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ELWANI RE-ELECTED
EGYPTIAN VOLLEYBALL FED. PRESIDENT
EGYPT VOLLEYBALL CONTINUED AFRICAN
PREDOMINENCE
Cairo, Egypt December 30-: CAVB President,
Dr. Amr Elwani was re-elected Thursday as
Egyptian volleyball Federation President for
the third period till 2008. The Board of
administration included also Hasan Ahmed,
the CAVB Referee commission president and
FIVB Referee commission secretary in the
position of Vice-president, Dr. Hosam
Bahgat, CAVB Medical Commission President as
a treasurer and Khalid Nasif, Sameh Hamdy,
Mohamed Abou Elfotoh and Amr Makhlouf as
members.
Under the presidency of Dr. Elwani, Egyptian
continued its predominance in the African
level in 2004 specially after defeating the
two big forces Tunisia, the last African
Nations’ Champions and Algeria the African
Nations Bronze Medalist in the Volleyball
Competition of All Arab Games in Algeria
October 2004. this was the only
confrontation between the greatest three
countries in the continent in 2004 as Egypt
passes the two teams to get the gold medal
of Men’s competition.
Egypt also qualified in 2004 to two big FIVB
competitions as the Women U-20 team won the
African Nations championship of this age
category held in Abuja, Nigeria. Egypt women
had a stunning victory in straight sets over
the organizers in front of 3000 spectators
although Nigeria played with a line up
including seven players who led the first
team to All Africa Games Gold medal in the
same hall in October 2003. Egypt women
secured a vacancy in 2005 Women U-20 in
Turkey and increased the hope of the
Egyptians to have a team which can lead the
women volleyball in the continent after the
A team superstar Tahany Tosson retired. In
this competition three Egyptian players were
among the best in the individual prizes;
Sherihan Sameh the most Valuable player,
Iman Tharwat the best setter and Injy Hamdy
the best spiker.
Egypt also had a vacancy in the 2005 Boys
U-19 World Championship in Algeria with two
other African vacancies went to the
Organizer and Tunisia. Egypt boys won the
African championship of this age category
held in South Africa.
Egypt Men’s U-21 was the only team which
lost the opportunity to have a World
championship place as the two African
Vacancies went to Morocco and Tunisia after
getting the first and second places
respectively in the African championship
held in Kenya where Egypt came third.
The problem of Egyptian volleyball now is to
have a World level achievement as the only
world class position was the fourth place in
the 2001 Boys U-19 World Championship which
was held in their homelands. Now ranked 21st
in the FIVB world men ranking- one place
behind Tunisia the top of African teams- and
ranked 18th in Women’s ranking, Egypt wants
to do the best to have a World level
achievement in the coming years. |
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