The 2013 Women's European Volleyball Championship was the 28th edition of the European Volleyball Championship, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the

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. It was hosted by

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and

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

from 6 to 14 September 2013. The matches took place in 5 different cities (4 in Germany and one in Switzerland) with the final being played in

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defeated

3–1 in the final to capture their 18th title and the qualification for the

2013 FIVB Women's World Grand Champions Cup The 2013 FIVB Women's World Grand Champions Cup was held in Nagoya and Tokyo, Japan from November 12 to 17, 2013. Brazil won their second title and Brazilian Fabiana Claudino was selected the Most Valuable Player. Teams Competition formula The ...

Qualification

Format

The tournament was played in two different stages. In the first stage, the sixteen participants were divided in four groups of four teams each. A

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format was played within each group to determine the teams group position, the three best teams of each group (total of 12 teams) progressed to the second stage, with group winners advancing to the quarterfinals while second and third placed advancing to the playoffs. The second stage of the tournament consisted of a

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, with winners advancing to the next round. A playoff was played (involving group second and third places) to determine which teams joined the group winners in the quarterfinals, followed by semifinals, 3rd place match and final.

Pools composition

Squads

Venues

The tournament took place in

in 4 different venues ( Halle,

Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...

Schwerin Schwerin (; Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch dialect, Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch Low German: ''Swerin''; Polabian language, Polabian: ''Zwierzyn''; Latin: ''Suerina'', ''Suerinum'') is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Germ ...

) and one in

– (

Zürich Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. , the municipality had 448,664 inhabitants. The ...

). The semifinals and the finals were played in

Preliminary round

The draw was held on 6 October 2012 at

. * All times are

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( UTC+02:00).

Pool A

*venue:

Gerry Weber Stadion OWL Arena, formerly Gerry Weber Stadion, is a multi-purpose stadium, located in Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany. The capacity of the arena is 12,300 people and it opened in 1993. In early 2020, a consortium of 13 sponsors became owner ...

, Halle, Germany

Pool B

*venue:

Hallenstadion The Hallenstadion (, ''Zürich Indoor Stadium'') is a multi-purpose facility in the Oerlikon quarter of northern Zürich. It has a capacity of 11,200 spectators. Designed by Bruno Giacometti, it opened on November 4, 1939, and was renovated in ...

, Switzerland

Pool C

*venue:

EnergieVerbund Arena Joynext Arena (formerly known as Freiberger Arena and EnergieVerbund Arena) is an ice hockey arena in Dresden, Germany. It is primarily used for the ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice ...

, Germany

Pool D

*venue:

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 handba ...

, Germany

Championship round

*venues: :

, Halle, Germany :

, Switzerland :

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 ...

, Germany * All times are

( UTC+02:00).

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Bronze medal match

Final

Final standing

3 Daria Isaeva 4 Irina Zaryazhko 5 Aleksandra Pasynkova 6 Anna Matienko 7 Svetlana Kryuchkova (L) 8

Nataliya Obmochaeva Nataliya Olegovna Goncharova (, born 1 June 1989), from 2012 to 2016 Obmochaeva, is a Russian volleyball player. She played for the Ukraine women's national volleyball team until 2010 when she became part of the Russia women's national volleyba ...

Ekaterina Kosianenko Ekaterina Vadimovna Pankova (, born 2 February 1990), from 2013 to 2016 Kosianenko, is a Russian volleyball player, who plays as an setter. She is a member of the Russia women's national volleyball team and plays for WVC Dynamo Moscow, Dynamo Mo ...

Victoria Chaplina Victoria Rusakova (born 23 October 1988 Sverdlovsk) is a Russian volleyball player. She played for the Women's National Team at the 2013 FIVB Women's World Grand Champions Cup. and the 2013 Summer Universiade, She plays for Leningradka Saint P ...

14 Natalia Dianskaya 15 Tatiana Kosheleva 16 Iuliia Morozova 17

Natalia Malykh Natalia Nicolaevna Malykh (', born 8 December 1993 in Volgograd) is a Russian volleyball player, who plays as an opposite. She is member of the Russia women's national volleyball team and plays for Dinamo Krasnodar. Malykh was part of the Russ ...

19 Anna Malova (L) 20 Anastasia Shlyakhovaya

Individual awards

*Most Valuable Player: *Best scorer: *Best spiker: *Best blocker: *Best server: *Best setter: *Best receiver: *Best libero: *Fair Play Award:

References

* Confédération Européenne de Volleyball (CEV)

External links

*
CEV Website

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