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2001 Women's European Volleyball Championship
The 2001 Women's European Volleyball Championship was the 22nd edition of the event, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball. It was hosted in Sofia and Varna, Bulgaria from 22 to 30 September 2001. Participating teams Format The tournament was played in two different stages. In the first stage, the twelve participants were divided in two groups of six teams each. A single round-robin format was played within each group to determine the teams' group position. The second stage of the tournament consisted of two sets of semifinals to determine the tournament final ranking. The group stage firsts and seconds played the semifinals for 1st to 4th place, group stage thirds and fourths played the 5th to 8th place semifinals and the remaining four teams which finished group stages as fifth and sixth ended all tied in final ranking at 9th place. The pairing of the semifinals was made so teams played against the opposite group tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonina Zetova
Antonina Zetova ( Bulgarian: Антонина Зетова; born on 7 September 1973 in Pleven) is a former international volleyball player from Bulgaria. She is the head coach of the Bulgaria women's national volleyball team and also coached the U18 and U23 women's national teams. Career As a left handed outside hitter, the 1.89m (6ft 2.5in) tall Zetova lead the Bulgarian team to several successes, including a bronze medal at the European Championship in 2001, where she was awarded best scorer. In the Italian league, where she played since 1998, Zetova won all possible national titles at least one time and European titles namely Top Teams Cup in 2005 with Chieri and the most important European Champions League title with Despar Perugia in 2006. She was elected best foreign player, All-Star and Best Spiker of the Italian league. In 2008–09 she played for Palma Volley in Spain after giving birth to her son becoming vice champion and 2nd best player after Prisilla Rivera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yelena Plotnikova
Elena Zarubina (Plotnikova) () (born 26 July 1978) is a Russian volleyball player with the Women's National Team, for which she made her debut in 1998. She represented her country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and won the silver medal. She participated at the 2003 FIVB World Grand Prix, and 2004 FIVB World Grand Prix. Honours * 1998 World Championship — 3rd place * 1999 FIVB World Grand Prix — 1st place * 1999 European Championship — 1st place * 2001 FIVB World Grand Prix — 3rd place * World Grand Champions Cup — 2nd place * 2001 European Championship — 1st place * 2002 FIVB World Grand Prix — 1st place * 2002 World Championship — 3rd place * 2003 FIVB World Grand Prix — 2nd place * 2004 Olympic Games The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Volleyball Competitions Hosted By Bulgaria
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2001 In Bulgarian Women's Sport
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Erna Brinkman
Erna Augusta Brinkman (born 25 March 1972 in Sneek, Friesland) is a retired volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992. Brinkman was a member of the Netherlands national team that won the gold medal at the 1995 European Championship by defeating Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ... 3–0 in the final. References *Dutch Olympic Committee 1972 births Dutch women's volleyball players Volleyball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic volleyball players for the Netherlands Sportspeople from Sneek Volleyball players from Friesland Living people Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Japan Dutch expatriate sportspeople i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iryna Zhukova
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Manuela Leggeri
Manuela Leggeri (born 9 May 1976 in Sezze) is a volleyball player who represented Italy twice (2000 and 2004) at the Summer Olympics. She was a member of the Women's National Team that won the gold medal at the 2002 World Championship in Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu .... Leggeri made her international debut on 29 May 1994. Individual awards * 2004 FIVB World Grand Prix "Best Blocker" References ProfileLegaVolley External links * 1976 births Living people Italian women's volleyball players Volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic volleyball players for Italy Sportspeople from the Province of Latina Middle blockers Knights of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic {{I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizaveta Tichtchenko
Yelizaveta Tishchenko (born 7 February 1975; last name also spelled Tichtchenko) is a retired female volleyball player from Russia who made her debut for the Soviet national team in 1991. She competed in three consecutive Olympic Games (1996, 2000, and 2004), and twice won a silver medal. Tishchenko represented her country more than 470 times from 1991 through 2004, playing as middle blocker in the starting six of the national team, and leading the Sbornaya as its captain in 2003 and 2004. Tishchenko won the European Championships four times, the World Grand Prix three times, and additional medals at World Championships and World Grand Champions Cups. She was consistently among the best attackers in each tournament entered, winning best spiker awards at numerous international tournaments between 1999 and 2003, including the prestigious FIVB "Best Spiker of the Year" in 2002. With her club teams (namely Uralochka VC of Ekaterinburg), Tishchenko won the Russian Championship 13 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolay Karpol
Nikolay Vasiliyevich Karpol (; born 1 May 1938) is a Russian women's volleyball coach and a longstanding coach of the Soviet Union women's national volleyball team, Soviet national team (then the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics, Commonwealth of Independent States team of 1992 following the collapse of the USSR) and later the Russia women's national volleyball team. Known as ''The Howling Bear'', Karpol was a regular at the Volleyball at the Summer Olympics, Olympic Games, with his teams usually earning a last call on the Olympic podium, winning gold medals in Volleyball at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, 1980 and Volleyball at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, 1988 and taking the silver medals in Volleyball at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, 1992, Volleyball at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, 2000, and Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, 2004, for a total of five Olympic medal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yelena Vasilevskaya
Yelena Vasilyevna Vasilevskaya (; born 27 February 1978) is a Russian volleyball player. She was a member of the national team that won the silver medal in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; ) are the world's preeminent international Olympic sports, sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a Multi-s .... External links * Uralochka VC profile 1978 births Living people Volleyball players from Yekaterinburg Russian women's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players for Russia Volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Russia Olympic medalists in volleyball Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics 20th-century Russian women 21st-century Russian sportswomen {{Russia-volleyball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yelena Tyurina
Elena Tyurina-Batukhtina (born 12 April 1971) is a retired female volleyball player from Russia who made her debut for the Soviet national team in 1989. She competed consecutively in four Olympic Games. She was part of the Soviet and Russian national teams and became European Champion in 1989, 1991, 1993, 1997 and 2001. On club level she played with Uralochka Ekaterinburg Clubs * Uralochka Ekaterinburg (1994) Honours * 1989 European Championship — 1st place * 1989 World Cup — 2nd place * 1990 World Championship — 1st place * 1991 European Championship — 1st place * 1991 World Cup — 3rd place * 1992 Olympic Games — 2nd place * 1993 FIVB World Grand Prix — 3rd place * 1993 European Championship — 1st place * 1993 World Grand Champions Cup — 2nd place * 1994 World Championship — 3rd place * 1995 European Championship — 3rd place * 1996 FIVB World Grand Prix — 3rd place * 1997 FIVB World Grand Prix — 1st place * 1997 European Championship — ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
