The Gelora Bung Karno Tennis Indoor Stadium is set for a five-star showdown when the Sitting Volleyball competitions at the 2018 Asian Para Games get underway in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Sunday. As many as nine nations, fielding 162 athletes, will take part in the competition that will run over five days,...
The schedule for Sitting Volleyball at the 2018 Asian Para Games in Jakarta, Indonesia has been updated with a couple of changes to the preliminary round matches. On the second day of competition, Monday, the first two matches – both women’s matches – have swapped. IRI v INA is now...
Hosts Indonesia will have the honour of opening the 2018 Asian Para Games Sitting Volleyball competition when its women’s team plays Mongolia in the opening match on Sunday, 7 October. Indonesia are making their debut at the Asian Para Games, which first started in 2010 while Mongolia finished fourth in...
Defending Asian Para Games Sitting Volleyball champions China and Iran are expected to once again be the teams to beat in the women’s and men’s competitions respectively, when the 2018 edition begins in Jakarta, Indonesia on Sunday. Four years ago, world No 2 China beat Iran in the women’s final...
The Slovenia Men’s Sitting Volleyball team took out the honours at the ParaVolley Europe Men’s Subzone New Nations Tournament in Tourcoing, France on Sunday. The two-day tournament also featured hosts France, the Czech Republic and world No. 37 Georgia. Slovenia beat the Czech Republic and Georgia on Saturday before beating France...
Sitting Volleyball is one of 23 sports confirmed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board on Thursday to have progressed to the next stage of assessment for inclusion in the Paris 2024 Paralympic sport programme. After a thorough review of applications from 28 sports for inclusion in Paris 2024,...
The Czech Republic will take on Slovenia in the opening match of the ParaVolley Europe New Nations Subzone Men’s Sitting Volleyball Tournament, following the confirmation of the match schedule for the tournament, which will take place from 29-30 September in Tourcoing, France. A total of four countries are taking part in this...
The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) announced on Wednesday that it will start inviting applications for the Tokyo 2020 Games volunteer programme from 26 September 2018. Volunteers will provide valuable support for the operation of the Games in a variety of roles at competition...
