Egypt men's national sitting volleyball team explained

Egypt
Federation:	National Paralympic Committee Egypt for Volleyball
Coach:	Rudi Sonnenbichler
Olympic Apps:	11
Olympic First:	1980
Olympic Best:	(2004, 2016, 2024)
World Champs Apps:	6
World Champs First:	1998
World Champs Best:	(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 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

Results

Champions Runners up Third place Fourth place

Green border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.^[1]

Paralympic Games

Year	Round	Position
	Did not enter
1980 Arnhem	Group stage	6th place	6	2	4	6	12
	Group stage	8th place	5	1	4	3	13
	Group stage	9th place	5	1	4	3	12
	Group stage	8th place	7	2	5	9	15
	Did not enter
	Semi-final	4th place	8	6	2	19	6
	Semi-final	3rd place	6	3	3	12	9
	Semi-final	4th place	5	2	3	8	9
	Quarter-final	6th place	5	2	3	9	9
	Semi-final	3rd place	5	4	1	12	9
	Group stage	5th place	4	2	2	6	8
	Semi-final	3rd place	5	3	2	11	9
Total	3 Medals	11/13	61	28	33	98	111

World Championships

Year	Position
1998 Tehran	7th place
	4th place
	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.^[2]

Rank	Points	Region
1	5215	Asia-Oceania
2	4708	Pan America
3	4523	Africa
4	4300	Europe
5	3578	Europe

Coaching staff

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width=110	Position	width=150	Name	width=50	Active
Head coach	ELAIUTY Mosaad
Assistant coach	ELBAHAEY Taher
Assistant coach	ABBAS Amim
Therapist/Trainer	AHMED Amr

Notes and References

Web site: Major Competitions. sittingvolleyball.omeka.net. Kwok Ng. 26 September 2016. 26 September 2016. 23 September 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160923121825/https://sittingvolleyball.omeka.net/majors. live.
Web site: World Ranking – Sitting Volleyball. worldparavolley.org. worldparavolley.org. 28 September 2016. 30 September 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160930152237/http://www.worldparavolley.org/sitting-volleyball-rankings/. live.
Web site: Paralympic - Sitting Volleyball Men Egypt . 2016-10-05 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20161006165633/https://www.rio2016.com/en/paralympics/team/egypt-sitting-volleyball-men . 2016-10-06 .