The European qualification for the 2016 Women's Olympic Volleyball Tournament was held from 4 to 9 January 2016 in

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won the tournament by beating

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3–1, and qualified for the Olympic games.

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was selected the most valuable player.

Qualification

The host country played with the 7 highest CEV ranking teams which had not yet qualified to the Olympic games. Numbers in brackets denoted the European ranking as of 5 October 2015 except the host which ranked 4th. * (host) * (1) * (2) * (5) * (6) * (7) * (8) * (9)

Pools composition

The pools composition was announced on 23 October 2015 at the headquarters of CEV,

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. It followed the

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according to their European ranking as of 5 October 2015. CEV reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of Pool A regardless of the European ranking.

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+02:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Final round

Semifinals

Third place

Final

Final standing

Dream team

*Most valuable player *:

*Best setter *: Yevgeniya Startseva *Best outside spiker *:

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*Best middle blocker *:

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*Best opposite spiker *:

Lonneke Slöetjes Lonneke Slöetjes (born 15 November 1990) is a Dutch volleyball player, who plays as an opposite spiker. She is a member of the Women's National Team. She plays as of 2015 for VakifBank Istanbul. Career Slöetjes started playing at VC Varssev ...

*Best libero *:

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References

External links

Official websiteProcess
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