Egypt men's national sitting volleyball team

The Egypt men's national sitting volleyball team represents Egypt in international sitting volleyball competitions and friendly matches. The team is one of the newcomers in the sport. Egypt have appeared in several Paralympic and World Championships semi finals.

Egypt
AssociationNational Paralympic Committee Egypt for Volleyball
Head coachRudi Sonnenbichler
Uniforms
Home
Away
Summer Paralympics
Appearances10 (First in 1980)
Best result (2) 2004, 2016
World Championship
Appearances6 (First in 1998)
Best result (2) 2006, 2010

Players

The following is the Egypt roster in the men's volleyball tournament of the 2012 Summer Paralympics.[1]

Head coach: Mansour El Mohamdy

№ Name Date of birth Position 2012 club
1Hesham Abdelmaksod2 February 1975M El Houreya
2Tamer Morgan Khalil9 March 1971WS El Houreya
3Yasser Saad Abd El Wahab Hassan14 October 1973SE Police Sports Club Association
4Ashraf Zaghloul Abdel Aziz24 February 1974WS Police Sports Club Association
5Taher Adel Elbahaey9 June 1972SE El Houreya
6Ahmed Mohammed Soliman Khamis12 April 1987M Club Alexandria Petroleum
7Ahmed Mohammed Fadl1 March 1985WS Club Alexandria Petroleum
8Mohamed Ezzeldin Mohamed1 September 1992WS Club Alexandria Petroleum
9Elsayed Moussa Saad28 May 1979WS Police Sports Club Association
10Abdel Nabi Ahmed Abdel Latif18 June 1972L Police Sports Club Association
12Mohamed Ibrahim29 March 1979M Police Sports Club Association

Egypt roster in 2016:

  • 1 (S) ELSHWIKH Hesham (C) - Outside Hitter
  • 3 KHATER Shaaban - Outside Hitter
  • 4 (S) ABDALLA Ashraf - Opposite Spiker
  • 5 ZEID Mohamed - Setter
  • 6 (S) SOLIMAN Ahmed - Middle Block
  • 7 AMER Ahmed - Outside Hitter
  • 8 MASSOUD Hossam - Setter
  • 9 (S) MOUSSA Elsayed - Outside Hitter
  • 10 (S) ABDELLATIF Abdelnaby - Libero
  • 11 EID Sabry - Outside Hitter
  • 12 (S) ABOUELYAZEID Mohamed - Middle Block
  • 14 (S) ABOUELKHIR Metawa - Outside Hitter

Honours

[2]

Paralympic Games
Games Place
1980 Arnhem6th
1984 New York8th
1988 Seoul9th
1992 Barcelona8th
2000 Sydney4th place
2004 Athens Bronze
2008 Beijing4th place
2012 London6th place
2016 Rio Bronze
2020 Tokyo5th place

World Championships
Year Position
1998 Tehran7th place
2002 Cairo4th place
2006 Roermond3rd place
2010 Edmond3rd place
2014 Elblag4th place
2018 Arnhem6th place

Minor Tournaments

Sarajevo Open Championship:

  • Runners-Up (1): 2006
  • 4th place (1): 2016

World ranking

As at 28 September 2016.[3]

Rank Movement Country Points Region
1
Iran
 5215 Asia-Oceania
2
Brazil
 4708 Pan America
3 1
Egypt
 4523 Africa
4 1
Bosnia and Herzegovina
 4300 Europe
5
Germany
 3578 Europe

Coaching staff

[4]

Position Name Active
Head coach ELAIUTY Mosaad
Assistant coach ELBAHAEY Taher
Assistant coach ABBAS Amim
Therapist/Trainer AHMED Amr

See also

References
  1. Men's Sitting Volleyball – Teams – Egypt, london2012.com. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  2. Kwok Ng (26 September 2016). "Major Competitions". sittingvolleyball.omeka.net. Archived from the original on 23 September 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
  3. worldparavolley.org. "World Ranking – Sitting Volleyball". worldparavolley.org. Archived from the original on 30 September 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  4. "Paralympic - Sitting Volleyball Men Egypt". Archived from the original on 2016-10-06. Retrieved 2016-10-05.
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