2003 European Beach Volleyball Championships

The Beach Volleyball European Championship 2003 took place from 28th to 31st of August in Alanya ( Turkey) instead. The competitions for men and women were held in parallel. Stephanie Pohl and Okka Rau won the purely German final against Andrea Ahmann and Jana Vollmer, after they had already met each other in the preliminary round group. In the men's finals, the Austrians Nik Berger and Clemens Doppler defeated in three sets ( tiebreak 16:14) The German defending champion Markus Dieckmann and Jonas Recker man.

2.2.1 Group Games
2.2.2 Elimination round

Mode

For women and men, respectively 24 teams competed. In six preliminary round groups of four teams played FFA for a place in the knockout stage. For a victory, there were two points for a defeat one point. The top two teams from each group and the four best third- through to the next round. From there on it was in the simple knockout system on to the finals. The victorious duo each received 17,000 euros in prize money and 200 points for the world rankings.