Packaworld is pleased to announce that its popular water polo goals and fields are now available through Australia’s leading water polo teamwear provider.

Delfina Sport has become an official distributor of Packaworld’s portable Water Polo Fields and Packagoals to the Australian water polo community.

Packaworld Chief Executive Peter Roberts said the deal was a positive step towards increasing awareness and availability of Packaworld’s water polo products, especially given Delfina Sport’s high profile as a supplier of superior quality swim gear in Australia.

Delfina Sport is well respected in the Australian market due to being owned and managed by aquatic athletes who have competed on the international circuit.

Leading North American rugby retailer World Rugby Shop has become the latest distributor of Rugby Packaposts – the world’s first truly portable rugby posts with a regulation-height crossbar.

The deal makes it possible for rugby competition organisers, clubs, schools and others across the USA to purchase the posts direct from the World Rugby Shop online store, in addition to Packaworld’s USA online store.

Packaworld Chief Executive Peter Roberts said the high-quality inflatable posts could be set up in minutes and would enable training, tournaments and games to brought to more locations. Their versatility allows them to be used on a variety of different surfaces, including synthetic turf where new holes cannot be drilled for permanent posts.

Students joining the University of Western Australia (UWA) got a taste of the unique and challenging sport of goalball during a recent Orientation Day event.

The ‘O Week’ event, organised by Goalball Western Australia in collaboration with the university’s inclusion team, made use of portable Goalball Packagoals from Packaworld to allow the game to be played ‘for real’ by an audience that might not otherwise experience it.

While the game is primarily played by visually impaired athletes, the ‘Have a Go’ event introduced the game to the entire university community to grow the sport’s profile, offering those without a vision impairment the chance to feel what it’s like the experience the game.

Australian boccia players got their first taste of Packaworld’s latest inclusive sport innovation at the Riverina Regional Boccia Championship, which was held recently at Wagga Wagga’s Bolton Park.

The tournament, won by Wagga Wagga High School, was the first boccia event in Australia to trial Packalines to mark out temporary courts of play.

It was organised by NSW School Sport Unit – a division of the NSW Department of Education focused on providing carefully planned, adaptable and enjoyable physical activity experiences for all students in NSW public schools – in association with Boccia NSW.

The 21 July tournament is part of a state-wide competition that has been going for around a decade and involves around 180 schools, making it one of the largest boccia competitions in the southern hemisphere.

Malta is the tenth-smallest country in the world by area, a city-state floating in the Mediterranean Sea, and for a week in May, it played host to the Special Olympics Malta Invitational Games.

The games were the first Special Olympics tournament in Europe since the Covid—19 pandemic hit, and the excitement was palpable. Nowhere was the atmosphere more electric than at the bocce event, a homecoming of sorts for a game long played on the island, albeit in a different form.

Long ago, in the time of the Knights of St. John (1530–1798), a game called maghio was played on the island. Using cylindrical bowls instead of spherical, the game would eventually become known as bocci. Today, its Italian cousin, bocce, has returned to the island’s shores, its surge in popularity fuelled in part by new portable bocce courts from Packaworld that are helping organisers grow the sport globally.

Bocce athletes at the Special Olympics Germany National Games in Berlin last week were rolling for gold on revolutionary portable courts that are quickly becoming the benchmark globally.

Developed by Packaworld International, the ‘Packabocce’ courts are inflatable yet fully rigid, providing for a top-quality playing experience while also being easy to set up and transport.

They are widely used in the USA and at national and regional Special Olympics competitions in many other places globally, but their arrival for Germany’s premier event marked the first time they had been used at the very top level in Europe.