Volleyball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Volleyball at the XIII Paralympic Games
Paralympic Volleyball
Venue	China Agricultural University Gymnasium
Dates	7–15 September 2008
Medalists
Iran (IRI) (men)  China (CHN) (women)  Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) (men)  United States (USA) (women)  Russia (RUS) (men)  Netherlands (NED)

Sitting volleyball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was held in the China Agricultural University Gymnasium from 7 September to 15 September. Two events were contested, men's team and women's team.

In the men's sitting event, Bosnia and Herzegovina were the defending champions. Bosnia and Herzegovina and Iran had been the finalists in both 2000 and 2004, with Iran winning in 2000 and Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2004. These two countries met once more in the final in Beijing, with Iran emerging victorious by 3 goals to nil. Egypt, the bronze medal-winners of 2008, finished fourth, beaten 2:3 by Russia, who took bronze.^[1][2]

The Beijing Games marked the second time the women's sitting event was held. China were the defending champions, while the Netherlands had taken silver, and the United States bronze, in 2004. In Beijing, China was again victorious, while the United States and the Netherlands switched places to ascend the podium with silver and bronze, respectively.^[3]

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	Iran (IRI) Davoud Alipourian Sadegh Bigdeli Saeid Ebrahimi Jalil Imeri (captain) Mehdi Hamidzadeh Nasser Hassanpour Mohammad Hosseinifar Mohammad Khaleghi Reza Peidayesh Mohammad Reza Rahimi Ramezan Salehi (libero) Issa Zirahi Coach: Hadi Rezaeigarkani	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) Safet Alibašić Sabahudin Delalić (captain) Mirzet Duran Esad Durmišević Ismet Godinjak Dževad Hamzić Ermin Jusufović Hidaet Jusufović (libero) Zikret Mahmić Adnan Manko Asim Medić Ejub Mehmedović Coach: Mirza Hrustemović	Russia (RUS) Alexander Baychik Tanatkan Bukin Dmitriy Gordiyenko Evgeny Kuzovnikov Andrey Lavrinovich Viktor Milenin Sergey Uporov Sergey Pozdeev Alexander Savichev Maksim Timchenko Aleksei Volkov (libero) Sergey Yakunin (captain) Coach: Victor D'Yakov
Women's team	China (CHN) Li Liping Liang Fen Liu Lijuan Lu Chunli Lu Hongqin (captain) Sheng Yuhong Tan Yanhua Yang Yanling Zhang Lijun Zhang Xufei Zheng Xiongying (libero) Zhong Haihong Coach: Zhang Jun	United States (USA) Allison Aldrich Heather Erickson Alexandra Gouldie Kathryn Holloway SuGui Kriss Kendra Lancaster Hope Lewellen Brenda Maymon (captain) Gina McWilliams Nichole Millage Kari Miller (libero) Lora Webster Coach: Michael Hulett	Netherlands (NED) Sanne Bakker (libero) Karin van der Haar-Kramp Karin Harmsen-Roosen Paula List Djoke van Marum Elvira Stinissen Josien Ten Thije-Voortman Rika de Vries Petra Westerhof (captain) Coach: John Bestebroer

Classification

Classification is an important work for Paralympic athletes, after the classification, athletes can compete in a fair situation.^[4]
Athletes meeting the disability requirement can take part in this sport, but only 2 minimum requirements player can be on the team, and only 1 of them can be on the court.

Qualification

There will be 16 teams, 8 male and 8 female taking part in this sport.

Men's

• Qualified by 2006 World Sitting Volleyball Championships
  •  Bosnia and Herzegovina
  •  Iran
  •  Egypt
• Qualified by sitting volleyball event in 2006 Pan-Arab Games
  •  Iraq
• Qualified by sitting volleyball event in 2006 FESPIC Games
  •  Japan
• Qualified by sitting volleyball event in Para-pan American Games
  •  Brazil
• Qualified by European Sitting Volleyball Championships
  •  Russia
• Qualified as host nation
  •  China

Group A

Team	P	W	L	Sets	Points
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	3	3	0	9:1	6
Russia (RUS)	3	2	1	7:3	4
China (CHN)	3	1	2	3:6	2
Iraq (IRQ)	3	0	3	0:9	0

2008-09-07 15:30	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	3 – 0	China (CHN)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 1,800 Referee(s): Khaled Nasr Eld Elhelaly (Egypt)
	25 25 25	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	14 22 17

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2008-09-08 11:50	Russia (RUS)	3 – 0	China (CHN)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 2,000 Referee(s): France Marcoux (Canada)
	25 25 25	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	22 22 23

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2008-09-08 19:30	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	3 – 0	Iraq (IRQ)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 500 Referee(s): Jung Mal Soon (Korea)
	25 25 25	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	6 14 16

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2008-09-09 15:30	Iraq (IRQ)	0 – 3	Russia (RUS)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 1,300 Referee(s): Joseph Campbell (United States)
	13 8 15	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	25 25 25

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2008-09-10 11:30	Russia (RUS)	1 – 3	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 400 Referee(s): Janko Plesnik (Slovenia)
	21 22 25 16	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4	25 25 18 25

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2008-09-10 19:30	Iraq (IRQ)	0 – 3	China (CHN)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 4,000 Referee(s): Ronaldo Tadeu Chaves (Brazil)
	9 17 12	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	25 25 25

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Group B

Team	P	W	L	Sets	Points
Iran (IRI)	3	3	0	9:0	6
Egypt (EGY)	3	2	1	6:3	4
Brazil (BRA)	3	1	2	3:6	2
Japan (JPN)	3	0	3	0:9	0

2008-09-07 11:30	Iran (IRI)	3 – 0	Japan (JPN)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 1,350 Referee(s): Matijn Meulenkamp (Netherlands)
	25 25 25	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	7 7 5

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2008-09-07 19:30	Egypt (EGY)	3 – 0	Brazil (BRA)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 1,000 Referee(s): Anton Probst (Germany)
	25 25 25	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	8 14 17

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2008-09-08 15:30	Iran (IRI)	3 – 0	Brazil (BRA)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 1,000 Referee(s): Viktor Feldshteyn (Ukraine)
	25 25 25	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	9 11 8

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2008-09-09 11:35	Iran (IRI)	3 – 0	Egypt (EGY)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 1,800 Referee(s): Khalid Salem Shanishah (Libya)
	27 25 25	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	25 12 18

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2008-09-09 19:30	Brazil (BRA)	3 – 0	Japan (JPN)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 1,000 Referee(s): An Qi (China)
	25 25 25	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	20 17 10

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2008-09-10 15:30	Egypt (EGY)	3 – 0	Japan (JPN)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 600 Referee(s): Xia Xin (China)
	25 25 25	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	8 11 15

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Final Round

	Semifinals
	A1	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3
	B2	Egypt	0			Gold medal game
						A1	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0
	Semifinals				B1	Iran	3
	B1	Iran	3
	A2	Russia	0			Bronze medal game
						B2	Egypt	2
						A2	Russia	3

Semifinals

2008-09-12 12:30	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	3 – 0	Egypt (EGY)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 400 Referee(s): Anton Probst (Germany)
	25 25 25	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	18 21 20

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2008-09-12 18:00	Iran (IRI)	3 – 0	Russia (RUS)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 2,000 Referee(s): Gabor Karadi (Hungary)
	25 25 25	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	22 13 20

Bronze medal match

2008-09-15 16:00	Egypt (EGY)	2 – 3	Russia (RUS)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 2,400 Referee(s): Martijn Meulenkamp (Netherlands)
	25 16 25 20 9	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5	22 25 19 25 15

Gold medal match

2008-09-15 18:30	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	0 – 3	Iran (IRI)	China Agricultural University Gymnasium Attendance: 2,000 Referee(s): Viktor Feldshteyn (Ukraine)
	22 18 22	Set 1 Set 2 Set 3	25 25 25

5-8 Classification

	5-8Semifinals
	A3	China	3
	B4	Japan	0			5-6 game
						A3	China	3
	5-8Semifinals				B3	Brazil	1
	B3	Brazil	3
	A4	Iraq	1			7-8 game
						B4	Japan	0
						A4	Iraq	3

References

1. Men's Volleyball at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
2. Men's Sitting Volleyball at the 2008 Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
3. Women's Volleyball at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
4. Ng, Kwok (2012). When Sitting is Not Resting: Sitting Volleyball. Bloomington, IL: Authorhouse. p. 152. ISBN 978-1-4772-1789-4.

• "Schedules and Results - Sitting Volleyball". The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Retrieved 2008-09-24.

External links

• Official Site of the 2008 Summer Paralympics