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

Team	Method of qualification
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Template:Vbw	Qualification Category A group 3 winners
Template:Vbw	Qualification Category A second best third
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Template:Vbw	Qualification Category A group 2 second
Template:Vbw	Qualification Category A group 2 winners
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Template:Vbw	Qualification Category A best third

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

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Venues

Pool A and Final round	Pool B
Varna	Sofia

Preliminary round

• All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00).

Pool A

• venue location: Varna, Bulgaria

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Pool B

• venue location: Sofia, Bulgaria

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Final round

• venue location: Varna, Bulgaria
• All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00).

5th–8th place

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

5th–8th semifinals

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7th place match

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5th place match

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Final

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

Semifinals

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3rd place match

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Final

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Final ranking

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 2001 Women's European champions 
17th title

Team Roster

Evgenya Artamonova, Lioubov Chachkova, Ekaterina Gamova, Elena Godina, Tatyana Gracheva, Natalya Morozova, Elena Plotnikova, Olga Potachova, Inessa Sargsyan, Elizaveta Tichtchenko, Elena Tyurina and Elena Vassilevskaya. Head coach: Nikolay Karpol.

Individual awards

Players awarded for their performances in the tournament.

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• Best scorer: Template:Flagathlete
• Best spiker: Template:Flagathlete
• Best server: Template:Flagathlete
• Best blocker: Template:Flagathlete
• Best setter: Template:Flagathlete
• Best receiver: Template:Flagathlete
• Best digger: Template:Flagathlete

References

• Confédération Européenne de Volleyball (CEV)

External links

• Results at todor66.com
• CEV Results
• Volley