Olympic Volleyball – Qatar volleyball team all set for Paris 2024 qualification tournament
More than 10,000 athletes from over 200 countries will compete for 306 medals at the Paris Olympics. Ranked among the top 25 teams in the world, Qatar’s volleyball team has qualified for the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB), the men’s qualifying tournament for the Paris 2024.
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Competing with six teams, Qatar will compete for a place in the Olympic 2024 among the likes of host France. Elements of the qualifying tournaments have not yet been announced by the FIVB, but the Qatar national team will take place from September 30 to October 8, 2023.
China, Japan and Poland will play France in the women’s championship, while Brazil, China and Japan will play in the men’s. The rest of the men’s qualifying teams will play Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Cuba, Czech Republic, Egypt, Finland, Germany, Iran, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine and the United States.
While women’s teams will include Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Puerto Rico, Slovenia, Serbia, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine and again the USA.
Russia and Belarus have been suspended from FIVB international competition since March due to the invasion of Ukraine. Paris will kick off the multi-sport extravaganza on July 26, 2024.
King of the Court tournament
The Qatar national Olympic beach volleyball team won the bronze medal at the Miami Beach 2023 Tour as part of the King of the Court tournament. Trailing behind Estonia and Chile, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic bronze medal winners still managed to beat other teams competing against each other in three rounds to determine who would be king of the court. Twin stars Sheriff Yunus and Ahmed Tijan are currently ranked third in the world and have won numerous medals for Qatar.
FIVB draw lots for Paris 2024 volleyball qualifying tournaments
The draw for the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) qualification tournament for next year’s Olympic Games in Paris took place today at a ceremony in Lausanne, which revealed the three groups of national teams for men and women.
Group A of the women’s tournament, which will be held in China, will include the hosts, world champions Serbia, the Dominican Republic, the Netherlands, Canada, the Czech Republic, Mexico and Ukraine. Group B is due to take place in Japan and will feature home countries as well as Brazil, Turkey, Belgium, Bulgaria, Puerto Rico, Argentina and Peru.
Group C, which will take place in Poland, will include the hosts, Italy, the reigning US Olympic Volleyball champions, Germany, Thailand, Colombia, South Korea and Slovenia. France automatically qualifies for Paris 2024 as host of the event.
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The top two teams in each pool will automatically qualify, while the five remaining spots will be given to the highest ranked countries in the FIVB World Rankings that did not qualify at the end of the 2024 Volleyball Nations League Preliminaries.
Qualifying tournaments should be held from 16 to 24 September this year. In the men’s section of Group A, which is to be held in Brazil, the hosts will meet world champions from Italy, Iran, Cuba, Ukraine, Germany, the Czech Republic and Qatar.
In Group B, scheduled for Japan, the hosts will play the USA, Slovenia, Serbia, Turkey, Tunisia, Egypt and Finland. Group C, due to take place in China, will include the home country, Poland, Argentina, the Netherlands, Canada, Mexico, Belgium and Bulgaria.
France defends the Olympic volleyball champions after defeating Russia in Tokyo 2020 in the final and qualifies as the host country. Men’s qualifications will be held from September 30 to October 8.
Japan mourns death of volleyball star Fujii
Japanese volleyball players mourn the death of Olympic volleyball champion Naonobu Fujii at the age of 31 from stomach cancer. We cannot bear the sadness of losing a player who was the center of the team, including his personality, and who was expected to play an active role in the future, his club Toray Arrows said in a statement.
“We would like to express our sincere gratitude to you for your kindness in life. Japan Volleyball Association President Shunichi Kawai also paid tribute to the player on his passing. Please rest in peace, I pray from the bottom of my heart that he may rest in peace, Kawai said.”
Fujii’s illness was diagnosed just a few months after playing the Tokyo Olympics as a setter. Japan lost to Brazil in the quarter-finals and ended up finishing seventh in the competition. Fujii’s condition worsened in 2022 when he sent a video message to the fifth-place Japanese team in the Volleyball Nations League in Bologna.
“I always get a lot of energy watching you do your best, Fuji told his former teammates. I am also fighting hard for the moment when we can play volleyball together again.”
Fuji was born in Miyagi and started playing volleyball at Furukawa Industrial High School. In 2011, the family home was destroyed by the tsunami and earthquake, but his family encouraged him to continue playing sports.
At the 2017 Asian Championships in Gresik, Indonesia, he was a member of the Japanese team that won the gold medals and was also named the best setter of the tournament. He won a continental bronze in 2019 and a silver in 2021. In 2021, he married Japanese soccer player Miya Sato.
Zehra Gunes newest member of 1 million follower club on Instagram
Turkey’s central blocker and Vakifbank Istanbul marks a milestone on the social media platform. By helping his Turkish national team reach the quarter-finals of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Zehra Günes is marking another milestone by joining a select group of volleyball players with over a million followers on Instagram.
Gunes was the top blocker in the Olympic volleyball tournament, scoring a total of 29 blocks and averaging 4.83 per match.
Gunes joins Brazilians Douglas Sousa, Bruno Rezende and Jacqueline Carvalho, Thai players Pleumjit Tinhaou and Nutsara Tomkom, Saeed Marouf and Seyed Mousavi from Iran, Alyssa Valdez from the Philippines, Korean Kim Yong Kung and Kazakh Sabine Altynbekova as the most followed volleyball players on Instagram.
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