Ahmed Salah (volleyball)
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 Salah at the 2016 Olympics | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Ahmed Abdelhey Salah El din | ||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Egyptian | ||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 August 1984 Egypt | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 87 kg (192 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
| Spike | 342 cm (135 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Block | 316 cm (124 in) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Opposite Spiker | ||||||||||||||||
| Current team | Al Ahly (volleyball) | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
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Ahmed Salah (born 19 August 1984), also known as Ahmed Abdel Naeim (Arabic: احمد صلاح), is an Egyptian indoor volleyball player. Since 2003 he is a member of the Egypt men's national volleyball team, where he goes by the nickname Salah. He competed at the 2008 and 2016 Summer Olympics and 2006, 2010 and 2014 World Championships.[1]
Abdelhay was named most valuable player (MVP) at the 2011 and 2015 and best server at the 2011 and 2013 African Championships; he was also voted as best spiker at the 2011 World Cup. He is a patriot and refused several offers to change nationality despite the financial privileges.[1] He retired internationally in 2023 after winning his 7th African championship in Cairo.
Honours
[edit]Club
[edit]- Egyptian Volleyball League (12): 2001/02, 2002/03, 2003/04, 2005/06, 2006/07, 2008/09, 2009/10, 2010/11, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/2021, 2023/24
- Egyptian Volleyball Cup (12) : 2001/02, 2002/03, 2003/04, 2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/07, 2007/08, 2009/10, 2010/11, 2018/19, 2019/2020, 2023/24.
- African Clubs Championship (8): 2003, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2019, 2022, 2024
- Arab Clubs Championship (6): 2002, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2020, 2023 .
- Egyptian Volleyball Super Cup (2)
2023, 2024
- CEV Cup (1): 2012–13
- Turkish Volleyball Cup (1) : 2013–14
- Egyptian Volleyball League (2): 2015/16, 2016/2017.
- Egyptian Volleyball Cup (2): 2014/15, 2016/17.
- African Clubs Championship : 2016
- Arab Clubs Championship: 2011
International
[edit]- Men's African Volleyball Championship (7): 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2023
- Mediterranean Games : 2005
- Volleyball at the African Games : 2003, 2007
3 × Arab Games : 2006, 2014, 2016
Individual
[edit]- FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup Best Spiker (1): 2011
- FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup Top Scorer (1): 2015
- Men's African Volleyball Championship MVP (1): 2005, 2009, 2011
- Men's African Volleyball Championship Best Server (2): 2007, 2011
- Men's African Volleyball Championship Best Spiker (1): 2007
- Olympic Continental Qualification Tournament (Africa) MVP (1): 2008
- Olympic Continental Qualification Tournament (Africa) Best Spiker (1): 2008
- African Clubs Championship MVP (2): 2009, 2010
- African Clubs Championship Best Spiker (1): 2015
- Arab Clubs Championship MVP: 2006, 2011
- Arab Clubs Championship Best Server: 2005, 2010
- Arab Clubs Championship Best Spiker: 2006
- Egyptian League MVP: 2007
- Egyptian League Best Server: 2001
- Egyptian League Best Spiker: 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007
- best player & best attacker (in African cup for youth 2002)
- best server (8th rashid international volleyball tournament 2004)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Ahmed Abdelhay Archived 20 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine. nbcolympics.com
External links
[edit]Categories:
- 1983 births
- Living people
- Egyptian men's volleyball players
- Al Ahly (men's volleyball) players
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Egypt
- Mediterranean Games medalists in volleyball
- Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
- Galatasaray S.K. (men's volleyball) players
- Competitors at the 2003 All-Africa Games
- Competitors at the 2007 All-Africa Games
- African Games competitors for Egypt
- 21st-century Egyptian sportsmen