The 2023 Sitting Volleyball World Cup – Men's event was the 6th edition of this tournament (3rd using the World Cup moniker) and was, for the first time, held in
Cairo,
Egypt.
The winners or highest ranked team not yet qualified, will advance to the
2024 Summer Paralympics
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. The defending champions are
Iran, and successfully defended their title, overcoming
Egypt 3–0 in the final.
Host selection
Originally,
Cairo was chosen as the replacement venue for the 2020 edition in
Hangzhou,
China
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after the Chinese withdrew because of the
Covid-19 pandemic (the competition dates were 24–30 April). However, on 12 March, it was confirmed the event would be postponed until further notice. The tournament was going to commence on 10–15 December 2021. Although, for a second time, the event was postponed. After multiple postponements,
Cairo,
Egypt was given the hosting rights on the 13 September 2022 for the 2023 edition.
This marks Egypt's first time organising the event.
Teams
Host (1)
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Participating teams (12)
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Venue
The venue was the
New Capital Sports Hall in the
New Administrative Capital, near
Cairo. Despite the tournament being held just outside of Cairo, the event was still called Cairo 2023.
Broadcasting rights
Every game was broadcast on the World ParaVolley YouTube channel.
Squads
Squads ranged from 8 to 14 players for the tournament.
Format
13 teams are divided into three groups of three and a group of four. The top two in each group plays in the quarterfinals, while the eliminated teams plays in the classification group.
Group stage
Group A
*All times are local.
Group B
Group C
Group D
Knockout stage
5–8 classification bracket
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Third place match
Final
Classification rounds
5–8 Semifinals
Seventh place match
Fifth place match
9–13th placement group
The five teams who failed to make quarterfinals all play each other in a five team group to decide the places 9–13.
Final rankings
Since Iran qualified for the Paralympics via winning the world championship, and Egypt qualified due to winning the African championship, Germany took the ticket to the Paralympics.
Awards
The awards were as follows:
MVP
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Davoud Alipourian
Best Setter
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Davoud Alipourian
Best Attacker
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Hesham Salahadeen Abdel Maksod
Best Receiver
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Meisam Ali Pour
Best Server
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Elsayed Moussa Saad Moussa
Best Blocker
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Dominik Marcel Albrecht
Best Libero
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Abdelnaby Hassan Ahmed Abdellatif
See also
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2023 Sitting Volleyball World Cup – Women's event
The 2023 Sitting Volleyball World Cup – Women's event was for the first time held in Cairo, Egypt. The winners or highest ranked team not yet qualified, will advance to the 2024 Summer Paralympics. The reigning champions are United State ...
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2023 Sitting Volleyball European Championships – Men's event
The 2023 Sitting Volleyball European Championships – Men's event was the 21th edition of this Sitting volleyball#ParaVolley Europe (formerly ECVD) European Championships, tournament. For the first time, the competition was held in Caorle, Italy ...
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2022 Sitting Volleyball World Championships – Men's event
The 2022 Sitting Volleyball World Championships – Men's event was the 13th edition of this tournament. For the first time, the competition was held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The winners secure a ticket to the 2024 Summer Paralymp ...
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2022 Sitting Volleyball World Championships – Women's event
The 2022 Sitting Volleyball World Championships – Women's event was the 8th edition of this Sitting volleyball#World ParaVolley (formerly WOVD) World Championships, tournament. For the first time, the competition was held in Sarajevo, Bosnia a ...
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2023 Sitting Volleyball European Championships – Men's event
The 2023 Sitting Volleyball European Championships – Men's event was the 21th edition of this Sitting volleyball#ParaVolley Europe (formerly ECVD) European Championships, tournament. For the first time, the competition was held in Caorle, Italy ...
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2023 Asia and Oceania Sitting Volleyball Championships
The 2023 Asia and Oceania Sitting Volleyball Championships was the 5th edition (7th including unofficial championships) of the championship and decided who took the Asia spot in the Sitting Volleyball tournament at the Sitting volleyball at the 20 ...
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2023 Pan American Sitting Volleyball Championships
The 2023 Pan American Sitting Volleyball Championships decided who took the Americas spot in the Sitting Volleyball tournament at the Sitting volleyball at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, 2024 Paralympics, after Sitting Volleyball was taken out of th ...
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2024 World ParaVolley Women's Super 6
The 2024 World ParaVolley Women's Super 6 was held in Nancy, France, Nancy, France. United States women's sitting national volleyball team, United States are the defending champions.
United States women's sitting national volleyball team, United ...
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Sitting volleyball at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
Volleyball at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France will take place between 29 August and 7 September 2024. It will include two team events: one for men and one for women.
Qualification Qualification summary
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Medalists
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References
External links
Official websiteWorld ParaVolley Youtube channel
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