From the World Anti-Doping Agency SPOTLIGHT, available HERE For many elite athletes and anti-doping professionals around the world, one of the most regular types of interaction they have with WADA is through ADAMS. Launched in 2005, ADAMS is a secure and cost-free, web-based system that centralizes doping control-related data such...
World ParaVolley has been working hard over the past number of months to put together the initial phase of E-ParaVolley, an online LMS which will offer possibilities for individuals to learn more about World ParaVolley and to embark on technical education pathways. The program has been made possible in large...
As hosts of the Tokyo 2020 Men’s Final Qualifier, NPC Germany should be congratulated on their delivery of this all-important event for the athletes. The notable achievements included: • Some 780 COVID-19 tests were conducted with not one positive finding • During 5 days of competition there were 16,111 live...
The World ParaVolley Medical Department created an infogram explaining the Sport Class Status as a result of surveys filled out by athletes and coaches after attending classification. The infogram is a helpful and interesting tool to improve the understanding about classification and remove some of the mystery and myths around...
After more than two years, World ParaVolley is excited with the possibility of an international beach paravolley event taking place in Portugal as part of the IWAS Festival of Sport’s 1st IWAS Guttman Games to be held from October 7 to 13 in Vila Real de San Atonio in Portugal....
From IPC The International Olympic Committee (IOC), International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 (Tokyo 2020) have today launched the second editions of the Tokyo 2020 Playbooks, with the version for Athletes and Team Officials. Building on February’s publication, the new Playbooks...
The World ParaVolley history podcast returns with fresh insights into the ever-winding story of the sport. That said, we continue celebrating the International ParaVolley Day for a second straight year with the newest episode dropping today featuring former World ParaVolley development director John Kessel. In this episode, Kessel shares some...
Highlights from the history of standing volleyball Kwok Ng, PhD World ParaVolley Chief Historian It has been 10 years since the last standing volleyball World Cup, in Cambodia 2011. For this year’s World ParaVolley Day, we celebrate the multitude of contributions by some great people to the standing volleyball discipline...
The Paralympic Volleyball Federation of India (PVFI) organised and successfully conducted the 9th Sitting Volleyball National Championships from March 26 to 29 at the Jaat Dharamshala in the city of Bhiwani, located in the northern state of Haryana. About 250 athletes and officials took part in the double-gender national sitting...
The Team GB sitting volleyball programme is receiving a major financial boost from UK Sport with the launch of a National Squads Support Fund. Sitting volleyball is one of the two Paralympic sports UK Sport named to benefit from a £2.4 million investment to support their international campaign and...
