Sitting Volleyball pool play at the Invictus Games was completed on Monday with Poland, Georgia, the United Kingdom, and Estonia all topping their respective groups to qualify for Tuesday’s finals. Main Photo: Poland beat France in the opening match in pool play 2-1 (12-21, 22-20, 15-13). (C/O) Invictus Games Sydney...
The Afghanistan sitting volleyball team won the majority of the crowd’s support during the pool competition at the Genea Netball Centre on Monday, despite not winning either of their pool games. Story courtesy of Invictus Games Main Photo: Afghanistan players celebrate winning a point against Team UK in their sitting volleyball...
Samual Maraldo seems to have the knack for timing. Just as the former electronic technician’s departure from the Royal Australian Navy was being processed, preparations were underway for the inaugural Invictus Games in London in 2014, and he received an unexpected call-up. Four years later, Maraldo was helping out the...
Make sure you keep up with the latest from the Sitting Volleyball at the Invictus Games in Sydney, Australia with this dedicated webpage. The Sitting Volleyball competition will take place on 22 & 23 October in the Genea Netball Centre and Quaycentre. The previous three editions of the Invictus Games has...
Iran and China continued their dominance of men’s and women’s Sitting Volleyball, winning the Asian Para Games title for the third consecutive time at Indonesia 2018. Both finals on Thursday ended in a 3-0 victory; Iran beat China in the men’s event while China defeated Iran in the women’s final....
The Chinese women’s and Iran men’s team maintained their dominance of the Asian Para Games Sitting Volleyball competition by claiming gold in the 2018 edition on Thursday. Both teams had won each of the two previous editions of the tournament in 2014 and 2010 and this year it was no...
Thirty-two-year-old Kazakhstan setter Erik Kaskabayev started playing Sitting Volleyball in 2002 when he was 16. The coach of the local club of Kyzylordq City invited him to play, marking the debut of his international sport career three years later. Erik is very grateful for Sitting Volleyball as it offered him...
In a repeat of four years ago, China will play Iran in both the women’s and men’s finals in the Sitting Volleyball competition at the 2018 Asian Para Games after all four teams comfortably won their semifinals at the GBK – Tennis Indoor Arena in Jakarta, Indonesia on Wednesday. China...
Just like four years ago, Paralympic and world champions Iran will play Iraq while world No. 10 Kazakhstan will take on China in the 2018 Asian Para Games Sitting Volleyball men’s semifinals, which will take place on Wednesday at the GBK – Tennis Indoor Arena in Jakarta, Indonesia. Tuesday saw...
Twenty-eight-year-old Anissa Tindy Lestary has everything to thank for Sitting Volleyball. The Indonesia women’s captain, who is leading her country at its first ever Asian Para Games competition, had her legs and hips crushed in a motorcycle accident when she was 22 but says Sitting Volleyball turned her life around....
