Important Message to all World ParaVolley Members RE: The coronavirus outbreak in China and the 2020 Sitting Volleyball World Cup As you are aware, there is great concern about the outbreak of the coronavirus around the world now with more cases being reported every day. It also appears that airlines...
The Philippine ASEAN Para Games Organising Committee confirmed the postponement of the biennial tournament’s 10th edition. Originally slated for January 18 to 24, National Paralympic Committee Philippines president and local organising committee director general Michael Barredo said the tournament will now be moved to March 20 to 28 this year...
The IPC has released a major update to the Tokyo 2020 Qualification Regulations. There is an important update in the Sitting Volleyball section (pages 129-132). https://www.paralympic.org/tokyo-2020/qualification-criteria The change is the following: “Athlete Eligibility To be eligible for selection by an NPC, athletes must: have played in at least one international,...
World ParaVolley Receives Agitos Grant November 25th, 2019 The Agitos Foundation has announced the recipients of the 2019-2020 Grant Support Program, and World ParaVolley is happy to share the news that we have been fortunate again to have been awarded a grant. World ParaVolley has previously received funds from the...
World ParaVolley has launched a survey to request valuable feedback from athletes, coaches, and team medical personnel that attended classification at any of the 2019 Sitting Volleyball Zonal Championships. The purpose of the survey is to gain insight into the classification process, and not the sport class rules per se. ...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published the 2020 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods (List); the 2020 Summary of Major Modifications and Explanatory Notes; and the 2020 Monitoring Program. The List, which was approved by WADA’s Executive Committee (ExCo) on 23 September 2019, comes into force on 1 January 2020. The...
Welcome to the landing page for the 2019 Parapan Am Games sitting volleyball competition in Lima Peru! Here you will find the links to schedule and results from the Lima 2019 webpage, and match reports from the ParaVolley Pan America webpage. Click HERE to view the match schedule on the...
The World ParaVolley Board is openly inviting Expressions of Interest (EOIs) from the World ParaVolley community to take up the position of Commission Chair for the Athlete Health & Medical Commission. There is no formal application form and we are expecting applicants to write about a single page indicating their...
Indian state teams will clash once again at the 8th Sitting Volleyball Senior National Championships slated 27-28 July in Chennai. Participants will battle it out for the right to represent India in the 2020 International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand. The Paralympic Volleyball Federation of...
My name is Nadia Harushimina. I worked as a social assistant in one NGO called Mulindi Japan One Love Project. The NGO used to supply equipment for people with disabilities. My job was to assess people with disabilities who were coming for help. I had to assess them and see...
