Following a 10th place finish at the 2018 World ParaVolley Sitting Volleyball World Championships in the Netherlands last month, the Japanese women’s team have identified key areas of improvement to focus on ahead of their home Paralympics in Tokyo in 2020. Story courtesy of Paralympic.org Japan failed to reach the World Championship...
Morteza Mehrzadselakjani has not stopped winning since joining the Iranian men’s Sitting Volleyball team in 2016. The 30-year-old was fundamental in his country’s success at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, Super 6 and, most recently, the 2018 World Championships in the Netherlands last month. Story courtesy of Paralympic.org Despite extending...
The full event programme of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games was confirmed on Monday including the Sitting Volleyball competitions for women and men. The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games will feature up to 4,400 athletes contesting 540 medal events across 22 sports. Full story here: https://tokyo2020.org/en/news/notice/20180806-02.html
With one week having passed since we celebrated the crowning of the latest world champions in Sitting Volleyball – Russia (women) and I R Iran (men) – it’s given me time to reflect on the incredible success of the event held in the birth place of Sitting Volleyball – the...
Rotterdam, the Netherlands, July 26, 2018 – At a historic meeting facilitated by the IPC President, Andrew Parsons, World ParaVolley President Barry Couzner OAM met with the FIVB General Director Fabio Azevedo during the Sitting Volleyball World Championships in the Netherlands last Friday. The informal meeting took place after all...
The International Paralympic Committee provides their thoughts on what were the top moments from the 2018 World ParaVolley Sitting Volleyball World Championships, which finished in the Netherlands on Sunday. Read the story on the IPC website or below. The Sitting Volleyball World Championships left many unforgettable moments and some surprising...
Arnhem, Netherlands, 13 July, 2018 – World ParaVolley’s journey into a thriving new era took a significant boost when its General Assembly approved the motion to add an elected female and male athlete representative to the World ParaVolley Board of Directors on Friday. Athletes at the heart With the goal...
Australian Volleyball coach Wei Ping Tu has received the Australian Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for his services, over many years, to the development of Volleyball in Australia. From China to Australia After studying Volleyball at the famous Beijing Sports University and coaching in China for many years,...
