2015 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix

2015 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix

Competition	World Grand Prix
Gender	women
Continent	World
Year	2015
Size	290px
City	Omaha (Group 1 Final)
Dates	26 June – 2 August
Teams	28
Confederations	5
Venues	20
Cities	20
Champions	USA
Title number	6
Second	RUS
Third	BRA
Fourth	CHN
Mvp	Karsta Lowe
Outside spikers	Natalia Pereira Kelsey Robinson
Opposite spiker	Nataliya Goncharova
Middle blockers	Juciely Cristina Barreto Christa Harmotto
Setter	Molly Kreklow
Libero	Anna Malova
Matches	121
Best scorer	Uslupehlivan (159 points)
Best spiker	Zhu (54.10%)
Best blocker	Juciely (1.17)
Best server	Hill (0.43)
Best setter	Tomkom (9.13)
Best digger	Courtois (3.00)
Best receiver	Gabi (53.85%)
Website	[1]
Last	2014 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix
Next	2016 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix

The 2015 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix was the 23rd edition of the annual women's international volleyball tournament played by 28 countries from 26 June to 2 August 2015. This was the first time that the Group 1 final round was held in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.

Qualification

• All 28 teams of the 2014 edition directly qualified.
• withdrew from the tournament.
• qualified through the 2014 Pan-American Cup.

Africa	Asia and Oceania	Europe	North America	South America

Format

• The second time, the World Grand Prix will feature 28 teams.
• During the Intercontinental Round, Pools A to O will play matches in three stand-alone tournaments, for a total of 9 matches per team. Pool P to S will feature two stand-alone tournaments, for a total of 6 matches per team.
• Six teams will qualify for the World Grand Prix Finals featuring the top five teams from all matches (if the hosts are one of the top five teams, then the sixth top team also participates).
• The last ranked team of Group 1 after the Intercontinental Round could be relegated if the winner of the Final Four of Group 2 can meet the promotion requirements set by the FIVB.

Pools composition

The pools composition was announced on 1 December 2014.^[1]

Group 1			Group 2		Group 3
Week 2					Week 1
Pool A Thailand	Pool B China	Pool C Turkey	Pool J Croatia	Pool K Puerto Rico	Pool N Kazakhstan	Pool O Mexico
Week 3					Week 2
Pool D Brazil	Pool E Japan	Pool F Russia	Pool L Argentina	Pool M Bulgaria	Pool P Peru	Pool Q Algeria
Week 4			Final round
Pool G Italy	Pool H Hong Kong	Pool I Germany	Group 3 (Week 3) Australia	Group 2 (Week 6) Poland	Group 1 (Week 5) United States

Competition schedule

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Intercontinental round

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Final round

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6
Group 1		18 matches	18 matches	18 matches	15 matches
Group 2		12 matches	12 matches			4 matches
Group 3	12 matches	12 matches	4 matches

Squads

There are 25 players in team rosters. Maximum of 12 regular players and maximum of 2 liberos can be selected to play in each week. The full rosters of 25 players of each team can be seen in the article below.

Pool standing procedure

1. Number of matches won
2. Match points
3. Sets ratio
4. Points ratio
5. If the tie continues as per the point ratio between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the last match between them. When the tie in points ratio is between three or more teams, a new classification of these teams in the terms of points 1, 2 and 3 will be made taking into consideration only the matches in which they were opposed to each other.

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

Intercontinental round

• All times are local.

Group 1

Week 2

Pool A

• Venue: Indoor Stadium Huamark, Bangkok, Thailand

Pool B

• Venue: Beilun Gymnasium, Ningbo, China

Pool C

• Venue: Başkent Volleyball Hall, Ankara, Turkey

Week 3

Pool D

• Venue: Ginásio do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil

Pool E

• Venue: Saitama City Memorial Gymnasium, Saitama, Japan

Pool F

• Venue: DS Yantarny, Kaliningrad, Russia

Week 4

Pool G

• Venue: PalaCatania, Catania, Italy

Pool H

• Venue: Hong Kong Coliseum, Hong Kong, China

Pool I

• Venue: Porsche-Arena, Stuttgart, Germany

Group 2

Week 2

Pool J

• Venue: Žatika Sport Centre, Poreč, Croatia

Pool K

• Venue: Guillermo Angulo Coliseum, Carolina, Puerto Rico

Week 3

Pool L

• Venue: Estadio Cincuentenario, Formosa, Argentina

Pool M

• Venue: Arena Samokov, Samokov, Bulgaria

Group 3

Week 1

Pool N

• Venue: Zhastar Sports Palace, Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan

Pool O

• Venue: Gimnasio Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico

Week 2

Pool P

• Venue: Coliseo Gran Chimu, Trujillo, Peru

Pool Q

• Venue: Salle omnisports Cheraga, Chéraga, Algeria

Final round

Group 3

• Venue: AIS Arena, Canberra, Australia
• All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10:00).

Group 2

• Venue: Hala Globus, Lublin, Poland
• All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).

Group 1

Week 5 (Final Six)

• Venue: CenturyLink Center Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, United States
• All times are Central Daylight Time (UTC−05:00).

Final standing

Rank	Team
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28

14-woman Roster for Group 1 Final Round

Kayla Banwarth, Courtney Thompson, Tamari Miyashiro, Lauren Gibbemeyer, Jordan Larson, Megan Hodge, Kelly Murphy, Christa Harmotto (c), Kimberly Hill, Foluke Akinradewo, Molly Kreklow, TeTori Dixon, Kelsey Robinson, Karsta Lowe

Head coach

Karch Kiraly

Awards

• Most valuable player

  Karsta Lowe

• Best Outside Hitters

  Natalia Pereira

  Kelsey Robinson

• Best setter

  Molly Kreklow

• Best Middle Blockers

  Juciely Cristina Barreto

  Christa Harmotto

• Best libero

  Anna Malova

• Best Opposite

  Nataliya Obmochaeva

Statistics

The statistics of each group follows the vis reports P2 and P3. The statistics include 6 volleyball skills, serve, receive, set, spike, block, and dig. The table below shows the top 5 ranked players in each skill plus top scorers as of 2 August 2015.^[2][3][4]

Best scorers

The best scorers determined by players who scored points from spike, block, and serve.

	GROUP 1		GROUP 2		GROUP 3
Rank	Name	Points	Name	Points	Name	Points
1	Polen Uslupehlivan	159	Karina Ocasio	123	Angela Leyva	137
2	Zhu Ting	157	Tabitha Love	104	Mercy Moim	127
3	Nataliya Obmochaeva	147	Michaela Mlejnkova	90	Melissa Vargas	121
4	Maren Brinker	136	Stephanie Enright	88	Amanda Coneo	105
5	Onuma Sittirak	136	Helena Havelkova	83	Cindy Ramirez	87

Best spikers

The best spikers determined by players who successfully spike in percentage (%success).

	GROUP 1		GROUP 2		GROUP 3
Rank	Name	%succ	Name	%succ	Name	%succ
1	Zhu Ting	54.10	Judith Pietersen	57.89	Melissa Vargas	51.31
2	Karsta Lowe	51.37	Lonneke Slöetjes	52.88	Jennifer Alvarez	50.52
3	Hui Ruoqi	46.31	Anne Buijs	49.54	Cindy Ramirez	47.89
4	Zeng Chunlei	45.89	Maret Grothues	44.34	Sana Anarkulova	44.85
5	Nataliya Obmochaeva	43.75	Leticia Boscacci	40.56	Brackcides Khadambi	41.78

Best blockers

The best scorers determined by players who had the most numbers of stuff block divided by numbers of sets which her team played (average stuff block/set).

	GROUP 1		GROUP 2		GROUP 3
Rank	Name	Avg/set	Name	Avg/set	Name	Avg/set
1	Juciely Cristina Barreto	1.17	Zuzanna Efimienko	1.38	Ruth Jepngetich	1.12
2	Ana Carolina da Silva	1.03	Mira Todorova	0.88	Daymara Lescay	1.05
3	Xinyue Yuan	0.97	Agnieszka Kąkolewska	0.81	Sophie Godfrey	0.93
4	Kübra Akman	0.85	Karina Ocasio	0.80	Daniela Montaño	0.92
5	Laura Heyrman	0.72	Lucille Charuk	0.79	Clarivett Yllescas	0.85

Best servers

The best scorers determined by players who had the most numbers of ace serve divided by numbers of sets which her team played (average ace serve/set).

	GROUP 1		GROUP 2		GROUP 3
Rank	Name	Avg/set	Name	Avg/set	Name	Avg/set
1	Kimberly Hill	0.43	Jennifer Lundquist	0.46	Melissa Vargas	0.71
2	Charlotte Leys	0.41	Michaela Mlejnkova	0.44	Jennifer Álvarez	0.62
3	Xinyue Yuan	0.41	Tamara Kaliszuk	0.43	Carla Rueda	0.46
4	Haruyo Shimamura	0.34	Anna Grejman	0.43	Safia Boukhima	0.46
5	Dani Lins	0.31	Aleksandra Sikorska	0.38	Yeisy Soto	0.42

Best setters

The best scorers determined by players who had the most numbers of running set divided by numbers of sets which her team played (average running set/set).

	GROUP 1		GROUP 2		GROUP 3
Rank	Name	Avg/set	Name	Avg/set	Name	Avg/set
1	Nootsara Tomkom	9.13	Petya Barakova	5.15	Fatima Zahra Oukazi	7.38
2	Dani Lins	9.02	Vilmarie Mojica	5.12	Yamila Hernandez Santas	7.33
3	Chizuru Kotō	8.69	Laura Dijkema	4.43	Maria Alejandra Marin	7.00
4	Shen Jingsi	7.78	Natalia Piekarczyk	4.09	Jazmin Hernandez	6.48
5	Ofelia Malinov	6.13	Jennifer Lundquist	3.79	Zoila La Rosa	6.12

Best diggers

The best scorers determined by players who had the most numbers of excellent dig divided by numbers of sets which her team played (average excellent dig/set).

	GROUP 1		GROUP 2		GROUP 3
Rank	Name	Avg/set	Name	Avg/set	Name	Avg/set
1	Valerie Courtois	3.00	Debora Seilhamer	3.48	Lizeth Lopez	2.83
2	Monica De Gennaro	2.38	Aleksandra Krzos	3.24	María Acosta	2.31
3	Els Vandesteene	2.14	Zhana Todorova	3.15	Nawal Mansouri	2.25
4	Charlotte Leys	2.10	Aurea Cruz	2.20	Brackcides Khadambi	2.00
5	Maren Brinker	2.00	Tesca Andrew-Wasylik	2.17	Camila Gomez	1.96

Best receivers

The best scorers determined by numbers of excellent receive minus fault receive in percentage (%efficient).

	GROUP 1		GROUP 2		GROUP 3
Rank	Name	%eff	Name	%eff	Name	%eff
1	Gabriela Guimarães	53.90	Stephanie Enright	42.86	Nawal Mansouri	53.44
2	Charlotte Leys	52.76	Aurea Cruz	41.72	Safia Boukhima	47.45
3	Sarina Koga	49.49	Eva Yaneva	37.79	Maguilaura Frias	47.18
4	Lucia Bosetti	46.60	Senna Ušić	36.76	Lizeth Lopez	44.67
5	Malika Kanthong	37.97	Helena Havelkova	32.70	Mercy Moim	42.31

References

1. ^ World Grand Prix Group 1 match schedule approved Archived 8 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine
2. ^ "Group 1 statistics". fivb.org. 2015-07-07.
3. ^ "Group 2 statistics". fivb.org. 2015-07-07.
4. ^ "Group 3 statistics". fivb.org. 2015-07-07.

External links

• Official Website