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 –...
The wait is over for sitting volleyball fans around the world as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games sitting volleyball tournament will finally start on Friday, August 27 at the Makuhari Messe Hall A. Six Rio 2016 returnees, including Iran, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Egypt, Brazil, Germany and China will battle for...
United States women are determined delayed arrival won’t derail gold medal bid CHIBA (OIS) – The road to the Paralympics is often tricky, but no team has navigated more roadblocks en route to Tokyo 2020 than the United States women’s sitting volleyball squad. The defending gold medallists had to scramble...
The sitting volleyball tournament at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games will begin on August 27 and will run until September 5 at the Makuhari Messe Hall A. The men’s competition has been featured in each of the 11 Paralympic Games since its debut in 1980, while the women’s competition started...
The Tokyo 2020 women’s competition highlights the return of Japan to the Paralympic Games, opening the sitting volleyball competition against debutantes Italy on Friday, August 28 at 10.00 (local time). Italy earned their well-deserved ticket to Tokyo 2020 by finishing second at the 2019 European Sitting Volleyball Championship against gold...
Photo: Kyodo News Hesham Elshwikh led the delegation of Egypt in the ‘PARAde of Athletes’ and Liliane Mukobwankawe had the distinct honour of carrying the Paralympic flag to represent Para athletes from all over the world at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony held at the Olympic Stadium at...
Athens 2004 and Rio 2016 bronze medallist Hesham Elshwikh will be competing at his sixth Games and has been named as the one of the flag bearers of Egypt at Tuesday’s Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games opening ceremony. The six-time Paralympian, 45, will be carrying the flag for Egypt along with...
