{"id":64035,"date":"2021-07-28T04:13:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T04:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/?p=64035"},"modified":"2021-07-28T04:13:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T04:13:17","slug":"qataris-cherif-tijan-first-on-fivb-world-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/qataris-cherif-tijan-first-on-fivb-world-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"QATARIS CHERIF\/TIJAN FIRST ON FIVB WORLD RANKING"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p><strong>Credit: volleyball.qa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Qatar\u2019s beach volleyball stars Cherif Younousse and Tijan Ahmed, who are presently competing at the Tokyo Olympic Games, reached the World No. 1 spot in the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) ranking for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The new list released on Monday placed Younousse and Ahmed right at the top with 5160 points. Last week\u2019s top-ranked players, Norway\u2019s Anders Mol and Christian Sorum, were pushed to second, with 4960 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Qatari duo was ranked World No. 2 before their first match of the Olympic competition on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Younousse and Ahmed have had a phenomenal run in the first half of 2021, where they entered six finals out of the seven four-star tournaments on the FIVB World Tour. They won one, the Cancun Hub tournament in May, and went down in hard-fought contests in the other four.<\/p>\n<p>Reigning world champions Russians Viacheslav Krasilnikov and Oleg Stoyanovskiy are ranked third while USA\u2019s Jake Gibb and Taylor Crabb, and Czech Republic\u2019s Ondrej Perusic and David Schweiner are placed fourth and fifth respectively.<\/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&nbsp;<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: volleyball.qa Qatar\u2019s beach volleyball stars Cherif Younousse and Tijan Ahmed, who are presently competing at the Tokyo Olympic Games, reached the World No. 1 spot in the International Volleyball&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":64036,"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-64035","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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