The European Qualification Tournament for the 2016 Men's Olympic Volleyball Tournament was held in

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from 5 to 10 January 2016.

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won the tournament by beating

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3–1, and qualified for the Summer Olympics.

Sergey Tetyukhin Sergey Yuryevich Tetyukhin (; born 23 September 1975) is a former Russian volleyball player. He was born in Fergana, Uzbekistan. He is 1.97 m tall, and plays as passer-attacker. Together with Samuele Papi and Sérgio Santos, he is one of ...

was selected the most valuable player.

Qualification

The hosts Germany and the top seven ranked teams from the CEV European Ranking as of 19 October 2015 which had not yet qualified to the 2016 Summer Olympics qualified for the tournament. Rankings are shown in brackets except the hosts who ranked 4th. * (Hosts) * (1) * (3) * (4) * (6) * (7) * (8) * (9)

Pools composition

Teams were seeded following the

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according to their CEV European Ranking as of 19 October 2015. CEV reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool A regardless of the European Ranking. The pools were confirmed on 23 October 2015.

Squads

Venue

Pool standing procedure

# Number of matches won # Match points # Sets ratio # Points ratio # Result of the last match between the tied teams Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser

Preliminary round

*All times are

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( UTC+01:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Final round

*All times are

( UTC+01:00).

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

*Most valuable player *:

*Best setter *:

Benjamin Toniutti Benjamin Toniutti (born 30 October 1989) is a French professional volleyball player who plays as a setter for and captains both the Polish club Jastrzębski Węgiel and the France national team. Toniutti won a gold medal in the men's tournamen ...

*Best outside spikers *:

Earvin N'Gapeth Earvin Ngapeth (born 12 February 1991) is a French professional volleyball player, member of the France national volleyball team and Turkish club Fenerbahçe, 2015 European Champion, gold medallist of the World League (2015 and 2017), Fren ...

*: Denys Kaliberda *Best middle blockers *:

Marcus Böhme Marcus Böhme (born 25 August 1985) is a German professional volleyball player, a member of the Germany national team. The bronze medallist at the 2014 World Championship, and the 2009 European League winner. At the professional club level, ...

Mateusz Bieniek Mateusz Bieniek (born 5 April 1994) is a Polish professional volleyball player who plays as a middle blocker for Aluron CMC Warta Zawiercie and the Poland national team. With Poland, Bieniek won the 2018 World Champion title and took part in ...

*Best opposite spiker *:

Maxim Mikhaylov Maxim Mikhaylovich Mikhaylov ( rus, Максим Михайлович Михайлов, , mɐˈksʲim mʲɪˈxaɪ̯ɫəf; born 19 March 1988) is a Russian professional volleyball player, a member of the Russia men's national volleyball team and ...

*Best libero *: Jenia Grebennikov

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics - Men's European qualification 2016 in volleyball Volleyball qualification for the 2016 Summer Olympics 2016 in German sport Sports competitions in Berlin International volleyball competitions hosted by Germany