Men's volleyball world championship 2014

The 2014 men's volleyball world championship took place in Poland from August 30th to September 21st . In addition to the host, 23 other teams took part. Poland beat defending champions Brazil 3-1 in the final and won their second World Cup title after 1974. It was the first victory of a World Cup host since 1966 (then Czechoslovakia ). Germany won the game for third place against France 3-0.

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The tournament began with a preliminary round in four groups (A – D) with six teams each. As in the following group matches, the internationally customary point scoring applied: In the event of a 3-0 or 3-1, the winner received three points, the loser received nothing. If the match was 3-2, there were two points for the winner and one for the loser. The four best teams in each group reached the second round, which was held in two groups (E and F) with eight participants each. Results against opponents from the first round have been adopted. The three best teams from each of the two groups reached the third round. There they were divided into two new groups (G and H). The two group winners of the second round were set. The two best teams in these groups qualified for the semi-finals, while the group third played for fifth place overall. The winners of the semi-finals played the final, the losers played for third place.

Video evidence was used for the first time at a world championship . The trainers were able to have the referee's decision checked twice in one sentence with a video challenge . Decisions about net and block contact as well as the question of whether the ball was out were affected. Before the World Cup, the system was tested at the 2012 Club World Cup and the 2013 World League Final .

game schedule

The draw for the first round took place on January 27, 2014 in Warsaw .

First round

Group A in Wroclaw team sentences Points BPQ 1  Poland 15: 1 15th 1.286 2  Serbia 12: 6 12 1.073 3  Argentina 10: 6 9 1.087 4th  Australia 7:11 5 0.967 5  Venezuela 5:13 4th 0.863 6th  Cameroon 3:15 0 0.832

Group B in Katowice team sentences Points BPQ 1  Brazil 15: 3 14th 1.215 2  Germany 12: 5 12 1.177 3  Finland 10: 8 8th 1.047 4th  Cuba 9:12 6th 0.961 5  South Korea 6:13 4th 0.884 6th  Tunisia 4:15 1 0.807

August 30 in Warsaw Poland Serbia 3-0 August 31 Venezuela Argentina 0: 3 Cameroon Australia 0: 3 September 2nd Argentina Serbia 1: 3 Venezuela Cameroon 3: 1 Australia Poland 0: 3 September 4th Cameroon Argentina 0: 3 Serbia Australia 3: 1 Poland Venezuela 3-0 September 6th Argentina Australia 3-0 Venezuela Serbia 0: 3 Cameroon Poland 1: 3 7th of September Australia Venezuela 3: 2 Serbia Cameroon 3: 1 Poland Argentina 3-0

September 1 Brazil Germany 3-0 Finland Cuba 3: 2 South Korea Tunisia 3: 1 September 3 Cuba Germany 0: 3 Finland South Korea 3-0 Tunisia Brazil 0: 3 5th September South Korea Cuba 1: 3 Germany Tunisia 3: 1 Brazil Finland 3-0 September 6th Cuba Tunisia 3: 2 Finland Germany 1: 3 South Korea Brazil 2: 3 7th of September Tunisia Finland 0: 3 Germany South Korea 3-0 Brazil Cuba 3: 1

Group C in Gdansk team sentences Points BPQ 1  Russia 15: 3 14th 1,236 2  Canada 12: 5 11 1.123 3  Bulgaria 13: 8 10 1.057 4th  People's Republic of China 6:11 6th 0.946 5  Mexico 5:14 2 0.837 6th  Egypt 5:15 2 0.880

Group D in Krakow team sentences Points BPQ 1  France 14: 7 12 1.073 2  Iran 13: 7 11 1,100 3  United States 12: 9 9 1,100 4th  Italy 9:12 5 0.976 5  Belgium 9:12 5 0.935 6th  Puerto Rico 3:13 3 0.807

September 1 Russia Canada 3-0 Mexico Bulgaria 0: 3 China Egypt 3: 1 September 3 Bulgaria Canada 2: 3 Mexico China 1: 3 Egypt Russia 0: 3 5th September China Bulgaria 0: 3 Canada Egypt 3-0 Russia Mexico 3: 1 September 6th Bulgaria Egypt 3: 2 Mexico Canada 0: 3 China Russia 0: 3 7th of September Egypt Mexico 2: 3 Canada China 3-0 Russia Bulgaria 3: 2

August 31 Italy Iran 1: 3 Belgium United States 2: 3 Puerto Rico France 0: 3 September 2nd United States Iran 2: 3 Belgium Puerto Rico 3-0 France Italy 2: 3 September 4th Puerto Rico United States 0: 3 Iran France 1: 3 Italy Belgium 3: 1 September 6th United States France 1: 3 Belgium Iran 1: 3 Puerto Rico Italy 3: 1 7th of September France Belgium 3: 2 Iran Puerto Rico 3-0 Italy United States 1: 3

Second round

Group E in Łódź and Bydgoszcz team sentences Points BPQ 1  France 19:11 17th 1.067 2  Poland 19: 8 16 1.119 3  Iran 18:11 15th 1.057 4th  United States 17:12 14th 1.063 5  Serbia 12:14 9 0.974 6th  Argentina 11:15 8th 0.946 7th  Italy 10:18 5 0.953 8th  Australia 4:21 0 0.822

Group F in Katowice and Wroclaw team sentences Points BPQ 1  Brazil 21: 2 21st 1,214 2  Russia 19: 6 17th 1.188 3  Germany 15: 8 15th 1.080 4th  Canada 12:13 10 1.025 5  Finland 9:17 6th 0.931 6th  Cuba 11:18 6th 0.910 7th  Bulgaria 8:18 5 0.884 8th  People's Republic of China 6:19 4th 0.863

September 10 Argentina France 1: 3 Serbia Italy 3-0 Poland United States 1: 3 Australia Iran 1: 3 September 11 Serbia United States 1: 3 Argentina Iran 0: 3 Poland Italy 3: 1 Australia France 1: 3 13.september Argentina Italy 3: 1 Serbia France 1: 3 Poland Iran 3: 2 Australia United States 0: 3 September 14th Serbia Iran 1: 3 Argentina United States 3: 2 Poland France 3: 2 Australia Italy 1: 3

September 10 Brazil Bulgaria 3-0 Finland Russia 0: 3 Germany China 3-0 Cuba Canada 2: 3 September 11 Brazil China 3-0 Finland Canada 0: 3 Germany Bulgaria 3: 1 Cuba Russia 1: 3 13.september Brazil Canada 3-0 Finland China 2: 3 Germany Russia 0: 3 Cuba Bulgaria 3-0 September 14th Brazil Russia 3: 1 Finland Bulgaria 3-0 Germany Canada 3-0 Cuba China 2: 3

Third round

The two groups of three were drawn after the last second-round game in Łódź .

Group G in Katowice team sentences Points BPQ 1  France 6: 2 5 1.116 2  Germany 3: 3 3 1.038 3  Iran 2: 6 1 0.867

Group H in Łódź team sentences Points BPQ 1  Poland 6: 4 4th 1.005 2  Brazil 5: 3 4th 1.084 3  Russia 2: 6 1 0.918

16th September France Germany 3-0 17th of September Iran Germany 0: 3 September 18 France Iran 3: 2

16th September Brazil Poland 2: 3 17th of September Russia Brazil 0: 3 September 18 Russia Poland 2: 3

Final round

	Semi-finals September 20th, Katowice				Final September 21, Katowice
	France	2
	Brazil	3
					Brazil	1
					Poland	3
					3rd place September 21, Katowice
	Poland	3			France	0
	Germany	1			Germany	3

Play for 5th place in Łódź
September 20th	Iran	Russia	0: 3

Placements

1.	Poland
2.	Brazil
3.	Germany
4th	France
5.	Russia
6th	Iran
7th	United States
	Canada
9.	Serbia
	Finland
11.	Argentina
	Cuba
13.	Bulgaria
	Italy
15th	People's Republic of China
	Australia
17th	Belgium
	South Korea
	Venezuela
	Mexico
21st	Puerto Rico
	Egypt
	Tunisia
	Cameroon

Individual awards

In addition to the medals, individual awards were given to the best players, each endowed with US $ 10,000 in prize money. The new world champion Poland provided the most valuable player in the tournament, who was also the best diagonal attacker. A Brazilian dominated the outside position. The best middle blocker and the best setter of the tournament played for Germany. The fourth-placed French team had the best libero. The Brazilian Murilo Endres as the second best outside attacker and Poland's middle blocker Karol Kłos completed the all-star team.

Most Valuable Player (MVP)	Mariusz Wlazły	Poland
best diagonal attacker	Mariusz Wlazły	Poland
best outside attacker	Lucarelli	Brazil
best blockers	Marcus Böhme	Germany
best libero	Jenia Grebennikov	France
best player	Lukas Kampa	Germany

Attendees

→ Main article : 2014 Men's Volleyball World Cup / Participants

Every national team that competed at the World Cup in Poland had a squad of fourteen players.

media

The broadcaster Sportdeutschland.TV, which was operated by the German Olympic Sports Confederation , showed all games of the volleyball World Cup 2014 in Germany as a live stream and on demand on the Internet. Sport1 acquired the license rights for the unencrypted transmission on German free TV of the semifinals between Germany and Poland as well as a possible final with German participation, but due to inconsistencies with the international rights that Sport1 has to comply with due to the unencrypted transmission via satellite, the unencrypted distribution prohibited by the rights holder Polsat. The ZDF , however, limited itself to short reports in the sports and news programs. Polsat broadcast the games in the host's country . World Cup games were broadcast in many other countries.

Venues

The World Cup was held in seven Polish cities. The games took place in Wroclaw , Bydgoszcz , Gdansk , Katowice , Krakow , Łódź and Warsaw . In the capital, the opening game was played in the Narodowy Stadium in Warsaw; the 62,000 tickets were sold within 100 minutes. The second largest venue was the multi-purpose hall in Czyżyny, a district of Krakow. It offered space for more than 15,300 spectators. Other games were played in the Atlas Arena in Łódż, the Ergo Arena on the city limits of Gdansk and Sopot , the Spodek multi-purpose hall in Katowice and the Łuczniczka hall in Bydgoszcz. The Spodek Arena in Katowice was also the venue for the final. With the Centennial Hall in Wroclaw, a UNESCO World Heritage site served as a World Cup backdrop.

A total of 563,263 viewers followed the 103 games in seven cities (average per game: 5,468). The total number means a new World Cup record. Four years earlier, 339,324 spectators came to the games in Italy.

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  Centennial Hall , Wroclaw

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  Łuczniczka , Bydgoszcz

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  Ergo Arena , Gdansk-Sopot

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  Spodek , Katowice

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  Tauron Arena Kraków , Krakow

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  Atlas Arena , Łódź

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  Narodowy Stadium , Warsaw

qualification

The continental qualifiers were played from April 2012 to June 2014. Poland was set as the host. 154 nations worldwide competed for the remaining 23 places in the final round.

Europe

Russia as European champions and the European championship finalist Italy were directly qualified. The remaining European teams identified six further participants in the qualification. In the first round in May 2013, 28 teams competed in seven groups. The group winners reached the third round, while the group runners-up played three more places in an additional round in October. The third round took place from January 3rd to 5th, 2014. The winners of the five groups of four and the best group runner-up qualified for the World Cup finals. The German team won its tournament in Ludwigsburg without losing a set. In addition, the teams from Belgium , Bulgaria , Finland and Serbia as well as the best group runner-up France qualified .

Africa

The African qualification was held in three stages. In the first round in July 2013, 33 teams competed in ten groups. The second round took place in October / November 2013 with 25 teams. In the third round, which was played in January 2014, the twelve best teams from the second round met three seeded teams. The three winners of the groups of five qualified for the World Cup. These were Egypt , Cameroon and Tunisia .

Asia

In Asia, qualification began in June 2013 with a preliminary round in the West Zone. Two teams from each of these three groups reached the first main round. There a total of 19 teams played in six groups in June / July. Ten participants in the second round qualified for the third round, which was also attended by six seeded teams in September. The winners of the four groups of four take part in the world championship. Australia , China , Iran and South Korea were successful .

North and Central America

NORCECA's qualification began in 2012. In the first round, eight tournaments were held in groups of four, in which 24 teams qualified for the second round. The second round with six groups was held in summer 2013. The six group winners and the four best runners-up reached the third round. There they formed four groups of four with six other teams who are placed in the NORCECA ranking list because of their position. These games were played from May 21 to June 30, 2014. The group winners qualified for the world championship. The fifth NORCECA participant was determined in a playoff round with the runners-up in the third round. The USA, Canada, Cuba, Mexico and Puerto Rico were successful.

South America

As the winner of the South American volleyball championship in 2013, Brazil was just as qualified as Argentina, which placed second . Four other teams determined the third participant in a tournament from September 13-15, 2013 in Colombia . Here sat Venezuela through.

Web links

Commons : Men's Volleyball World Cup 2014  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information from the FIVB (English)
• Media Guide of the FIVB (English)
• Overview of the qualification tournaments at the FIVB (English)
• Results of the European qualification at the CEV (English)
• Special for the World Cup at volleyballer.de (German)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volleyball World Cup: Germany sensationally wins bronze. Spiegel-online, September 22, 2014, accessed on September 22, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Men's World Cup: 25 referees and the challenge system. (No longer available online.) DVV, August 30, 2014, archived from the original on September 24, 2014 ; accessed on September 23, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Video Challenge System success at World League Finals. FIVB, accessed on September 23, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Men's World Cup: Two DVV stars in the World Cup team - prize money for Böhme and Kampa. (No longer available online.) DVV, September 21, 2014, archived from the original on September 24, 2014 ; accessed on September 23, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ ^{A b c} Celebrations in Poland after a record-breaking World Championship. FIVB, September 22, 2014, accessed on September 23, 2014 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Men's World Cup: All games live on www.sportdeutschland.tv. (No longer available online.) DVV, August 29, 2014, archived from the original on November 29, 2014 ; Retrieved August 29, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Men's World Cup: SPORT1 will broadcast the semi-finals GER - POL - live on free TV from 8.15 p.m. (No longer available online.) DVV, September 19, 2014, archived from the original on July 23, 2015 ; Retrieved September 19, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Men's World Cup: semi-finals not on Sport1. (No longer available online.) DVV, September 20, 2014, archived from the original on July 23, 2015 ; Retrieved September 20, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ ^{a b c} Volleyball World Cup: Looking forward to a volleyball festival in the volleyball Mecca. (No longer available online.) DVV, August 27, 2014, archived from the original on November 29, 2014 ; Retrieved August 29, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ International Television Broadcasters FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championships Poland 2014. (PDF) FIVB, accessed August 29, 2014 . 
11. ↑ CAVB: Africa determined the 5 representatives at Men's and Women's World Championships ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.