| Competition: | European Olympic Qualification Tournament |
| Gender: | women |
| Continent: | Europe |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Dates: | 4–9 January |
| Teams: | 8 |
| Venues: | 1 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Champions: | RUS |
| Title Number: | 4 |
| Mvp: |  Nataliya Obmochaeva |
| Website: | CEV |
| Last: | Volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's European qualification |
| Next: | Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's European qualification |
See main article: article and Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification.
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.
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]
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. CEV reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the European ranking.
 Ankara, Turkey | |
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| Başkent Volleyball Hall | |
| Capacity: 7,600 | |
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
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| 1 | 2016 Summer Olympics | ||
| 2 | World Olympic Qualification Tournament | ||
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Nataliya Obmochaeva
Stefania Sansonna