The Asian Men's Volleyball Championship was the tenth staging of the

Asian Men's Volleyball Championship The Asian Men's Volleyball Championship is an international volleyball competition in Asia and Oceania contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), the sport's continent governing body. Th ...

, a biennial international

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

tournament organised by the

Asian Volleyball Confederation The Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) is one of five continental bodies of governance in volleyball. It governs indoor volleyball, beach volleyball and other disciplines in Asia and Oceania, excluding the transcontinental countries of Russi ...

(AVC) with

Islamic Republic of Iran Volleyball Federation The Islamic Republic of Iran Volleyball Federation (I.R.I.V.F.) is the governing body for Volleyball in Iran. It was founded in 1945, and has been a member of FIVB. It was a part of Islamic Republic of Iran Basketball Federation, Iranian Basketba ...

(IRIVF). The tournament was held in

Tehran Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9. ...

, Iran from 2 to 9 September 1999.

Venues

Pools composition

The teams are seeded based on their final ranking at the 1997 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship.

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Quarterfinals

* ''The results and the points of the matches between the same teams that were already played during the preliminary round shall be taken into account for the Quarterfinals.''

Pool E

Pool F

Pool G

Pool H

Final round

* ''The results and the points of the matches between the same teams that were already played during the previous rounds shall be taken into account for the final round.''

Classification 13th–14th

Classification 9th–12th

Classification 5th–8th

Championship

Final standing

Awards

*MVP:

Behnam Mahmoudi Behnam Mahmoudi (, born April 25, 1980, in Meyaneh) is an Iranian former volleyball player, who capped for more than 8 years in the Iran National Volleyball Team of the year 1998–2006. His brother Shahram Mahmoudi is also a successful interna ...

*Best scorer:

Benjamin Hardy Benjamin Kirk Hardy (born 21 September 1974) is an Australian former volleyball player. Career Hardy played for Australia's volleyball team at the 2000 Olympics. He was a captain of Australian national team. He won a gold medal at the 2007 Asi ...

*Best spiker:

*Best blocker: Kim Se-jin *Best server:

Zhu Gang Zhu Gang (18 December 1358 – 30 March 1398) was an imperial prince of the Chinese Ming dynasty. He was the third son of the Hongwu Emperor, the founder of the Ming. Zhu Gang was born on 18 December 1358, as the third son of Zhu Yuanzhang and ...

*Best setter: Zhou Jianan *Best digger:

Koichi Nishimura Koichi "Nishi" Nishimura (born 30 June 1973) is a beach volleyball player from Japan. He was born in Kyoto. Nishimura began his career as an indoor volleyball player and played Libero for the Japanese National Team. In 2002 Nishimura switched t ...

*Best receiver: Li Tieming

References

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