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2013 FIVB Women's U23 Volleyball World Championship

2013 FIVB Volleyball Women's U23 World Championship
Tournament details
Host nation  Mexico
Dates 5–12 October 2013
Teams 12
Venues 2
Champions  China (1st title)
MVP  Yao Di (CHN)
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The 2013 FIVB Volleyball Women's U23 World Championship was held in Tijuana and Mexicali, Mexico, for seven days from 5 to 12 October 2013. This was the first edition of the tournament. China won the tournament and Yao Di was selected Most Valuable Player.

The competition format saw the 12 teams split into two pools of six teams playing in round robin format. The semifinals featured the top two teams from each pool. The FIVB Volleyball Women’s U23 World Championship featured two countries per confederation plus the host Mexico and the highest country in the world rankings not already selected by their confederation, in this case USA.

Each Confederation was allowed to enter two teams into the competition, the qualification criteria was left to the discretion of each continental confederation.

First six teams were seeded according to their Senior World Ranking number as of October 2013, the other 6 were seeded by draw.



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