The 2017 Asian Men's U23 Volleyball Championship was the second edition of the Asian Men's U23 Volleyball Championship, a biennial international

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tournament organised by the

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(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). It was held in

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from 1 to 9 May 2017. The tournament was served as the Asian qualifiers for the

2017 FIVB Volleyball Men's U23 World Championship The 2017 FIVB Volleyball Men's U23 World Championship was the third and final edition of the international volleyball tournament and the world championship for men's national teams under the age of 23, organized by the sport's world governing body ...

held in

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with the top two ranked teams qualifying for the world championship. The matches was played in only one stadium in

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. It was the first time that Iran and Ardabil had hosted the tournament. As hosts, Iran automatically participated for the tournament, while the remaining 10 teams (with the withdrawn of Philippines).

won the tournament with a 3–0 final win over

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. Both finalists qualified for the World Championship.

Participated teams

Pools composition

Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the

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according to their final standing of the 2015 edition. AVC reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the final standing of the 2015 edition. All teams not seeded were drawn in

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on 27 February 2017. But, Philippines later withdrew. Final standing of the 2015 edition are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 1st.

Venue

Pool standing procedure

# Numbers of matches won # Match points # Sets ratio # Points ratio # Result of the last match between the tied teams Match won 3–0 or 2–1: 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

Preliminary round

*All times are

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( UTC+04:30).

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Second round

*All times are

( UTC+04:30). *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 classification round.

Pool E

Pool F

Pool H

Classification round

*All times are

( UTC+04:30).

Bracket

9th place play-offs

9th place match

Final round

*All times are

( UTC+04:30).

Bracket

Quarter-finals

5th place play-offs

7th place match

5th place match

Semi-finals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

*Most valuable player *:

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*Best setter *: Masaki Oya *Best outside spikers *: Masato Katsuoka *: Esmaeil Mosafer *Best middle blockers *:

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*: Sahand Allahverdian *Best opposite spiker *: Amin Esmaeilnejad *Best libero *: Su Hou-chen

References

External links

Official websiteRegulationsSquadsAwards
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Participated teams

Pools composition

Venue

Pool standing procedure

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Second round

Pool E

Pool F

Pool H

Classification round

Bracket

9th place play-offs

9th place match

Final round

Bracket

Quarter-finals

5th place play-offs

7th place match

5th place match

Semi-finals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

See also

References

External links