World ParaVolley has confirmed Cairo, Egypt, to host the 2023 WPV Sitting Volleyball World Cup, following the COVID-19-related postponement of its hosting in 2021. On Saturday, WPV and ParaVolley Egypt have finalised the agreement for hosting the double-gender event from November 11 to 18, 2023 in Nasr City, a district...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), through a letter, confirmed on Tuesday the election of Croatia sitting volleyball star and captain Ivan Cosic to the inaugural WADA Athlete Council. In line with recent governance reforms that are being implemented to ensure that athlete views and experiences are integrated within all levels...
Recently the Board has submitted several applications for the development and promotion of Beach in an effort to offer the discipline of beach paravolley to our athletes with a physical impairment – thereby increasing playing opportunities. Our LA 2028 application for the inclusion of beach paravolley (along with sitting volleyball)...
World ParaVolley has received the final report of technical delegate Irene Chang, following the conclusion of the sitting volleyball event at the 11th ASEAN Para Games in Solo, Indonesia. “I congratulate Irene Chang on being a very effective TD for this event and for her great report. Many thanks, Irene,...
World ParaVolley is pleased to announce that we presented the third “World ParaVolley Presents…” webinar on Tuesday, September 20th, 2022 at 12h00 UTC. The objectives of the “World ParaVolley Presents…” webinars are to: serve as a platform to disseminate good practices for athletes, coaches and administrators in ParaVolley open up...
The Judicial Commission of World ParaVolley deals with any cases of disputes between individuals or organizations and is completely independent of the Board. The Commission membership is approved by the General Assembly every 2 years – next in December 2022. The Judicial Commission has the important task of providing “natural...
In accordance with World Anti-Doping Code (Code) Article 5.6.1, which concerns retired athletes returning to competition, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published the following documents on its website (https://www.wada-ama.org/en/resources/world-anti-doping-program/code-article-561-exemption-application-procedure-and-guidelines): Exemption Application Guidelines for determining whether an exemption is warranted; An Exemption Application Procedure, which aims to provide guidance to...
World ParaVolley has announced the teams that are officially invited to participate in the 2022 Sitting Volleyball World Championships to be held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 4 to 11 November 2022. This system completely replaces the original invitations and slot allocation that was based on the event occurring planned...
World ParaVolley has put together the “World ParaVolley Presents…” webinar series to offer presentations that are of interest to our membership and others. We reached out to all our stakeholders to collect suggestions on possible webinar topics and potential speakers and are pleased to have presented the second “World ParaVolley...
World ParaVolley is pleased to announce that the Board of Directors has approved the appointment of Toomas Murulo as team leader of the WPV Sitting Volleyball Rules of the Game Commission. Toomas started with WPV in 1997 as a sitting and standing volleyball referee. He was nominated as referee at...
