Iran were crowned men’s sitting volleyball champions for the seventh time after overcoming the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games final.

The Iranian men's and American women's sitting volleyball teams will have to wait until Saturday (August 28) to begin Paralympic title defences, although both tournaments begin tomorrow at the Makuhari Messe.

Japan's women are set to open the sitting volleyball tournament at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games when they take on Italy after organisers published the full schedule for the event.

A logo for this year's European Sitting Volleyball Championships in Turkey has been released, coinciding with the drawing of pools.

Egypt's capital Cairo is set to host a Sitting Volleyball World Cup in December to round off the season and a variety of sporting events held in the city in 2021.

Poland claimed gold in the men's standing final at the Beach ParaVolley Slovenian Open in Ljubljana, winning 21-17, 21-9 against Italy.

Final line-ups have been set at the Beach ParaVolley Slovenian Open in capital Ljubljana.

It was a good first day for Slovakia and Poland in the men’s standing competition and Latvia in the men’s sitting competition as the Beach ParaVolley Slovenian Open began in Ljubljana.

American sitting volleyball player Lora Webster has announced that she will compete at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics while pregnant with her fourth child.

The three-day Beach ParaVolley Slovenian Open begins tomorrow (July 27), with men’s and women’s sitting and men’s standing competitions being held.

Canada's sitting volleyball squad for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics has been confirmed, with members of the Parapan American Games squad in 2019 returning to the fold.

Nine players from the women’s sitting volleyball team that secured the Paralympic gold medal for the United States at Rio 2016 have been selected in the 12-strong squad for next month’s Games here.

World ParaVolley has launched an online learning system aimed at increasing knowledge about the sport and allowing more access to technical education.

World ParaVolley President Barry Couzner has said "we owe a great debt" to the National Paralympic Committee (NPC) Germany after staging the final men’s sitting volleyball qualifier for the rearranged Paralympic Games in Tokyo.