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The Bosnia and Herzegovina men's national sitting volleyball team (Bosnian: ''Reprezentacija BiH u sjedećoj odbojci'') represents Bosnia and Herzegovina in international sitting volleyball competitions and friendly matches. The team is one of the dominant forces in on the court worldwide, along side Iran men's national sitting volleyball team.〔http://www.paralympic.org/bosnia-and-herzegovina-mens-sitting-volleyball〕 The team is the most decorated in Bosnia and Herzegovina sport having won 2 paralympic volleyball gold medals, 2 silver medals, 3 World Cup titles, and 9 won European Championships straight.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bosnia and Herzegovina world champion in sitting volleyball )〕 It is governed by the Association of sitting volleyball of Bosnia and Herzegovina (''Savez sjedeće odbojke BiH'').〔http://www.ecvd.eu/index.php?option=com_countries&task=showcountry&id=8〕 Until 1992, Bosnian-Herzegovinian players were part of the SFR Yugoslavia national sitting volleyball team. ==History== Prior to 1992, during the Yugoslavia days, the beginnings of the team started to take its form. Players were part of Sarajevo based Uporni Sitting Volleyball Club which were champions of Yugoslavia three times in a row.〔http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeraworld/2013/03/201335121358685739.html〕 Bosnia and Herzegovina men’s sitting volleyball team includes athletes who were deeply affected by the Bosnian War (6 April 1992 – 14 December 1995). Due to the large number of people injured in the conflict, the country started to invest more in Paralympic sports. Captain Sabahudin Delalic fought for the Bosnian army and lost part of his right leg after a wall fell on him. Safet Alibasic lost one of his legs when he stepped on a landmine. The team coach Mirza Hrustemovic, himself was given a vaccination in 1961 against an illness with the medicine having a side effect. He lost the function in his left leg. Today, more than 500.000 disabled people lives in Bosnia and Herzegovina.〔http://brutusjasmin.photoshelter.com/gallery/National-sitting-volleyball-team-of-Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/G0000JFDuXEA5zVQ/〕 The first major tournament participation came in during 1995 European championship. During its qualification phase〔http://www.inter-caffe.com/lista-1164.html〕 in December 1994, the team travelled to Croatia on a bus riddled with bullet holes in temperatures of 17 degrees below zero.〔http://www.rio2016.com/en/news/news/from-suffering-to-glory-bosnia-and-herzegovina-s-sitting-volleyball-team-dreaming-of-third〕 Team made their Paralympic Games debut at Sydney 2000 and won silver. This medal followed 3 further Olympic podium finishes in sitting volleyball which represent Bosnia and Herzegovina's only medals in Olympic and Paralympic Games as an independent nation (from Yugoslavia). On 21 June 2014, Edin Džeko congratulated the BiH men's national sitting volleyball team after they won 2014 Sitting Volleyball World Championships title, stating "You are our pride and inspiration".〔http://www.klix.ba/sport/dzeko-cestitao-zlatnim-bh-odbojkasima-idemo-ludo-idemo-jako/140621118〕 On 10 September 2012, Basketball Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina congratulated the BiH sitting volleyball team upon their paralympic gold medal win at 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, saying "You are a pride of our nation",〔http://sportsport.ba/ostalo/kosarkasi-cestitali-odbojkasima-vi-ste-ponos-bih/87636〕 as did NFSBiH (normalization committee) with Ivica Osim at the head.〔http://sportsport.ba/ostalo/nfsbih-cestitao-odbojkasima-i-kosarkasima/87558〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bosnia and Herzegovina national sitting volleyball team」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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