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 The European Volleyball Confederation ( or ''CEV'') is the continental governing body for the sports of indoor volleyball, beach volleyball and snow volleyball in Europe. Its headquarters is in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. Profile Although th ...

. It was hosted in

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and

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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 teams which finished in a different position (1st played against 2nd, 3rd played against 4th).

Pools composition

Squads

Venues

Preliminary round

* All times are

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( UTC+03:00).

Pool A

*venue location:

Pool B

*venue location:

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Final round

*venue location:

* All times are

( UTC+03:00).

5th–8th place

* Pools A and B third and fourth positions play each other.

5th–8th semifinals

7th place match

5th place match

Final

* Pools A and B first and second positions play each other.

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final ranking

Individual awards

Players awarded for their performances in the tournament. *MVP: *Best scorer: *Best spiker: *Best server: *Best blocker: *Best setter: *Best receiver: *Best digger:

References

* Confédération Européenne de Volleyball (CEV)

External links

Results
at todor66.com

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