2003 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup
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The 2003 FIVB Women's World Cup was held from 1 to 15 November 2003 in
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. Twelve women's national teams played in cities all over Japan for the right to a fast lane ticket into the
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. Teams were made up as follows: hosts
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, continental champions and vice-champions from Europe, Asia, NORCECA and South America, continental champion from Africa, and two wild-card teams nominated jointly by the FIVB and the
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. Teams played a single-round robin format (66 games overall), in two parallel groups (site A and site B). The women played in
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, Toyama,
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, and
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Teams

* — Host * — African Champions * — Asian Champions * — European Champions * — NORCECA Champions * — South American Champions * — Asian bronze medalists * — European Vice-champions * — NORCECA Vice-champions * — South American Vice-champions * — Wild-card * — Wild-card


Squads


Results

All times are
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( UTC+09:00).


First round


Site A

Venue:
Yoyogi National Gymnasium Yoyogi National Gymnasium, officially is an indoor arena located at Yoyogi Park in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, which is famous for its Suspended structure, suspension roof design. The arena holds 13,291 people (9,079 stand seats, 4,124 arena sea ...
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Site B

Venue: Kagoshima Arena,
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Second round


Site A

Venue: Nagoya Rainbow Hall,
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Site B

Venue:
Sendai Gymnasium is an indoor arena, indoor sporting arena located in Sendai, Miyagi, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Miyagi, Japan. The capacity of the arena is 7,000. It hosted preliminary round games for the Basketball World Championship 2006, and is also the hom ...
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Sendai is the capital Cities of Japan, city of Miyagi Prefecture and the largest city in the Tōhoku region. , the city had a population of 1,098,335 in 539,698 households, making it the List of cities in Japan, twelfth most populated city in Japan. ...


Third round


Site A

Venue: Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center,
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Site B

Venue:
Toyama City Gymnasium Toyama City Gymnasium is an indoor arena, indoor sporting arena located in Toyama, Toyama, Toyama, Japan. The capacity of the arena is 5,000 people. It hosted some of the group games for the 2003 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup. Facilities *N ...
, Toyama


Fourth round


Site A

Venue: Namihaya Dome, Kadoma


Site B

Venue:
Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium is an indoor sporting arena located in Namba, Osaka, Japan. It first opened in 1952 and the current building was constructed in 1987. It is the venue of a professional sumo tournament ( honbasho) held in March every year. The capacity of the ...
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Final standing


Awards

* Most valuable player *:
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* Best scorer *:
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* Best spiker *: Zhao Ruirui * Best blocker *: Valeska Menezes * Best server *: Zoila Barros * Best receiver *: Zhou Suhong * Best libero *: Arlene Xavier * Best setter *:
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* Special award *: Yoshie Takeshita


External links


FIVB 2003 World Cup
{{DEFAULTSORT:2003 Fivb Women's World Cup 2003 Women's Women's World Cup V V November 2003 sports events in Asia Women's volleyball in Japan