MURULO Toomas EST (PVE)

Toomas started with WOVD/WPV in Tallinn in 1997 at the WOVD European Championship as a member of the Local Organising Committee with responsibility in refereeing matters. In the same year he passed the International Referee course.

“The first person who invited me to this sport was Mrs Signe Falkenberg (now general secretary of Estonian Paralympic Committee), after that refereeing tutors Gerard Browers, Denis Le Breuilly and Gabi Lotan contributed to my development.”

Event involvement as an International Referee (1997-2021) and an International Referee Observer (2017 until present):

1997 Tallinn,Estonia – WOVD European Championships – LOC Referee Manager
2001 Puchov,Slovakia – WOVD World Cup Standing – Referee
2003 Lappeenranta,Finland – European Championships – Referee
2004 Tripoli,Libya – AACVD (Afro-Arab) Championships – Referee
2005 Leverkusen, Germany – European Championships – Referee
2006 Roermond,The Netherlands -Triple World Championships – Referee
2006 Nyiregyhaza,Hungary – EuroCup – Referee
2007-Nyiregyhaza,Hungary – European Championships – Referee
2007 Phnom Penh, Cambodia – WOVD Standing World Cup – Referee
2008 Kotka,Finland – Kotka Sitting Tournament – Referee
2009 Kotka,Finland – Kotka Sitting Tournament – Referee
2009 Elblag,Poland – European Championships – Referee
2009 Mashhad,Iran – WOVD 1st Junior World Championship – Referee
2010 Evpatorya,Ukraine – European 1st Continental Cup (Women) – Referee
2010 Oklahoma,USA – WOVD World Championships – Referee
2010 Nyiregyhaza,Hungary – Euro Cup – Referee
2011 Kettering, Great Britain – European Continental Cup – Referee
2011 Evpatorya,Ukraine – European 2nd Continental Cup (Women) – Referee
2011 Rotterdam,The Netherlands – European Championships – Referee
2012 London,Great Britain – Paralympic Games – Referee
2014 Elblag,Poland – World Championships – Referee
2015 Elblag,Poland – Qualified at WPV Referee Observers Course – Assistant Tutor at WPV International Referee Candidate Course
2015 Warendorf,Germany – European Championships – Referee
2016 Anji,China – World ParaVolley Intercontinental Cup – Referee
2016 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Paralympic Games – Referee
2017 Porec,Croatia – European Championships – Referee
2018 Jeju,Korea – World Championship Qualification – Referee Observer
2018 Venlo,The Netherlands, – World Championships – Referee
2019 Budapest/,Hungary – European Championships – Referee Observer
2021 Tokyo,Japan – Paralympic Games – Referee
2021 Kemer,Turkey – European Championships – Referee Observer and World ParaVolley L2 International Referee Candidate Course assistant tutor.

Other roles:

2007 to present – referee at Tallinn, Estonia International tournaments (organized in May every year)
2019 Participating as a lecturer on the ParaVolley Europe development project Sit2Play for school physical education teachers to provide them with an introduction to Paravolley and the Rule differences from Volleyball.
2019 Prepared educational materials – Referee Casebook – for World ParaVolley

Awards received:

2020 – World ParaVolley Recognition Award for Refereeing

Official posts:

Member of ParaVolley Europe Referee Commission since 2019
European Volleyball Confederation Supervisor since 2020
Referee Commission member of Estonian Volleyball Federation (2003-2019) responsible for referee training and development

In 2019 his lobby work in Estonia finally succeeded – the Estonian Volleyball Federation together with the Estonian Paralympic Committee agreed to join the World Paravolley family in 2020 and started preparing a men’s national team to participate at ParaVolley Europe competitions.