Chicago, USA, July 18, 2019 - The six teams participating in the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Nations League Finals in Chicago from July 10-14 played 10 matches at the highest level of international volleyball, keeping fans at the Credit Union 1 Arena and around the world on tenterhooks until the very last moment of the very last match.
Bartosz Bednorz of Poland was the leading scorer of the Men's Finals with a total of 79 points, ahead of USA's Matt Anderson, who top scored for his team in the semifinals and final.
USA middle blocker Max Holt had a standout Finals with an average of 1.06 blocks per set.
Russia's Egor Kliuka scored a total of 8 aces, which put him on the highest number of aces per set during the Finals.
Men's VNL Finals: All the stats
Best scorers
1. Bartosz Bednorz (POL): 79 points (65 spikes, 8 blocks, 6 serves)
2. Matthew Anderson (USA): 57 points (50, 3, 4)
3. Taylor Sander (USA): 53 (46, 2, 5)
4. Wallace De Souza (BRA): 52 (46, 4, 2)
5. Ricardo Lucarelli (BRA): 49 (38, 1, 10)
6. Karol Klos (POL): 48 (28, 13, 7)
7. Victor Poletaev (RUS): 45 (38, 5, 2)
8. Ivan Iakovlev (RUS): 44 (27, 13, 4)
Egor Kliuka (RUS): 44 (27, 9, 8)
10. Yoandy Leal (BRA): 41 (33, 4, 4)
Amir Ghafour (IRI): 41 (33, 5, 3)
Norbert Huber (POL): 41 (23, 14, 4)
Poland's Bartosz Bednorz responds to questions during the Men's VNL Finals in Chicago
Best spikers
1. Taylor Sander (USA): 80 total attempts, 57.50 success percentage
2. Bartosz Bednorz (POL): 124, 52.42%
3. Dmitry Volkov (RUS): 61, 50.82%
4. Milad Ebadipour (IRI): 53, 49.06%
5. Matthew Anderson (USA): 102, 49.02%
6. Victor Poletaev (RUS): 80, 47.50%
7. Egor Kliuka (RUS): 57, 47.37%
8. Yoandy Leal (BRA): 72, 45.83%
9. Ricardo Lucarelli (BRA): 84, 45.24%
10. Jean Patry (FRA): 60, 45%
Best blockers:
1. Maxwell Holt (USA): 53 total attempts, 1.06 average blocks per set
2. Ivan Iakovlev (RUS): 50, 0.93
3. Seyed Mousavi (IRI): 39, 0.89
4. Norbert Huber (POL): 51, 0.88
5. Karol Klos (POL): 56, 0.81
6. Egor Kliuka (RUS): 27, 0.64
7. Ilyas Kurkaev (RUS): 41, 0.64
8. Amir Ghafour (IRI): 18, 0.56
9. Bartosz Bednorz (POL): 33, 0.50
10. Aliasghar Mojarad (IRI): 11, 0.44
Best servers:
1. Egor Kliuka (RUS): 8 aces in total, 0.57 average aces per set
2. Ricardo Lucarelli (BRA): 10, 0.56
3. Bartosz Kwolek (POL): 7, 0.44
4. Karol Klos (POL): 7, 0.44
5. Thibault Rossard (FRA): 3, 0.43
6. Bartosz Bednorz (POL): 6, 0.38
7. Milad Ebadipour (IRI): 3, 0.33
Seyed Mousavi (IRI): 3, 0.33
Amir Ghafour (IRI): 3, 0.33
10. Taylor Sander (USA): 5, 0.31
Best diggers:
1. Saeid Marouf (IRI): 37 total attempts, 2.67 per set
2. Jakub Popiwczak (POL): 52, 1.81
3. Mohammadreza Hazratpourtalatappeh (IRI): 29, 1.78
4. Nicolas Rossard (FRA): 31, 1.71
5. Valentin Golubev (RUS): 41, 1.71
6. Erik Shoji (USA): 48, 1.50
7. Purya Fayazi (IRI): 14, 1.22
8. Dmitry Volkov (RUS): 23, 1.21
9. Marcin Komenda (POL): 37, 1.19
10. Bartosz Kwolek (POL): 41, 1.19
Best setters:
1. Saeid Marouf (IRI): 203 total attempts, 7.89 per set
2. Micah Christenson (USA): 293, 6.31
3. Marcin Komenda (POL): 291, 5.75
4. Fernando Kreling (BRA): 208, 4.39
5. Igor Kobzar (RUS): 216, 4.07
6. Bruno Rezende (BRA): 181, 3.50
7. Benjamin Toniutti (FRA): 72, 2.14
Antoine Brizard (FRA): 87, 2.14
9. Dmitry Kovalev (RUS): 62, 1.36
10. Marcin Janusz (POL): 45, 0.50
Best receivers:
1. Thales Hoss (BRA): 106 total attempts, 19.81 efficiency percentage
2. Erik Shoji (USA): 61, 18.03%
3. Taylor Sander (USA): 74, 16.22%
4. Valentin Golubev (RUS): 79, 13.92%
5. Bartosz Kwolek (POL): 113, 11.50%
6. Dmitry Volkov (RUS): 53, 11.32%
7. Purya Fayazi (IRI): 45, 11.11%
8. Egor Kliuka (RUS): 55, 10.91%
9. Mohammadreza Hazratpourtalatappeh (IRI): 51, 7.84%
10. Ricardo Lucarelli (BRA): 74, 6.76%