Bulgaria started the World Championship as the number 15 team in the World Ranking. Their incredible run to the silver medals that came with six victories in seven matches played, three of those against higher ranked teams, propelled them to number nine at the end of the competition, while their ranking score improved by as many as 58.40 points.
Portugal and Tunisia earned two wins each in their pools to advance to the eighthfinals of the World Championship and that was enough for a surge of six spots up the chart. The southwestern Europeans climbed from number 29 to number 23, while the northern Africans ascended from number 43 to number 37 in the World Ranking.
The team of Czechia, which unexpectedly made it all the way to the semifinals of the tournament and finished fourth, gained three positions in the ranking to reach 18th place.
Jumping two spots up each, Turkiye moved up to number 14, Belgium to number 15 and the Philippines to number 80.
USA, Slovenia, Argentina and Canada improved their rankings by one position each and took sixth, seventh, ninth and 11th place, respectively.
The top four teams of the World Ranking – leaders Poland, world champions Italy, Brazil and France – kept their positions from before the World Championship.
Algeria were the team that suffered the deepest dive. They lost all three of their matches in straight sets and that cost them as many as seven positions in the chart. From number 88 before the event in the Philippines, they fell to number 95. Also with three defeats on their World Championship records, Colombia and Libya dropped four spots each, to number 45 and number 79, respectively. Despite upsetting Iran in their opening match, Egypt also fell four spots down to number 27.
Germany, Iran and Ukraine each moved three spots down to number 11, number 16 and number 17, respectively, while Japan, Cuba, Romania, China and Chile descended two positions each to number seven, number 12, number 24, number 28 and number 29, respectively. The teams that fell by one spot were Serbia to number 13, Finland to number 19, the Netherlands to number 20, Qatar to number 21 and Korea to number 26. The first three on that list actually net-gained ranking points during the World Championship, but were still surpassed by other teams in the ranking.
With their 58.40 points pocketed, Bulgaria also stood out as the best World Championship performer in terms of World Ranking points gained during the tournament. Turkiye came second with 41.36, followed by Belgium with 39.35, Czechia with 36.61, Italy with 17.00, the Netherlands with 14.16, Tunisia with 13,84, the Philippines with 10.03, Finland with 9.99, Portugal with 9.71, Argentina with 6.80, the United States with 4.85, and Serbia with 3.67.
The other 19 World Championship participants ended up with net point losses. In terms of points lost during the event, Japan stood out in this negative ranking with a net drop of 36.31, followed by France with 25.38, Romania with 21.78, Egypt with 20.38, Brazil with 18.03, China with 17.82, Cuba with 17.55, Germany with 16.94, Ukraine with 16.01, Chile with 14.24, Iran with 13.89, Slovenia with 12.37, Korea with 9.78, Poland with 9.18, Colombia with 7.83, Algeria with 4.95, Qatar with 1.46, Libya with 1.01, and Canada with 0.88.
