World ParaVolley and USA Volleyball sign the Contract for the Tokyo 2020 Men’s Final Paralympic Qualification Tournament World ParaVolley and USA Volleyball are pleased to announce that the Tokyo 2020 Men’s Final Paralympic Qualification Tournament will be held in Edmond, Oklahoma in the period 16 to 21 March 2020. ...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published the 2020 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods (List); the 2020 Summary of Major Modifications and Explanatory Notes; and the 2020 Monitoring Program. The List, which was approved by WADA’s Executive Committee (ExCo) on 23 September 2019, comes into force on 1 January 2020. The...
22-Sep-2019 Egypt Men qualify for Tokyo 2020! Egypt defeated Rwanda 3-0 (25-6, 25-11, 25-16) in the final of the Men’s ParaVolley Africa Sitting Volleyball Championships, winning the gold and also the ParaVolley Africa qualification spot for Tokyo 2020! Algeria defeated Kenya for Bronze 3-1 (25-21, 20-25, 25-15, 27-25) and in...
World ParaVolley has a vacancy for the position of Communications Manager. Consequently, the Board has decided to openly invite Expressions of Interest (EOIs) from the World ParaVolley community to take up the position of Communications Manager. There is no formal application form and we are expecting applicants to write a...
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 &...
