Qatar’s Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan (left) pose with their silver medals on the podium, along with other medal winners and officials in Sochi, yesterday.
Doha: Qatar’s top beach volleyball pair of Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan yesterday clinched silver medal at the Sochi 4-star stop on the 2021 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour.
The fourth-seeded pair from Qatar fell to the Polish pair of Piotr Kantor and Bartosz Losiak 1-2 with a 21-17, 21-23, 10-15 score-line in what was their fourth back-to-back final.
Their World Tour showcase as a team now features two gold, three silver and three bronze medals.
Meanwhile, the bronze went 14th-seeded Christiaan Varenhorst and Steven van de Velde of the Netherlands.