World ParaVolley Athletes’ Commission member Ivan Cosic has been re-elected to the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Athlete Council Group 2i for 2025-2027. The election was held virtually via an online voting platform between 10-12 December 2024 and was available only to International Federation (IF) Athlete Commissions (ACs) that were registered and...
Dear World ParaVolley Community, When the World ParaVolley Community gathers online for the General Assembly we will review the work of 2022-2023. Before that, I would like to take this opportunity to send best wishes to all for this Holiday Season and to offer a summary of the year 2024...
The 2024 World ParaVolley General Assembly will be held virtually on 7 December, 2024, at 12h00 noon UTC. We wish to reassure all members that even though we are moving forward with a virtual General Assembly, the voting on motions and the elections will be conducted under the supervision of...
The International Volleyball Hall of Fame welcomed its 2024 Class of Inductees on October 19 in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Among the nine honoured were individuals who have profoundly influenced sitting volleyball, including Iran’s Hadi Rezaei and the United States’ John Kessel and the late Bill Kauffman, whose achievements in coaching, development...
STARTING THE JOURNEY TO LOS ANGELES As we celebrate the success of Paris 2024, we commence preparations for LA28. World ParaVolley invites bids from nations and event organisers to host the 2025 and 2027 World Cup events. As part of a revised qualification program to reduce competition with the Zonal...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) published the 2025 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods, which was approved by WADA’s Executive Committee (ExCo) during its meeting on 12 September 2024 and enters into force on 1 January 2025. WADA also published: the 2025 Summary of Major Modifications and Explanatory Notes (https://www.wada-ama.org/sites/default/files/2024-09/2025_list_explanatory_note_en_final_11_september_2024.pdf)...
World ParaVolley is set to run the highly anticipated Level 2 Coaching Pilot this weekend, marking an exciting step forward in the development of sitting volleyball coaching. The programme is designed to elevate the skills of experienced coaches to the international scene. Candidates started with Part A, an e-learning theoretical...
Wayne Hellquist, former World ParaVolley vice-president and towering figure in Saskatchewan’s volleyball community, will be one of the distinguished inductees into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2024. Last April, the announcement marked a momentous occasion for Hellquist, whose remarkable contributions to the sport have left have significantly...
Lionel Arlin, Sports Federations and Events Manager at Gerflor, has highlighted the company’s long-standing partnership with World Paravolley (WPV), particularly in providing the Taraflex surface for sitting volleyball events. “We started to cooperate with sitting volleyball about more than 10 years ago. The first Paralympics we did was London 2012....
Earlier this year WPV was provided with evidence that suggested that a ParaVolley player had a degree of movement and ability that appeared to be significantly different to the medical information available to WPV at the time the player was allocated a Sport Class. The player and the player’s National...
