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 1948 in Italy
The Men’s European Championship in Rome from September 24th till September 26th 1948 was the first official international tournament since the establishment of the World Federation in April 1947. It took place open-air on the beach-volleyball fields in „Foro Italico“.
In the absence of the Soviet Union which had joined the World Federation just a short time before, the team of Czechoslovakia stood head and shoulders above the other five teams and won the first ECH very confidently directed by coach Ceslipa.
France came off second-best, they stood up to a very hard-earned game against host Italy with 3:2 (the last two sets ended up 15:17 and 15:13). Portugal got in the fourth position before Belgium and the Netherlands.

Medals
CSR
FRA
ITA

4. POR, 5. BEL, 6. NED
Statistic  picture album

The pictures from the first European Championship until 1985 are taken out of the book 'Volleyball Welt-Geschichte' (Volleyball World-History) from Christian Brandel. All the pictures from 1987 on are taken out of the 'Deutsche Volleyball Zeitschrift' (German Volleyball Magazine, dvz - now called Volleyball Magazin, vm).

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