Dr Cheri Blauwet has been awarded the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) International Women's Day Recognition award.

Sitting volleyball pioneer Irene Chang, Italian Paralympic Committee Executive Board member Paola Fantanto

Tokyo hosting the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games will generate more than ¥32 trillion (£232 billion/$283 billion/€268 billion) in economic benefits across Japan, the Metropolitan Government has claimed.

initial estimate.Last year, a taskforce commissioned by Koike recommended switching rowing, swimming and volleyball

All renovation and development work on the infrastructure needed for the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang will be completed by the end of October, it has been claimed.

year.Competitions in archery, athletics, badminton, basketball, boxing, football, pencak silat, taekwondo, volleyball

both the men’s and women’s competitions have made it through to the semi-finals of the International Volleyball

Australia is set to host its first International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Beach World Tour for nine

round.Nishibori has been a highly ranked play on the Asian Tour for several years while Wada has lots of indoor volleyball

Tokyo's Metropolitan Government is planning to install gender-neutral bathrooms in the venues it is constructing for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

seven of the 11 venues that are being built.However large facilities, including the Ariake Arena where volleyball

The Olympic Channel has signed deals with the governing bodies of six non-Olympic sports.

Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the International Handball Federation (IHF), the International Volleyball

Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC) Board member Shaikha Hayat bint Abdulaziz Al Khalifa believes the country's participation in the upcoming Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Women's Games will further boost sporting development in the nation.

basketball, bowling, chess, equestrian, fencing, handball, shooting, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, volleyball

Power has been restored to the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro after the stadium's managers paid an overdue electricity bill of R$1.3 million (£338,000/$424,000/€400,000).

has hosted just one event since the end of the Rio 2016 Paralympics on September 18 - a one-day beach volleyball

Nanjing in China will host this year's International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) World Grand Prix Finals

Goalkeeper Jackson Follmann, one of only six survivors of the Chapecoense plane crash in November, has visited the Brazilian Paralympic Centre in São Paulo.

which killed 71 people, spent the day at the new facility to try Para-sport.Follmann played sitting volleyball

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has renewed concerns that the budget for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games could balloon to ¥3 trillion (£21.3 billion/$26.5 billion/€25.2 billion) and urged organisers to ensure it does not spiral out of control.

initial estimate.Last year, a taskforce commissioned by Koike recommended switching rowing, swimming and volleyball

Aquatics Stadium and Sea Forest course respectively.Koike also decided to use the Ariake Arena for volleyball

Russia’s Nikita Liamin and Viacheslav Krasilnikov clinched their first-ever International Volleyball

three-star competition was for male players only.A law restricting female access was introduced at volleyball

 will take on Poland's Piotr Kantor and Bartosz Losiak in the semi-finals of the International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach Volleyball World Tour event on Iran's Kish Island after both teams won their

conclude with the semi-finals and final tomorrow.A law restricting female access was introduced at volleyball

Qatar's Cherif Younousse made a successful start to the defence of his title at the 2017 International Volleyball

Federation (FIVB) Beach Volleyball World Tour event on Iran's Kish Island today.