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EIGHT YOUTH GIRLS' TEAMS BATTLE FOR GOLD
European Youth Olympic Festival 2005
Luxembourg/Lignano, July 05, 2005. In the eighth
summer edition of the European Youth Olympic Festival, which is taking
place in Lignano Sabbiadoro (ITA) from 4th to 8th
July 2005, the youth girls from France and Italy were top of the pools
following the first round of matches but with another two rounds to
play everything still remains open.
The two first ranked teams in Pool A and Pool B from a total of eight participating teams, namely Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Netherlands, Poland and Slovakia, will move on to the crossed semifinal matches which will take place on Thursday afternoon. The Italian youth girls, who finished third in the European Youth Championships 2005 in Tallinn (EST) earlier this year, experienced little problems in their first match against Slovakia (3:0) being backed up by the support of the home crowd. Best scorer was Italian Francesca Manfredini booking 15 points.
The other Pool A encounter between the Eastern Europeans Poland and the Czech Republic resulted in a tighter affair which the Poles finally decided in their favour, winning the tiebreak 15-10.
In Pool B France stormed through their first match beating their neighbours from Belgium 3:0 after just over an hour of play. In the other encounter 2003 European Youth Champion Croatia just overcame the Dutch 15-13 in the tiebreak. Although Van der Velde (23 points) and Schoot (22 points) scored several points for the Netherlands, the opposition capped the best scorer’s table with Jelena Alajbeg (best server of the European Youth Championships 2005) and Hana Cutura scoring 29 respectively 24 points in total.Results
Pool A
|
Monday, 4th July 2005 |
CZE - POL |
2:3 |
26-24, 15-25, 25-20, 19-25, 10-15 |
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ITA - SVK |
3:0 |
25-15, 25-15, 25-13 |
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|
Tuesday, 5th July 2005 |
CZE - SVK |
3:1 |
19-25, 25-13, 25-11, 25-23 |
|
ITA - POL |
16.00 hrs |
Ranking Pool A
|
1. |
Czech Republic |
3 points |
5:4 |
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2. |
Italy |
2 points |
3:0 |
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3. |
Poland |
2 points |
3:2 |
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4. |
Slovakia |
2 points |
1:6 |
Pool B
|
Monday, 4th July 2005 |
CRO - NED |
3:2 |
22-25, 25-17, 25-22, 22-25, 15-13 |
|
BEL - FRA |
0:3 |
17-25, 23-25, 18-25 |
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Tuesday, 5th July 2005 |
NED - BEL |
3:1 |
25-15, 25-18, 26-28, 25-21 |
|
CRO - FRA |
18.00 hrs |
Ranking Pool B
|
1. |
Netherlands |
3 points |
5:4 |
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2. |
France |
2 points |
3:0 |
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3. |
Croatia |
2 points |
3:2 |
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4. |
Belgium |
2 points |
1:6 |
Further match schedule (local time)
|
Wednesday, 6th July 2005 |
10.00 hrs |
Pool A |
POL - SVK |
|
12.00 hrs |
Pool B |
CRO - BEL |
|
|
16.00 hrs |
Pool A |
ITA - CZE |
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|
18.00 hrs |
Pool B |
FRA - NED |
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Thursday, 7th July 2005 |
10.00 hrs |
5th - 8th place |
3rd Pool A vs. 4th Pool B |
|
12.00 hrs |
5th - 8th place |
3rd Pool B vs. 4th Pool A |
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|
16.00 hrs |
1st semifinal |
2nd Pool A vs. 1st Pool B |
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|
18.00 hrs |
2nd semifinal |
1st Pool A vs. 2nd Pool B |
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Friday, 8th July 2005 |
10.00 hrs |
7th - 8th place |
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12.00 hrs |
5th - 6th place |
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14.00 hrs |
Bronze medal match |
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16.00 hrs |
Final |
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