FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship
Current season, competition or edition: 2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship
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| Sport | Volleyball |
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| Founded | 1952 |
| Inaugural season | 1952 |
| CEO |
 Ary Graça
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| No. of teams | 24 (Finals) |
| Continent | International (FIVB) |
| Most recent champion(s) |
 United States (1st title) |
| Most titles |
 Russia (7 titles) |
| Official website | FIVB Volleyball World Championships |
The FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship is an international volleyball competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The initial gap between championships was variable, but since 1970 they have been awarded every four years. The current champions are the United States, which won their first title at the 2014 tournament in Italy.
The current format of the competition involves a qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase, which is often called the World Championship Finals. 24 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation(s), compete in the tournament phase for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month.
The 17 World Championship tournaments have been won by six different national teams. Russia have won seven times (five as Soviet Union). The other World Championship winners are Japan and Cuba, with three titles each; China, with two titles; and Italy, and United States, with one title each.
The 2014 World Championship took place in Italy. The next World Championship will be hosted again by Japan in 2018.
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