Eritrea Volleyball National Federation organised a VCP level I coaches course with the support of FIVB in Asmara, Eritrea. The opening Ceremony was organised took place on July the 8th in the presence of the National federation presided by Col. Desale Kalei and also had the attendance of the president of NOC as well as the deputy of the Eritrean sport and cultural commission and NF secretary general Henok Yohannes.
VCP Level I Coaches Course holds in Eritrea
The course is conducted by FIVB instructors Mr Johann Martin Hansi and Ms Ninja and attracted 31 participants from the whole country.
Speaking the opening ceremony Mr. Johann and Ms. Ninja appreciated the the organizers of the course and also commended the federation for taking care of all technical aspects of the course, Hansi also promised that they will exert more effort to make sure all the trainees achieve the course goals.
The secretary General Mr Henok Yohannes praised the efforts of FIVB and CAVB to develop the sport across Africa. He welcomed the instructors and the media who were on ground to cover the event.
The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) is now the largest International Federation, with 222 National Associations.
Sao Tome & Principe and South Sudan were accepted into the ITTF family today at the ITTF Annual General Meeting (AGM) to overtake Volleyball as the largest International Federation.
At this historic moment, the ITTF President Mr Thomas Weikert stated “As the ITTF President I am very proud that ITTF has achieved the number one status in terms of membership as our goal is not just to be among the top five sports overall, but also within each area. This is then another milestone on the path to achieve this.”
The newest additions is a result of the ITTF’s Development Program’s objective to grow national associations to have table tennis played in every corner of the globe.
The ITTF Development Program, which was initiated in 1999, has now added 42 new National Associations, with new addition of 2-3 new members per year.
Now Table Tennis will be played on even more tables around the world.
Quantity is not what the ITTF is solely looking at; the Program offers support for member associations around the world support in terms of equipment, coach training, player training and more to assist them in developing and growing in a sustainable way.
With the inclusion of Sao Tome & Principe and South Sudan, the ITTF will only have 4 more countries, Eritrea, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and Bahamas, remaining in the Olympic family to integrate in order to reach its final goal of having a National Association in every country possible.
The ITTF is currently in contact with the Olympic Committees of these remaining countries, aiming to achieve full inclusion of all members of the Olympic family to the table tennis family.
The ITTF AGM was held in conjunction with the Qoros 2015 World Table Tennis Championships currently being held in Suzhou, China. Click here: http://bit.ly/15WTTC for more information on the world’s biggest table tennis event.
There is little more than a month to go to the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Guiyang 2015 on Sunday 28 March when the spotlight will be shone on the Chinese city.
The oldest of the IAAF World Athletics Series competitions, this year’s event will be the 41st staging of the global cross-country contest. It will also be the third time the championships have been held in Asia, following the 2006 edition in Fukuoka and the 2009 event in Amman.
Preliminary entries suggest this year’s championships will be bigger than the past three editions. An expected 460 athletes from 56 countries are set to compete in Guiyang, surpassing the numbers from 2013 (400 athletes from 41 countries), 2011 (423 athletes from 51 countries) and 2010 (437 athletes from 51 countries).
On Sunday 28 March athletes will compete in four races over the conventional distances for the championships: senior men – 12km, senior women and junior men – 8km, junior women – 4km.
In 2013 Kenya won three of the four individual team titles, but seven nations made it on to the medals table; the last time more countries made it on to the podium was back in 2004.
Kenya has topped the medals table at the past four editions of the World Cross Country Championships, but throughout the years Ethiopia has proved to be their toughest opposition and that trend looks set to continue this year.
Uganda and Eritrea are also expected to pose a formidable threat, but the hunt for medals is not restricted to African countries. In 2013, USA took team silver in the senior men’s race, finishing ahead of Kenya. Meanwhile, Japan and Great Britain traditionally field strong teams in the junior women’s race and could challenge for a podium place.
The championship course, which is located in a mountainous area approximately 30km away from the city and is set in and around a horse racing circuit, is a well-known facility which since 2000 has hosted Asian and national cross-country championships.
The start and finish areas are situated in the flat centre of the horse racing circuit and benefit from permanent spectator tribunes. However, the vast majority of the course is undulating, set on and around the sides of a large hill which dominates one side of the track. With the addition of man-made obstacles, the course will be true test of endurance over a traditional cross-country running terrain.
Eritrea Volleyball Federation started officially the long pathway of the “African Dream Project” which is held under supervision of FIVB President Dr Ary Graca under the name of (Dr Ary Project for Grassroots).
The implementation of the project started in 4 centers of excellence in Eritrea with good coverage of the media specially the official Government Newspaper of Eritrea which is published in 3 different languages.
The Programme aims at having a common project mainly focusing on volleyball at school. All relevant stakeholders must be involved which are Ministry of Education, Ministry of Sport, Ministry of Youth, and National Olympic Committee. The project will see the setting up of centers that will be used to develop identified athletes at young age and arranging all the keys for their involvement later on to their corresponding Youth national teams.
4 centres to kick start the African Dream in Eritrea
African Volleyball Confederation’s “CAVB” Zone 5 calendar was announced following their Board meeting in Cairo, Egypt this week presided by Eng. Atta Elmanan from Sudan in presence of CAVB President Dr Amr Elwani and 8 counties from this zone.
The zone Board decided to manage the zonal qualification for the 2015 All Africa Games through two sub-zonal pools for the Men’s volleyball qualification, where the champions of each pool represent the zone in the peak African Sports event to be held in Congo Brazzaville September 4 to 19, 2015. The Women’s Volleyball qualification will feature one pool where the winners and runner up claim the qualification tickets for Congo.
In Beach Volleyball the Men’s and Women’s qualifications will be through one tournament each where the top 4 teams clinch their rickets to Congo.
Kenya women will be one of the favourite national teams in the zone
The schedule of All Africa Games will be as follows:
Volleyball
Men’s Volleyball Sub- zone 1 in Rwanda May 1 to 6, 2015 (Rwanda-Kenya-Uganda-Burundi-Tanzania)
Men’s Volleyball Sub- zone 2 in Ethiopia May 7 to 13, 2015 (Ethiopia-Egypt-Sudan-Djibouti-Eritrea- Somalia)
Women’s Volleyball Zonal in Uganda April 20 to 28, 2015 (Uganda-Kenya-Rwanda-Burundi-Tanzania-Egypt-Ethiopia)
thrilling action in the CAVB Beach Volleyball
Beach Volleyball
Men’s Beach VB Zonal in Tanzania April 16 to 20, 2015 (Tanzania-Kenya-Rwanda-Burundi-Egypt-Sudan-Ethiopia)
Women’s Beach VB Zonal in Kenya May 7 to 11, 2015 (Kenya-Rwanda-Burundi-Tanzania-Egypt-Ethiopia).
Beside the competition the zone members decided on the courses to be organised in 2015 within the zone countries and through Sudan Development center.
The meeting was headed by CAVB President Dr Amr Elwani, Zone 5 President Eng. Atta Elmanan, CAVB Vice President Waithake Kioni (Kenya), Augustine Agapa (Tanzania), Omar El Hag (Sudan), Nasiwu Sadik (Uganda), Fouad Abdelsalam (Egypt), Louis Rwakiranya (Burundi), Gustave Nkurunziza (Rwanda), Begziabher Alebel (Ethiopia).
African Volleyball Confederation “CAVB” zone 5 will hold its ordinary meeting in Cairo, Egypt on Friday January 9, 2015 to discuss the 2015 activity of the zone that includes 11 counties.
Among other important issue the meeting discusses the zonal system of qualifications for the 2015 All Africa Games to be hosted in Congo Brazzaville in both volleyball and Beach Volleyball categories and the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.
Kenya women will be one of the favourite national teams in the zone
The zone members will also discuss Zone 5 countries’ African Dream Project Data Base and the national and zonal course to be organised in 2015 within the zone area.
Zone 5 countries are Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea and Somalia
The meeting will be headed by CAVB President Dr Amr Elwani.
The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) now has 220 National Associations, which is the equal most of any sport in the world.
The ITTF Annual General Meeting (AGM) held in Tokyo, Japan earlier this month accepted Mali and US Virgin Islands to join the ITTF family, which brings the ITTF equal with the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) as the world’s leading sport in terms of member countries.
Reflecting on this historic achievement, ITTF’s CEO Judit Farago stated: “The ITTF membership has been increased from 180 to 220 in 15 years which is an obvious result of the successful ITTF Development Program started in 1999.”
ITTF’s world class development program pushes ITTF National Associations to 220
“It makes us proud and happy that table tennis is played and has an established administration structure in almost every corner of the world. The fact that the number puts us equal with the FIVB in terms of membership among all International Federations is a bonus and a boost in our long-term objective to be in the top 5 sports in the Olympic movement.”
There is now only five associations that have a National Olympic Committee but are not yet an ITTF National Association: Guinea Bisseau, Cape Verde, Sao Tome & Principe, Eritrea and the Bahamas.
ITTF Deputy CEO, Glenn Tepper, who initiated the ITTF Development Program 15 years ago, added: “When I started the ITTF Development Program as a pilot project in Oceania in 1999, we had 180 members. One of the challenges given to me was to have table tennis played in every corner of the globe. Since that time we have progressively added several new members each year in a sustainable way providing technical and equipment assistance to all new members. We are now very close to our initial aim. We already have contact with the 5 remaining countries and I am confident that by the time of the Opening Ceremony at the Rio Olympic Games that table tennis will be played in every corner of the globe and that every country participating in Rio will have an active table tennis program.”
From the humble beginnings in 1999 with a budget of just US$30,000 and one staff, the ITTF Development Program has grown into an award-winning program with the world’s best practise in its field, ran by 10 full-time and 100 part-time staff providing over 100 courses and 30 equipment packages annually and with a budget of over 1 million dollars.
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