The state-of-the-art Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra will be hosting a camp and tournament from September 16 to 20. The first two days will be a camp where all athletes and coaches can train together – an opportunity to exchange ideas to further develop the discipline of beach paravolley...
In accordance with World Anti-Doping Code (Code) Article 5.6.1, which concerns retired athletes returning to competition, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published the following documents on its website (https://www.wada-ama.org/en/resources/world-anti-doping-program/code-article-561-exemption-application-procedure-and-guidelines): Exemption Application Guidelines for determining whether an exemption is warranted; An Exemption Application Procedure, which aims to provide guidance to...
Sitting volleyball was among the Paralympic sports that event participants tried out during the Olympic Day celebrations on June 26 at the area around Stade de France in Seine-Saint-Denis in Paris. The area was transformed into an open-air playground, where participants got to explore three Paralympic sports and 30 Olympic...
World ParaVolley has announced the teams that are officially invited to participate in the 2022 Sitting Volleyball World Championships to be held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 4 to 11 November 2022. This system completely replaces the original invitations and slot allocation that was based on the event occurring planned...
World ParaVolley has put together the “World ParaVolley Presents…” webinar series to offer presentations that are of interest to our membership and others. We reached out to all our stakeholders to collect suggestions on possible webinar topics and potential speakers and are pleased to announce that we will be presenting...
The International Volleyball Hall of Fame has announced that World ParaVolley’s founding father, Pieter Joon (NED) is to be inducted into the IVHF Class of 2022 in October of this year. At a special online ceremony, the IVHF’s Executive Director, George Mulry delivered the good news in front of the...
World ParaVolley is pleased to announce that the Board of Directors has approved the appointment of Toomas Murulo as team leader of the WPV Sitting Volleyball Rules of the Game Commission. Toomas started with WPV in 1997 as a sitting and standing volleyball referee. He was nominated as referee at...
Beach paravolley was featured in the AeQuilibrium Beach Volley Marathon, part of the first Italian beach volleyball tournament that will have athletes at all levels, with or without a disability, competing together in the Northern Italian town of Bibione on May 13 to 15. Dubbed as a tournament with no boundaries,...
Dr. Stephen Giugni OAM will continue his work with World ParaVolley to serve for a second term as assistant sport director of beach paravolley. Giugni has almost 25 years of service to paravolley with his first event in 1998 when he was involved in the planning for the Sydney 2000...
WPV Honorary Life Member and multi-medalled coach Hadi Rezaei will be back at the helm of the Iranian men’s sitting volleyball team after inspiring Iran to its seventh Paralympic Games gold medal. The Iranian federation brought back Rezaei, who had left as national team coach less than a year ago...
