European Championship Tour 2003

2003 European Championship Tour
Tournament details
Host nation	Croatia, Greece, Turkey
Dates	June – August, 2003
Venue(s)	(in 3 host cities)
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Last updated March 31, 2019

The 2003 European Championship Tour (or the 2003 European Beach Volleyball Tour) was the European beach volleyball tour for 2003. This was the first year of the European Championship Tour.

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. It comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia.

Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net. As in indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side of the court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent. A team is allowed up to three touches to return the ball across the net, and individual players may not touch the ball twice consecutively except after making a block touch. The ball is put in play with a serve—a hit by the server from behind the rear court boundary over the net to the opponents. The rally continues until the ball is grounded on the playing court, goes "out", or a fault is made in the attempt to return the ball. The team that wins the rally scores a point and serves to start the following rally. The four players serve in the same sequence throughout the match, changing server each time a rally is won by the receiving team.

The 2003 European Beach Volleyball Championships were held from August 29 to September 1, 2003 in Alanya, Turkey. It was the eleventh official edition of the men's event, which started in 1993, while the women competed for the tenth time. For the first time the event was incorporated in the new CEV European Beach Volleyball Tour, a combined Grand Prix of three tournaments. The first one was staged in Zagreb, Croatia, the second one in Rethymnon, Greece.

Tournaments

Zagreb Challenger, in Zagreb, Croatia – 20–22 June 2003
Greek Open, in Rethymnon, Greece – 9–13 July 2003
2003 European Championship Final, in Alanya, Turkey – 27–31 August 2003

Alanya District in Mediterranean, Turkey

Alanya, formerly Alaiye, is a beach resort city and a component district of Antalya Province on the southern coast of Turkey, in the country's Mediterranean Region, 138 kilometres (86 mi) east of the city of Antalya. As of Turkey's 2010 Census, the city had a population of 98,627, while the district that includes the city and its built-up region had an area of 1,598.51 km² and 248,286 inhabitants.

Turkey, officially the Republic of Turkey, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. East Thrace, located in Europe, is separated from Anatolia by the Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorous strait and the Dardanelles. Turkey is bordered by Greece and Bulgaria to its northwest; Georgia to its northeast; Armenia, the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the south. Istanbul is the largest city, but more central Ankara is the capital. Approximately 70 to 80 per cent of the country's citizens identify as Turkish. Kurds are the largest minority; the size of the Kurdish population is a subject of dispute with estimates placing the figure at anywhere from 12 to 25 per cent of the population.

Tournament results

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Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Zagreb Challenger	Felbabova–Novotná	Graumann–Sutt	Oblak–Sirk
Greek Open	Gattelli–Perrotta	Celbová–Nováková	Kuhn–Schnyder
Final	Pohl–Rau	Ahmann–Vollmer	Gattelli–Perrotta

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Zagreb Challenger	Cyvas–Vasiliauskas	Peric–Trimcevski	Kais–Nõmmsalu
Greek Open	Egger–Heyer	Hoidalen–Kjemperud	Laciga–Laciga
Final	Berger–Doppler	Dieckmann–Reckermann	Egger–Heyer

Medal table by country

Position	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1.	Germany	1	2		3
2.	Czech Republic	1	1		2
3.	Switzerland	1		3	4
4.	Italy	1		1	2
5.	Austria	1			1
5.	Lithuania	1			1
7.	Estonia		1	1	2
8.	Croatia		1		1
8.	Norway		1		1
10.	Slovenia			1	1

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References

↑ Confédération Européenne de Volleyball 2003 Season Summary, Beach Volleyball Database

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[1] Confédération Européenne de Volleyball 2003 Season Summary, Beach Volleyball Database

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