The United States’ Chris Seilkop/Dave Newkirk/Eric Duda and Poland 1’s Adam Stepien/Artur Wasowicz/Rafal Wojtowicz secured spots in the 2019 Beach ParaVolley World Series Pingtan Open final after stunning victories on Saturday. The American trio rallied from a set down to beat Slovakians Rudolf Makovini/Martin Dubovsky/Juraj Kucej 2-1 (16-21, 21-5, 15-12)...
The Slovakian team headed by coach Helena Hankova expressed their strong support to World ParaVolley’s bid for the Beach ParaVolley discipline’s inclusion in the Los Angeles 2028 Paralympic Games sports programme. “We always keep in touch with activities of the World ParaVolley and other countries, but our main goal now...
Germany’s Torben Schiewe/Heiko Wiesenthal/Elmar Sommer and Poland 1’s Adam Stepien/Artur Wasowicz/Rafal Wojtowicz topped their respective groups with a sweep of all their matches in the pool play round of 2019 Beach ParaVolley World Series Pingtan Open. The Germans completed the sweep in Pool A with two victories on Friday against...
In 2018, beach volleyball aficionado Bradley Barclay suffered an accident from work that led him to be confined in a wheelchair for months. Fourteen months later, Barclay is back on the sand court and competing in his first big tournament – the 2019 Beach ParaVolley World Series Pingtan Open. Barclay...
World ParaVolley is deeply saddened to share the news of Mike Hulett’s passing away earlier today. Mike served as the Chair of ParaVolley Pan America for a number of years and sat on the Board of Directors for World ParaVolley as well. Mike was the head coach of the USA...
India 1’s Datar Deewarata/Abhishek Aluwala/Sahir Ali Mallick and Slovakia’s Rudolf Makovini/Martin Dubovsky/Juraj Kucej led the first day of the men’s pool play round of the Beach ParaVolley World Series in Pingtan on Thursday. India 1 and Slovakia collected two wins each by way of default and straight-set victory in their...
Festive energy from the crowd and athletes marked the colourful start of the inaugural Pingtan Beach World Series Open on Thursday at Longwangtou Beach in Fuzhou, China. The 2019 Pingtan Beach World Series Open kicked off with the opening ceremony with a great welcome to the athletes by the organising...
All eyes will be on Longwangtou Beach for the inaugural Beach ParaVolley World Series event, where hosts China and India are set for the historic first serve at the 2019 Pingtan Open on Thursday. The World ParaVolley, in its bid to make Beach ParaVolley to be a Paralympic sport for...
Budapest, Hungary, 8 May 2019 – A Drawing of Lots on Sunday in the Hungarian capital will determine the preliminary round pools at the 2019 European Sitting Volleyball Championships – Men & Women which are scheduled for 15-20 July in Budapest. The draw will be held on board a cruise...
World ParaVolley is proud to announce the appointment of USA Volleyball Board of Directors Chair Lori Okimura as the World ParaVolley Beach ParaVolley Rules of the Game Committee Chair. Okimura joins World ParaVolley at a critical time with Beach ParaVolley striving to enter the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games. “Her experience...
