1989 Women's European Volleyball Championship


The 1989 Women's European Volleyball Championship was the sixteenth edition of the event, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball. It was hosted in several cities in West Germany from 2 to 10 September 1989, with the final round held in Stuttgart.

Participating teams

TeamMethod of qualification
Qualification group 1 winners
1987 edition third place
1987 edition first place
Qualification group 1 runners-up
Qualification group 4 runners-up
Qualification group 3 winners
Qualification group 2 runners-up
Qualification group 4 winners
1987 edition second place
Qualification group 3 runners-up
Hosts
Qualification group 2 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 three 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 group stage fifths and sixths played the 9th to 12th semifinals. The pairing of the semifinals was made so teams played against the opposite group teams which finished in a different position.

Pools composition

Squads

Venues

Preliminary round

Pool A

9th–12th place

11th place match

9th place match

5th–8th place

7th place match

5th place match

Final

3rd place match

Final

Final ranking

PlaceTeam
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11.
12.

Team Roster

Irina Kirillova, Valentina Ogienko, Elena Chebukina, Tatyana Sidorenko, Irina Ilchenko, Svetlana Korytova, Irina Shcherbakova, Elena Batoukhtina, Marina Vyalitsyna, Inna Dashuk, Galina Lebedeva, and Olga Tolmacheva.
Head Coach: Nikolay Karpol.

Individual awards