{"id":797690,"date":"2026-07-12T20:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797690\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T20:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:01:13","slug":"canadas-womens-and-mens-teams-pick-up-wins-at-sitting-volleyball-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797690\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s women’s and men’s teams pick up wins at sitting volleyball worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canada’s women improved to 2-0 while the men picked up their first win Sunday at the 2026 Sitting Volleyball World Championships.<\/p>\n

The women swept Slovenia 3-0 with set scores of 25-21, 25-15, and 29-27.<\/p>\n

Julia Chisholm and Kerrie Buchberger each had a game-high 14 points, while Allison Lang added 13 for the Canadians, who will next face Japan.<\/p>\n

The men improved to 1-1 with a 3-2 victory over Thailand. Set scores were 24-26, 25-18, 25-17, 23-25, and 16-14.<\/p>\n

Doug Learoyd had a game-high 20 points for the Canadians, who will next take on host China.<\/p>\n

Competition resumed Sunday after being suspended for a day because of Typhoon Bavi.<\/p>\n

The tournament serves as a qualifier for the 2028 Los Angeles Paralympic Games, with the top two men’s and women’s teams outside host United States earning direct qualification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-797690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}