{"id":808201,"date":"2026-07-17T16:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/808201\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:38:09","slug":"canada-misses-chance-to-clinch-spot-in-paralympic-womens-sitting-volleyball-tourney-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/808201\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada misses chance to clinch spot in Paralympic women\u2019s sitting volleyball tourney | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784306289_811_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Katelyn Wright (14) sends the ball over the net in a women&#8217;s third-place match against China at the Sitting Volleyball World Championships in Hangzhou, China on Friday, July 17, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Handout \u2014 World ParaVolley (Mandatory Credit)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 17, 2026 | 8:05 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>HANGZHOU \u2014 Canada missed a chance to clinch a berth in the 2028 Los Angeles Paralympics after falling 3-0 to host China in a third-place match Friday at the 2026 World Sitting Volleyball Championships.<\/p>\n<p>China won convincingly over the second-ranked Canadians by set scores of 25-13, 25-15 and 25-14.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Heidi Peters had 14 points, but no other Canadian had more than five.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang Lijun had a game-high 18 points for China, while Zhang Xufei added 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Katelyn Wright (14) sends the ball over the net in a women&#8217;s third-place match against China at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-808201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808201","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=808201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}