2003 Men's Volleyball European Championships

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09/19/2003: 2003 Women’s European Championships: World Champion Italy and defending champion Russia favorites!

ANKARA, ANTALYA, Turkey, 19 September – World Champion Italy and defending European Champion Russia are the favorites for the 2003 Women’s Senior European Championships, which will start in Ankara and Antalya, Turkey on Saturday. Russia is ready to defend its title, while Italy will try to win the European Crown for the first time in history.

The major question during the final round of the Women’s Europe...

09/16/2003: Most successful European event breaks records!

BERLIN, Germany, 16 September – With Italy defeating France in an exciting five sets final, the Men’s European Championships came to an end on Sunday. The tournament where the best twelve teams of the world’s strongest volleyball continent met turned out to be one the most successful European event. The Men’s European Championships, extremely well organized by the German Volleyball Federation (DVV) in co-operation with ...

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09/14/2003: Quotes from the final!

Team captain Andrea Giani (ITA): „We are very happy about this victory. It is a great honour for us to continue past successes again. This European Championship demonstrated impressively who strong the European teams are in the world of volleyball. France’s team showed how far you can get with a close team.”

Head coach Gian Paolo Montali (ITA): „It was a fantastic game. When a coach dreams of his f...

09/14/2003: Summary 14.9.03: ITALY TAKES EUROPEAN TITLE BACK!

BERLIN, Germany, 14 September – Four years after winning the European Title for the last time, Italy took the European Championship back here in Berlin, Germany on Sunday. The three times World Champion defeated France in an extremely spectacular final (3-2), watched by almost 9,000 spectators. Russia claimed the bronze medal after defeating defending champion Serbia & Montenegro 3-1.

Italy was not the r...

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09/14/2003: Best player: Andrea Sartoretti is MVP of the European Championship!

The best team of the European Championship was Italy, therefore it is not surprising that the new European Champion provides the best players of the 23rd European Championship. Andrea Sartoretti was elected MVP by the ECH jury, as the most valuable player of the tournament. He also won the rankings for best server. His team-mates Luigi Mastrangelo and Samuele Papi were awarded, too. The following players received a trophy, a c...

09/14/2003: ITA/FRA: New European Champion Italy!

In one of the most exciting matches of this Men’s Volleyball European Championship Italy defeated France in five sets (25:18, 40:42, 25:28, 27:29, 15:9). It took the new European Champion almost two and a half hour to take the title home.
The beginning of the final was a little strange: Italy took off to 2:0 after a block of Mastrangelo against Kieffer but France scored the next five points with – maybe the world’s best...

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