The three top-seeded pairings were knocked out as the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) World

Britain's newly-crowned boccia world champion Stephen McGuire has been named the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athlete of the Month for March.

McGuire received a majority of the public vote with Heather Erickson, the United States’ sitting volleyball

Championships in Montichiari  in Italy, was third.Heather Erickson, centre, the United States' sitting volleyball

The Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC) has called on four nationalFederations to submit updates on the inauguration of their girls’ training centres.

Basketball, handball, table tennis and volleyball have also been requested to inform the BOC of their

Leading international relations and communications consultancy JTA are to set up an office in Los Angeles to help the British company to service its account to provide help for the city's bid to host the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics.

Movement, including Discovery Communications, Manchester United, Generations For Peace, the International Volleyball

Canada’s Chaim Schalk and Ben Saxton claimed their third straight victory at the International Volleyball

Budapest 2024 officially got their Olympic and Paralympic bid underway here today with a ceremony followed by the unveiling of what organisers claim is a unique and innovative logo.

with the bid launch, with sporting demonstrations in basketball, fencing, table tennis, beach volleyball

Kujawiak caused a shock in the men's competition as the main draw got underway at the International Volleyball

upset Spain’s Alfredo Marco and Christian Garcia to reach the men’s main draw at the International Volleyball

World champion gymnast Eleftherios Petrounias of Greece has been chosen as the first Torchbearer for the Relay ahead of this year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. 

Torch Relay ©Getty ImagesPetrounias will hand the flame to two-time Olympic champion and four-time volleyball

won the second of his Olympic gold medals at Athens 2004 and he will also be the second Brazilian volleyball

The National Olympic Committee of Cambodia (NOCC) has agreed that 14 sports will be contested at the country's inaugural National Games.

, swimming, badminton, basketball, boxing, football, wrestling, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis and volleyball

A conference has been held in Taiwan’s capital Taipei to mark 500-days-to-go until the city hosts the 2017 Summer Universiade.

sports, including swimming, diving, basketball, fencing, football, judo, table tennis, tennis and volleyball

Italy’s Alex Ranghieri and Adrian Carambula claimed their first International Volleyball Federation

was the second and last tournament for men only on this year’s portion of the 2015-2016 FIVB Beach Volleyball

A 110-strong British team for the 2016 Invictus Games in Orlando has been unveiled at Buckingham Palace in London.

wheelchair basketball, road cycling, powerlifting, indoor rowing, wheelchair rugby, swimming, sitting volleyball

Germany's Markus Bockermann and Lars Fluggen remain on course for a successful International Volleyball

Three-time Olympic volleyball champion Mireya Luis Hernandez has been put forward as one of five candidates

for the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Board of Administration in the minority gender election

Board during their two-day meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland.The 49-year-old is currently the beach volleyball

director of the Cuban Volleyball Federation and an International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athlete Commission

member.Bouchra Hajij and Judith Rodriguez, Presidents of the Moroccan and Venezuela Volleyball Federations

forward as candidates.Indonesia’s Rita Subowo, a current FIVB executive vice-president, and Scotland Volleyball

Elwani have also been included, along with Asian Volleyball Confederation President Saleh Ahmad Bin