Syria wins the 3rd place and bronze medal in Speed-Ball Championship

Sport

CAIRO, Oct.19, (ST)-The Syrian national team won the 3rd place and bronze medal in the first edition of the World Speed-Ball Championship, which concluded today in the Egyptian city of Hurghada , with the participation of 25 teams.

Our team won the  bronze medal in the solo relay and the double one through the players Nour Issa and Sham Halawani, after they defeated the teams of Poland, Comoros, Cameroon and Yemen. Halawani also won the 4th place in the solo relay and single relay competitions.

Some 25 teams from Egypt, Libya, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Comoros, Tanzania, Ghana, Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, Congo-Brazzaville, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Jordan, Bahrain, Poland, Finland and Georgia participated in the competitions.

Speedball is a fast-paced sport in which a player uses a racket to hit a ball tethered to a tall pole. The sport, which is related to both tennis and tetherball, originated in Egypt in the 1960s as a practice method for tennis players. Speedball is played by one person (super solo), between two people (singles), or between two teams of two people each (doubles). The Federation Internationale de Speedball (FISB; International Federation of Speedball) was formed in 1985 to govern the sport.

Basma Qaddour

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