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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>The Gambia has been drawn in Pool A of the Commonwealth Games volleyball alongside Canada, St Kitts & Nevis and Sri Lanka. This year\u2019s games in Birmingham UK will mark beach volleyball\u2019s second appearance at the Commonwealth Games after the sport made its successful debut at the multi-sport competition four years ago in the Gold Coast, Australia.<\/p>\n

The matches that will be held in a purpose-built venue at Smithfield, in the centre of Birmingham, will start from 30 July with both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s medal matches being held on Sunday 7 August. The Gambia is currently the African champions with players like Sainey Jawo and Mbye Babou Jarra ranked among the best on the continent. The Gambia won the African qualifiers in Ghana to secure the only spot available for Africa in the Games.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Gambia. The Gambia has been drawn in Pool A of the Commonwealth Games volleyball alongside Canada, St Kitts & Nevis and Sri Lanka. This year\u2019s games in Birmingham UK will mark beach volleyball\u2019s second appearance at the Commonwealth Games after the sport made its successful debut at the multi-sport competition four years ago […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":17030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[2355,2361,1933,260,3458],"class_list":["post-17031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-canada","tag-gambia","tag-volleyball"],"yoast_head":"\nGambia faces Canada, Sri Lanka in Commonwealth Games beach volleyball - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Gambia has been drawn in Pool A of the Commonwealth Games volleyball alongside Canada, St Kitts & Nevis and Sri ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-faces-canada-sri-lanka-in-commonwealth-games-beach-volleyball\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gambia faces Canada, Sri Lanka in Commonwealth Games beach volleyball\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Gambia has been drawn in Pool A of the Commonwealth Games volleyball alongside Canada, St Kitts & Nevis and Sri ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-faces-canada-sri-lanka-in-commonwealth-games-beach-volleyball\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-06-08T18:43:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-08T19:11:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_11-62a0f445297d7.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-faces-canada-sri-lanka-in-commonwealth-games-beach-volleyball#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-faces-canada-sri-lanka-in-commonwealth-games-beach-volleyball\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Gambia faces Canada, Sri Lanka in Commonwealth Games beach volleyball\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-08T18:43:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-08T19:11:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-faces-canada-sri-lanka-in-commonwealth-games-beach-volleyball\"},\"wordCount\":159,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-faces-canada-sri-lanka-in-commonwealth-games-beach-volleyball#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_11-62a0f445297d7.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Gambia\",\"canada\",\"Gambia\",\"Volleyball\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-faces-canada-sri-lanka-in-commonwealth-games-beach-volleyball#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-faces-canada-sri-lanka-in-commonwealth-games-beach-volleyball\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-faces-canada-sri-lanka-in-commonwealth-games-beach-volleyball\",\"name\":\"Gambia faces Canada, Sri Lanka in Commonwealth Games beach volleyball - 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