OZMEC Peter – SLO (PVE) Beside being an athlete, Peter has coached the men’s national sitting volleyball team, acted as team manager and assistant coach of the women’s national sitting volleyball team and organised several big sitting volleyball events, starting in 1982 with national team competition of Yugoslavian Republics and...

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...

MANO Yoshihisa – JPN (PVAO) Mano discovered sitting volleyball by chance in November 1996 when he was working at the Tokyo Para Sports Centre. Since then he says he has been inspired by World ParaVolley athletes and staff. Event involvement: 2000 Sydney, Australia – Paralympic Games – 9th place –...

MANNERSUO Sari Anneli – FIN (PVE) Having previously refereed volleyball since 1980, Sari started internationally with sitting volleyball in 2003 when he took the International Referee Course in Riga, Latvia in 2002. Event involvement: Referee: 2003 Germany – World Cup European Championships (2003, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 (men), 2017...

POSTHUMOUS LYSE Kåre – NOR (PVE) Kare starting playing sitting volleyball in 1971, and being an important player for his club team, the national team events in which he was involved in: 1978 Nordic Championship 1980 Arnhem, The Netherlands – Paralympic Games 1981 Bonn, Germany – European Championships 1982 Nordic...

KRAGELNIK Davorin – SLO (PVE) Davorin Kragelnik started his involvement in sitting volleyball at the Centre for Disabled Youth in Kamnik, Slovenia. In 1981 he was selected for the Yugoslavian national volleyball team and took part in the World Championships in Germany. After returning from the World Championships a sitting...

KONČNIK Peter – SLO (PVE) Peter started refereeing sitting volleyball in Slovenia in 1987, after being a player for the Jesenice Volleyball Club and for the Slovenian and Yugoslav national youth teams (1968-1975). He was also an FIVB referee (1976-2007), refereeing over 1000 matches. He became involved in International sitting...

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...