Men's volleyball world championship 1994

The 1994 men's volleyball world championship took place in Greece from September 29th to October 8th . Italy defended the title they won for the first time in the previous tournament. For the first time in World Cup history, no team from Eastern Europe made it into the medal ranks. The games were played in Athens and Thessaloniki .

mode

The sixteen participants played in four groups of four in the first round. The group runners-up and third reached the last sixteen, the winners of which met the group winners in the quarter-finals. With the other knockout games in the semifinals and final, the new world champion was determined.

game schedule

First round

Group A in Athens space team S. N sentences 1.  Greece 3 0 9: 2 2.  Russia 2 1 8: 5 3.  Canada 1 2 5: 6 4th  Algeria 0 3 0: 9

Group B in Athens space team S. N sentences 1.  United States 3 0 9: 3 2.  Brazil 2 1 8: 5 3.  Germany 1 2 4: 7 4th  Argentina 0 3 3: 9

September 29th Russia Algeria 3-0 Greece Canada 3-0 30. September Russia Canada 3: 2 Greece Algeria 3-0 October 1 Canada Algeria 3-0 Greece Russia 3: 2

September 29th United States Germany 3: 1 Brazil Argentina 3: 2 30. September United States Argentina 3-0 Brazil Germany 3-0 October 1 Germany Argentina 3: 1 United States Brazil 3: 2

Group C in Thessaloniki space team S. N sentences 1.  Italy 2 1 8: 3 2.  Bulgaria 2 1 6: 4 3.  Japan 1 2 4: 8 4th  People's Republic of China 1 2 3: 6

Group D in Thessaloniki space team S. N sentences 1.  Cuba 3 0 9: 2 2.  Netherlands 2 1 6: 5 3.  South Korea 1 2 6: 8 4th  Sweden 0 3 3: 9

September 29th Bulgaria Japan 3: 1 Italy China 3-0 30. September China Japan 3-0 Italy Bulgaria 3-0 October 1 Bulgaria China 3-0 Japan Italy 3: 2

September 29th Cuba South Korea 3: 2 Netherlands Sweden 3: 1 30. September Netherlands South Korea 3: 1 Cuba Sweden 3-0 October 1 South Korea Sweden 3: 2 Cuba Netherlands 3-0

Placement games

Germany played with Robert Dellnitz , Michael Dornheim , Matthias Häberlein , René Hecht , Bogdan Jalowietzki , Holger Kleinbub , Wolfgang Kuck , Marco Liefke , Christian Metzger , Frank Reimann , Frank Stutzke and Ronald Triller .

	Round of 16 October 4th				Quarterfinals October 5th				Semi-finals October 7th				Final October 8th
					United States	3
					South Korea	0
	South Korea	3
	Bulgaria	1
									United States	2
									Netherlands	3
					Netherlands	3
					Greece	0
	Netherlands	3
	Japan	0
													Netherlands	1
													Italy	3
	Russia	3
	Germany	0
					Italy	3
					Russia	1
									Italy	3
									Cuba	1			3rd place match
					Cuba	3							United States	3
					Brazil	2							Cuba	1
	Brazil	3
	Canada	0

	Placement games 5-8				Play for 5th place
	October 7th
	Brazil	3
	Russia	0
					8th October
					Brazil	3
					Greece	0
					Game for 7th place
	October 7th				8th October
	Greece	3			Russia	3
	South Korea	1			South Korea	0

Final score

1.	Italy
2.	Netherlands
3.	United States
4th	Cuba
5.	Brazil
6th	Greece
7th	Russia
8th.	South Korea
9.	Bulgaria
	Canada
	Germany
	Japan
13.	People's Republic of China
	Argentina
	Sweden
	Algeria

qualification

Host Greece and Brazil as Olympic champions in 1992 were automatically qualified. There were five more starting places for the best-placed teams in the last continental tournaments. In this way the Netherlands ( European Championship 1993 ), South Korea ( Asia ), Algeria ( Africa ), Cuba ( NORCECA ) and Argentina ( South America ) reached the final round. The group winners of six qualifying tournaments also made it to the finals in Greece. These were the German team (group A), which prevailed against Canada , Portugal and Hungary in Koblenz , as well as Bulgaria (group B in Granada ), the USA (group C in Paris ), Sweden (group D in Poland ), Russia ( Group E in Moscow ) and Canada (Group F in Tunis ). The last two starting positions went to China and Japan as winners of an Asian qualification.

Web links

• Results for Todor66 (English)