SITTING VOLLEYBALL NEWS

Sitting volleyball: Slovenia and Ukraine qualify for Paris 2024
All 16 teams have been decided for the men’s and women’s sitting volleyball tournaments at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

Road to Paris 2024: Get the latest on the qualification for the Paralympics
Get to know the major qualification events coming up and follow athletes on their journeys to the Games

Sitting volleyball athletes embrace “family” on court
Sitting volleyball is one of the 22 sports on the Paris 2024 Paralympic sports prorgramme. There will be eight teams each in the men's and women's tournaments

Paralympic Games tickets to go on sale on 9 October
Half of the 2.8 million tickets available will be priced EUR 25 or less

Paris 2024 will be most spectacular Paralympics in history
Andrew Parsons pays tribute to work of Organising Committee on the one-year-to-go milestone

How IR Iran became a men’s sitting volleyball superpower
"If we achieve the second place in the Paralympic competitions, it means that we have failed"

Brazil’s Fiorese goes from aspiring sports journalist to sitting volleyball champion
Brazil claimed gold in the women’s competition at the 2022 World ParaVolley Sitting Volleyball World Championships, which wrapped up on Friday, 11 November. Iran won the men's tournament, marking the team's eighth world title.

Ninão, the big hope as Brazil bid for Paralympic volleyball glory
Ninão, whose full name is Joelison Fernandes da Silva, is in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, for the 2022 World ParaVolley Sitting Volleyball World Championship, which will take place from 4-11 November

Paralympians in the spotlight as Paris 2024 celebrates Olympic Day
The area near Stade de France was transformed into an open-air playground as Olympic Day participants got to try out 30 Olympic sports as well as wheelchair basketball, sitting volleyball and boccia

Pieter Joon to be inducted into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame
Founding father of World ParaVolley will be the first ever inductee from the world of sitting volleyball

Crochet and ice aides USA’s Bethany Zummo’s mental health
'Crocheting helps because it allows me to do something with my hands, it keeps me in the present'

Mental resilience the key to retaining gold for the USA
USA women defend their sitting volleyball gold against China in the last day of competition

Reigning champions Iran continue their dominance in sitting volleyball
While Brazil take the women's sitting volleyball bronze medal

Bosnia & Herzegovina defeat signals end of an era
First time in six Paralympic Games that Bosnia & Herzegovina and Iran will not face each other in the men's gold-medal game

Rwanda confident strong domestic game will lead to international glory
African nation plans to follow Iran's route to sitting volleyball success

USA sitting volleyball star Lora Webster will compete while pregnant
'Physically I don't feel any different when I'm playing, and this baby's just along for the ride'

Another chapter for Iran-Bosnia rivalry in sitting volleyball at the Paralympic Games
Squads have played the last five men's event finals and the Iranians have a 3-2 overall record, including Rio 2016

US women’s sitting volleyball set to continue golden hits at Tokyo 2020
After a memorable finals at Rio 2016, team USA feels stronger heading into the Games

Ones to watch for sitting volleyball
These nine athletes can be the difference makers between a podium finish or not at Tokyo 2020
10 things to know about sitting volleyball
Sitting volleyball first featured at the 1980 Paralympic Games in Arnhem, Netherlands