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BVA Cup/Women: Besiktas completes Turkish sweep
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.
You can find more about the
tournament, including results, match reports and photos at...
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BVA Cup/Men: Buyuksehir wins first Balkan 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.
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tournament, including results, match reports and photos at...
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Beach Volley/Belgrade: Kolev/Neshev dominate, Sevarika writes history
The 2008 Men
& Women Beach Volley Championships finished today 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, which closed the 2008 competitions for
national teams, 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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tournament, including teams, results and photos at...
Belgrade 2008
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Junior W/Tuzla: Serbia wins fourth
Junior Women title
Serbia
successfully defended its Junior Women title, after winning
the 2008 Balkan Championships in Tuzla with a convincing 3:0
win over Bulgaria on Saturday. 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.
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tournament, including team rosters, results and photos at...
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Junior M/Ankara:
Serbia back on top
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 on Sunday. 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.
You can find the complete match
reports, team rosters and photos at...
Ankara 2008
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Youth M/Kazanlak: Serbia
wins it again
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.
BVA's next tournament is the Junior Men Balkan Championships in
Ankara, on August 13 to 17.
Kazanlak 2008
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Youth W/Portaria:
Majestic Cansu leads Turkey
Captain Cansu Aydinogullari offered an amazing majestic performance
in Portaria and led Turkey back to the top of the Youth Girls Balkan
Championships, which ended on Saturday in Greece. The 16 years old
setter from Istanbul was the top performer of the exciting Turkish
team, which beat Serbia 3:1 in the final, with Gulsah Olcay scoring
20 points and Selin Uygur adding another 17. But it was Cansu who
stole the show and was rightly named MVP of the tournament by the
coaches of the participating teams. For the Serbians, Bjelica,
Klisura and Lukovic scored 12 points each.
Earlier, Greece ended a seven years jinx to win its first women
Balkan medal since 2001. The hosts beat Bulgaria 3:1 for the bronze
medal in front of an enthusiastic home crowd, despite playing
without injured receiver Sophia Kosma. Captain Maria Nomikou, who
missed Friday's semi final against Serbia, returned to the team and
led her team with 14 points. Blockers Kalogridaki and Ikonomidou
added 12 and 11 points respectively. Kalina Maneva's 18 points were
not enough for Bulgaria, who conceded 14 aces.
The final day also saw Bosnia/Herzegovina defeating Montenegro 3:1
for the 5th place and Romania beating FYROM 3:1 for 7th.
The tournament was played in a unique party atmosphere throughout
its duration. Fittingly, it concluded with an unforgettable party in
nearby Katichori, where players, referees, officials and staff all
danced late into the night.
Portaria
2008
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The complete Database of the
BVA
The Balkan Volleyball Association is
happy to announce that the Database of the Volleyball Balkan
Championships (indoor) is now completed. In the
Databank
page of this website you can find all results, standings and MVP's
of the previous championships organized by the BVA and we hope that
soon we will also be able to offer the same Database for the Beach
Volley competitions.
The BVA wishes to thank Mr. Novica Saric, Press Officer
of the Volleyball Federation of Serbia, for his valuable help in
collecting the results of the competitions.
Databank
The 2008 Champions
The results of the BVA countries in international Volley & Beach
Volley competitions and the 2007-08 Club Champions of the Balkan
countries with their photos.
News
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Champions 2008
The BVA Yearbook
on the Web
The 2007 BVA Yearbook is ready and, for
the first time, is published (in PDF format) on the BVA
website. You can download it by clicking the picture on
the left, or the following link and enjoy an action
packed year of Balkan volleyball.
Yearbook 2007
Downloads
In order to
facilitate their registration, the member Federations
can now download the respective BVA forms from the BVA
website. All forms are in MS Word format (doc). At the
same page, you can find also the BVA Official
Regulations and the BVA Logo.
Downloads
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