Russian volleyball players have won a ticket to the Olympics-2016 – RBC

The players and coaches of the Russian team celebrating their victory in the final match of the qualifying tournament in volleyball among women for the Olympic Games in 2016 between the national teams of Russia and the Netherlands

Photo: “RIA Novosti»

Russia women’s national volleyball team defeated the team of the Netherlands in the final of European qualifying tournament for the Olympics in 2016 and He won a ticket to the Games in Rio de Janeiro. The meeting was held in Ankara.

The decisive match ended with a confident victory of Russians with the score 3: 1 (25:21, 22:25, 25:19, 25:20). The most productive player of the meeting was Nataliya Obmochaeva, scored 24 points, Tatiana Kosheleva brought the team 23 points.

During the tournament, the Russian team beat Turkish team (3: 1), Poland (3: 2), Italy (3 1) and Belgium (3: 0).

After the defeat of Dutch will play in the World Olympic qualification, which will be held in May-June in Japan. Also, there is play, and the Italian team, which finished third in the European qualifying tournament.

In October 2015, Russian women’s volleyball team for the second time in a row won the European Championship. Then, in the final match of the tournament Russians also met with the team of Holland and won in three games.

Women’s volleyball team of the USSR four times won at the Olympics (1968, 1972, 1980 and 1988), in 1964 and 1976 he became silver medal. The highest achievement of Russian women’s team at the Olympics is the second in Sydney in 2000 and Athens in 2004. For the last two Olympic Games – in 2008 in Beijing and 2012 in London – Russian volleyball team dropped out of the struggle in the quarter final.

31th Summer Olympic Games will be held from 5 to 21 August 2016 Brazil Rio de -Zhaneyro.