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CEV announce rankings: Pools of European Qualifiers for Rio determined!

by WoV
source: cev.lu, wikipedia.org; Photo: cev.lu

The European Volleyball Confederation (CEV) announced new rankings of the national teams after a slight confusion caused by counting only the highest number of points for each team in case of their participation at all relevant tournaments for the ranking, not summing them.

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The newest CEV ranking in both competitions will form the Olympic qualifying rounds in January.

Recall, in the men’s competition, besides the host country Germany, seven the highest ranked teams which have not yet qualified to the Olympic Games will play the Qualifiers (Berlin, January 5-10, 2016). In women’s competition, it’s the same case, but with Turkey as hosts (Ankara, January 4-9, 2016).

In men’s competition, Italy booked their spot throughout World Cup in Japan, while in women’s, Serbia did the same.

According to the newest CEV ranking, the pools for European Qualifiers wil look like this…

Male competition:

Pool A: Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Slovakia

Pool B: Russia, Serbia, France, Finland

Female competition:

Pool A: Turkey, Germany, Poland, Croatia

Pool B: Italy, Russia, the Netherlands, Belgium.

 

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