SITTING VOLLEYBALL NEWS

Women with headscarfs lined up

No. 30 Iranian women qualify for Rio 2016

The Iranian women’s sitting volleyball team qualified for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games for the very first time, after reaching the final at the Incheon 2014 Asian Para Games.

Six men celebrating on a volleyball field.

No. 20: Rwanda sitting volleyball team make it to London 2012

The Paralympic Movement is filled with inspirational and compelling stories of triumph over adversity, but there are few stories as awe-inspiring as the Rwandan sitting volleyball team’s formation and qualification for London 2012.

China women's sitting volleyball team

USA to face China in gold medal match

Friday's semi-finals World ParaVolley Sitting Volleyball World Championships conclude with wins for USA and China in the women's competition, whilst Brazil and Bosnia and Herzegovina make the men's final.

Sitting volleyball

World ParaVolley 2014 General Assembly held in Poland

World ParaVolley held its biennial General Assembly in Elblag, Poland on 12 June 2014 in the same city that is staging the 2014 World ParaVolley Sitting Volleyball World Championships for men and women.

German wheelchair tennis player Sabine Ellerbrock

WHAT TO WATCH: June 2014

A jam-packed month in store for sports fans, highlighted by international competitions in fencing, shooting, athletics, wheelchair tennis, sitting volleyball, wheelchair basketball, goalball and para-triathlon.