On November 14 and 15, 2009, amputee swimmers and swimmers with other disabilities were in Wuppertal for this year's German Short Course Swimming Championships. The competition was organized in the swimming complex of Wuppertal's SSLZ sports center and athletes from all over Germany took part in the event. Please visit our TALBRONSTEIN.NET site to find out more and view 56 photographs. - CLICK HERE.
On November 7, 2009, sitting volleyball players met in Berlin for the last tournament of the 2009 WE4SPORTS series. Organized by the we4sports club, 6 teams from all over Germany had been competing over the year in Magdeburg and Berlin with the aim to give the participating teams and especially new players the chance to practice their skills and attract more visitors to the sport of Sitting Volleyball. Find out more and view 56 photographs.
According to information posted on the Tehran Times' web site, Iran's sitting volleyball team won the 2009 Junior World Sitting Volleyball Championships, which were held between November 3 and 8, 2009, in the Eastern Iranian city of Mashhad. In the final game in Mashhad's Shahid Beheshti Gym Iran beat Russia 3-0 and won the Junior World Championship for the third consecutive time. After defeating the Sitting Volleyball team of Kasakhstan 3-1, Germany came in third. Other participating teams were Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Iraq and Croatia. To view photographs taken during the first Junior Sitting Volleyball Championships, held in 2005 in the Slovenian city of Kamnik, please click here: SET 1 | SET 2
View more photographs taken during the 2009 European Championships in Sitting Volleyball for amputees and athletes with other disabilities. Click here to preview. Starting with these images all new photographs will be shown in a size similar to this sample image.
For the second time this year a commitment to host the 2009 Amputee Soccer World Championship Tournament has been withdrawn. After the English Football Association changed its mind earlier this year, apparently now the city of Novo Friburgo, Brazil, broke its word. This is the first time in the history of amputee football that a world championship has been cancelled.
To get more information - please visit the Amputee Soccer website.
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