On behalf of World ParaVolley I am pleased to announce that Mr Phil Allen has been re-appointed as General Manager for the next 4 years. At a contract signing ceremony in Rio recently, President Barry Couzner and Phil Allen signed the contract in front of several Board Members. World ParaVolley...
CLICK HERE FOR LIVE STREAMING ON SEPTEMBER 15-16-17-18!! MATCH REPORT – Day 6 – Wednesday, September 14th USA vs Rwanda (Women) – Pool B USA currently sits in second place in pool B, and was looking for a solid win against Rwanda to bump up their points ratio. Certainly Rwanda...
MATCH REPORT – Day 5 – Tuesday, September 13th Netherlands vs Brazil (Women) – POOL A BRA are currently top of pool A and wanted to keep it that way in this match against NED. BRA attacked with purpose and led 8-2 within a few minutes. Nathalie de Silva was...
The World ParaVolley family would like to express our most sincere condolences to the family and friends of Victor Dyakov, founder of sitting volleyball in Russia. We received the below message from the Russian Paralympic Committee yesterday: “Dear Colleagues, September 10, 2016 after a long illness Victor Dyakov, founder of...
MATCH REPORT – Day 2 China vs Rwanda (Women) – POOL B China, number 1 ranked in the world, took on Rwanda in their debut at the Paralympics. CHN completely controlled the match in what will probably be the most dominant game of the tournament. They capitalised on RWA lack...
Dutch women storm back into the Paralympics with only weeks to go! The Dutch women have participated in every single Paralympics since Sitting Volleyball was introduced for women in 2004. So, it was tears of disappointment when the team failed to qualify for Rio in March this year. They lost...
The US Women’s team new training programme gives them a shot at Gold After falling to China 3-2 in the 2014 World ParaVolley World Championships, the U.S. Women’s Sitting Team coaching staff decided to make some changes to the team’s training to best position the U.S. to win gold in...
World ParaVolley has launched a webpage dedicated to the Sitting Volleyball Competition at the Rio2016 Paralympic Games! WELCOME TO THE RIO 2016 PARALYMPIC GAMES!!! This page contains all you need to know about the Sitting Volleyball competition at the Rio2016 Paralympic Games. Here you will find: Competition schedules Match reports...
The competition schedule for the 2016 Rio2016 Paralympic Games sitting volleyball competition has been released. DOWNLOAD THE SCHEDULE HERE (as at August 25th, 2016) Also, download the following infographics for information about the pools and the qualification paths for both the men’s and the women’s competitions: Updated Pool Composition Qualification...
(from IPC) The International Paralympic Committee and Dailymotion have announced that 680 hours of coverage from 13 sports will be live streamed on 15 high-definition channels on the IPC’s website (Paralympic.org) during the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Among the HD channels is included a dedicated sitting volleyball channel, which will...
