World ParaVolley is pleased to announce that Ms. Anna Tomas has been appointed as the Federation’s Communications Manager. Ms. Tomas brings to World ParaVolley more than 15 years of experience as a sport information specialist, media delegate and website editor for the FIVB. She has covered both indoor volleyball and...
The World ParaVolley Sitting Volleyball Rules of the Game Committee has been confirmed, with the addition of the Women’s and Men’s teams’ representatives having been confirmed by the Board of Directors. Recent elections for these two positions resulted in Bill Hamiter, USA, and Michael Merten, GER having been elected to...
According to Pieter Joon, our first President, and the Minutes of the Meeting, on 24 April 1981 “World ParaVolley” was formally created at a meeting in Bonn on the occasion of the European Sitting Volleyball Championships. This group was, in fact, the historic “Sitting Volleyball Committee of ISOD” and the...
World ParaVolley and USA Volleyball sign the Contract for the Tokyo 2020 Men’s Final Paralympic Qualification Tournament World ParaVolley and USA Volleyball are pleased to announce that the Tokyo 2020 Men’s Final Paralympic Qualification Tournament will be held in Edmond, Oklahoma in the period 16 to 21 March 2020. ...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published the 2020 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods (List); the 2020 Summary of Major Modifications and Explanatory Notes; and the 2020 Monitoring Program. The List, which was approved by WADA’s Executive Committee (ExCo) on 23 September 2019, comes into force on 1 January 2020. The...
22-Sep-2019 Egypt Men qualify for Tokyo 2020! Egypt defeated Rwanda 3-0 (25-6, 25-11, 25-16) in the final of the Men’s ParaVolley Africa Sitting Volleyball Championships, winning the gold and also the ParaVolley Africa qualification spot for Tokyo 2020! Algeria defeated Kenya for Bronze 3-1 (25-21, 20-25, 25-15, 27-25) and in...
World ParaVolley has a vacancy for the position of Communications Manager. Consequently, the Board has decided to openly invite Expressions of Interest (EOIs) from the World ParaVolley community to take up the position of Communications Manager. There is no formal application form and we are expecting applicants to write a...
Welcome to the landing page for the 2019 Parapan Am Games sitting volleyball competition in Lima Peru! Here you will find the links to schedule and results from the Lima 2019 webpage, and match reports from the ParaVolley Pan America webpage. Click HERE to view the match schedule on the...
The World ParaVolley Board is openly inviting Expressions of Interest (EOIs) from the World ParaVolley community to take up the position of Commission Chair for the Athlete Health & Medical Commission. There is no formal application form and we are expecting applicants to write about a single page indicating their...
World ParaVolley is deeply saddened to share the news of Mike Hulett’s passing away earlier today. Mike served as the Chair of ParaVolley Pan America for a number of years and sat on the Board of Directors for World ParaVolley as well. Mike was the head coach of the USA...
