Sitting volleyball is a form of volleyball for athletes with a disability. As opposed to standing volleyball, sitting volleyball players must sit on the floor to play.
The Great Britain women's national volleyball team is the team representing Great Britain in volleyball competitions. The Great Britain Volleyball programme team was resumed in 2006 following an agreement of the FIVB to permit the national teams of Scotland, Northern Ireland and England to compete together for the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics. After losing 0–3 to Russia, they got their first Olympic victory, beating Algeria 3–2, a team ranked 53 places above them.
Martine Wiltshire, MBE is a British sitting volleyball player.
James Roberts MBE is a wheelchair basketball player and Paralympic athlete based in Prestatyn, Denbighshire, Wales. Roberts was born with a disability called femoral dysplasia. He started out in his sporting career as a swimmer, and progressed on to other Paralympic sports, such as rowing and sitting volleyball. He competed for Great Britain at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, finishing fifth in the trunk and arm classification in adaptive rowing. He also competed for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, finishing 8th in the sitting volleyball. More recently he has begun playing wheelchair basketball for local side Rhyl Raptors.
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.
Andrea Green is a British female Paralympic sitting volleyball player. She is part of the Great Britain women's national sitting volleyball team.
Emma Clare Wiggs, is a British paracanoeist and former sitting volleyball player, who competes in the KL2 classification of paracanoe. She won gold at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the KL2 category, gold and silver at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in VL2 and KL2 categories, and is also a nine-time world champion. As a volleyball player she was part of the Great Britain team that competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.
Amy Brierly is a British female Paralympic sitting volleyball player. She is part of the Great Britain women's national sitting volleyball team.
Claire Harvey is a British Paralympic sportsperson. She began as a sitting volleyball player, before switching to track and field athletics where she competes in F55 classification throwing events.
Rika de Vries is a Dutch female Paralympic sitting volleyball player. She is part of the Netherlands women's national sitting volleyball team.
Paula List is a Dutch female Paralympic sitting volleyball player. She is part of the Netherlands women's national sitting volleyball team.
Anzhelika Churkina is a Ukrainian Paralympic sitting volleyball player. She is part of the Ukraine women's national sitting volleyball team.
Adria Jesus da Silva is a Brazilian Paralympic sitting volleyball player. She is part of the Brazil women's national sitting volleyball team.
Ana Paula Alves is a Brazilian female Paralympic sitting volleyball player. She is part of the Brazil women's national sitting volleyball team.
Li Liping is a Chinese female Paralympic sitting volleyball player. She is part of the China women's national sitting volleyball team.
Bogomira Jakin is a Slovenian Paralympic sitting volleyball player. She is part of the Slovenia women's national sitting volleyball team.
Alenka Irsic is a Slovenian Paralympic sitting volleyball player. She is part of the Slovenia women's national sitting volleyball team.
Morteza Mehrzadselakjani is an Iranian volleyball player who plays in the national sitting volleyball team of and Mes Shahr Babak. With a height of 247 cm, he is known as the tallest living man in Iran and the second tallest living man in the world. He was able to win two gold medals and the Golden Ball for the best player in the world in 2022 at the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.
Galyna Kuznetsova is a Ukrainian Paralympic sitting volleyball player.
Danica Gošnak is a Slovenian female Paralympic sitting volleyball player.
