The Head coach of the Russian national sitting volleyball team Viktor Dyakov passed away on 10th September 2016 after long illness. Viktor Dyakov was the founder of the team “Rodnik” (Ekaterinburg) which won the national championship more than ten times. The team “Rodnik” (Ekaterinburg) is the base club for the Russian national team and under Viktor’s leadership, the team won bronze …

The IPC has set up a dedicated sitting volleyball live stream here:  https://www.paralympic.org/rio-2016/watch-sitting-volleyball However, the stream will only be broadcasting LIVE starting on September 15th for the final rounds of matches.  For the preliminaries, there will be a sitting volleyball report included in the overall daily summary video report of all sports, available each day on the IPC website home page …

As you might already be aware, the competition schedule for the 2016 Rio2016 Paralympic Games sitting volleyball competition has been released. Click on the link to get the Match Schedule (as at August 25th, 2016) with the European teams game dates and times highlighted. You will also find below some infographics: Qualification paths and the pools for both the men’s …

The Nerulum Cup which took place in Rotonda City (ITA) between 27th and 31st July saw the National Men’s teams of Egypt, Georgia and Italy meet in a series of friendly games. The result of the Matches played on the Vittorio Emanuela Square of Rotonda City were the following: 28/07 EGYPT/GEORGIA 3-0 (25/13-25/10-25/11) – Referees: Di Scipio – Barone – Galiuti ITALY/GEORGIA 1-3 (14/25-19/25-25/21-18/25) – Referees: Battisti-Discipio-Galiuti 29/07 …

ParaVolley Europe is excited to announce that expressions of interest have been received from two National Federation to organise the next European Championship which will take place in 2017. The two applicants are: Croatian Paralympic Committee (CPC) for both gender proposed location: Porec (CRO) proposed dates: between end September and early November   Italian Volleyball Federation (FIPAV) for Women only …

Two weeks ago, the 23rd International 3CT Beachvolleyball Tournament took place in Zoutelande (NL) and included a 4×4 para beachvolleyball tournament. 6 mixed teams, all from Holland and who usually play in the Dutch indoor competition moved onto the beach to show their skills. The tournament was played following the international rules with the exception of the number of players …

The Nerulum Cup 2016 will take place between 27th and 30th July in Rotonda (Pz) – Italy. The tournament will include three Sitting Volleyball National Men’s teams Italy Georgia Egypt The Italian Sitting Volleyball Women’s team will be a guest for this event, making the most of the facilities to have several training sessions. The full programme can be found …

In a bid to facilitate the organisation of events and advertise the sport to as wide an audience as possible, ParaVolley Europe has reviewed the way tournaments should be registered. The aim is to have a full list of ParaVolley events happening in all the disciplines in order to provide better support from an advertising and awareness point of view …

The National Sitting Volleyball team of China came to Italy between 27th and 30th June in order to share some training sessions and exhibition games with their Italian counterparts. On Tuesday 28th June, after a 3 hour morning training session, the first of two official matches between the two Sitting Volleyball Women Teams took place in the city center of Terni …

On the next-to-last day of the 2014-2016 CEV Beach Volleyball Continental Cup Final in Stavanger, a Sitting Beach Volleyball tournament was organised with participation of five teams accounting for 25 players. It was only the third time such kind of competition was held in Norway’s Beach Volleyball capital after a similar event ran in conjunction with the 2009 FIVB Beach …