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2003 Women's European Volleyball Championship

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Field	Value
competition	Women’s European Volleyball Championship
continent	Europe
gender	women
year	2003
host
dates	20 – 28 September
teams	12
venues	2
cities	2
champions	Poland
title_number	1
mvp	POL Małgorzata Glinka
website	[Website](http://www.cev.lu/Competition-Area/Competition.aspx?ID=102&PID=234)
last	2001 Women's European Volleyball Championship
next	2005 Women's European Volleyball Championship

The 2003 Women's European Volleyball Championship was the 23rd edition of the event, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball. It was hosted in Ankara, Turkey from 20 to 28 September 2003.

The two finalists Poland and Turkey claimed a ticket for the 2003 FIVB Women's World Cup and the first Olympic Qualification Tournament for the 2004 Summer Olympics held in Japan in November. The first six ranked teams (Poland, Turkey, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and Russia) qualified for the European Olympic Qualification Tournament in Baku, from 5 to 10 January 2004. Semifinalists Turkey, Germany, Poland and the Netherlands also automatically qualified for the 2005 Women's European Championships, which took place in Croatia. Defending champion Russia finished out of the medals for the first time in volleyball history.

Participating teams

Main article: 2003 Women's European Volleyball Championship qualification

Team	Method of qualification
	[2001 edition third place](2001-women-s-european-volleyball-championship-final-ranking)
	Qualification Category A best third
	Qualification Category A group 3 second
	[2001 edition second place](2001-women-s-european-volleyball-championship-final-ranking)
	Qualification Category A group 2 second
	Qualification Category A group 3 winners
	Qualification Category A group 1 second
	[2001 edition first place](2001-women-s-european-volleyball-championship-final-ranking)
	Qualification Category A group 2 winners
	Qualification Category A second best third
	Hosts
	Qualification Category A group 1 winners

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

Pool A	Pool B

Squads

Main article: 2003 Women's European Volleyball Championship squads

Venues

Pool A and Final round	Pool B
{{Location map+	Turkey
Ankara	Antalya
Ankara Atatürk Sport Hall	Dilek Sabancı Sport Hall
Capacity: 6,000	Capacity: 2,500

Preliminary round

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

Pool A

venue location: Ankara Atatürk Sport Hall, Ankara, Turkey

Pool B

venue location: Dilek Sabancı Sport Hall, Antalya, Turkey

Final round

venue location: Ankara Atatürk Sport Hall, Ankara, Turkey
All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00).

5th–8th place

Pools A and B third and fourth positions play each other. |27 Sep||3||2 |27 Sep||1||3 |28 Sep||3||0 |28 Sep||3||1

5th–8th semifinals

7th place match

5th place match

Final

Pools A and B first and second positions play each other. |27 Sep||2||3 |27 Sep||3||0 |28 Sep||3||0 |28 Sep||3||2

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Final ranking

Place	Team
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.

Izabela Bełcik, Małgorzata Glinka, Dominika Leśniewicz, Maria Liktoras, Agata Mróz, Małgorzata Niemczyk-Wolska, Anna Podolec, Aleksandra Przybysz, Katarzyna Skowrońska, Magdalena Śliwa, and Dorota Świeniewicz.
Head coach: Andrzej Niemczyk.

Poland and Turkey qualified for the 2003 FIVB Women's World Cup

Individual awards

Players awarded for their performances in the tournament.

Best scorer: Małgorzata Glinka
Best spiker: Elizaveta Tichtchenko
Best blocker: Kathy Radzuweit
Best server: Elles Leferink
Best digger: Gülden Kayalar
Best setter: Magdalena Śliwa
Best receiver: Nicoleta Țolișteanu

References

Confédération Européenne de Volleyball (CEV)

References

"2002/2003 Senior European Championships (Individual Awards)". [[Confédération Européenne de Volleyball.
"2002/2003 Senior European Championships Women". [[Confédération Européenne de Volleyball.

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