African nation plans to follow Iran’s route to sitting volleyball success TOKYO (OIS) – Rwanda’s women’s sitting volleyball team are targeting success at Paris 2024 Paralympic Games thanks to one of the world’s largest club systems. Although they have struggled in Tokyo, losing their opening two matches 3-0 to make...
Five-time men’s finalists emphatically beaten as Canada’s women impress against Italy TOKYO (OIS) – Five-time Paralympic men’s sitting volleyball finalists Bosnia and Herzegovina fell to defeat by RPC in their pool match at Makuhari Messe Hall A on Sunday, marking the possible end of an era in the sport. ...
Day 4 of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games sitting volleyball competition continues and presents exciting matches in the men’s and women’s preliminaries. The main highlights are the matches between China and the United States, and Iran and Brazil in the men’s and women’s events, respectively. The matchup between favourites China...
The Brazilian women’s team have punched in their second victory in the preliminary round of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games sitting volleyball tournament, while the Canadian women’s team, RPC and Egypt men’s teams posted victories to improve their win-loss records to 1-1 at the Makuhari Messe Hall A on Sunday....
Heidi Peters scored 34 points to help Canada record their first win in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games women’s sitting volleyball tournament at Makuhari Messe Hall A on Sunday. Canada posted a 3-1 (25-16, 25-14, 15-25, 25-18) win over Italy, after a hard-fought tiebreaker loss against Brazil on opening day....
Married couple celebrate a Tokyo victory each and a shared reunion after three months apart CHIBA (OIS) – There was plenty to celebrate for Fabricio DA SILVA PINTO (BRA) and Bethany ZUMMO (USA) as they began their respective sitting volleyball campaigns on Saturday. On court, the defensive players helped their...
Sunday’s programme will feature four men’s teams and four women’s teams play their second match in the preliminary round, where they are sure to deliver top-level plays in sitting volleyball at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games at Makuhari Messe Hall, The first men’s match is an all-European medallists clash between...
Defending champions Iran and the United States started their Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games campaigns with straight-set victories on Saturday as Day 2 of sitting volleyball competition action got underway in Makuhari Messe Hall A. Later in the day, Brazil and China also recorded their first win in the men’s and...
United States libero Bethany Zummo expressed her hopes of collaborating with Great Britain’s Olympic gold medallist diver Tom Daley, who went viral for knitting poolside at the Tokyo 2020 Games. “I’d love to make something that meshes Olympic and Paralympic together. He is really good at creating images inside of...
Hadi Rezaei has won a total of six gold medals and two silver medals at the Paralympic Games, including the five consecutive medals from Sydney 2000 to Rio 2016 as Iran’s head coach, and the three consecutive gold medals for himself as athlete and captain at Atlanta 1996, Barcelona 1992...
