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.
Qualification
Indoor volleyball
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.
Beach volleyball
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.Qualification
2016 Summer Olympics Qualification
FIVB has awarded Beach Volleyball the same ranking points as the continental tour masters which will be used for Rio 2016 Olympic Qualification purposes.
Timetable
First version of the competition schedule.Newsletter 1: Competition Schedule OCOpening ceremony●Event competitions1Event finalsCCClosing ceremony
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Medal summary Men's indoor Christian FrommSebastian KühnerDenis KaliberdaMarcus BöhmeJochen Schöps (captain)Lukas KampaFerdinand TilleTom StrohbachTim BroshogJan ZimmermannMichael AndreiBjörn Höhne Matthias PompeFalko Steinke Georgi BratoevRozalin PenchevMartin BozhilovSvetoslav GotsevVelizar ChernokozhevBranimir GrozdanovDobromir DimitrovValentin BratoevJani JeliazkovTodor Aleksiev (captain)Nikolay NikolovBorislav Apostolov Ventsislav RaginPetar Karakashev Ilia VlasovDmitry Kovalev (captain)Ivan DemakovIgor KobzarAlexander MarkinIgor FilippovAlexey KabeshovAlexander KimerovDmitrii VolkovVictor PoletaevMaksim ZhigalovEgor Kliuka Sergey NikitinRoman Bragin Women's indoor Çağla AkınKübra AkmanSeda AslanyürekNaz AydemirDicle Nur BabatBüşra CansuMerve DalbelerMeliha İsmailoğluAslı KalaçGizem Güreşen KaradayıGüldeniz Önal Paşalıoğlu (C)Neriman Özsoy Polen UslupehlivanGözde Yılmaz Anna WerblińskaMaja TokarskaIzabela Bełcik (captain)Agnieszka KąkolewskaAgnieszka Bednarek-KaszaAnna MirosKatarzyna ZaroślińskaAgata SawickaDaria PaszekSylwia PyciaAgata DurajczykJoanna WołoszNatalia KurnikowskaKatarzyna Skowrońska-Dolata Maja SavićMarta DrpaBojana ŽivkovićMina PopovićTijana MaleševićBrižitka MolnarBrankica MihajlovićJelena Nikolić (captain)Ana BjelicaJovana StevanovićMilena RašićSilvija PopovićSlađana MirkovićBianka Buša Men's beach Mārtiņš PļaviņšHaralds Regža Yaroslav KoshkarevDmitri Barsuk Přemysl KubalaJan Hadrava Women's beach Nicole EiholzerNina Betschart Lena PlesiutschnigKatharina Schützenhöfer Ieva DumbauskaitėMonika Povilaitytė
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