IRAN, KAZAKHSTAN CAPTURE RESPECTIVE MEN’S AND WOMEN’S TITLES AT 2023 AVC BEACH VOLLEYBALL CONTINENTAL CUP CENTRAL ZONE

Iran obtain the boys’s Champions Trophy in the course of the awards presentation

Iran and Kazakhstan shared honours within the 2023 AVC Seashore Volleyball Continental Cup Central Zone on the iconic Cox’s Bazar Seashore on the southeast coast of Bangladesh on Monday, with the previous powering previous India within the males’s closing conflict and the latter too robust for Kyrgyzstan within the ladies’s showdown.

Kazakhstan obtain the ladies’s Champions Trophy

The four-day occasion, a double-gender competitors for groups representing Asian federations with the eventual winners qualifying for the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games, was held between September 8 and 11, with 5 federations apiece in every occasion vying for prime honor.

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, India and hosts Bangladesh strutted their stuff within the ladies’s occasion, whereas the boys’s competitors noticed Iran, India, Kazakhstan, Bhutan and Bangladesh try for his or her success. The eventual profitable federation in every males’s and ladies’s occasions at Cox’s Bazar will qualify for the Last Section, with the eventual winners qualifying for the Paris 2024 Summer time Olympic Video games. The second place at Cox’s Bazar will make it by means of to the Section 2.

On Monday, the ultimate day of the 2023 AVC Seashore Volleyball Continental Cup Central Zone in Bangladesh, Iran, which downed Kazakhstan 2-0 within the first semifinals on Sunday, took the boys’s title and the Last Section slot following their 2-0 demolition of India, which earlier beat Bhutan 2-0 within the quarterfinals on September 8 and cruised previous hosts 2-0 within the Sunday’s second semifinal conflict.

Bahman Salemiinjehboroun, who teamed up with Rahman Raoufi to seal the 2017 Asian Seashore Volleyball Championship title in Songkhla, Thailand, partnered Sina Shokati Shekarsaraei as fourth place on the 2023 Asian Seashore Volleyball Championship to brush off Indians Kashinath Sawant Nitin/Krishna Dhawaskar Rama 2-0 (21-15, 21-10) for the Iran’s first win.

Abbas Pourasgari/Alireza Aghajanighasab handed Iran a clear sweep following their lopsided 2-0 (21-9, 21-7) win towards Indians Somu Barath/Ravi Robin within the second encounter.

India obtain trophy after a second place end within the males’s occasion

Within the third-place playoff earlier, Kazakhstan claimed bronze medal after a 2-0 shutout of Bangladesh.

Veterans Dmitriy Yakovlev/Sergey Bogatu got here from behind to beat Biswas Horosit/Ahmed Sheikh Shiban 2-1 (19-21, 21-9, 15-13) for the Kazakhstan’s first win. Aidash Burdos/Gurin Kirill repeated the feat after beating Ahmed Ratul/Haider Mohammad Imaran 2-0 (21-15, 26-24) to finish the hosts’ problem.

Within the ladies’s showdown on Monday, Kazakhstan, which earlier outclassed India 2-0 within the quarterfinals and downed Uzbekistan 2-0 within the Saturday’s semifinals, proved their superiority over Kyrgyzstan 2-0 for the eventual title and the Last Section berth. Earlier on the identical day, Kyrgyzstan shocked hosts Bangladesh 2-0 within the different semifinal encounter.

Alina Rachenko/Anastassiya Ukolova bought Kazakhstan off to an excellent begin after sensational 2-0 (21-9, 21-13) win towards Kyrgyzstan’s Kim Karina/Rasulbek Kyzy Roza within the first match.

Kyrgyzstan’s comeback efforts within the second conflict have been denied when Kazakhstan’s Nadezhda Ivanchenko/Laura Kabulbekova comfortably put it previous Ogulai Kudaikulova/Adina Mamatzhan Kyzy 2-0 (21-11, 21-14).

Kyrgyzstan obtain trophy following their second-place end within the ladies’s occasion

Within the Monday’s third place playoff conflict, Uzbekistan b Bangladesh 2-0.

Komila Kuchkorova/Nodira Sultanbaeva demolished Khatun Mst Fortunate/Khatun Most Sabina 2-0 (21-15, 21-19) for the Uzbekistan’s first win. The second match was one-way visitors, with Uzbekistan’s Malikabonu Olimova/Mukhlisakhon Jaldova mercilessly crushing Asha Most/Munny Afsana Mim 21-4, 21-7).

Following their wins in AVC Continental Cup Central Zone at Cox’s Bazar, Iran males’s and Kazakhstan ladies’s groups certified for the Last Section because of be held in the course of the week of June 21-23, 2024, that includes 8 federations to vie for prime honor and the one one ticket on supply for the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games. The collaborating 8 groups within the Last Section comprise 5 profitable NFs per gender from Section 1 plus Host NF, one 2021 Continental Cup Champions NF and one Successful NF from Section 2.

Second place at Cox’s Bazar, India males and Kyrgyzstan ladies’s groups will subsequent compete in Section 2 because of happen in no later than June 2024. The collaborating 6 groups in Section 2 encompass the first runner-up NFs per gender from Section 1 (5 NFs) and Host NF.

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