Two sitting volleyball team events were held at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, one for men and one for women. They were held at the Makuhari Messe in Tokyo, Japan.
The Tokyo Games were the fifth time the women's sitting volleyball event was contested. It was also the fifth Summer Paralympic Games without standing volleyball events, which had been included from the introduction of volleyball in 1976 through 2000.
The 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They kept the 2020 name and were held from 24 August to 5 September 2021.
Qualification There were 16 teams (eight male, eight female) that competed in the competition.
During the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, the USA women won the event for the first time beating China in the final. Both of these teams qualified again to be joined by six other national teams.
Men
Means of qualification Date Venue Berths Qualified Host Country Allocation 1 2018 World ParaVolley Championships 15–22 July 2018 The Hague 2 2019 ParaVolley Asia Oceania Zonal Championships 10–15 June 2019 Bangkok 1 2019 ParaVolley Europe Zonal Championships – Men 15–20 July 2019 Budapest 1 2019 Parapan American Games 23–28 August 2019 Lima 1 2019 ParaVolley Africa Zonal Championships 19–22 September 2019 Kigali 1 2020 World ParaVolley Final Paralympic Qualification Event 1–5 June 2021 Duisburg 1 Total 8
Women
Means of qualification Date Venue Berths Qualified Host Country Allocation 1 2018 World ParaVolley Championships 15 – 21 July 2018 The Hague 2 2019 ParaVolley Asia Oceania Zonal Championships 10–15 June 2019 Bangkok 1 2019 ParaVolley Europe Zonal Championships – Women 15–20 July 2019 Budapest 1 2019 Parapan American Games 23–28 August 2019 Lima 1 2019 ParaVolley Africa Zonal Championships 15–17 September 2019 Kigali 1 2020 World ParaVolley Final Paralympic Qualification Event 25–29 February 2020 Halifax 1 Total 8
Medalists Men's teamMeysam AlipourDavoud AlipourianMahdi BabadiSadegh BigdeliHossein GolestaniMohammad Hossein HosseiniMajid Lashkari SanamiMehrzad MehravanMorteza MehrzadMohammad NematiMorteza Ramezani GerakoeiRamezan Salehi HajikolaeiAleksandr BaichikAnatolii KrupinAndrei LavrinovichViktor MileninVladimir PankratovSergei PozdeevAleksandr ReznichenkoAleksandr SavichevDenis ShestakovAleksei VolkovEvgenii VolosnikovIlnar ZinnatullinSafet AlibašićJasmin BrkićNizam ČančarStevan CrnobrnjaSabahudin DelalićMirzet DuranIsmet GodinjakDževad HamzićErmin JusufovićAdnan MankoAsim MedićWomen's teamWhitney DostyHeather EricksonAnnie FloodKathryn HollowayKaleo Kanahele MaclayMonique MatthewsNichole MillageEmma SchieckAlexis ShifflettLora WebsterJillian WilliamsBethany ZummoGao WenwenGong BinHu HuiziLyu HongqinQiu JunfeiTang XuemeiWang LiWang YananXu YixiaoZhang LijunZhang XufeiZhao MeilingGizele Maria DiasNurya SilvaNathalie SilvaEdwarda DiasAna Luísa AparecidaJani FreitasLuiza Guisso FioreseAdria SilvaCamila LeiriaBruna Nascimento LimaPâmela PereiraLaiana Rodrigues
See also Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics
References
External links Results book