Tang Xuemei was a promising athlete who played for her school’s basketball and table tennis teams. She was in a school dormitory when a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Wenchuan in southwest China’s Sichuan Province on May 12, 2008. The earthquake that lasted seconds-long left thousands of fatalities and injured...
Photo: Kyodo News Morteza Mehrzadselakjani was named the Most Valuable Player and Best Spiker of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, capping off a successful campaign that saw Iran win back-to-back gold medals. View this post on Instagram A post shared by World ParaVolley (@worldparavolley) The two-time Paralympian led...
Photo: Kyodo News United States captain Kathryn Holloway was hailed the Most Valuable Player of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games after steering her team to a back-to-back gold medal finish. View this post on Instagram A post shared by World ParaVolley (@worldparavolley) In her fourth Paralympics, the 35-year-old...
Photo: OIS/Joe Toth As the curtain came down on the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games with the Closing Ceremony on Sunday, Paris 2024 chief executive officer Etienne Thobois was already planning how to meet, or exceed the ‘very high bar’ set in Japan over the past fortnight. View this post...
Photo: OIS/Simon Bruty Ramezan Salehihajikolaei has played for the Iranian men’s sitting volleyball team for five editions of the Paralympic Games and since Athens 2004 he has collected three gold medals and two silver medals. After the four-set win over RPC in the Tokyo 2020 gold medal match at Makuhari...
Photo: OIS/Thomas Lovelock Brazil beat Canada in the bronze-medal match on Saturday TOKYO (OIS) – United States women smashed through their final match with China on Sunday, getting back-to-back sitting volleyball gold medals in a resounding 3-1 victory after a journey to the Paralympic Games that nearly did not happen....
Photo: OIS/Thomas Lovelock “Taking on China this time was all about being resilient,” said United States captain Kathryn Holloway moments after their four-set win over China in the gold medal match of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games at Makuhari Messe Hall on Sunday. Team USA played China in the final...
USA succeeded in their campaign to retain their Paralympic women’s sitting volleyball title, following their 3-1 (25-12, 25-20, 22-25, 25-19) win over long-time rivals China in the gold medal match of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games at Makuhari Messe Hall on Sunday. China dominated the first three Paralympic Games women’s...
Photo: OIS/Simon Bruty Bosnia’s men cling to the podium, Brazil’s women also take bronze CHIBA (OIS) – Iran maintained their domination of men’s sitting volleyball as they beat RPC to add a seventh Paralympic Games gold medal to their collection. Key to Iran’s 3-1 victory in the Tokyo 2020 final...
Day 10 features one final match in women’s sitting volleyball between Rio 2016 gold medallists United States and runners-up China vying for the gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games at Makuhari Messe Hall on Saturday. The Chinese squad won three consecutive gold medals since women’s sitting volleyball was...
