Boccia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Boccia logo of the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Norway's John Nørsterud at the Boccia events

Norway's Roger Aandalen (blue/white) vs Japan's Takayuki Hirose (red).

Boccia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics 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

There were 88 athletes (at least 20 females) taking part in this sport.

Qualification Slots

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

NPC	Team	Pairs BC3	Pairs BC4
Great Britain	√
Portugal	√	√	√
Spain	√	√	√
New Zealand	√	√
Hong Kong	√		√
Ireland	√
Norway	√
Argentina	√
Canada	√	√
Japan	√
Finland	√
China	√	√	√
South Korea		√
Thailand		√
Greece		√
Hungary			√
Czech Republic			√
Brazil			√
Slovakia			√
Total	12	8	8

Medal summary

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). 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.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil (BRA)	2	0	1	3
1	South Korea (KOR)	2	0	1	3
3	Portugal (POR)	1	3	1	5
4	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	0	2
4	Hong Kong (HKG)	1	1	0	2
6	Spain (ESP)	0	1	2	3
7	Greece (GRE)	0	1	0	1
8	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
8	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	1	1
Total		7	7	7	21

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual BC1	Joao Paulo Fernandes Portugal (POR)	Antonio Marques Portugal (POR)	Gabriel Shelly Ireland (IRL)
Individual BC2	Hoi Ying Karen Kwok Hong Kong (HKG)	Nigel Murray Great Britain (GBR)	Manuel Ángel Martín Spain (ESP)
Individual BC3	Keon-Woo Park South Korea (KOR)	Grigorios Polychronidis Greece (GRE)	Ho-Won Jeong South Korea (KOR)
Individual BC4	Dirceu Pinto Brazil (BRA)	Yuk Wing Leung Hong Kong (HKG)	Eliseu Santos Brazil (BRA)
Team BC1-2	Great Britain (GBR) Dan Bentley Nigel Murray Zoe Robinson David Smith	Portugal (POR) Joao Paulo Fernandes Fernando Ferreira Cristina Gonçalves Antonio Marques	Spain (ESP) Francisco Javier Beltrán Pedro Cordero Manuel Ángel Martín José Vaquerizo
Pairs BC3	South Korea (KOR) Ho-Won Jeong Keon-Woo Park Bo-Mee Shin	Spain (ESP) Yolanda Martín Santiago Pesquera José Manuel Rodríguez	Portugal (POR) Armando Costa Mário Peixoto Eunice Raimundo
Pairs BC4	Brazil (BRA) Dirceu Pinto Eliseu Santos	Portugal (POR) Fernando Pereira Bruno Valentim	Czech Republic (CZE) Ladislav Kratina Radek Prochazka

References

• "Schedules and Results - Boccia". The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRMP/ENG/Schedule/BO.shtml. Retrieved 2008-09-10. 

External links

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