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    FIVB World Grand Prix continues growth with expansion to 20 teams in 2013


    Turkey will have the chance to defend their 2012 World Grand Prix bronze medal after being one of four new teams added to the 2013 edition

    Lausanne, Switzerland, December 2, 2012 – The premier annual FIVB women’s volleyball event - the World Grand Prix - will expand to 20 teams for the first time in 2013 following a decision by the World Grand Prix Council at its annual meeting at the FIVB head office in Lausanne, Switzerland on Sunday to add four new teams.

    The move follows the same decision by the World League Council on Saturday to increase the annual men’s tournament from 16 to 18 teams.

    The World Grand Prix Council, chaired by FIVB executive vice-president in charge of volleyball events Aleksandar Boricic, decided to add World Cup winners Italy (WR4), world champions Russia (WR6), 2012 World Grand Prix bronze medallists Turkey (WR7) and Germany (WR10) to the 16 teams already qualified to ensure all of the world’s top 10 world ranked nations will participate.


    FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix 2013 Qualified Teams

    Continent

    No. of Vacancies

    Determined By

    Teams Qualified

    Africa

    1

    To Be Confirmed

    To Be Confirmed

    Asia

    2

    AVC Cup

    Thailand (WR12), Kazakhstan (WR32)

    2

    Automatically Qualified

    Japan (WR3), China (WR5)

    Europe

    4

    European League

    Czech Republic (WR26), Bulgaria (WR44), the Netherlands (WR22), Serbia (WR9)

     

    4

    FIVB appointments

    Italy (WR4), Russia (WR6), Turkey (WR7), Germany (WR10)

    1

    Automatically Qualified

    Poland (WR15)

    NORCECA

    4

    Pan American Cup

    USA (WR1), Cuba(WR13), Dominican Republic(WR8), Puerto Rico(WR19)

    South America

    2

    Pan American Cup

    Brazil(WR2), Argentina(WR18)


    The World Grand Prix Council also approved the Preliminary Round schedule as per below.

    Date

    City/Teams

    City/Teams

    City/Teams

    City/Teams

    City/Teams

    Week 1

    Group A

    Group B

    Group C

    Group D

    Group E

    2-4 Aug

    Brazil

    Dominican Rep.

    Turkey

    Macau

    Italy

    2013

    BRA

    DOM

    JPN

    CHN

    ITA

     

     

    USA

    SRB

    THA

    CUB

    GER

     

     

    POL

    PUR

    TUR

    NED

    ARG

     

     

    RUS

    CZE

    CAVB

    BUL

    KAZ

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Week 2

    Group F

    Group G

    Group H

    Group  I

    Group  J

    9-11 Aug

    Serbia

    Puerto Rico

    Poland

    Hong Kong

    Russia

    2013

    USA

    BRA

    JPN

    CHN

    RUS

     

     

    SRB

    DOM

    GER

    TUR

    ITA

     

     

    NED

    PUR

    POL

    ARG

    THA

     

     

    CAVB

    BUL

    KAZ

    CZE

    CUB

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Week 3

    Group K

    Group L

    Group M

    Group N

    Group O

     16-18 Aug

    Kazakhstan

    Thailand

    Japan

    China

    Chinese Taipei

    2013

    BRA

    RUS

    USA

    CHN

    ITA

    CUB

    THA

    CZE

    SRB

    TUR

     

     

    NED

    GER

    JPN

    POL

    DOM

     

     

    KAZ

    PUR

    BUL

    ARG

    CAVB

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     


    The World Grand Prix Finals will return to Japan for the first time since 2009 and take place in Sapporo from August 28 to September 1. Japan has hosted the World Grand Prix Finals four times in the past with Sapporo being a fifth host city after Tokyo in 2009, Yokohama in 2008, Sendai in 2005 and Kobe in 1997.

    The tournament will run in accordance with previous years in terms of having round-robin tournaments and two matches per day. A more detailed match schedule will be released in the near future.

    Following the Preliminary Round, the organisers and the next best five teams will qualify for the Finals.

    The World Grand Prix featured eight teams in its debut season of 1993 and from 1995 to 2002, while 12 teams were in action in 1994 and from 2003 to 2010. Sixteen teams have been involved in the 2011 and 2012 editions.

    The FIVB Commission and Council meetings continue in Lausanne on Monday and Tuesday with the Sports Events Council.

     


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