine de Volleyball'', or CAVB) is the continental governing body for the sports of volleyball in Africa. Its headquarters are located in Rabat, Morocco. Profile The CAVB wa ...

(CAVB) with Rwanda Volleyball Federation (FRVB). The tournament is held in

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from 12 to 20 September 2021. The top two teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship as the CAVB representatives.

Qualification

9 teams have registered to participate in the 2021 African Championship.

Pools composition

Ranking from the previous edition was shown in brackets except the host and the teams who did not participate, which were denoted by (–). The host country and the top 8 ranked teams were seed in 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 ...

. The 4 remaining teams were drawn in

on 11 September 2021.

Squads

Venue

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.

Group stage

*All times are Central Africa Time ( UTC+02:00).

Pool A

;Notes :

¹ was forfeited by FIVB because Rwanda illegally registered four foreigners without due process. :

² was withdrawn from this competitions. :

³ This match was canceled.

Pool B

;Notes :

¹ This match was canceled.

Final round

*All times are Central Africa Time ( UTC+02:00).

5th place match

Final Four

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

*Most Valuable Player : Christelle Tchoudjang Nana *Best Spiker : Sharon Chepchumba *Best Blocker : Gladys Ekaru *Best Server :

Laetitia Moma Bassoko Laetitia Moma Bassoko (born 9 October 1993) is a Cameroonian volleyball player. She is a member of the Cameroon women's national volleyball team. She was playing for VBC Chamalières in 2014 and was part of the Cameroonian national team at th ...

*Best Setter : Alexandra Erhart *Best Receiver :

Mercy Moim Mercy Moim (born ) is a Kenyan volleyball player. She played with the Kenya national team in the 2010 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship. She was team captain for the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (the only women's volleyball te ...

*Best Libero : Yousra Souidi

References

2021 CAVB WChampionship Final: Cameroon grabs 3rd consecutive crown ahead of Kenya

Cameroon complete African Championship three-peat

External links

Official website
{{African Volleyball Championship Women's African Volleyball Championship African Women's Volleyball Championship

2021 in Rwandan sport Sports competitions in Rwanda African Volleyball Championship