Boccia

Boccia

Boccia is a traditional recreational sport, similar to bocce. The name Boccia is derived from the Latin word for boss – bottia. The sport is competed at national and international level, by athletes who require a wheelchair because of physical disability...

 at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

2008 Summer Paralympics

The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games, the thirteenth Paralympics, took place in Beijing, China from September 6 to September 17, 2008. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in Qingdao....

consisted of seven events. The competitions were held in the Beijing National Convention Center from September 7 to September 12.

Classfication

Boccia players were given a classification depending on the type and extent of their disability. The classification system allows players to compete against others with a similar level of function. The boccia classifications were BC1 through BC4.

Events

For each of the events below, medals were contested for one or more of the above classifications. All events were mixed, meaning that men and women competed together.

• Mixed singles
  • BC1
  • BC2
  • BC3
  • BC4
• Mixed team
  • BC1–2
• Mixed pairs
  • BC3
  • BC4

Qualification Slots

• "√" means the team won the slot for the event

  NPC	Team	Pairs BC3	Pairs BC4
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  	√	√	√
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  Total	12	8	8

Medal table

This ranking sorts countries by the number of gold medals earned by their players (in this context a country is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee

National Paralympic Committee

National Paralympic Committees are the national constituents of the worldwide Paralympic movement. Subject to the controls of the International Paralympic Committee , they are responsible for organizing their people's participation in the Paralympic Games.The Paralympic Games are a major...

). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically.

1		2	0	1	3
1		2	0	1	3
3		1	3	1	5
4		1	1	0	2
4		1	1	0	2
6		0	1	2	3
7		0	1	0	1
8		0	0	1	1
8		0	0	1	1
Total		7	7	7	21

Medalists

Individual BC1
Individual BC2
Individual BC3
Individual BC4
Team BC1-2	Dan Bentley  Nigel Murray Nigel Murray Nigel Murray is a seven times national champion and triple Paralympic medal winner in the sport of boccia. He won gold in the BC2 class during the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Australia...   Zoe Robinson Zoe Robinson Zoe Robinson is a British boccia player who competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China.At the 2008 Games Robinson competed in the BC1-2 mixed team and the B2 mixed individual events. She was eliminated at the group stage of the individual competition after losing all three of her...   David Smith	Joao Paulo Fernandes João Paulo Fernandes João Paulo dos Santos Fernandes is a Portuguese boccia player and three-time Paralympic champion.He took two gold medals at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, and one gold and one silver at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing....   Fernando Ferreira Fernando Ferreira Fernando José Almeida Sequeira Ferreira is a Portuguese footballer who is playing for C.F. Os Belenenses, as a midfielder.- External links :* *...   Cristina Gonçalves  Antonio Marques	Francisco Javier Beltrán  Pedro Cordero  Manuel Ángel Martín  José Vaquerizo
Pairs BC3	Ho-Won Jeong  Keon-Woo Park  Bo-Mee Shin	Yolanda Martín  Santiago Pesquera  José Manuel Rodríguez	Armando Costa  Mário Peixoto  Eunice Raimundo
Pairs BC4	Dirceu Pinto  Eliseu Santos	Fernando Pereira  Bruno Valentim	Ladislav Kratina  Radek Prochazka Radek Procházka Radek Procházka is a Czech professional ice hockey player who currently plays with HC Kometa Brno in the Czech Extraliga....

External links

• Official site of the 2008 Summer Paralympics
• IPC
• CPISRA