Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping 2015: Nine Teams Chasing Points At 15Th Qualifier In Bratislava

The 15th qualifier of the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping 2015 season will take place in Bratislava, Slovakia on Friday 24 July, attracting a field of 13 teams.

The starting order, which was determined by a draw held in Bratislava this evening, will be as follows:

1. Turkey
2. France
3. Belgium
4. Russia‎
‎5. Finland
6. Poland ‎
7. Brazil ‎
8. USA
9. Portugal ‎
10. Greece
11. Czech Republic
12. Hungary
13. ‎ Slovakia

This is the sixth leg of the Europe Division 2 League, and the teams from Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia and Turkey will be eligible for Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping points. A total of 16 nations will compete in Europe Division 2 during the season, and two teams will qualify for the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping 2015 Final which will take place in Barcelona, Spain from 24 to 27 September.

Friday’s competition will begin at 14.00 local time and will be broadcast live on FEI TV, the FEI’s official online video platform.

Egypt Win World Volleyball League Group 3 To Boost Africa At The International Level

Egypt edged Montenegro in the Final match of Group 3 to clinch a ticket for Group 2 next year, but more important to boost African Volleyball at the international level after a 5 year absence from the prestigious event.

Egypt celebrate a successful come-back to FIVB World League since 2010. The African team won Group 3 Finals in Bratislava, where they beat rookie Montenegro in dramatic final match in the Slovakian capital city 2-3 (20-25, 25-21, 23-25, 25-23, 9-15). Egypt lost only one game in this season of the World League against 7 victories and have now been awarded with next season promotion to Group 2.

The best outcome for Egypt in the World League was in 2008 when they won 4 matches including a historic victory against Poland who were the World Championship runner up 2 years before.

Egypt’s Coach Angiolino Frigoni

“We are very happy, this victory means a lot to Egypt,” Egypt’s coach Angiolino Frigoni said. “We had a good tournament as a whole and we deserve the victory. We had a lot of problems against Montenegro in the final in position 4, but we won and I am proud of it. We had some problem, our setter was injured, but I had a lot of confidence in my second setter, I know that he can play well. Again, this is a big result for Egypt and important for our ranking. We came back to World League after lot of troubles and we got a result. We will play in the second group next year and we will meet stronger teams. Now we will concentrate on African Championships in July. Our season as just started.”

Egypt on gold medal podium

Group 3 final standings

1st place: Egypt

2nd place: Montenegro

3rd place: Slovakia

4th place: China

5th place: Spain, Greece, Turkey

8th place: Kazakhstan, Puerto Rico

10th place: Mexico, Tunisia, Venezuela

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Egypt Overwhelm Montenegro In Epic Tiebreaker To Win Volleyball World League Group 3

Egypt celebrate a successful come-back to FIVB World League after 5 years of absence. The African team won the Group 3 Finals in Bratislava, where they beat rookie Montenegro in dramatic final match in the Slovakian capital city: 2-3 (20-25, 25-21, 23-25, 25-23, 9-15). Egypt lost only one game in this season of World League and will play next season in Group 2.

Egypt started the final match better and took an early lead 5-2. African team served very well and caused a lot of problems for Montenegro in reception. When setter Bekhit hit an a ace, the score was 17-13 to Egypt and the team mentored by Italian coach Angiolini Frigoni won the first set 25-20.

The Egyptian team during one of the games

Montenegro had rocket start to second set, captain Vojin Cacic was successful with powerful attack and the team from Balkan lead 8-5. Egypt woke up in the second part of the set and levelled the score to 17, but Montenegro was better in final moments of the set and won it 25-21.

Unstopable Egyptian opposite Abdelhay Ahmed hit another ace in the third set and African team lead 8-5. Egypt was up through all the set, but at the end they suffered a big loss, because first setter and one of the best players on court Abdallah Bekhit injured his leg muscle and had to be substitued when the score was 20-17. Egypt finally won the set 25-23, but he was not able to come back on the field of play.

Abdel Moniem spiking

Fourth set was under controll of Montenegro team. They had problems only in final moments of the set when Egypt closed the gap from 19-24 to 23-24 when second setter Abdalla Hossam was in the serve area, but Montenegro finally got the fourth set 25-23 and the gold medal match had to be decided with a tie-break.

Egypt lead 6-4 in last set of the tournament, but Montenegro came back and sides were changed by score 8-7 for the Balkans. Then Masoud Mohamed came in and created problems with his float service. Egypt collected seven points in a row and finally won fifth set 15-9 and the top of the podium.

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