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Kōrero: Disability sport

Goalball

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Goalball

Goalball is a game of hand and ear coordination, developed in the 1940s to help rehabilitate blinded soldiers. The game involves a ball with a bell inside it. Two teams of six players defend their own goal and try to score against their opponents. As some players may be partially sighted, all are blindfolded.

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Goalball New Zealand

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Ian McDonald, Disability sport – Disability and para sports, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/38021/goalball (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Ian McDonald, i tāngia i te 14 June 2022, updated 1 February 2022.