Due to the fact that only in the Netherlands a Sitting Volleyball competition was running, no international referees were available to direct the matches. In the pre-Paralympic tourmament in 1979 in Haarlem a Swedish Volleyball referee mr Barlund gained experience . He was the only international invited referee in Arnhem
The International Game Officials
The Volleyball Technical Committee of the Games. De committee consisted of the following members:
Ben Reekers, Pieter Joon, Arie van Andel, Marion Velthuizen, ?????
All the dutch referees are experienced Sitting Volleyball referees and qualified referees of the Dutch Volleyball Federation.
One international referee from Sweden has been invited
The referees in charge
Henk Reinhart, Henk Sierveld, Heiko Schouten, Wim van de Berg, Henk Hallie, Hans Kronenberg, en Las Barlund (Swe).
Pieter Joon thanks the referees for the good management of the match.
Jaap Uildriks, Koos Schager en Henk Reinhart
