The 2016 Summer Paralympics, the 15th Summer Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016. The Games marked the first time a Latin American and South American city hosted the event, the second Southern Hemisphere city and nation, the first one being the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, and also the first time a Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) country hosted the event. These Games saw the introduction of two new sports to the Paralympic program: canoeing and the paratriathlon.
Sabahudin Delalić is a sitting volleyball player from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is the current captain of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team – ASOBiH. He has won four medals at Summer Paralympics. At the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, he won gold medal as well as at the 2012 London Games. Also, he won silver medals at 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney and at 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, where he was also bearer of national flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Volleyball at the 2012 Summer Paralympics was held from 30 August to 8 September at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre in London. Two sitting volleyball team events were held, one for men and one for women.
Iran competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom, from 29 August to 9 September 2012.
This article shows the rosters of all participating teams at the men's volleyball tournament at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.
Iran competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Since the nation's debut in 1948, Iranian athletes had attended in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, with the exception of the 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics.
Hadi Rezaeigarkani is an Iranian sitting volleyball coach, and former player with world and Paralympic medals, the most proud sitting volleyball coach in the world, currently as the head coach of Iran's men's sitting volleyball team. He was born in Mashhad, Iran.
The Bosnia and Herzegovina men's national sitting volleyball team represents Bosnia and Herzegovina in international sitting volleyball competitions and friendly matches. Bosnia is one of the dominant forces in sitting volleyball worldwide, alongside Iran. The team won a bronze medal, during ECVD European Championships in 1997 in Tallinn. It took nearly two decades later for the nation to win a medal outside the sport of sitting volleyball when Amel Tuka won bronze during 2015 World Championships in Athletics.
Iran competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016.
China has qualified to send athletes to the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016. Sports China competed in include blind football, archery, boccia, cycling, goalball, judo, paracanoeing, sitting volleyball and wheelchair basketball.
Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics was held from 9 September to 18 September at the Riocentro Pavilion 6 in Rio de Janeiro. Two sitting volleyball team events were held, one for men and one for women.
Nizam Čančar is a Bosnian male Paralympic sitting volleyball player. He is part of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team. He competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics winning the gold medal. On club level he played for Oki Fantomi in 2012.
Morteza Mehrzadselakjani is an Iranian volleyball player who plays in the national sitting volleyball team of and Baran Kerman. With a height of 247 cm, he is known as the tallest living man in Iran and Middle East and the second tallest living man in the world. He was able to win two gold medals at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and 2020 Summer Paralympics, two times champion title of World Para Volleyball Championship three times gold medalist of Asian Games with Iran men's national sitting volleyball team and also he won the Golden Ball for the best player in the world in 2019,2021 and 2022.
Bahman Golbarnezhad was an Iranian Paralympic racing cyclist competing in C4 classification events and an earlier powerlifter. During his powerlifting career, he won twelve gold medals and one silver medal in international competitions. Golbarnezhad had represented Iran in two Summer Paralympic Games, first in 2012 in London and later in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. He was the only Iranian cyclist at the 2016 Paralympics. He was a veteran of the Iran–Iraq war.
World Para Volleyball Championship, was played first time at 1983.
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.
Iran competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021. This was their ninth consecutive appearance at the Summer Paralympics since 1988.
Bosnia and Herzegovina competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021. This was their seventh consecutive appearance at the Summer Paralympics since 1996.
Iran is scheduled to compete at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France, from 24 August to 5 September 2024 . This was their ninth consecutive appearance at the Summer Paralympics since 1988.
The 2022 Sitting Volleyball World Championships – Men's event was the 13th edition of this tournament. For the first time, the competition was held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The winners secure a ticket to the 2024 Summer Paralympics. Iran were the defending champions and successfully defended their title triumphing over Bosnia and Herzegovina in straight sets.
Hadi Rezaei 
(1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2008, 2016, 2020 )
