Separating winning and losing teams in sitting volleyball: the role of skills and differences across gender

Marina Tsakiri, Sotirios Drikos, Konstantinos Sotiropoulos, Emmanouil Skordilis and Karolina Barzouka

International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 2023, vol. 23, issue 5, 386-399

Abstract: Sitting volleyball (SV) is a dynamic with short actions sport in the paralympic programme. The purpose of the study was to identify the volleyball skills that best discriminate between winning and losing an SV set, for both the genders. The data were collected from all sets played (N = 224) on the 2019 European men and women SV Championship. Cluster analysis established three types of sets according to the final score difference: 2–4 points (balanced), 5–11 points (semi-balanced) and over 11 points (unbalanced). Three-way MANOVAs were conducted to analyse gender, type of set and type of result differences for selected performance indicators. The analyses revealed significant multivariate differences across gender (p

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/24748668.2023.2238167

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