{"id":59260,"date":"2021-05-18T07:07:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T07:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/?p=59260"},"modified":"2021-05-18T07:23:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T07:23:55","slug":"qatar-beach-volleyball-team-qualify-for-tokyo-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/qatar-beach-volleyball-team-qualify-for-tokyo-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"QATAR BEACH VOLLEYBALL TEAM QUALIFY FOR TOKYO OLYMPICS"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p><strong>Credit: QVA, volleyball.qa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bangkok, Thailand, May 18, 2021 &#8211; The Qatari beach volleyball team of Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games following the newly announced ranking by the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB).<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59265\" src=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/187566776_4173828939346086_4620302588516771595_n-174x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/187566776_4173828939346086_4620302588516771595_n-174x300.jpg 174w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/187566776_4173828939346086_4620302588516771595_n-500x863.jpg 500w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/187566776_4173828939346086_4620302588516771595_n.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the FIVB said that 13 teams have guaranteed direct qualification for the 2020 Olympic Games after the end of the last three Olympic qualifying rounds in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The FIVB\u2019s statement indicated that there is another opportunity to qualify directly to Tokyo, as three teams are coming in the positions from 14 to 16 that need to strengthen their ranking to qualify directly to the Olympics by participating in the last two tournaments of the Olympic qualifiers at the Sochi Tour in Russia in May and the Ostrava Tour in the Czech Republic in June.<\/p>\n<p>The Qatar\u2019s first beach volleyball team, consisting of Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan, came in the seventh position in the world with 5,280 points, according to the latest FIVB ranking, and in fifth place in the provisional Olympic ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Related links of AVC<br \/>\nAVC Website: click www.asianvolleyball.net<br \/>\nAVC Facebook: click www.Facebook.com\/AsianVolleyballConfederation<br \/>\nAVC Twitter: click: https:\/\/twitter.com\/avcvolley<br \/>\nAVC Instagram: click: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/avcvolley\/?hl=en<br \/>\nAVC Youtube: click: Asian Volleyball Confederation<br \/>\nAVC WeChat: Asian Volleyball Confederation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: QVA, volleyball.qa Bangkok, Thailand, May 18, 2021 &#8211; The Qatari beach volleyball team of Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games following the newly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":59261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-volleyball-news","category-slider"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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