2011 Women's European Volleyball Championship
The European Volleyball Championship 2011 Women was held from September 23 to October 2, 2011 in Italy and Serbia. The German team had qualified fourth of the last European Championship and took the silver medal. Gold won hosts Serbia.
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 group winners were directly qualified for the quarter-finals, while runners- disputed and third four knockout games. There initially met on Third group runners-up before the respective winners met a group first. The winners of the four quarterfinal games reached the semi-finals. The losers of the semifinals played for the third place, the winner determined in the final of the European Champions.
Schedule
Preliminary round
After three wins in the first round, the German women attracted as group winners directly to the quarterfinals.
All-in - system
Full Time
Germany played with: Kathleen White, Angelina Grün, Maren Brinker, Lenka Dürr, Berit purchase Feldt, Christiane Fürst, Corina Ssuschke -Voigt, Saskia Hippe, Margareta Kozuch, Anne Matthes, Regina Burchardt, Mareen Apitz, Lisa Thomsen and Kerstin Tzscherlich. Coach Giovanni Guidetti was.
Awards
Venues
The matches were played in Belgrade and Monza. Venue in Belgrade was the Pionir Hall, where about 8,200 spectators place. The sports hall Palaiper in Monza offers around 4,000 seats. In addition, the venues in Zrenjanin ( Medison sports hall with 2,800 seats) and in Busto Arsizio ( PalaYamamay with about 5,000 seats) were used in the group stage.
Qualification
In addition to the hosts Serbia and Italy were the teams behind winners Italy places two to six occupied at the European Championships in 2009, qualified automatically. That was European Vice Champion Netherlands, the third party Poland, Germany Fourth, the Fifth and the Sixth Turkey Russia.
The other teams had a qualifying contest, which included a total of three rounds.
In the first round on 8/9 and 15 May 2010, there were two duels with home and away matches. Switzerland was committed against Luxembourg without dropping a set as well as by Sweden against Denmark
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 Mogilev and Baku ) Azerbaijan did not lose a single set. Belarus secured the second place ahead of Bosnia - Herzegovina and Georgia.
In group B ( tournaments in Carlsbad and Agde ) Czech Republic remained unbeaten. France won against Hungary and Austria.
In group C ( tournaments in Sjewjerodonezk and Sheffield ) Ukraine was subject only in a tie-break game against Slovaks, but had to leave the team from Israel to second place. Britain remained winless.
In group D (tournaments in Osijek and Tres Cantos ), the Spaniards secured the top spot because they lost less than a set of the tied Croats. Switzerland and Montenegro dropped out.
In group E ( tournaments in Hasselt and Constanta ) Romania managed to win the group without defeat. Belgium took second place ahead of Slovenia and Sweden.
In group F ( tournaments in Guarda and Samokov ) Bulgaria gave only one sentence. Finland sat out because of the better set ratio with the same number of points in Greece, Portugal lost during all sets.
In the games of the third round on 3/4 and 11 September gave France no set of Finland from (3:0 and 3:0), Croatia defeated with difficulty Belgium (3:1 and 3:2 ) and Israel acquired dramatically the last tournament place in the struggle against Belarus ( 2:3 and 3:1).