The 2019 FIVB Women's World Cup was the 13th edition of the event, contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of the ' (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The tournament was held from 14 to 29 September 2019 in

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. This was the first time that the FIVB did not distribute Olympics places since 1991 due to Japan hosting the

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, but points for the

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were given.

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won their historic fifth title, following titles from 1981, 1985, 2003, and 2015. China surpassed Cuba's earlier record of four titles in the history of the competition. Defending their title as the reigning champions in 2015, China reigned to sweep all eleven matches in

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complete the 2019 podium as silver medallists and bronze medallists respectively. Zhu Ting, outside hitter and captain of the Chinese women's volleyball national team, was selected as the World Cup's MVP, retaining her title from 2015. Zhu was joined in the Dream Team by three members of the gold medal-winning Chinese side – Yan Ni as Best Middle Blocker,

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as Best Libero, and

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as Best Setter. Two members of the USA squad that finished second to the Chinese Team also made the Dream Team, as Kelsey Robinson and

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won the Best Outside Spiker and Best Opposite awards, respectively. Russia's Irina Koroleva also won as Best Blocker.

Qualification

Twelve teams qualified for the competition as the top two teams of

of each continental federation on 1 January 2019. (except

who qualified as host, and

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who qualified as 2018 World Champion)

Qualified teams

;Notes :

¹ Competed as

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from 1973 to 1991; 3rd appearance as Russia.

Squads

Coaches

* Oldest coach: José Roberto Guimarães – 65 years and 44 days in the first game against Serbia. * Youngest coach:

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– 38 years and 306 days in the first game against Argentina.

Players

* Appearance record:

Fabiana Claudino Fabiana Marcelino Claudino (born 24 January 1985) is a Brazilian volleyball player who made her debut for the Brazilian national team against Croatia. She captained Brazil to the gold medal at the 2012 Olympics. Personal life Claudino was born ...

, Prisilla Altagracia Rivera Brens,

Janet Wanja Janet Wanja (born 24 February 1984 in Nairobi) is a volleyball player from Kenya, who competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, wearing the number #7 jersey. There she ended up in eleventh place with the Ken ...

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 ...

, and

Kim Yeon-koung Kim Yeon-Koung (, ; born 26 February 1988) is a South Korean professional volleyball player and a former member of the FIVB Athletes' Commission. She is an outside hitter and the former captain of the South Korean National Team. She announc ...

participated in the World Cup four times. * Oldest player: At 38 years and 38 days,

Annerys Vargas Annerys Victoria Vargas Valdez (born August 7, 1981) is a retired female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who won four consecutive gold medals at the Central American and Caribbean Games. Career 2003 She won gold medal with the ...

is the oldest player ever to be nominated in the tournament. * Youngest player: Bojana Gočanin is the youngest player at the age of 16 years and 354 days. * Tallest player: At 2.01 m,

Yuan Xinyue Yuan Xinyue (; born 21 December 1996) is a Chinese volleyball player who plays as a Middle Blocker. She is a member of the China women's national volleyball team and plays for Bayi since 2014. At 2.03m, Yuan is the tallest player in the history ...

and

Brayelin Martínez Brayelin Elizabeth Martínez (born September 11, 1996, in Santo Domingo) is a Dominican volleyball player who won the bronze medal in the 2015 Pan American Games as a member of the Dominican Republic national team. She played in the 2014 Senior ...

are the tallest players ever to be nominated in the tournament. * Shortest player: At 1.60 m,

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is the shortest player ever to be nominated in the tournament.

Venues

Format

The competition system of the 2019 World Cup was the single Round-Robin system. Each team played once against each of the 11 remaining teams. The teams were divided into 2 pools of 6 teams each. In round 1, total 30 matches in 5 days, each teams played against the other teams from the same pool. For rounds 2 and 3, total 36 matches in 6 days, each team played against the teams from another pool. Numbers in brackets denoted the

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as of 1 January 2019 except the hosts who ranked 6th.

Pool standing procedure

# Total number of victories (matches won, matches lost) # In the event of a tie, the following first tiebreaker will apply: The teams will be ranked by the most point gained per match as follows: #* Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser #* Match won 3–2: 2 points for the winner, 1 point for the loser #* Match forfeited: 3 points for the winner, 0 points (0–25, 0–25, 0–25) for the loser # If teams are still tied after examining the number of victories and points gained, then the FIVB will examine the results in order to break the tie in the following order: #* Set quotient: if two or more teams are tied on the number of points gained, they will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of the number of all set won by the number of all sets lost. #* Points quotient: if the tie persists based on the set quotient, the teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets. #* If the tie persists based on the point quotient, the tie will be broken based on the team that won the match of the Round Robin Phase between the tied teams. When the tie in point quotient is between three or more teams, these teams ranked taking into consideration only the matches involving the teams in question.

Results

All times are

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( UTC+09:00).

First round

Site A

Site B

Second round

Site A

Site B

Third round

Site A

Site B

Final standing

Awards

* Most Valuable Player : Zhu Ting * Best Setter :

* Best Outside Hitters : Zhu Ting : Kelsey Robinson * Best Middle Blockers : Irina Koroleva : Yan Ni * Best Opposite Hitter :

* Best Libero :

Statistics leaders

The statistics of each group follows the vis reports P2 and P3. The statistics include 6 volleyball skills; serve, reception, set, spike, block, and dig. The table below shows the top 5 ranked players in each skill plus top scorers as of 29 September 2019.

Best Scorers

Best scorers determined by scored points from attack, block and serve.

Best Attackers

Best attackers determined by successful attacks in percentage.

Best Blockers

Best blockers determined by the average of stuff blocks per set.

Best Servers

Best servers determined by the average of aces per set.

Best Setters

Best setters determined by the average of running sets per set.

Best Diggers

Best diggers determined by the average of successful digs per set.

Best Receivers

Best receivers determined by efficient receptions in percentage.

References

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