FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 16/05/2019

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00:01:57 1 History
00:02:07 1.1 Origins
00:04:47 1.2 Winners
00:06:57 2 Competition formula
00:09:51 3 Results summary
00:10:01 4 Medals summary
00:10:11 5 Participating nations
00:10:51 6 MVP by edition
00:11:31 7 See also



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SUMMARY
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The FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup is an international volleyball competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. Initially the tournament was played in the year following the Olympic Games, except for 1973 when no tournament was held, but since 1991 the World Cup has been awarded in the year preceding the Olympic Games. The current champion is United States, which won its second title at the 2015 tournament.
The current format of the competition involves 12 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation Japan, competing in the tournament phase for the title at venues within the host nation over a period of about two weeks. The World Cup (with exception of the 2019 edition) acts as the first qualification event for the following year's Olympic Games with the top two teams qualifying.
The 13 World Cup tournaments have been won by six different national teams. Russia have won six times (four as Soviet Union). The other World Cup winners are Brazil and United States, with two titles each; and Cuba, Italy and Germany (as East Germany), with one title each.
This tournament should not be confused with the FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship.