Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's European qualification

2016 European Olympic Qualification Tournament
Official website
CEV
Tournament details
Host nation  Turkey
Dates 4–9 January
Teams 8
Venues 1 (in 1 host city)
Champions  Russia (4th title)
MVP Russia Nataliya Obmochaeva
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The European qualification for the 2016 Women's Olympic Volleyball Tournament was held from 4 to 9 January 2016 in Ankara, Turkey.[1] Russia won the tournament by beating Netherlands 3–1, and qualified for the Olympic games. Nataliya Obmochaeva was selected the most valuable player.

Qualification

The host country played with the 7 highest CEV ranking teams which had not yet qualified to the Olympic games.[2][3] Numbers in brackets denoted the European ranking as of 5 October 2015 except the host which ranked 4th.[4]

Pools composition

The pools composition was announced on 23 October 2015 at the headquarters of CEV, Luxembourg.[5] It followed the Serpentine system according to their European ranking as of 5 October 2015.[4] CEV reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the European ranking.

Pool A Pool B
 Turkey  Russia
 Germany  Italy
 Netherlands  Belgium
 Croatia  Poland

Squads

Venue

Turkey Ankara, Turkey
Başkent Volleyball Hall
Capacity: 7,600

Pool standing procedure

  1. Number of matches won
  2. Match points
  3. Sets ratio
  4. Points ratio
  5. Result of the last match between the tied teams

Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser

Preliminary round

Qualified for the Semifinals

Pool A

Matches Pts Sets Points
Rank Team W L W L Ratio W L Ratio
1  Netherlands 2 1 7 8 3 2.667 258 215 1.200
2  Turkey 2 1 6 6 4 1.500 220 215 1.023
3  Germany 2 1 5 7 5 1.400 269 255 1.055
4  Croatia 0 3 0 0 9 0.000 163 225 0.724
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
4 Jan 14:00 Netherlands  2–3  Germany 28–26 22–25 22–25 25–20 11–15 108–111 Report
4 Jan 19:30 Croatia  0–3  Turkey 18–25 22–25 17–25     57–75 Report
5 Jan 19:30 Germany  1–3  Turkey 25–27 25–23 16–25 17–25   83–100 Report
6 Jan 16:30 Germany  3–0  Croatia 25–16 25–14 25–17     75–47 Report
6 Jan 19:30 Turkey  0–3  Netherlands 14–25 10–25 21–25     45–75 Report
7 Jan 16:30 Netherlands  3–0  Croatia 25–19 25–17 25–23     75–59 Report

Pool B

Matches Pts Sets Points
Rank Team W L W L Ratio W L Ratio
1  Russia 3 0 8 9 3 3.000 275 235 1.170
2  Italy 2 1 4 7 7 1.000 292 306 0.954
3  Belgium 1 2 4 5 7 0.714 256 267 0.959
4  Poland 0 3 2 5 9 0.556 286 301 0.950
Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
4 Jan 16:30 Poland  2–3  Russia 25–19 25–18 22–25 14–25 10–15 96–102 Report
5 Jan 14:00 Italy  1–3  Russia 16–25 25–23 19–25 21–25   81–98 Report
5 Jan 16:30 Belgium  3–1  Poland 25–19 16–25 27–25 25–18   93–87 Report
6 Jan 14:00 Belgium  2–3  Italy 25–16 23–25 25–22 17–25 15–17 105–105 Report
7 Jan 14:00 Russia  3–0  Belgium 25–19 25–22 25–17     75–58 Report
7 Jan 19:30 Italy  3–2  Poland 25–18 25–22 22–25 19–25 15–13 106–103 Report

Final round

Semifinals Final
8 January
  Russia  3  
  Turkey  1  
 
9 January
      Russia  3
    Netherlands  1
Third place
8 January 9 January
  Netherlands  3   Turkey  2
  Italy  0     Italy  3

Semifinals

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
8 Jan 16:30 Netherlands  3–0  Italy 25–23 25–21 25–19     75–63 Report
8 Jan 19:30 Russia  3–1  Turkey 21–25 25–18 25–12 25–20   96–75 Report

Third place

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
9 Jan 16:30 Turkey  2–3  Italy 23–25 25–19 23–25 25–15 13–15 109–99 Report

Final

Date Time Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Report
9 Jan 19:30 Russia  3–1  Netherlands 25–21 22–25 25–19 25–20   97–85 Report

Final standing

Rank Team
1  Russia
2  Netherlands
3  Italy
4  Turkey
5  Germany
6  Belgium
7  Poland
8  Croatia
Qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics
Qualified for the World Olympic Qualification Tournament

 2016 European Olympic Qualifier 

Russia

Dream team

  • Most Valuable Player
Russia Nataliya Obmochaeva
  • Best Setter
Russia Yevgeniya Startseva
  • Best Outside Spiker
Italy Paola Egonu
Turkey Neriman Özsoy

  • Best Middle Blocker
Netherlands Robin de Kruijf
Turkey Kübra Akman
  • Best Opposite Spiker
Netherlands Lonneke Slöetjes
  • Best Libero
Italy Stefania Sansonna

See also

References

External links

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