| Competition: | Sitting Volleyball World Cup – Women's event |
| Gender: | svbw |
| Continent: | Europe |
| Year: | 2023 |
| Size: | 275 |
| City: | Cairo |
| Dates: | 12–18 November |
| Teams: | 10 |
| Confederations: | 4 |
| Venues: | 1 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Champions: | CHN |
| Second: | CAN |
| Third: | BRA |
| Fourth: | GER |
| Matches: | 33 |
| Website: | Cairo 2023 |
| Last: | 2016 Sitting Volleyball World Cup – Women's event |
| Next: | 2025 Sitting Volleyball World Cup – Women's event |
The 2023 Sitting Volleyball World Cup – Women's event was for the first time held in Cairo, Egypt.[1] The winners or highest ranked team not yet qualified, will advance to the 2024 Summer Paralympics. The reigning champions are United States, but they didn't enter this time around. China won the title, dispatching Canada 3–1 in the final.[2]
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.[1] This marks Egypt's first time organising the event.
Host (1)
Participating teams (9)
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 | ||
Every game was broadcast on the World ParaVolley YouTube channel.
Squads ranged from 7 to 14 players for the tournament.[11]
10 teams are split into two group of five. The top four in each group plays in the Quarterfinals, while the bottom team in each group plays in the classification match.
| Rank | Team | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | ||
| 5 | ||
| 6 | ||
| 7 | ||
| 8 | ||
| 9 | ||
| 10 |
| width=10px bgcolor=#ccffcc | Team Qualified for the 2024 Paralympics |
The awards were as follows:
MVP
Heidi Amanda PetersBest Setter
Sarah Anne MelenkaBest Attacker
Xu YixiaoBest Receiver
Su LimeiBest Server
Heidi Amanda PetersBest Blocker
Janaina Petit CunhaBest Libero