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FIVB World Grand Prix The FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix was an annual women's volleyball competition created in 1993. The men's version of the competition was called World League. This event should not be confused with the other international volleyball competitio ...

2007 was the fifteenth edition of the annual women's

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tournament, which is the female equivalent of the Men's Volleyball World League. The 2007 World Grand Prix lasted four weeks with a total number of 65 matches. During the first, second and third week each team played nine matches in total. Preliminary rounds were staged in Japan (3x), Italy, Poland, Macau, Hong Kong, Russia and Chinese Taipei. The final round was played in

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over five days and the best six teams from the preliminary rounds. A round robin system was played to decide the 2007 World Grand Prix Champion.

Qualification

Asia

*The top four Asian teams according to the

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Europe

*European Qualification Tournament in

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, from September 26 to October 1, 2006

Group A

Group B

Play-offs

Third place match

First place match

**''Russia, Netherlands, Italy and Poland qualified''

North and South America

* 2006 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup in

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from June 27 to July 8, 2006 ** ** ** **

Teams

Preliminary rounds

Ranking

The host China and top five teams in the preliminary round advance to the Final round.

First round

Group A

*Venue:

Tokyo, Japan Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

Group B

*Venue:

Verona, Italy Verona ( , ; vec, Verona or ) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the largest city municipality in the region and the second largest in n ...

Group C

*Venue:

Rzeszów Rzeszów ( , ; la, Resovia; yi, ריישא ''Raisha'')) is the largest city in southeastern Poland. It is located on both sides of the Wisłok River in the heartland of the Sandomierz Basin. Rzeszów has been the capital of the Subcarpathian ...

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Second round

Group D

*Venue:

Group E

*Venue:

Khabarovsk, Russia Khabarovsk ( rus, Хабaровск, a=Хабаровск.ogg, r=Habárovsk, p=xɐˈbarəfsk) is the largest city and the administrative centre of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia,Law #109 located from the China–Russia border, at the confluence of t ...

Group F

*Venue:

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a List of cities in China, city and Special administrative regions of China, special ...

Third round

Group G

*Venue:

Osaka, Japan is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2.7 ...

Group H

*Venue:

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Group I

*Venue:

Macau Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...

Final round

*Venue:

Final ranking

Overall ranking

Individual awards

*Most Valuable Player: ** *Best Spiker: ** *Best Blocker: ** *Best Server: ** *Best Libero: ** *Best Setter: ** *Best Scorer: **

References

FIVB

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