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2011 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup

Women's world cups 2011

Women's world cups 2011

FieldValue
competitionWomen's World Cup
continentWorld
year2011
size150
host
dates4–18 November
teams12
venues7
cities6
championsITA
title_number2
secondUSA
thirdCHN
mvpITA Carolina Costagrande
websiteOfficial website
last2007 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup
next2015 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup

The 2011 FIVB Women's World Cup was played from 4 to 18 November 2011 in Japan. The tournament was the first step in the qualification process for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. The top three teams qualified for the Olympics, and joined Great Britain as they had already secured a berth as the host country.

Qualification

12 teams participated in the World Cup:

  • The host nation's team.
  • The five champions of their respective continental championships in 2011.
  • Four highest-ranked second-place teams of their respective continental championships in 2011 (according to the FIVB World Ranking as of January 15, 2011).
  • Two wild cards chosen from among the participants of the continental championships in 2011.
CompetitionDateVenueQualifiedTotal12
Host country——
2011 African ChampionshipAugust 17–24, 2011KEN Nairobi
2011 NORCECA ChampionshipSeptember 12–17, 2011PUR Caguas
2011 Asian ChampionshipSeptember 15–23, 2011TPE Taipei
2011 European ChampionshipSep. 24 – Oct. 2, 2011SRB Serbia
ITA Italy
2011 South American ChampionshipSep. 28 – Oct. 2, 2011PER Callao
Wild cardOctober 5, 2011JPN Tokyo

FIVB World Ranking for second-place teams (as of January 15, 2011)

RankTeamContinent
10Europe
13NORCECA
15Africa
18Asia
25South America

Squads

Venues

RoundSite ASite B
1stHiroshima Sun Plaza, HiroshimaWhite Ring, Nagano
2ndHiroshima Sun Plaza, HiroshimaToyama City Gymnasium, Toyama
3rdHokkaido Prefectural Sports Center, SapporoMomotaro Arena, Okayama
4thYoyogi National Gymnasium, TokyoTokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, Tokyo

Format

The competition system of the 2011 World Cup for Women is the single Round-Robin system. Each team played once against each of the 11 remaining teams. Points were accumulated during the whole tournament, and the final ranking was determined by the total points gained.

The teams were divided into 2 groups of 6 teams each.

Rounds 1 + 2 (30 matches, 5 days): Teams played against teams in the same group

Rounds 3 + 4 (36 matches, 6 days): Teams played against teams in the other group

Pool standing procedure

  1. Match points

  2. Numbers of matches won

  3. Sets ratio

  4. Points ratio

Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 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

Results

First round

Site A

Site B

Second round

Site A

Site B

Third round

Site A

Site B

Fourth round

Site A

Site B

Final standing

RankTeam
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Awards

  • Most Valuable Player
  • : ITA Carolina Costagrande
  • Best scorer
  • : DOM Bethania de la Cruz
  • Best spiker
  • : USA Destinee Hooker
  • Best blocker
  • : GER Christiane Furst
  • Best server
  • : DOM Bethania de la Cruz
  • Best digger
  • : JPN Yuko Sano
  • Best setter
  • : JPN Yoshie Takeshita
  • Best receiver
  • : BRA Fabiana de Oliveira
  • Best libero
  • : KOR Nam Jie-youn

References

References

  1. "FIVB – World Cup wild cards announced". [[FIVB]].
  2. "FIVB Senior World Ranking – Women, As per January 15, 2011". [[FIVB]].
  3. [http://www.fivb.org/visasp/ShowImage.aspx?No=201136891&maxsize=500 MVP Carolina Costagrande] (Image)
  4. [http://www.fivb.org/visasp/ShowImage.aspx?No=201136894&maxsize=500 Awarding Ceremony] (Image)
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