2006 Women's World Championships- Egypt
Egypt defeated Nigeria and had a first qualification Vacancy

Cairo, Egypt, March 19-: Egypt Women volleyball team secured a World Championship vacancy in Japan 2006 to be the first team in the globe to have this ticket from the qualifications to join the automatically qualified teams, the organizers, Japan and the defending champions, Italy. Egypt pulled off a straight sets victory over Nigeria (25-15, 25-14, 25-14) in the third and final day of the African Women's Group A African qualification held in Abdalla Alfaysal Hall in Al-Ahly club in Cairo, Egypt.
The match was attended by some big guests headed by Dr. Aly Elsaadany, the president of sports section in the Ministry of Sports, Mr. Bob Clarke, FIVB Sports events coordinator, Dr.Amr Elwani, CAVB President and most of the CAVB Executive committee members attending the meeting here in Cairo.
South Africa was ranked third after their victory over Botswana (25-15, 25-19, 25-7).
The Egyptian Women team used the artistry of the Superstars specially Tahani Toson, Sherihan Sameh and the efficient setter Yasra Abdelkarim to have this considerable victory which led them to a second successive World Championships spot as they qualified to the last edition in Germany 2002. The Egyptian Coach, Hesham Badrawy Gave the victory to the name of the Egyptian first lady, Mrs. Suzan Mubarak which followed the team preparations and encourage the team to have this achievement.
Egypt had a powerful start through the solid block of Sherihan Sameh and Tahani Toson and the effective spikes of the Middle player Ingy Hamdy from position 3 and succeeded also to stop Nigeria big gun Esther Dusu and Priscilla Agera. Egypt continued in the same rhythm all through the match.
Egyptian coach kept the standing team in the ground without substitution to keep their pace and thus Egypt continued the high performance till the end of the match.