Our volleyball team is ranked 76 in the International Classification of Lausanne on May 10 (ONA) Our national volleyball team for men ranked 76th globally after receiving 83 points in the international rankings after the Sultanate’s participation in recent years in the qualifiers for the Asian Championship finals and its participation in the 20th Asian Men's Volleyball Championship that was held in the Iranian capital, Tehran during the period from September 13 to 21 last year, in which the team ranked 13th out of 16 participating teams. Our national volleyball team also ranked third in the 21st Arab Men's Volleyball Championship hosted by the Arab Republic of Egypt.
The International Volleyball Federation released the new men's volleyball world rankings for May 2020. This classification comes after the decision of the Board of Directors of the International Volleyball Federation, in which the new standards system was applied according to the calculations of all the matches played by the teams, whether in the qualifiers for the various world and continental tournaments or in the same championships.
The International Volleyball Federation has calculated the new world rankings as of the first of February 2020, according to which all national team participations were counted as of January 2019.
On the international level, Brazil maintained its first international ranking, recording 427 points, followed by Poland with 383 points in the second place, and the United States of America with 365 points in the third place, then Russia comes with 317 points, Argentina with 291 points, France with 291 points and Italy with 279 points. On the Asian level, Iran maintained its eighth position globally with 279 points, topping the Asian rankings in first place, followed by Japan, Korea and Qatar, which scored 138 points, and comes in the 23rd ranking internationally, then China, Taipei and Thailand.
On the Arab level, Tunisia topped the ranking, with a score of 168 points, and the 17th ranking internationally, followed by the Arab Republic of Egypt with 167 points, then Qatar in third place in the Arab world, then Algeria, Morocco, Oman and Kuwait.
On the Arabian Gulf level, Qatar came first with 138 points, ranked 23 globally, followed by our national team with 76 points, ranked 76 globally, Kuwait with 65 points, ranked 81 globally, the UAE with 57 points, ranked 91 globally, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia with 50 points, ranked 136 globally.
It is worth noting that the Oman Volleyball Association is in progress to advance the level and reputation of volleyball in the Sultanate at the global, continental and Arab levels, as it topped the Arab classification for the year 2019, which was issued in March 2020, achieving the first rank equally with the Bahrain Volleyball Federation at the level of Arab countries. The ranking was adopted by the Arab Volleyball Federation for the Arab federations that participated most in the championships organized by the Arab Volleyball Federation.
The online scouting forum for Sultan Qaboos University Rovers Starts on Monday
Muscat, May 10 (ONA) Sultan Qaboos University’s Rovers organize the online scouting forum on Monday under the slogan of development in crises in cooperation with the World Directorate of Scouts and Guides in order to show the youth’s energies in the virtual work and to enhance the role of the scouting and guiding movement and its social position through voluntary services it provides in its various kinds.
Ahmed bin Khalfan Al-Ma’wali - Commander of the Forum’s task, said, “Renewal and development of programs is required. Therefore, we must keep pace with the current crisis and we must not stop even if we are in the shadow of crises by doing virtual development programs for society, so the forum came with the slogan of development in crises.”
This program attracts members of the scout movement in the roving stage, as it includes 100 participants from the various clans of the Sultanate. In addition, the program will be held through Zoom application for a period of 3 days until the 13th of May.
The program includes many virtual workshops presented by a number of parties in addition to the discussion sessions and the establishment of many cultural and scout competitions.
The first session includes “Youth programs and practices in the Arab world in light of crises", presented by the Arab Scout Organization. The second day includes two sessions entitled “Solutions of modern technologies in crises” and “Management of teams and groups in crises” presented by the General Directorate of Scouts and Girl Guides.
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