Russia conquers the world volleyball! After gaining gold in the Olympics and lifting the World League cup several weeks ago, fans in Russia can celebrate another success. This time, “Sborna” proved its domination among juniors having won the world championship. Russian boys claimed all game while the final occurred to be a simple roller trip for them. They killed off Brazil in three straight sets defending the trophy picked up in 2011. The MVP title was grabbed by Victor Poleteav.
FIVB Men’s Under 21 World Championships Final
Brazil – Russia 0 – 3 (16-25, 16-25, 20-25)
Brazil: Thiago Veloso 2, Douglas Souza 2, Flavio Gualberto 3, Alan Souza 14, Henrique Batagim 3, Leandro Santos 7, Rogerio Batista De Carvalho (L) and Madaloz Lucas 1, Leandro De Nascimento, Felipe Hernandez, Eduardo Barreto
Russia: Pavel Pankov 2, Ilya Nikitin 3, Ivan Demakov 11, Victor Poleteav 20, Egor Feoktistov 11, Ilyas Kurkaev 9 , Ilya Petrushov (L) and Alexander Goncharov
Russia took charge of the situation in the first set. With a solid contribution of eight points from left-handed opposite Victor Poletaev, the European team cruised to an impressive 25-16 to take the lead.
In the second set Brazil stepped up their blocking performance in search of a response, but so did Russia. Poletaev continued to fly as his team made another giant step towards the title with another convincing 25-16.
The South American side kept trying to find the stop button on the Russian machine with their opposite Alan Souza spiking one point after another, but there was no stopping to Victor Poletaev & Co. Russia continued to dominate through the end when captain Egor Feoktistov’s powerful spike registered the last point of the championship to stop the clock at 25-20.
Bronze Medal Match
Italy – France 3 – 1 (25-21, 25-16, 20-25, 28-26)
Top Scorers: Luca Borgogno 15, Gabriele Nelli 14, Enrico Diamanti 7; Julien Winkemuller 15, Trevor Clevenot 11, Moudine Mhoma 8
Italy managed to come from behind in the first set and win it by 25-21. They completely dominated in the second set and doubled their advantage after a convincing 25-16. However, the Italians lost some of their concentration in the third set, but still attacked successfully. France showed some great blocking to take the edge. They were the better team in the conclusive moments of the set to win it by 25-20. In set four France were cruising towards a tie-breaker as they had a six-point advantage at 21-15. However, they could not hold on to it and their opponents managed to catch up and level the score. France were ahead again at 24-23, but could not capitalise on three set points before an ace by Edoardo Picco and a successful block by Enrico Diamantini gave Italy the two break points they needed to win the set by 28-26 and the match by 3-1.
Classification 5 – 6
Iran – Turkey 3 – 1 (19-25, 25-21, 25-18, 25-18)
Top Scorers: Milad Ebadipour Ghara 19, Javad Hosseinabadi 12, Taghavi Seyedarash 12; Metin Toy 14, Burak Gungor 14, Koray Sahin 7
Classification 7 – 8
Argentina – India 3 – 2 (22-25, 23-25, 26-24, 25-19, 15-7)
Top Scorers: Gonzalo Quiroga 21, Joaquin Layus 7, Nicolas Lazo 7; Anup D’Costa 15, Kamur Sohan 12, Lavmeet Katariya 10
Classification 9 – 10
Serbia – Japan 3 – 0 (25-16, 25-21, 25-23)
Top Scorers: Uros Kovacevic 16, Mihajlo Stankovic 14, Drezan Luburic 14; Takahiko Imamura 9, Naoya Takano 8, Yuki Ishikawa 7
Classification 11 – 12
USA – Canada 3 – 0 (25-16, 25-17, 25-18)
Top Scorers: Michael Henchy 12, Benjamin Patch 7, Thomas Jaeschke 6; Michael Irland 10, Robert Gunter 10, John Goranson 5
Classification 13 – 14
Egypt – Tunisia 2 – 3 (25-17, 19-25, 25-23, 23-25, 7-15)
Top Scorers: Mohamed Masoud 19, Mostafa Abdelrahman 13, Islam Abdelkade 11; Mohamed Brahem 25, Malek Chekir 24, Elyse Garfi 15Classification 15 – 16
Classification 15 – 16
China – Mexico 3 – 2 (22-25, 24-26, 25-19, 25-20, 15-9)
Top Scorers: Zhenghu Liang 24, Tingwei Yan 19, Zhen Qin 14; Roberto Rincon 31, Julian Duarte 15, Cristian Limon 10
Individual Awards:
The Most Valuable Player: Victor Poleteav (Opposite, Russia)
Best team of the World Championship:
Setter: Murat Yenipazar (Turkey)
Opposite: Alan Souza (Brazil)
Outside Spikers: Egor Feoktistov (Russia), Thibault Rossard (France)
Middle Blockers: Edoardo Picco (Italy), Ilyas Kurkaev (Russia)
Libero: Alperay Demirciler (Turkey)
FIVB Under 21 Volleyball World Championships Turkey 2013 Final Standing:
- Russia
- Brazil
- Italy
- France
- Iran
- Turkey
- Argentina
- India
- Serbia
- Japan
- USA
- Canada
- Tunisia
- Egypt
- China
- Mexico
- Estonia
- Morocco
- Venezuela
- Rwanda
The Growing Star Profile
Name: Trevor Clevenot
Nation: France
Position: Outside-hitter
Birth date: 28.06.1994
Height: 198 cm
Weight 90 kg
Spike reach: 340 cm
Block reach: 312 cm
Hand: Right
Actual Club: TOAC-TUC Toulouse
Descriptions: FIVB
