Zouheir El Graoui
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| Nationality |  Moroccan | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 July 1994 Casablanca, Morocco | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Outside hitter | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current club | PSG Stal Nysa | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Zouheir El Graoui (born 8 July 1994) is a Moroccan indoor and beach volleyball player. He is part of the Moroccan national team, and was a participant in the beach volleyball tournament at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. At the professional club level, he plays for PSG Stal Nysa.
Career
[edit]Beach volleyball
[edit]El Graoui won the gold medal at the 2017 African Beach Volleyball Championships in Maputo[1] and the 2019 African Beach Volleyball Championships in Abuja,[2] the bronze medal at the 2019 All-Africa Beach Games in Sal and the silver medal at the 2019 All-Africa Games in Rabat.[3]
Indoor volleyball
[edit]El Graoui played for Tihad Sportif Club from 2010 to 2013, at Al Khor SC in Qatar from 2015 to 2016, and at Asswehly Sports Club in Libya from 2016 to 2017.
He played in France for Stade Poitevin Poitiers, before signing a two–year contract with Tours VB in 2020.[4][5]
Olympic Games
[edit]El Graoui represented Morocco at the 2020 Summer Olympics alongside Mohamed Abicha. The duo was defeated in all three games.[6]
Individual awards
[edit]- 2021: CAVB African Championship – Best Receiver
References
[edit]- ^ MATIN, Amine Raad, LE. "Le Matin - La sélection marocaine séniors homme sacrée championne d'Afrique". Le Matin (in French). Retrieved 31 July 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Le Maroc et l'Egypte champions d'Afrique de Beach Volleyball". Africa Top Sports (in French). 30 April 2019. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ "L'argent pour les beach-volleyeurs marocains". Le360 Sport (in French). Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ "Volley-Ball : Zouheir El Graoui, la révélation du stade Poitevin". France 3 Nouvelle-Aquitaine (in French). Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ "Zouheir El Graoui rejoint Tours". LEFIGARO (in French). Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ "Beach Volleyball - ELGRAOUI Zouheir". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 26 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
External links
[edit]- Zouheir El Graoui at the FIVB beach volleyball database
- Zouheir El Graoui at the European Volleyball Confederation
- Zouheir El Graoui at the Beach Volleyball Database
- Zouheir El Graoui at PlusLiga.pl (in Polish)
- Zouheir El Graoui at Volleybox.net
- Zouheir El Graoui at Olympedia
- Zouheir El Graoui at Olympics.com
- Zouheir El Graoui at the Comité National Olympique Marocain (in French)
- Living people
- 1994 births
- Sportspeople from Casablanca
- Moroccan men's volleyball players
- Moroccan beach volleyball players
- Olympic beach volleyball players for Morocco
- Beach volleyball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Moroccan expatriate sportspeople in Qatar
- Expatriate volleyball players in Qatar
- Moroccan expatriate sportspeople in Libya
- Moroccan expatriate sportspeople in France
- Expatriate volleyball players in France
- Moroccan expatriate sportspeople in Poland
- Expatriate volleyball players in Poland
- Stal Nysa players
- Outside hitters
- African Games medalists in beach volleyball
- Competitors at the 2019 African Games
- African Games silver medalists for Morocco
- Beach volleyball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics