France’s Antoine Brizard gained the MVP award in a global volleyball match for the primary time
France will play in entrance of their dwelling followers on the Paris 2024 Video games in a number of weeks as not solely the defending Olympic champions, but additionally the reigning Volleyball Nations League gold medalists after they triumphed within the sixth version of the match, which got here to an finish on Sunday, in Łódź.
The French accomplished their VNL 2024 marketing campaign in a powerful method, taking down the second-best crew within the FIVB World Rankings, Japan, 3-1 (25-23, 18-25, 25-23, 25-23) in a packed Atlas Area. Hosts Poland completed third and accomplished the rostrum.
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With the victory, the Europeans returned to the highest of the rostrum within the VNL after first profitable gold in 2022 – additionally they claimed silver in 2018 and bronze in 2021. The gold medal match triumph additionally moved France as much as fourth place within the World Rankings, with 344.00 factors.
France had ups and downs in the course of the Preliminary Part, advancing to the VNL Finals in sixth place with eight wins and 4 losses, however discovered their rhythm in Łódź, beating the highest three groups within the World Rating to earn the best to elevate the trophy.
Regardless of the setback within the last match of the match, Japan even have cause to have fun as, in addition to enhancing from their historic bronze-medal-winning marketing campaign from 2023, the Asians additionally returned to the gold medal match of a significant worldwide match for the primary time since they took silver on the 1977 FIVB World Cup. After the conclusion of the VNL, Japan seem in second place within the World Rankings with 361.02 factors.
Poland safe fifth-straight medal
A couple of hours earlier than the ultimate, Poland gifted the over 10,000 followers that packed the Atlas Area with one other VNL medal, their fifth in as a few years, by topping Slovenia, one of the best crew within the Preliminary Part, 3-0 (26-24, 25-16, 25-17) within the bronze medal match.
10,000 followers gathered within the Atlas Area that evening
The Polish, who took gold in 2023, silver in 2021 and bronze in 2019 and 2022, additionally retained the highest spot within the World Rankings forward of the beginning of the Paris Olympics, including 6.26 factors to their new whole of 422.61. Slovenia, who had moved all the way in which as much as third place, at the moment are fifth, with 340.39.
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Slovenia, who made their first Closing 4 look within the VNL this season, proceed to chase their first medal.
VNL 2024 Dream Crew
France have one of many strongest setter duos in worldwide males’s volleyball and one among their two expert playmakers, 30-year-old Antoine Brizard, was instrumental within the crew’s victory on the Volleyball Nations League 2024. It was the primary time that Brizard gained the MVP award in a global volleyball match.
Additionally picked as one of the best in his place, the setter was one among three French gamers chosen for the VNL 2024 Dream Crew, alongside reverse Jean Patry and center blocker Nicolas Le Goff. Runners-up Japan, with exterior hitter Yuki Ishikawa and libero Tomohiro Yamamoto, and third-placed Poland, with exterior hitter Tomasz Fornal and center blocker Jakub Kochanowski, had every two members of the perfect lineup.
VNL 2024 Dream Crew
Most Beneficial Participant: Antoine Brizard (France)
Greatest Setter: Antoine Brizard (France)
Greatest Reverse: Jean Patry (France)
Greatest Exterior Hitters: Yuki Ishikawa (Japan) and Tomasz Fornal (Poland)
Greatest Center Blockers: Nicolas Le Goff (France) and Jakub Kochanowski (Poland)
Greatest Libero: Tomohiro Yamamoto (Japan)
Paris Olympics up subsequent
With the tip of the VNL 2024, the 4 semifinalists and the opposite eight males’s nationwide groups certified will now have slightly below 4 weeks to finalize their preparations for the Paris Olympics, which could have its first matches held on the South Paris Area on July 27.
Subsequent 12 months’s version of the VNL could have a brand new format, increasing from 16 to 18 groups per gender – the winners of the 2024 Volleyball Challenger Cup and the highest-placed groups within the FIVB Males’s and Ladies’s Volleyball World Rating not but certified will be a part of the VNL 2025. Subsequent 12 months’s VNL will go from June 4 to July 27 for the ladies and from June 11 to August 3 for the lads.
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