Volleyball at the 2015 European Games

Volleyball at the 2015 European Games
Volleyball match between Azerbaijan and Poland during European Games
Venue	Baku Crystal Hall
Dates	13–28 June 2015
Competitors	464[1]

Volleyball at the 2015 European Games
Qualification
Indoor
Tournament	men	women
Rosters	men	women
Beach
Tournament	men	women
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The volleyball tournaments at the 2015 European Games in Baku were played between 13 and 28 June. 12 teams participated in the two indoor tournaments, while 32 pairs took part in each of the beach volleyball events.^[1]

Each event will accept twelve entered teams. Qualification for indoor volleyball for the 2015 European Games is based on European rankings. Those rankings shall be taken on 1 January 2015, and based on the CEV Entry Ranking/Euro league participations. As hosts, Azerbaijan shall be entitled to entry in both indoor events, and nations will be restricted to single team of 14 players in each event.^[2]

Each event will accept 32 entered teams. Qualification for beach volleyball will be based on the CEV Beach Volleyball Ranking on 1 January 2015. The top 30 teams in the rankings will be invited to enter, subject to a maximum entry of two teams per nation, while two team places will be reserved in each event for hosts Azerbaijan.^[2]

FIVB has awarded Beach Volleyball the same ranking points as the continental tour masters which will be used for Rio 2016 Olympic Qualification purposes.^[2]

First version of the competition schedule.^[3]

June		12th Fri	13th Sat	14th Sun	15th Mon	16th Tue	17th Wed	18th Thu	19th Fri	20th Sat	21st Sun	22nd Mon	23rd Tue	24th Wed	25th Thu	26th Fri	27th Sat	28th Sun	Events
Volleyball		OC	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	1	1	●	●	●	●	●	1	1	4

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's indoor details	Germany (GER) Christian Fromm Sebastian Kühner Denis Kaliberda Marcus Böhme Jochen Schöps (captain) Lukas Kampa Ferdinand Tille Tom Strohbach Tim Broshog Jan Zimmermann Michael Andrei Björn Höhne Matthias Pompe Falko Steinke	Bulgaria (BUL) Georgi Bratoev Rozalin Penchev Martin Bozhilov Svetoslav Gotsev Velizar Chernokozhev Branimir Grozdanov Dobromir Dimitrov Valentin Bratoev Jani Jeliazkov Todor Aleksiev (captain) Nikolay Nikolov Borislav Apostolov Ventsislav Ragin Petar Karakashev	Russia (RUS) Ilia Vlasov Dmitry Kovalev (captain) Ivan Demakov Igor Kobzar Alexander Markin Igor Filippov Alexey Kabeshov Alexander Kimerov Dmitrii Volkov Victor Poletaev Maksim Zhigalov Egor Kliuka Sergey Nikitin Roman Bragin
Women's indoor details	Turkey (TUR) Çağla Akın Kübra Akman Seda Aslanyürek Naz Aydemir Dicle Nur Babat Büşra Cansu Merve Dalbeler Meliha İsmailoğlu Aslı Kalaç Gizem Güreşen Karadayı Güldeniz Önal Paşalıoğlu (C) Neriman Özsoy Polen Uslupehlivan Gözde Yılmaz	Poland (POL) Anna Werblińska Maja Tokarska Izabela Bełcik (captain) Agnieszka Kąkolewska Agnieszka Bednarek-Kasza Anna Miros Katarzyna Zaroślińska Agata Sawicka Daria Paszek Sylwia Pycia Agata Durajczyk Joanna Wołosz Natalia Kurnikowska Katarzyna Skowrońska-Dolata	Serbia (SRB) Maja Savić Marta Drpa Bojana Živković Mina Popović Tijana Malešević Brižitka Molnar Brankica Mihajlović Jelena Nikolić (captain) Ana Bjelica Jovana Stevanović Milena Rašić Silvija Popović Slađana Mirković Bianka Buša
Men's beach details	Latvia (LAT) Mārtiņš Pļaviņš Haralds Regža	Russia (RUS) Yaroslav Koshkarev Dmitri Barsuk	Czech Republic (CZE) Přemysl Kubala Jan Hadrava
Women's beach details	Switzerland (SUI) Nicole Eiholzer Nina Betschart	Austria (AUT) Lena Plesiutschnig Katharina Schützenhöfer	Lithuania (LTU) Ieva Dumbauskaitė Monika Povilaitytė