2001 Women's European Volleyball Championship Explained

Competition:	Women's European Volleyball Championship
Continent:	Europe
Gender:	women
Year:	2001
Dates:	22 – 30 September
Teams:	12
Venues:	Various
Cities:	2
Champions:	Russia
Title Number:	17
Mvp:	Antonina Zetova
Website:	Website
Last:	1999 Women's European Volleyball Championship
Next:	2003 Women's European Volleyball Championship

The 2001 Women's European Volleyball Championship was the 22nd edition of the event, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball. It was hosted in Sofia and Varna, Bulgaria from 22 to 30 September 2001.

Participating teams

Team	Method of qualification
	Hosts
	1999 edition second place
	Qualification Category A group 3 second
	Qualification Category A group 1 winners
	Qualification Category A group 3 winners
	Qualification Category A second best third
	1999 edition third place
	Qualification Category A group 1 second
	Qualification Category A group 2 second
	Qualification Category A group 2 winners
	1999 edition first place
	Qualification Category A best third

Format

The tournament was played in two different stages. In the first stage, the twelve participants were divided in two groups of six teams each. A single round-robin format was played within each group to determine the teams' group position. The second stage of the tournament consisted of two sets of semifinals to determine the tournament final ranking. The group stage firsts and seconds played the semifinals for 1st to 4th place, group stage thirds and fourths played the 5th to 8th place semifinals and the remaining four teams which finished group stages as fifth and sixth ended all tied in final ranking at 9th place. The pairing of the semifinals was made so teams played against the opposite group teams which finished in a different position (1st played against 2nd, 3rd played against 4th).

Squads

See main article: 2001 Women's European Volleyball Championship Squads.

Venues

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Varna	Sofia

Preliminary round

• All times are Eastern European Summer Time .

Pool A

• venue location: Varna, Bulgaria

Pool B

• venue location: Sofia, Bulgaria

Final round

• venue location: Varna, Bulgaria
• All times are Eastern European Summer Time .

5th–8th place

• Pools A and B third and fourth positions play each other.

5th place match

Final

• Pools A and B first and second positions play each other.

Final

Final ranking

Place	Team
4
5
6
7
8
9

Team Roster

Evgenya Artamonova, Lioubov Chachkova, Ekaterina Gamova, Elena Godina, Tatyana Gracheva, Natalya Morozova, Elena Plotnikova, Olga Potachova, Inessa Sargsyan, Elizaveta Tichtchenko, Elena Tyurina and Elena Vassilevskaya. Head coach: Nikolay Karpol.

Individual awards

Players awarded for their performances in the tournament.^[1]

• MVP:
• Best scorer:
• Best spiker:
• Best server:
• Best blocker:
• Best setter:
• Best receiver:
• Best digger:

References

• Confédération Européenne de Volleyball (CEV)^[2]

External links

• Results at todor66.com
• CEV Results
• Volley

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2000/2001 Senior European Championships (Individual Awards) . . 14 April 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141227045710/http://www.cev.lu/Competition-Area/competition.aspx?ID=51&PID=-2 . 27 December 2014 . dead .
2. Web site: 2000/2001 Senior European Championships Women . . 14 April 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170706011749/http://www.cev.lu/Competition-Area/Competition.aspx?ID=51&PID=136 . 6 July 2017 . dead .