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2002 FIVB Women's World Championship
The 2002 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship, FIVB Women's World Championship was the fourteenth edition of the tournament, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB. It was held from 30 August to 15 September 2002 in Berlin, Bremen, Dresden, Münster, Schwerin, Riesa, Leipzig, and Stuttgart, Germany. The tournament saw the discontinuation of Cuba women's national volleyball team, Cuba's historic List of indoor volleyball world medalists, eight consecutive world titles, as the team finished fifth after being eliminated by the United States women's national volleyball team, United States in the quarterfinals. Qualification Source: FIVB Squads Venues Source: Format The tournament was played in three different stages (first, second and final rounds). In the , the 24 participants were divided in four groups of six teams each. A Round-robin tournament, single round-robin format was played within each group to determine the teams group position, the three best team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Rau
Johannes Rau (; 16 January 193127 January 2006) was a German politician who served as President of Germany from 1999 to 2004. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he previously served as the Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1978 to 1998. In the latter role, he also served as President of the Bundesrat in 1982/83 and in 1994/95. Education and work Rau was born in the Barmen part of Wuppertal, Rhine Province, as the third of five children. His family was strongly Protestant. As a schoolboy, Rau was active in the Confessing Church, which resisted Nazism. Rau left school in 1949 and worked as a publisher, especially with the Protestant Youth Publishing House. Political career Rau was a member of the All-German People's Party (GVP), which was founded by Gustav Heinemann. The party was known for proposing German reunification from 1952 until it was disbanded in 1957. In 1958, the pacifist Rau and his political mentor, Gustav Heinemann, joined the Social Dem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; ; Swabian German, Swabian: ; Alemannic German, Alemannic: ; Italian language, Italian: ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the Swabian Jura and the Black Forest. Stuttgart has a population of 632,865 as of 2022, making it the list of cities in Germany by population, sixth largest city in Germany, while over 2.8 million people live in the city's administrative region and nearly 5.5 million people in Stuttgart Metropolitan Region, its metropolitan area, making it the metropolitan regions in Germany, fourth largest metropolitan area in Germany. The city and metropolitan area are consistently ranked among the List of EU metropolitan regions by GDP#2021 ranking of top four German metropolitan regions, top 5 Europea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margon Arena , a commune in the Hérault department
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Margon may refer to the following places in France: * Margon, Eure-et-Loir, a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department *Margon, Hérault Margon () is a commune in the Hérault department in southern France. Population See also *Communes of the Hérault department A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sachsen Arena
The Sachsen Arena (often styled SACHSENarena) is a sports arena in Riesa, Germany. It opened in 2004. Under a sponsorship deal in effect until 2012, it was originally named Erdgas Arena. It holds 5,500 people. It is primarily used for ice hockey. It is used for many world level dance competitions called the World Dance Championships run by the International Dance Organization, including a showdance and tap dance competition in which representatives of as many as 50 countries vie to become "World Champion". This is the only official world championships and is recognized as being "the Olympics of dance". Since 2015, it has also been the home of the International Darts Open, one of the many events of the PDC European Tour The PDC European Tour is a series of darts tournaments held across Europe organized by the Professional Darts Corporation. Starting in 2012 with five events, the number of events has steadily risen with eight held in 2013 and 2014, nine in 2015, 10 .... Extern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arena Leipzig
The Arena Leipzig is a multipurpose indoor arena located in Leipzig, Germany. The capacity of the arena is 8,000 people for sporting events and up to 12,200 for shows and concerts. It is part of the Sportforum Leipzig, which also contains Red Bull Arena and the Sportmuseum Leipzig. Structure The main hall has retractable stands and has depending on its configuration a size from 2,400 to 4,656 square meters. The height of the hall is between 12 and 20 meters. A 200-meter track can be retracted for concerts and shows. Sports It is currently the home venue of HC Leipzig, a German |
Max-schmeling-halle Berlin
Max-Schmeling-Halle is a multi-purpose arena, in Berlin, Germany, named after the famous German boxer Max Schmeling. Apart from Uber Arena and the Velodrom, it is one of Berlin's biggest indoor sports arenas and holds from 8,861 people, up to 12,000 people. The opening ceremony took place on 14 December 1996 in the presence of Max Schmeling. Location The Max-Schmeling-Halle is situated in the former border area of Berlin, near the Mauerpark and directly next to the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark. It is situated at the Falkplatz, in the district Prenzlauer Berg Prenzlauer Berg () is a Boroughs and localities of Berlin, locality of Berlin, forming the southerly and most urban district of the borough of Pankow. From its founding in 1920 until 2001, Prenzlauer Berg was a district of Berlin in its own right ... (borough Pankow). Use Planned for the 2000 Summer Olympics as a pure box gym, it was rebuilt (after the games were awarded to Sydney as the venue) to a multi-functional gy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AWD Dome Bremen Handball WM07
AWD may refer to: Biology * African Wild Dog (''Lycaon pictus''), a canid of sub-Saharan Africa * Acute watery diarrhoea, liquid faeces Businesses and organisations * AWD Holding, (Allgemeiner Wirtschaftsdienst), a German company * AWD Trucks, a British truck manufacturer * Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, an Afrikaner nationalist, neo-Nazi political party in South Africa (1973-) * Atomwaffen Division, an international neo-Nazi terrorist group based in the United States of America (2013-) Computing * Adaptive web design, the progressive enhancement of a website * Artweaver document, the default file extension used by the freeware raster graphics editor developed by Boris Eyrich * Microsoft Fax Microsoft at Work Document (file extension) Laws * Agency Worker Directive (2008/104/EC) * Americans with Disabilities Act Vehicles * Air Warfare Destroyer, a ship class of the Royal Australian Navy * All-wheel drive, a power-train configuration for vehicles, most commonly four-wheel and six-w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max-Schmeling-Halle
Max-Schmeling-Halle is a multi-purpose arena, in Berlin, Germany, named after the famous German boxer Max Schmeling. Apart from Uber Arena and the Velodrom, it is one of Berlin's biggest indoor sports arenas and holds from 8,861 people, up to 12,000 people. The opening ceremony took place on 14 December 1996 in the presence of Max Schmeling. Location The Max-Schmeling-Halle is situated in the former border area of Berlin, near the Mauerpark and directly next to the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark. It is situated at the Falkplatz, in the district Prenzlauer Berg (borough Pankow). Use Planned for the 2000 Summer Olympics as a pure box gym, it was rebuilt (after the games were awarded to Sydney as the venue) to a multi-functional gym and is now primarily used for boxing and team handball and is the home arena of Füchse Berlin HBC and the Berlin Mini Basketball Tournament (berliner-mini-turnier.de). Madonna performed 4 sell out concerts in the arena during her Drowned World To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sport- Und Kongresshalle
Sport- und Kongresshalle is an indoor sporting arena located in Schwerin, Germany. The capacity of the arena is 8,000 people. It is currently home to the SV Post Schwerin handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ... team. Buildings and structures in Schwerin Handball venues in Germany Indoor arenas in Germany Sports venues in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Sport in Schwerin {{MecklenburgVorpommern-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stadthalle Bremen
Stadthalle may refer to: *Stadthalle (Nuremberg U-Bahn), a Nuremberg U-Bahn metro station in Fürth, Germany Buildings Germany *Bremerhaven Stadthalle, an arena in Bremerhaven *Stadthalle (Königsberg), a concert hall in former Königsberg * Stadthalle Bremen, an indoor arena in Bremen * Stadthalle Freiburg, a former concert hall in Freiburg im Breisgau *Stadthalle Fürth, a concert hall in Fürth * Stadthalle Köln-Mülheim, a conference centre in Cologne * Stadthalle Offenbach, a convention center in Offenbach am Main * Austria *Stadthalle (Klagenfurt), an indoor sporting arena in Klagenfurt * Stadthalle (Villach), an indoor sporting arena in Villach * Stadthalle Graz, an arrangement hall in Graz *Wiener Stadthalle Wiener Stadthalle (; English: ''Viennese City Hall'') is a multi-purpose indoor arena and convention center located in the 15th district of Vienna, Austria. Austrian architect Roland Rainer designed the original halls which were constructed b ..., an indoor ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Women's National Volleyball Team
The United States women's national volleyball team participates in international volleyball competitions and friendly games, and is governed by USA Volleyball. Their last head coach was three-time Olympic gold medalist and retired dominant beach volleyball player Karch Kiraly. at TeamUSA.org Before 2014, the United States women's national volleyball team had achieved second place six times in major competitions (1967 World Women's Volleyball Championship, 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, 2002 World Women's Volleyball Championship, 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, 2011 World Cup, 2012 London Olympic Games) but had never reached the top. In 2014, the team had a breakthrough to capture its first major title by defeating China in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
