2023 Sitting Volleyball World Cup – Men's event explained

Competition:Sitting Volleyball World Cup – Men's event
Gender:svb
Continent:Europe
Year:2023
Size:275
City:Cairo
Dates:11–18 November
Teams:13
Confederations:4
Venues:1
Cities:1
Champions:IRN
Second:EGY
Third:GER
Fourth:UKR
Matches:37
Website:Cairo 2023
Last:2016 Sitting Volleyball World Cup – Men's event
Next:2025 Sitting Volleyball World Cup – Men's event

The 2023 Sitting Volleyball World Cup – Men's event was the 6th edition of this tournament (3rd using the World Cup moniker)[1] [2] and was, for the first time, held in Cairo, Egypt.[3] The winners or highest ranked team not yet qualified, will advance to the 2024 Summer Paralympics. The defending champions are Iran, and successfully defended their title, overcoming Egypt 3–0 in the final.[4]

Host selection

Originally, Cairo was chosen as the replacement venue for the 2020 edition in Hangzhou, China after the Chinese withdrew because of the Covid-19 pandemic (the competition dates were 24–30 April).[5] [6] However, on 12 March, it was confirmed the event would be postponed until further notice.[7] The tournament was going to commence on 10–15 December 2021. Although, for a second time, the event was postponed.[8] [9] After multiple postponements, Cairo, Egypt was given the hosting rights on the 13 September 2022 for the 2023 edition.[3] This marks Egypt's first time organising the event.

Teams

Host (1)

Participating teams (12)

Venue

The venue was the New Capital Sports Hall in the New Administrative Capital, near Cairo.[10] Despite the tournament being held just outside of Cairo, the event was still called Cairo 2023.

New Administrative Capital
New Capital Sports Hall
Capacity: 7,500

Broadcasting rights

Every game was broadcast on the World ParaVolley YouTube channel.

Squads

Squads ranged from 8 to 14 players for the tournament.[11]

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

Group D

Knockout stage

5–8 classification bracket

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.[12]

RankTeam
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
width=10px bgcolor=#ccffccTeam Qualified for the 2024 Paralympics

Awards

The awards were as follows:

MVP

  • Davoud Alipourian

Best Setter

  • Davoud Alipourian

Best Attacker

  • Hesham Salahadeen Abdel Maksod

Best Receiver

  • Meisam Ali Pour

Best Server

  • Elsayed Moussa Saad Moussa

Best Blocker

  • Dominik Marcel Albrecht

Best Libero

  • Abdelnaby Hassan Ahmed Abdellatif

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20230628060901/https://www.worldparavolley.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Sitting-Volleyball-Magazine-FINAL-WEBSITE-ONLINE-ONLY.pdf
  2. https://sittingvolleyball.wordpress.com/
  3. Web site: Cairo to host the Sitting Volleyball World Cup in 2023 < World ParaVolley. September 13, 2022.
  4. Web site: 2023 WPV Sitting Volleyball World Cup Day 8: Iran and China earn top podium finishes in Cairo < World ParaVolley. November 18, 2023.
  5. Web site: Coronavirus - 2020 Sitting Volleyball World Cup < World ParaVolley. January 30, 2020.
  6. Web site: New host for the 2020 Sitting Volleyball World Cup announced < World ParaVolley. February 24, 2020.
  7. Web site: Announcement: Postponement of the 2020 World Cup in Egypt < World ParaVolley. March 12, 2020.
  8. Web site: Cairo to close 2021 with Sitting Volleyball World Cup < World ParaVolley. July 27, 2021.
  9. Web site: 2021 Sitting Volleyball World Cup postponed < World ParaVolley. September 17, 2021.
  10. Web site: لأول مرة فى التاريخ.. مصر تتأهل للدور النهائي من كأس العالم للكرة الطائرة البارالمبية | المصري اليوم.
  11. Web site: 2023 WPV Sitting Volleyball World Cup < World ParaVolley.
  12. Web site: Penultimate men’s and women’s teams secure positions for Paris 2024 < World ParaVolley. February 4, 2024.