Volleyball at the Summer Paralympics
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Governing body | WOVD | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Events | 2 (men: 1; women: 1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Paralympic volleyball was first competed at the Summer Paralympic Games in 1976. That first year, the traditional standing form of volleyball was contested. Sitting volleyball was later introduced as a full Paralympic event in 1980. The 2000 was the last time standing volleyball appeared on the Paralympic programme. The women's sitting volleyball event was also introduced in the 2004.[1]
Medal summary
Sitting
Men's sitting volleyball medal winning for every Summer Games as follows:
Sitting
Men's sitting volleyball medal winning for every Summer Games as follows:
Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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2004 | China | Netherlands | United States |
2008 | China | United States | Netherlands |
2012 | China | United States | Ukraine |
2016 | United States | China | Brazil |
Medals ranking
Both men's and women's sitting and standing volleyball medal results counted where applicable.
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Iran | 6 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
2 | Germany | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
3 | Israel | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
China | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
5 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
6 | Netherlands | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
7 | United States | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
8 | Poland | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
9 | Norway | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Russia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Slovakia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
12 | Canada | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Great Britain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
14 | Finland | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
15 | Egypt | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
France | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
17 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Brazil | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
References
- ↑ Ng, Kwok (2012). When Sitting is Not Resting: Sitting Volleyball. Bloomington, IL: Authorhouse. p. 152. ISBN 978-1-4772-1789-4.
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