Samba, Ahmed to lead Qatar’s challenge at FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour
DOHA: Cherif Younousse Samba and Ahmed Tijan will lead Qatar’s challenge at FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour.
The competition will be held at Al Gharafa Beach Complex on February 23.
Cherif and Ahmed will be seeking their second medal after the duo came third in March, 2018 Katara Beach Volleyball Cup.
They defeated Americans Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena in the bronze medal match.
Overall, Qatar has captured six men’s FIVB World Tour medals with one gold, two silvers and three bronze medals by Samba and Tijan.
Samba and Jefferson Pereira won a gold medal at the February 2016 Iranian stop on Kish Island by defeating Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic champions Stoyanovskiy and Artem Yarzutkin in the finals.
The hosts has entered seven teams for the $5,000 event led by Samba and Tijan, the 13th ranked team on the FIVB World Tour.
Incidentally, last year’s edition of the 4-star Katara Cup men’s event here was the last big beach volleyball competition before the Beach Volleyball World Tour activities came to a halt due to Covid19 pandemic.
The event will see 33 teams from 16 countries representing all five continental confederations.
The list of participating countries are Brazil (1 entry), Canada (1), Egypt (1), Gambia (1), Israel (2), Lebanon (1), Morocco (1), Oman (2), Poland (4), Russia (5), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (1), Turkey (2), United States (1) and Venezuela (2).
