The 1997 Women's European Volleyball Championship was the 20th edition of the event, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball. It was hosted in Brno and Zlín, Czech Republic from 27 September to 5 October 1997.
Participating teams
TeamMethod of qualification Qualification group D winners Qualification group A winners 1995 edition second place Hosts 1995 edition fourth place Qualification group B winners Qualification promotion round 1995 edition first place Qualification group E winners Qualification promotion round 1995 edition third place Qualification group C 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 APool B
Squads
Venues Pool APool B and Final roundZlínBrno
Preliminary round All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
Pool A venue location: Zlín, Czech Republic
Pool B venue location: Brno, Czech Republic
Final round venue location: Brno, Czech Republic All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).
5th–8th place Pools A and B third and fourth positions play each other.
5th–8th semifinals
7th place match
5th place match
Final Pools A and B first and second positions play each other.
Semifinals
3rd place match
Final
Final ranking
Place Team4.5.6.7.8.9.
+ Team RosterEvgenya Artamonova, Elena Batoukhtina, Anastasia Belikova, Elena Godina, Tatyana Gracheva, Tatyana Menchova, Natalya Morozova, Natalia Safronova, Olga Tchoukanova, Irina Tebenikhina, Elizaveta Tichtchenko and Elena Vassilevskaya.Head coach: Nikolay Karpol.
Individual awards Most valuable player: Best spiker: Best blocker: Best setter:
References Confédération Européenne de Volleyball (CEV)
External links Results at todor66.com Results