Pieter Christiaan Joon (born February 4, 1942,

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ...

) founded the

World Organization Volleyball for Disabled World ParaVolley, formerly the World Organization Volleyball for Disabled (WOVD), is an international organization that is for people with physical disabilities. It is affiliated with the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). The World Organiz ...

(WOVD) in 1980 in the Netherlands. He was the president of this organization from 1980 to 2001. The General Assembly of the WOVD, in a meeting on 27 October 2001 in Slovenia, decided to award him the title of ''Honorary President''. Joon has been a board member of several different international sports organisations for the disabled. From 1980 to 1989 he was a board member of the

International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation World Abilitysport (formerly the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation or IWAS) is an international sports organisation that governs sports for athletes with Physical disability, physical impairments. It is a registered charity ...

(ISMGF). From 1981 to 1992 he was a board member of the International Sports Organisation for Disabled (ISOD). From 1981 to 1992 he was a member of the Technical Committee of the International Fund Sports Disabled. From 1984 to 1992 he was a member of the Technical Committee Paralympic Games. From 1990 to 1993 he was a member of the Comite Sports Disabled European Union. He has been involved in the competition programs in the

Paralympics The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Kore ...

in: 1980 Arnhem (NED), 1984 New York (USA) and Stoke Mandeville (GBR), 1988 Seoul (KOR), 1992 Barcelona (ESP), 1996 Atlanta (USA) and 2000 Sydney (AUS).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Joon, Pieter Living people 1942 births Sportspeople from Amsterdam Volleyball in the Netherlands International Volleyball Hall of Fame inductees