The Chinese women’s and Iran men’s team maintained their dominance of the Asian Para Games Sitting Volleyball competition by claiming gold in the 2018 edition on Thursday. Both teams had won each of the two previous editions of the tournament in 2014 and 2010 and this year it was no...
Thirty-two-year-old Kazakhstan setter Erik Kaskabayev started playing Sitting Volleyball in 2002 when he was 16. The coach of the local club of Kyzylordq City invited him to play, marking the debut of his international sport career three years later. Erik is very grateful for Sitting Volleyball as it offered him...
In a repeat of four years ago, China will play Iran in both the women’s and men’s finals in the Sitting Volleyball competition at the 2018 Asian Para Games after all four teams comfortably won their semifinals at the GBK – Tennis Indoor Arena in Jakarta, Indonesia on Wednesday. China...
Just like four years ago, Paralympic and world champions Iran will play Iraq while world No. 10 Kazakhstan will take on China in the 2018 Asian Para Games Sitting Volleyball men’s semifinals, which will take place on Wednesday at the GBK – Tennis Indoor Arena in Jakarta, Indonesia. Tuesday saw...
Twenty-eight-year-old Anissa Tindy Lestary has everything to thank for Sitting Volleyball. The Indonesia women’s captain, who is leading her country at its first ever Asian Para Games competition, had her legs and hips crushed in a motorcycle accident when she was 22 but says Sitting Volleyball turned her life around....
The first semifinalists of the Sitting Volleyball competition at the 2018 Asian Para Games have been confirmed following Monday’s second and penultimate day of pool play. Just like four years ago, Iran have been joined in the men’s semifinals by China and Kazakhstan. With one more day of preliminaries to...
Pre-tournament Sitting Volleyball favourites China (women) and Iran (men) got their 2018 Asian Para Games campaigns off to excellent starts with convincing victories in their first matches at the GBK Tennis Indoor centre in Jakarta, Indonesia on Sunday. The Chinese women, who are bronze medallists from the 2018 World ParaVolley...
The Gelora Bung Karno Tennis Indoor Stadium is set for a five-star showdown when the Sitting Volleyball competitions at the 2018 Asian Para Games get underway in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Sunday. As many as nine nations, fielding 162 athletes, will take part in the competition that will run over five days,...
The schedule for Sitting Volleyball at the 2018 Asian Para Games in Jakarta, Indonesia has been updated with a couple of changes to the preliminary round matches. On the second day of competition, Monday, the first two matches – both women’s matches – have swapped. IRI v INA is now...
Halleh Jafari and Fariba Ahadi hope to become flagbearers for their country after making history last week when they became the first Iranian women to referee an international Sitting Volleyball match. Jafari, 34, and Ahadi, 39 both refereed matches at the ParaVolley Europe New Nations Subzone Men’s Tournament 2018 in...
