Fatoumatta Ceesay (beach volleyball player)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fatoumatta Ceesay Volleyball (beach)
portrait
birthday December 26, 1998
Partner for Interior: Amie Gaye , Mariama Ginadou
international: Abie Kujabi
society Interior
World ranking Position 155
successes
Gambian Championship 2018/19
(As of January 20, 2020)

Fatoumatta Ceesay ( Fatoumatta M. Ceesay , born December 26, 1998 ) is a Gambian beach volleyball player .

Career

Ceesay plays for the Interior club . At the first major Gambian beach volleyball tournament in September 2014, she competed with Amie Gaye .

Since 2015 she has been playing as a representative of Gambia on an international level. It was used for the first time in qualifying for the 2016 Summer Olympics in January 2015 in the first round in Dakar .

At the CAVB Beach Volleyball Continental Cup 2014-2016 , Ceesay and the Gambian team made up of Aminata Gaye , Abie Kujabi and Sainabou Tambedou made it to the third round (final round) of the 4x4 tournament. In April 2016 in Abuja (Nigeria), the team lost four out of five games and were eliminated. This ended a winning streak of fifteen games in a row.

Ceesay won the Gambian championship together with Mariama Ginadou (Interior) in the 2018/19 season. They defeated Abie Kujabi , who had previously won twice in a row (2014, 2016/17), and her team partner Nyima Demba (Gambia Armed Forces).

At the African Beach Games 2019 in June, Kujabi and Ceesay were eliminated in the quarter-finals. They finished tenth at the 2019 African Games in August. At the World Beach Games 2019 in October, the team of Kujabi, Ceesay, Gaye, Tambedou, Ginadou and Anna Marie Bojang took fifth place in 4x4 beach volleyball.

In January 2020, Ceesay and Kujabi failed to qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FIVB world rankings (as of January 20, 2020)
  2. ^ National Volleyball Team leaves for Sierra Leone. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Gamtel / Gamcel win big against Resolute Interior. In: Gambia Volleyball Association GVBA. September 22, 2014, accessed January 27, 2020 .
  4. ^ Gambia: MJ Finance, GAF Crowned Beach Volleyball Champs. Retrieved September 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Gambia gears up for Rio Olympics beach volleyball qualifiers. Retrieved September 20, 2019 .
  6. ↑ GNOC funds Female Beach Volleyball team to Rio 2016 Qualifiers in Abuja. Retrieved September 21, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Gambia flounder in Abuja tournament. Retrieved September 21, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Semifinal lineup completed at the National Beach Volleyball Championship. Retrieved September 22, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Beach Volleyball championship final is slated for Sunday. Retrieved September 22, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Interior women clinches premier beach volleyball title. Archived from the original on February 27, 2019 ; accessed on September 22, 2019 .
  11. ^ Gambia Volleyball Federation. Retrieved January 22, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Gambia Beach V'ball teams finish 7th and 8th at African Beach Games. Retrieved September 13, 2019 .
  13. ^ African Games (Beach Volley) Event Overview Women's. Accessed January 21, 2020 .
  14. ^ Result Book. Accessed January 21, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Road to Tokyo 2020: Gambia Women Beach Volleyball Team Bows Out Of the Olympic Qualifiers. In: The Chronicle Gambia. January 11, 2020, accessed January 21, 2020 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Ceesay, Fatoumatta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ceesay, Fatoumatta M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gambian beach volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1998