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...
International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Andrew Parsons visited the Makuhari Messe Hall A on Friday night to watch the women’s sitting volleyball match between Brazil and Canada in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. The IPC president was in for a treat as he witnessed the best match of the opening...
Veteran United States player will compete in Tokyo carrying her fourth child TOKYO (OIS) – United States sitting volleyball player Lora WEBSTER is competing at the Paralympic Games while pregnant for the second time in her career. The mother of three is roughly 20 weeks into her term just as...
It’s Day 2 here at the Makuhari Messe Hall A and we have already seen some great games on Day 1. The day’s programme will see previous Paralympics medallists starting their quest for a Paralympic medal. On the men’s side, 2016 gold medallists Iran will play against Germany, the last...
Brazil prevailed against a resilient Canadian side in a nail-biting five-set match, while Italy made an impressive debut with a straight-sets win against hosts Japan in the women’s tournament of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games at Makuhari Messe Hall on Friday. Silver medallists Bosnia and Herzegovina outclassed their former Rio...
Fifty-four-year-old Michiyo Nishiie represents Japan proudly as a two-time Paralympian and an Asian Para Games bronze medallist, and the way she helps her sport and do the impossible makes her look like a comic book hero. Yang, as she is fondly called, played volleyball at the club-level. But an unfortunate...
Italy had a two-year wait until they could step inside the Makuhari Messe Hall sitting volleyball court to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. The 12-strong Italian squad is now setting sights on turning their dreams into a reality. “It’s a dream come true for us. We’ve actually been...
The long wait is finally over and Friday sees the start of the Tokyo 2020 sitting volleyball competition at the Makuhari Messe Hall A. Two weeks packed with some fantastic matches to look forward to with the best men’s and women’s teams vying for the Paralympic Games’ holy grail –...
