{"id":54770,"date":"2025-07-05T13:31:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T13:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/sitting-volleyball-rwanda-women-s-team-qualifies-for-world-championship\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T13:35:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T13:35:18","slug":"sitting-volleyball-rwanda-women-s-team-qualifies-for-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/sitting-volleyball-rwanda-women-s-team-qualifies-for-world-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitting Volleyball: Rwanda women’s team qualifies for World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rwanda and Kenya secured automatic qualification for the African Women\u2019s Championship, as they were the only two countries to participate in the competition, which offered two available slots. <\/p>\n

Nigeria was among the three countries that had initially confirmed participation in the tournament taking place in Nairobi but withdrew at the last minute.<\/p>\n

In the match played on Friday at Kasarani Indoor Stadium, Rwanda defeated Kenya in straight sets 3-0 (16-25, 15-25, and 20-25).<\/p>\n

Rwanda and Kenya are scheduled to play five matches in this tournament, which will conclude on Thursday, July 10, 2025.<\/p>\n

In the men\u2019s category, the competition has attracted six countries, including Rwanda, which will play its first match on Saturday against Algeria at 4:00 p.m.<\/p>\n

Rwanda is in Group A alongside Kenya and Algeria, while Group B comprises Egypt, Morocco, and South Africa.<\/p>\n

In 2024, Rwanda won the women\u2019s title after defeating Kenya in the final, while the men\u2019s team finished in third place after beating Algeria.<\/p>\n

\"Rwanda<\/figure>\n
\"Rwanda\u2019s<\/figure>\n
\"Rwanda<\/figure>\n
\"Kenya<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rwanda\u2019s Women\u2019s Sitting Volleyball team began the African Championship with a 3-0 victory over Kenya, securing qualification for the World Championship to be held in China in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000090380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000090380,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/516056241_1251588370315511_4857453983245056541_n-9c98d.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/516056241_1251588370315511_4857453983245056541_n-9c98d.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/516056241_1251588370315511_4857453983245056541_n-9c98d.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/516056241_1251588370315511_4857453983245056541_n-9c98d.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/516056241_1251588370315511_4857453983245056541_n-9c98d.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/516056241_1251588370315511_4857453983245056541_n-9c98d.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000090380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54770"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54770"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}