SITTING VOLLEYBALL NEWS
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Paris 2024: Sitting volleyball match schedule announced
The sitting volleyball competition at the Paris 2024 Paralympics will feature eight teams in both the men’s and women’s tournaments
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Paris 2024: Ones to Watch in sitting volleyball
The sitting volleyball players you should be looking out for when the next Paralympics kick off in France in less than 100 days
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Paris 2024: Rwanda's Mukobwankawe aiming high at third Paralympics
Liliane Mukobwankawe, the star of Rwanda’s sitting volleyball team, reflects on her journey in Para sport and competing at two Paralympic Games
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Paris 2024: Canada’s sitting volleyball star Peters sets focus on a Paralympic medal
Canada have qualified for the women's sitting volleyball tournament at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games
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Paris 2024: Introduction to sitting volleyball
The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games will see up to 192 sitting volleyball players
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Paris 2024: Four-time Paralympic medallist Duran leads team in quest for glory
Sitting volleyball player Mirzet Duran shares his goals for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games and beyond
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Sitting volleyball pools set for Paris 2024 Paralympics
Sixteen sitting volleyball teams will compete at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games
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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
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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
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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
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Paris 2024 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
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Paris 2024 will be most spectacular Paralympics in history, says IPC President
Andrew Parsons pays tribute to work of Organising Committee on the one-year-to-go milestone
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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"
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Crochet and ice aides USA’s sitting volleyball player Bethany Zummo’s mental health
'Crocheting helps because it allows me to do something with my hands, it keeps me in the present'
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Mental resilience the key to retaining gold for the USA sitting volleyball team
USA women defend their sitting volleyball gold against China in the last day of competition
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Reigning champions Iran continue their dominance in sitting volleyball
While Brazil take the women's sitting volleyball bronze medal