2011 Men's European Volleyball Championship
The European Volleyball Championship Men 2011 was held from 10 to 18 September 2011 in Austria and the Czech Republic instead. The German team managed to qualify as group winners of the second round, the tournament but failed in the preliminary round. The title was won by Serbia 3-1 in the final against Italy. Defending Poland was third this time.
Mode
The tournament began with a preliminary round in four groups (A -D ), each with four teams. For a 3:0 - or 3:1 - victory, there were three points for a 3-2 victory, there were two points for a 2:3 defeat there was a point and a 1:3 - or 0 there was no point :3- defeat. In case of equality initially chose the set quotient. The top three teams in each group reached the second round. There initially met on Third group runners-up before the respective winners met a group first. The four successful teams in the second round of the semi-finals. The losers of the semifinals played for the third place, the winner determined in the final of the European Champions.
Schedule
First round
The draw for the groups took place in Prague on October 21, 2010.
In Group A, Serbia prevailed with three wins. Only the Slovenes, who secured with a tie-break win over Turkey in second place, could win against Serbia a set. Hosts Austria was unsuccessful in all three group games.
The Russians won the Group B and suffered their only loss record against the winless Portuguese. Czech Republic handed a 3-0 in the second match against Estonia to become second in front of the Baltic.
In the last match of Group C, the previously unbeaten Italians lost by 2-0 against France. Yet you took first place, because the French were previously inferior to Belgium. Belgium was not enough victory to progress because the tied Finns charges less a sentence.
In Group D, had the German team that was started with ambitions to the first European Championship medal, leave early after three 1:3 defeats. Following the worst EM result of the DVV since 1971 there have been significant criticism of Germany coach Raul Lozano. The Slovak team, which was started as the winner of the Europa League, won their opening match against Bulgaria at 17:15 in the tiebreak and sat down after the defeat of Germany against defending champions Poland by. Therefore, the Poles came only third in the group in the next round.
Germany played with Patrick Steuerwald, Luke Kampa, Jochen Schoeps, Georg Grozer, Marcus Böhme, Max Günthör, Stefan Hübner, Björn Andrae, Robert Kromm, Marcus Popp, Sebastian Schwarz, Denis Kaliberda, Markus Steuerwald and Ferdinand Tille.
Final round
In the playoff games in each of two runners-up and third - placed by the preliminary round. Subsequently, however, three of the four winners failed in the quarterfinals. Only Poland came after a successful revenge against Slovakia on. However, the defending champions had to the semi-finals the Italians with a clear 0:3 beaten. An essential scarce was the decision in the second semi-final. After 1:2 residue Serbia won the fourth set against Russia 33:31 and reached the tiebreak in the final. Poland secured in the match for third place bronze medal. Then the Serbia were 3-1 against Italy for the first time European champions.
Full Time
Awards
All excellent players had with their team in the semifinals. The new European champion Serbia was the most valuable player in its ranks and was mainly in the block and assuming score. Russia missed a medal despite the successful offensive player.
Venues
The Games were held in Vienna, Innsbruck, Prague and Karlovy Vary. The Vienna City Hall is a multipurpose arena in the 1950s and holds up to 16,000 spectators. The Olympia World Innsbruck is a sports complex with indoor and outdoor facilities. The O ₂ Arena in Prague came to the Ice Hockey World Championship in 2004 and can accommodate 17,000 spectators. The KV Arena, Karlovy Vary holds up to 6,000 spectators and was completed as a multifunctional complex in 2009.
Qualification
In addition to the hosts Austria and the Czech Republic were the teams that positions one to five occupied at the European Championships in 2009, qualified automatically. They were defending Poland, the Vice France, the third of Bulgaria, the Fourth and the Fifth Russia Serbia.
The other teams had a qualifying contest, which included a total of three rounds.
In the first round on 8/9 and 15-16. May 2010 were five ties with home and away matches. Bosnia sat well without dropping a set against Georgia by as Croatia against Denmark and Hungary against Luxembourg. Romania came after a 2:3 in the first leg with a 3-0 victory against Moldova on. Azerbaijan and Great Britain won their matches in three sets, so that ball points were decisive for the British.
The second qualifying round consisted of six groups of four teams, who met for two tournaments at 21 to 23 and 28 to 30 May. The group winners qualified directly for the European Championships, while the runners-up contest in the third round in September more playoff games.
In group A (tournaments in Maribor and Tel Aviv- Jaffa ) Slovenia remained unbeaten. Spain took second place ahead of Hungary and Israel.
In group B (tournaments in Riga and Heraklion ) Finland defeated only in the last match against the second-placed Greeks. Latvia difference just like the winless British.
In group C ( tournaments in Poprad and Merksem ) Belgium won the opener against Slovakia, but in the end only took second place behind the Eastern Europeans. Ukraine and Bosnia and Herzegovina separated from.
In group D, the German team won the first tournament in a bar without dropping a set and had only one sentence in the last game against the second-placed Estonians also the home tournament in Tübingen exits. Montenegro and Croatia each managed just one victory.
In group E ( Tournaments in Ankara and Gioia del Colle ) Italy succeeded despite a 0:3 against Turkey the group victory against the Turks, who left Belarus and Romania behind.
In group F (tournaments in Skopje and Rotterdam), the Dutch could not prevent a 3-0 on the final day to win the group of the Portuguese. Macedonia and Sweden dropped out.
In the games of the third round on 4/5 and 11-12. September saw Belgium with two wins ( 3-1 and 3-2 ) for the From the Spaniard, who won the tournament in 2007. With the same results which Turkey won against Greece. Estonia defeated the Netherlands 3-1 and 3-0.