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2009 Balkan
Championships |
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TOURNAMENTS |
DATES &
VENUES |
TECHNICAL DELEGATES |
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YOUTH
WOMEN |
Sarajevo (BIH)
FINISHED |
Andrei Milev (Bulgaria) |
 JUNIOR
WOMEN |
July
1-5, Portaria (GRE) |
Alina Stefanescu (Romania) |
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JUNIOR
MEN |
July
15-19, Danilovgrad (MNE) |
Goran Jovanovic (Serbia) |
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YOUTH MEN |
July
22-26, Kazanlak (BUL) |
Simon Dzines (F.Y.R.O.M.) |
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BV U23 |
July
30-August 1, Izmir (TUR) |
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BV U20 |
August
7-9, Asprovalta/Thessaloniki (GRE) |
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BV Men
& Women |
August
21-23, Vlora (ALB) |
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BVA Cup
(W) |
September 11-20, various cities |
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BVA Cup
(M) |
September 18-27, various cities |
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Junior Women: Serbia and Bulgaria qualify for semi finals
Serbia and Bulgaria, last year's finalists, were the two first team
who secured qualification for the semi finals of the Junior Women Balkan Championships
in Portaria. The defending champions beat Romania 3:0, captain Nadja
Ninkovic scoring 12 points, Andjelka Pantovic contributing another
12 and Kristina Djuric adding 6 aces. The Bulgarians also downed
Turkey in straight sets, with Gabriela Cvetanova scoring 17.
Dobrinka Rabadzhieva and Elitsa Vasileva added 14 and 13 points
respectively.
There was also joy for the Greek fans, as the hosts easily beat
Albania and will play today against Romania for a place in the semi
finals. Bosnia Herzegovina also scored its first victory (3:1 over
Montenegro) and their match against Turkey will determinate the last
semi finalist.
Match Reports
Photo Gallery
Youth Girls: Serbia back on top
The Youth Girls Balkan Championships ended on Friday in Sarajevo and
Serbia returned to the top, after one year's absence. In the rematch
of the 2008 final, Serbia beat defending champions Turkey
3:0, in front of 500 volleyball fans, it the Ramiz Salcin Sports
Hall. Led by MVP Sara Klisura (the 17 years old prodigy from
Subotica scored 18 points), Maria Mirosavljevic's girls were
superior throughout the game, although they had to come from behind
in the second set, where Turkey led 18:13.
Earlier, Bosnia Herzegovina captured the bronze medal in Balkan
competitions (their third consecutive medal after Obrenovac and Tuzla),
beating Romania 3:1, Greece beat Bulgaria 3:0 to take 5th
place and Montenegro downed Albania 3:0 and finished 7th.
Match
Reports & Rosters
Photo Gallery
BVA Cup: Final Fours in Thessaloniki and Tuzla
The Drawing of Lots for the 2009 BVA Cup for clubs was held on
Friday in the Hotel "Bosei" in Vienna, in the presence of FIVB and
CEV Vice President Aleksandar Boricic.
The Drawing of lots was conducted by the BVA Secretary General,
Mr. Achilleas Mavromatis and the Technical Committee Member, Mr.
Viorel Manole
and the Final Fours were awarded to Thessaloniki/Greece (men) and
Tuzla/Bosnia Herzegovina (women). Seven men's and eight women's
teams have been registered in the 2009 edition and they were drawn
as following:
MEN
GROUP A (Odzak/Bosnia Herzegovina): Napredak Odzak, VC Budva
(Montenegro), Aris Thessaloniki (Greece). Aris (organizer of the FF)
and the best from the other teams will qualify.
GROUP B (Cluj/Romania): Napoca Cluj, Teuta Durres (Albania),
Partizan Belgrade (Serbia), Fenerbahce (Turkey). The two best placed
teams will qualify for the Final Four.
DATES:
Groups: September 18-20. Final Four: Thessaloniki/Greece, September
26-27 (Dates subject to approval of the National Federations).
WOMEN
GROUP A (Targu Mures/Romania): Medicina T. Mures, Panionios
Athens (Greece), Rudar (Montenegro), Tuzla (Bosnia
Herzegovina). Tuzla
(organizer of the FF) and the best placed team will qualify.
GROUP B (Skopje/FYROM): Forca Volej Skopje, Besiktas
(Turkey), Marica Plovdiv (Bulgaria), VC Klek (Serbia). The two best
placed teams will qualify for the Final Four.
DATES:
Groups: September 11-13. Final Four: Tuzla/Bosnia Herzegovina,
September 19-20 (Dates subject to approval of the National
Federations).
More...
Junior Women: New draw in Portaria
Due to the withdrawal of Moldavia and FYROM from the Junior Women
Balkan Championships, the Technical Committee decided that the
tournament will be played in two groups and that a new draw shall be
held during the Technical Meeting in Portaria (June 30). Defending
champions Serbia and last year's finalists Bulgaria will head the
two groups and, after the other teams are drawn, hosts Greece will
choose in which group they prefer to play. The new draw will be
conducted by the Technical Delegate.
Downloads
New forms for the BVA
Cup and a new Technical Delegate's Report form were added in the
Downloads
page and, in order to
facilitate their registration, the member Federations
can now download the respective forms from the
website. All forms are in MS Word format (doc). At the
same page, you can find also the BVA Official
Regulations, the BVA Logo and the BVA Yearbooks.
Downloads
Moldavia
withdraws from 2009 competitions
The Moldavian Volleyball Federation informed the BVA that, due to
the difficult financial situation, its teams will not participate in
the 2009 BVA Women Volleyball and Beach Volleyball
competitions. Still, the Moldavian Federation said that it might
participate in the Junior Men and Youth Men championships.
Also, the Volleyball Federation of F.Y.R.O.M. withdrew its team from
the Youth Girls Balkan Championships in Sarajevo, for financial
reasons.
The "Champions" page
are back...
While the majority of the 2008-2009 European Leagues and Cup competitions
have ended, this summer is full of National Teams competitions. In
two special sections of the BVA website,
you can see all the Champions and Cup Winners of the BVA countries
(plus photos of them) and follow the results of their National Teams
in international competition. For
more click...
International Results
Champions Gallery
2008
BVA Cup
It was a Turkish team that won the 1st Men's Balkan Cup, as the
Final Four concluded in Baia Mare with all matches going down to the
tie break! Buyuksehir Belediyesi from Istanbul led twice and finally
beat Greece's AO Kifissia 3:2 to win the trophy, while
American Olympic champions Ryan Millar won his second gold medal in
a month. Earlier, the home team Stiinta Explorari beat Serbian
outfit Ribnica Kraljevo, also in the tie break, to win the bronze
medal. In the semi finals, Kifissia had beaten Ribnica and
Buyuksehir eliminated Explorari.
One day after Buyuksehir secured the Men's Balkan Cup, Besiktas
completed the Turkish sweep by winning the Women's edition in Tuzla.
Led by Turskish international Natalya Hanikolgu (the MVP of the
tournament), the team from Istanbul beat Serbia's TENT Obrenovac 3:1
in Tuzla's
University Sports Hall. Levski Siconco from Bulgaria defeated hosts
OK Tuzla to take the bronze medal. In the semi finals Besiktas had
beaten Tuzla 3:0 and Obrenovac downed Levski 3:1.
2008 Junior Men (Ankara/Turkey)
Serbia
won the Junior Men Balkan Championships in Ankara and returned to
the top after three years (their last victory was in 2005), as the
five-days tournament reaches its climax. The Serbian team,
led by MVP Aleksandar Atanasijevic (17 pts) and attacker Nicola
Mijahlovic (21 pts) beat a rejuvenated Greek team, who was forced to
play the last set without its best attacker Mitar Djuric. Captain
Andreas Frangos was the top scorer of the final with 24 points.
Turkey delighted the home crowd by beating Montenegro 3:1 and
winning the bronze medal, while Bulgaria beat Romania 3:0 for 5th
place and Moldavia defeated FYROM 3:0 for the 7th place.
2008 Junior Women (Tuzla/Bosnia
Herzegovina)
Serbia
successfully defended its Junior Women title, after winning
the 2008 Balkan Championships in Tuzla with a convincing 3:0
win over Bulgaria. The girls of head coach Zoran
Kovacic wonc relatively easy, except from the second set,
when they had to overturn a 10:16 deficit and avoid a
Bulgarian set ball at 23:24. But Tijana Malesevic (the MVP
of the tournament) led her team's comeback and the Serbians
never looked back, despite the magnificent performance of
Bulgarian star Elitsa Vasileva. Serbia also swept the
individual awards with Malesevic, Marija Pucarevic and Nina
Rosic, while the other honors went to Bosnia's Brankica
Mihajlovic and Bulgaria's Nora Bogdanova.
Earlier, Bosnia &
Herzegovina played without injured first choice setter Jelena Markovic
but had no major difficulties against Moldavia and won the
bronze medal with a 3:0 win. Kristina Eric, who filled
Markovic's place and Asmira Hecic's good performance helped
the Bosnians to overcome Diaconita's heroics.
The match was interrupted for 10 minutes in the third set,
due to a power failure and restarted with emergency lights,
but there was no way back for Moldavia and the home side
celebrated its second consecutive medal, after the 2007 silver in Obrenovac.
Romania, with Ioana Baciu and Daian Muresan in great shape,
overcame Greece's resistance to win the 5th place play off
and
Turkey, playing with its second string team for almost the
whole game, easily beat Montenegro to claim 7th place.
The tournament's closing ceremony was attended by Tuzla's
Mayor, Mr. Jasmin Imamovic.
2008 Youth Men (Kazanlak/Bulgaria)
Serbia won the the Youth Men Balkan Championships for the second
consecutive year in Kazanlak, where the Bulgarian Volleyball staged
an excellent tournament. Led by the championships' top attecker
Aleksandar Atanasijevic (who scorer 20 points), Dusan Petkovic (15
pts) and setter Nikola Jovovic, the defending champions beat Turkey
3:0 in just over one hour and celebrated their sixth title in eight
competitions so far. For Turkey Ufuk Minici and captain Berkan Bozan
each scored 8 points, while Burak Hazirol was named best libero of
the tournament.
Hosts Bulgaria consoled themselves for the semi final defeat against
Serbia with the bronze, the first medal since their wining
performance in 2005. Nikolay Penchev swept the MVP and Best Server
titles and Montenegro's Marko Djuranovic was the tournament's best
libero. Earlier, Greece beat Bosnia/ Herzegovina in straight sets
and finished 5th, while Romania claimed 7th place, beating FYROM
3:1.
2008
Beach Volley Men & Women (Belgrade/Serbia)
The 2008 Men
& Women Beach Volley Championships was staged at Lake Ada Ciganlija
in Belgrade, with Bulgaria, Serbia and Romania sharing the
medals. Bulgarian stars Nikolay Kolev and Neven Neshev won
the all Bulgarian men's final against last year's champions
Boris Yankov and Milen Stoyanov, while Dzuric and Mladenovic
beat compatriots Stanojcic and Brcic for the bronze medal.
The women's final was a Serbian affair, with the "Natashas"
(Borki and Sevarika) beating the Bulgarian "Dianas" (Malinova
and Filipova) in a thrilling three sets final. With her win
Natasha Sevarika also won a place in the history of the BVA
as she became one of the few players who won gold medals
both in indoor and beach volleyball! The ex captain of the
Serbian Junior team led her country to the 2007 Junior
Women's title and was the MVP of the Balkan Championships in
Obrenovac. There was an all Romanian bronze medal match,
where ex champion Sorina Buz (playing with Diana Balintoni)
beat her former partner Loredana Calinciuc (now with Ana
Maria Hambele).
The tournament was part of the local 2008 VIP Masters
Series and was attended, among others, by Mr. Aleksandar
Boricic, FIVB Vice President and Chairman of the Serbian
Volleyball Federation and the Vice Presidents of the Serbian
Federation, Nenad Golijanin and Aleksandar Vlahovic.
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