By Emily GoddardDefending champions Brazil today secured their second win of the Volleyball World Championship

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By Zjan ShirinianThe public vote for the Best Male Athlete of August has been opened by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

2014: German long jump champion Rehm named IPC Athlete of the Month for JulyJuly 2014: Bosnian sitting volleyball

By Zjan ShirinianIran stunned the United States in five thrilling sets of volleyball to win their second

the US handed their opponents a 17-15 win.The victory means Iran have won their first two games at a Volleyball

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underway with win over Canada August 2014: Three-time champions Italy beaten by Iran on second day of Volleyball

World ChampionshipsAugust 2014: Poland's World Championship opening win signals "new era" in volleyball

By Zjan ShirinianIranian officials have visited a preparation camp in the country as athletes gear up for next month's Asian Para Games in Incheon, and called for more to be done to help disabled people into sport.

National Paralympic Committee chiefs welcomed the pair as they met athletes at the camp for sitting volleyball

By Emily GoddardOlympic champions Russia got their Volleyball Men's World Championship campaign underway

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By Spencer BrownThe fixture list for the team sports at next week's inaugural Invictus Games has been released.

scheduled to get underway at the same venue, and again the Copper Box Arena plays host to the sitting volleyball

wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball competition will be split across three sessions, with sitting volleyball

By Gary AndersonIran caused the biggest shock on the second day of the International Volleyball Federation

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70,000 in Poland's national football stadium here tonight to witness the opening match of the 2014 World Volleyball

lengthy, glitzy, pumped-up Opening Ceremony – an experience that the President of the International Volleyball

open-roofed - at least, for the first half of the night - stadium, the FIVB nodded to the last time a big volleyball

For sure, volleyball today is completely different.

It is a new era in volleyball."

Komorowski (centre) and FIVB President Dr Ary Graça (left) oversee the Opening Ceremony of the World Volleyball

Graça was also happy to announce the existence in the VIP section of the Stadium of a prototype of a volleyball

By Gary AndersonHungarian Olympic Committee (MOB) President Zsolt Borkai, who is also Mayor of Győr, admitted there is still work to be done before the city hosts the 2017 Summer European Youth Olympic Festival. 

which is scheduled to host the athletics, judo, gymnastics, swimming and tennis events.Basketball and volleyball

By Nick ButlerA second edition of the Epics Forum, a collaboration between the United Nations and the Organising Committee for the Gwangju 2015 Summer Universiade, has taken place in the South Korean city. 

other sports development leaders, with six players and a coach from Korean Air Jumbos, a professional volleyball

Games that I have not been able to see more live sport, but I have still had a good fill, with beach volleyball

By Nick Butler at the Main Media Centre in NanjingPeru won the final gold medal of the Summer Youth Olympic Games here this evening with a 2-1 victory over South Korea in the boys' football competition, while Azerbaijan and Russia were other countries to enjoy strong final days.

team gold following individual success for Irina Annenkova.There was more Russian success in beach volleyball

The Russian pairing have stormed into a one set lead in the beach volleyball as they secured the opener

We've got the men's beach volleyball final between Venezuela's Rolando Hernandez and Jose Gregorio Gomez

and canoe-kayak slalom.In the beach volleyball, the Russian pairing of Oleg Stoyanovskiy and Artem Iarzutkin

Here's what the International Volleyball Federation had to say on a truly outstanding women's final..

For the Ana Patricia, the tallest women's Beach Volleyball player in the Youth Olympic Games at 193 cm

By Nick Butler at the Main Media Centre in NanjingKristupas Zemaitis scored a jump-shot with less than a second left in overtime to secure a last ditch, and utterly thrilling, victory for Lithuania over France in the boys' 3x3 basketball final at the Summer Youth Olympic Games here tonight. 

the 10 metre platform title to his earlier 3m springboard one.Another day 10 highlight came in beach volleyball

down to beat Canadian twins Nicola and Megan McNamara, 17-21, 21-13, 21-14.Brazil celebrate in beach volleyball

More finals in beach volleyball, hockey 5s and football.

hockey felt like a fierce battleground where two teams were locked in a duel to the death, the beach volleyball

"- Reporter Paul Osborne at the beach volleyball21:40 Beach volleyball gold...goes to Brazil.

are heading for victory in the 3x3 opener...20:10 The bronze medal match is about to begin in beach volleyball

Lisboa has now won 17 consecutive matches, including the gold medal at the FIVB Beach Volleyball U19