Welcome to the landing page for the 2019 Parapan Am Games sitting volleyball competition in Lima Peru! Here you will find the links to schedule and results from the Lima 2019 webpage, and match reports from the ParaVolley Pan America webpage. Click HERE to view the match schedule on the...
The World ParaVolley Board is openly inviting Expressions of Interest (EOIs) from the World ParaVolley community to take up the position of Commission Chair for the Athlete Health & Medical Commission. There is no formal application form and we are expecting applicants to write about a single page indicating their...
The history of volleyball for people with disabilities dates back to the 1950s. However, the first formal international organisation of the sport was formed in 1980 at the Paralympic Games in the Netherlands and was later called the ‘World Organisation of Volleyball for the Disabled’ (WOVD). The WOVD were successful...
The World ParaVolley (WPV) is looking for new hosts of the women’s Final Paralympic Qualification Tournament in 2020. The “Azzurri” will no longer host the qualifiers with the qualification of the Italian Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team to Tokyo. Six teams will vie for the last Paralympic berth in six days...
Indian state teams will clash once again at the 8th Sitting Volleyball Senior National Championships slated 27-28 July in Chennai. Participants will battle it out for the right to represent India in the 2020 International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand. The Paralympic Volleyball Federation of...
The 2019 European Sitting Volleyball Championships wrote an epic ending for its week-long run with Russia dominating both the men’s and women’s competition, yet again. After being down two sets to one and facing three match points, the Russian men’s team retaliated to make an epic comeback over Boznia &...
Budapest, Hungary, 12 May 2019 – The 2019 Sitting Volleyball European Championships kick off on 15 July with Great Britain returning, after their absence in the last edition, to take on Finland in the opening match at 09:30 local time (07:30 GMT) for the women’s competition. The first men’s match...
My name is Nadia Harushimina. I worked as a social assistant in one NGO called Mulindi Japan One Love Project. The NGO used to supply equipment for people with disabilities. My job was to assess people with disabilities who were coming for help. I had to assess them and see...
In this special BBC report, Mike Bushell walks us through sitting volleyball and gives us an inside look on the preparations of Team GBR ahead of the 2019 European Sitting Volleyball Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
Bangkok, Thailand, June 15, 2019 – Iran retained their title in the ParaVolley Asia Oceania Sitting Volleyball Championship with a straight-set (25-21, 25-7, 28-26) win over China at Huamark Stadium on Saturday. Iran reasserted its reign to claim the men’s title, as they swept all their matches without dropping a...
