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In the final in Katowice, Italy won 3-1 (22:25, 25:21, 25:18, 25:20) over host Poland, who became world champion four years ago in the Italian city of Turin.
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The Italians won all three world championships held in the 1990s, but remained medalless in the next five championships.
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Daniele Lavia was the top scorer of the Italian national team with 19 points, Alessandro Micheletto scored 14 points and Juri Romano scored 13 points. Aleksandrs Slivka scored 12 points for the Poles.
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Before that, in the bronze match, Brazil defeated Slovenia, the second host of the league, 3-1 (25:18, 25:18, 22:25, 25:18). Wallace de Souza provided 22 points to the Brazilians.
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Poland beat Brazil in five sets in the semi-finals on Saturday, while Italy beat Slovenia in three sets in the rerun of the European Championship final, which beat Ukraine led by Uģis Krastiņš in four sets in the quarter-finals.
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In the World Championship, 24 teams were divided into six groups. The top two winners, as well as the top four third place finishers, entered the round of 16 to determine the medal winners in the play-offs.
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Initially, the championship was supposed to take place in Russia, but after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia was deprived of this right. Due to the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, the Russian team was also disqualified from the world championship, which was taken by Ukraine, which was in first place in the world rankings.
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The world championships were held in Slovenia and Poland.
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