KLEIN Frits – NED (PVE) Frits first started with WOVD/World ParaVolley in 1986 when he took the International Referee Course (ISOD) in Hungary and refereed until 2007. Event involvement: 1986 – World Championships, Pécs, Hungary 1987 – Euro Cup, Enschede (NL). (Referee) 1987 – Referee instructor – Zürich (CH) 1988...

KESIENE Jurate – LTU (PVE) Jurate’s first involvement was hosting a clinic for classifiers in 1997 in Tallinn (Estonia). It was to help the Lithuanian team to understand the classification process and to give them advice on classification matters when needed. She became an International Classifier in 1999 in Sarajevo...

KERESTECIYAN Saro – CAN (PVPA) Saro started his involvement in WOVD as the Athletic therapist for the Canadian Standing Volleyball Team in 1998. “I had an interest in Volleyball and Disabled Sport, and when the Team came to Montreal for a training camp, I met with the Team Manager (Lawrence...

KARSH Zvi – ISR (PVE) Zvi started playing standing volleyball in Israel in 1972 following a war injury at the age of 27. He played until 2002. The person who was most influential in his development was his national team coach Eliyahu RABINA. Event involvement: 1976 Germany – Informal World...

POSTHUMOUS KALINA Eliezer ISR (PVE) Eliezer started playing standing volleyball in 1974 after a war injury he sustained at the age of 25. Event involvement as a player, captain (1976-2000) and coach (1976-1980): 1976 Germany – Informal World Championships – Gold Medal 1976 Toronto – Paralympic Games – Gold Medal...

JASINSKI Dariusz – POL (PVE) Having been an FIVB Referee since 1994, Dariusz started with WOVD/WPV in Sarajevo (BIH) in 1999 when he was a candidate for the WOVD International Referee Course. He took the course because he wanted to share his FIVB experience for the benefit of both standing...

POSTHUMOUS AWARD HULETT Mike USA (PVPA) Mike started with WOVD/WPV in 1995 in advance of the Atlanta Paralympics Event involvement: 1996 USA – Paralympic Games – Men’s Head Coach 2000 Sydney, Australia – Paralympic Games – Men’s Head Coach 2004 Athens, Greece – Paralympic Games – Women’s Head Coach –...

HANKOVA Helena SVK (PVE) As a professional volleyball player she started to work as a teacher at a high school for people with disabilities in 1970 in Bratislava. She started to teach the students standing volleyball and encourage their passion and love of the sport. They attended many competitions in...

HAMITER Bill USA (PVPA) Bill began working with the men’s sitting programme in 2001 in the USA to build a programme and team. In 2005 he worked out a contract to have University of Central Oklahoma become the National Training Site, USA’s first ever. In 2009 he was hired full-time...

GUTFLEISCH Oliver – GER (PVE) Oliver started standing volleyball in 1992 in the UK, two years after his car accident, before that he was an active volleyball player from 1983. His nick name is ‘the goldfish’. Those who had the greatest influence on him as a person and sportsman were:...