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Israel Women's National Volleyball Team
The Israel women's national volleyball team participates in international volleyball competitions and friendly matches. It is governed by the Israel Volleyball Association (IVA). As in any other sports, even though Israel is geographically located in Asia, it competes in European ( CEV) competitions. Its best result so far was a fourth place, in the 2010 European League, in Turkey. On September 11, 2010, after losing the first leg of the repechage against Belarus side by 3:2, and beating them by 3:1 at home, the team qualified for the 2011 European Championship after thirty nine years of absence on this competition. History In the beginning of the State of Israel, volleyball was one of the sports with regular contests, including women's championships. But because of the 1947–1949 Palestine war, like most of the Israeli sports, volleyball was suspended, in order to help the army in the battlefield. The first time Israel women's national team participated in a prestigious com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logan Tom
Logan Maile Lei Tom (born May 25, 1981) was an American indoor volleyball, beach volleyball player, and is current head coach of the Israel women's national volleyball team. She is a four-time Olympian at the outside hitter position. At age 19, Logan became the youngest woman ever to be selected for an American Olympic volleyball team when she competed at the Volleyball at the 2000 Summer Olympics, 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. She is a skilled all-around player who brings stability to the American serve receive and defense, while also providing the team with a solid attack and block at the net. She had been a huge part of the national team from 2000 to 2012. At the Volleyball at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2008 Olympics, Tom helped Team USA win a silver medal and was named Best Scorer, she won another silver medal at the Volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012 Olympics with the national team. She was also awarded the Most Valuable Player of the 2004 FIVB World Grand Prix. In O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkey Women's National Volleyball Team
The Turkey women's national volleyball team ( tr, Türkiye Kadın Voleybol Milli Takımı) is formed by the Turkish Volleyball Federation (TVF) and represents Turkey in international CEV and FIVB organizations. The team is one of the most successful national sports teams in the country and is nicknamed "Filenin Sultanları" ( en, Sultans of the Net) since the 2003 Women's European Volleyball Championship hosted in Ankara, Turkey. It is ranked sixth in the FIVB World Rankings as of October, 2022. It was the bronze medallist in both 2011 Women's European Volleyball Championship and 2012 FIVB World Grand Prix. Daniele Santarelli is the new head coach of the team. History Sabiha Gürayman was the first Turkish woman to engage in the game of volleyball, which was introduced in Turkey in the 1910s. As a young woman Gürayman founded and played for the Fenerbahçe women's volleyball team, having previously played in the men's team of that club. Turkish women volleyball has und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's European Volleyball League
The Women's European Volleyball League is a continental volleyball competition for senior women's national volleyball teams of Europe, organized by the European Volleyball Confederation ( CEV). Created in 2009, the competition served as a qualifying tournament for the FIVB World Grand Prix (until 2016) and its successor the FIVB Challenger Cup since 2018. This event should not be confused with the other, more prestigious, continental competition for European national volleyball teams, the European Volleyball Championship. Results summary Medal summary MVP By Edition * 2009 – Neslihan Demir * 2010 – Jelena Nikolić * 2011 – Jovana Brakočević *2012 – Aneta Havlíčková *2013 – Charlotte Leys *2014 – Kübra Akman * 2015 – Renáta Sándor *2016 – Polina Rahimova *2017 – Anna Stepaniuk *2018 – Mariya Karakasheva *2019 – Andrea Kossanyiová *2021 – Zhana Todorova *2022 – Lucille Gicquel *2023 – See also * European Men's V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ra'anana
Ra'anana ( he, רַעֲנָנָּה, lit. "Fresh") is a city in the southern Sharon Plain of the Central District of Israel. It was founded in 1922 as an American-Jewish settlement, 1 km south of the village of Tabsur, where an important World War I battle had taken place four years previously. Bordered by Kfar Saba and Hod HaSharon on the east and Herzliya on the southwest, it had a population of in . While the majority of its residents are native-born Israeli Jews, a large part of the population consists of Jewish immigrants from the Americas and Europe. Ra'anana's industrial park, built over the depopulated village of Tabsur, is home to global and local start-up companies. It was designated a "Green City" by the World Health Organization in 2005. History In 1912, the Company for Jewish Settlement in Israel formed the "Ahuza A – New York" group to purchase land in Palestine for agricultural settlement. World War I delayed their plans, but in 1921, it was decid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minsk
Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administrative centre of Minsk Region (voblast) and Minsk District (raion). As of January 2021, its population was 2 million, making Minsk the 11th most populous city in Europe. Minsk is one of the administrative capitals of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). First documented in 1067, Minsk became the capital of the Principality of Minsk before being annexed by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1242. It received town privileges in 1499. From 1569, it was the capital of the Minsk Voivodeship, an administrative division of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was part of a region annexed by the Russian Empire in 1793, as a consequence of the Second Partition of Poland. From 1919 to 1991, aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovakia Women's National Volleyball Team
The Slovakia women's national volleyball team represents Slovakia in international women's volleyball competitions and friendly matches. In May 2021, Slovakia qualified for the Women's European Volleyball Championship for the fifth time since 1993. Competition record European Championship Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place European League Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place Team Current squad The following is the Slovak roster in the 2019 European Championship. Head coach: Marco Fenoglio Former squads * 2003 Women's European Volleyball Championship — 9th place *: Petronela Biksadská, Lucia Bognarová, Danica Hanzelová, Lucia Hatinová, Simona Kleskenová, Renata Kolenaková, Petra Maleková, Adriana Marceková, Andrea Pavelková, Alica Székelyová, Gabriela Tomaseková, and Martina Viestová. * 2007 Women's European Volleyball Championship — 13th pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Britain Women's National Volleyball Team
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The Great Britain women's national volleyball team is the team representing Great Britain in volleyball competitions. The Great Britain Volleyball programme team was resumed in 2006 following an agreement of the FIVB to permit the national teams of Scotland, Northern Ireland and England to compete together for the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics. After losing 0–3 to Russia, they got their first Olympic victory, beating Algeria 3–2, a team ranked 53 places above them. Current roster References Women's volleyball in the United Kingdom National women's volleyball teams 2012 establishments in the United Kingdom 2012 in British sport Volleyball in the United Kingdom Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukraine Women's National Volleyball Team
The Ukraine women's national volleyball team ( ua, Жіноча збірна України з волейболу, ''Zhinocha zbirna Ukrai'ny z volejbolu'') represents Ukraine in international women's volleyball competitions and friendly matches. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union the team first competed on the highest level under its own flag at the 1993 European Championship, winning the bronze medal. Results Olympic Games Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place World Championship Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place European Championship Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place European League Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place Squads 1996 Olympic Games * Nataliya Bozhenova * Yuliya Buyeva * Olexandra Fomina * Tetyana Ivanyushkyna *Olga Kolomiyets *Alla Kravets * Olena Kryvonos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Summer Olympic Games
The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the group stage in Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, women's football, began on 25 July at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, followed by the opening ceremony on 27 July. 10,768 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in the 2012 Olympics. Following a bid headed by former Olympic champion Sebastian Coe and the then-Mayor of London, London mayor Ken Livingstone, London was selected as the host city at the 117th IOC Session in Singapore on 6 July 2005, defeating bids from Moscow, New York City, Madrid, and Paris. London became the first city to host the modern Olympics London Olympics, three times, having previously hosted the Summer Games in 1908 Summer Olympics, 1908 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arie Selinger
Aryeh "Lonk" Selinger (born 5 April 1937) is an Israeli volleyball manager and former player. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest volleyball coaches of all time. Selinger has served as the head coach of the USA Women's Team in the years 1975–1984, a team that would go on to win the Bronze medal in the 1982 World Championship and the Silver Medal in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, USA. Selinger won gold, silver and bronze as a coach in games and championships worldwide, including a Silver Medal for the Men's Team of the Netherlands at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci .... See also * List of select Jewish volleyball players References Jewish volleyball players Israeli men's volleyball playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England Women's National Volleyball Team
Since 2006, the England women's national volleyball team plays as part of the Great Britain women's national volleyball team. External links Official website European women's national volleyball teams Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ... Volleyball in England Women's volleyball in England {{volleyball-team-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungary Women's National Volleyball Team
The Hungary women's national volleyball team is the national volleyball team of Hungary. It is governed by the Magyar Röplabda Szövetség and takes part in international volleyball competitions. Results Olympic Games * 1972 — 5th place * 1976 — 4th place * 1980 — 4th place World Championship * 1952 — 6th place * 1962 — 11th place * 1970 — 4th place * 1974 — 6th place * 1978 — 13th place * 1982 — 10th place World Grand Prix * 2017 — 25th European Championship *1949 — 6th place * 1950 — 6th place * 1955 — 6th place * 1958 — 6th place * 1963 — 7th place * 1967 — 5th place *1971 — 5th place * 1975 — * 1977 — * 1979 — 4th place * 1981 — * 1983 — * 1985 — 9th place * 1987 — 10th place * 2015 — 12th place * 2017 — 15th place * 2019 — 20th place *2021 — 16th place * 2023 — qualified European Volleyball League * 2011 — 9th place * 2012 — 12th place * 2013 — 7th place * 2015 — Gold Medal * 2016 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
