Egypt men's national sitting volleyball team

Egypt
Association	National Paralympic Committee Egypt for Volleyball
Head coach	Rudi Sonnenbichler
Uniforms
Home	Away
Summer Paralympics
Appearances	10 (First in 1980)
Best result	(2) 2004, 2016
World Championship
Appearances	6 (First in 1998)
Best result	(2) 2006, 2010

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.

Players

Egypt vs Brazil men's match at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio

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
1	Hesham Abdelmaksod	2 February 1975	M	El Houreya
2	Tamer Morgan Khalil	9 March 1971	WS	El Houreya
3	Yasser Saad Abd El Wahab Hassan	14 October 1973	SE	Police Sports Club Association
4	Ashraf Zaghloul Abdel Aziz	24 February 1974	WS	Police Sports Club Association
5	Taher Adel Elbahaey	9 June 1972	SE	El Houreya
6	Ahmed Mohammed Soliman Khamis	12 April 1987	M	Club Alexandria Petroleum
7	Ahmed Mohammed Fadl	1 March 1985	WS	Club Alexandria Petroleum
8	Mohamed Ezzeldin Mohamed	1 September 1992	WS	Club Alexandria Petroleum
9	Elsayed Moussa Saad	28 May 1979	WS	Police Sports Club Association
10	Abdel Nabi Ahmed Abdel Latif	18 June 1972	L	Police Sports Club Association
12	Mohamed Ibrahim	29 March 1979	M	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

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Paralympic Games

Games	Place
1980 Arnhem	6th
1984 New York	8th
1988 Seoul	9th
1992 Barcelona	8th
2000 Sydney	4th place
2004 Athens	Bronze
2008 Beijing	4th place
2012 London	6th place
2016 Rio	Bronze
2020 Tokyo	5th place

World Championships

Year	Position
1998 Tehran	7th place
2002 Cairo	4th place
2006 Roermond	3rd place
2010 Edmond	3rd place
2014 Elblag	4th place
2018 Arnhem	6th 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

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

References

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

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[1] Men's Sitting Volleyball – Teams – Egypt, london2012.com. Retrieved 25 September 2012.

[Major_Competitions-2] Kwok Ng (26 September 2016). "Major Competitions". sittingvolleyball.omeka.net. Retrieved 26 September 2016.

[3] worldparavolley.org. "World Ranking – Sitting Volleyball". worldparavolley.org. 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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