Belgium at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

Belgium at the
2012 Summer Paralympics
Belgium at the; 2012 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	BEL
NPC	Belgian Paralympic Committee
Website	www.paralympic.be
in London
Competitors	42 in 9 sports
Medals; Ranked 36th	Gold 3 Silver 1 Bronze 3 Total 7
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Belgium competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom from August 29 to September 9, 2012.^[1]

Athletics

Men

Athlete	Events	Final
Athlete	Events	Result	Rank
Gino De Keersmaeker	F42 Discus throw	40.17	6
Frederic Van den Heede	T46 Marathon	2.31.38 PR

Women

Athlete	Events	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Events	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Marieke Vervoort	T52 100 m	—				19.69 PR
Marieke Vervoort	T52 200 m	—				34.83 RR

Boccia

Athlete	Event	Seeding matches		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Pieter Cilissen	Mixed individual BC3	—		K Kato (JPN) W 5-1	Kim H-S (KOR) L 2-5	Did not advance
Kirsten De Laender	Mixed individual BC3	—		—	S Pena (ESP) W 8-2	J Macedo (POR) L 1-4	Did not advance
Pieter Cilissen Kirsten De Laender Pieter Verlinden	Mixed pairs BC3	Thailand W 7-1 Spain W 12-1 Portugal W 3-2	1 Q	—			Greece L 0-7	South Korea W 4-3

Cycling

Road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Kris Bosmans	Men's Road race C1-3	1:42:51	5
Koen Reyserhove	Men's Road race C4-5	DNF
Koen Reyserhove	Men's Time trial C4	37:15.51	12
Christophe Hindricq	Men's Road race H1	1:55:06	4
Christophe Hindricq	Men's Time trial H1	39:46.68	7
Wim Decleir	Men's Road race H4	2:00:35
Wim Decleir	Men's Time trial H4	26:24.00	4

Track

Time Trial

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Kris Bosmans	Men's C1-3 Kilometre	1:12.825	14
Koen Reyserhove	Men's C4-5 Kilometre	1:14.689	19

Pursuit

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Opponent Results	Rank
Kris Bosmans	Men's C3 Pursuit	3:52.453	10	Did not advance
Koen Reyserhove	Men's C4 Pursuit	5:27.624	14	Did not advance

Equestrian

Individual

Athlete	Horse	Event	Total
Athlete	Horse	Event	Score	Rank
Ulricke Dekeyzer	Cleverboy van d'Abel	Individual championship test grade IV	68.000	8
Ulricke Dekeyzer	Cleverboy van d'Abel	Individual freestyle test grade IV	69.550	9
Michèle George	Rainman	Individual championship test grade IV	77.065
Michèle George	Rainman	Individual freestyle test grade IV	82.100
Barbara Minneci	Barilla	Individual championship test grade II	70.095	8
Barbara Minneci	Barilla	Individual freestyle test grade II	73.100	6
Ciska Vermeulen	Whooney Tunes	Individual championship test grade IV	71.613	4
Ciska Vermeulen	Whooney Tunes	Individual freestyle test grade IV	75.000	5

Team

Athlete	Horse	Event	Test round		Final round		Total
Athlete	Horse	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Barbara Minneci	See above	II Team	68.571	5
Ulricke Dekeyzer		IV Team	68.625	6
Michèle George			72.906	2
Ciska Vermeulen			66.750	9

Goalball

Men's tournament

Squad list	Group stage		Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
Squad list	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Youssef Bihi Johan De Rick Klison Mapreni Bruno Vanhove Tom Vanhove Glenn Van Thournhout	Canada W 4–2	3 Q
	Algeria L 2–5
	Iran W 8–6
	China D 0–0
	South Korea W 5–3

Group B

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Iran	5	4	0	1	32	20	+12	12	Quarterfinals
China	5	3	1	1	20	14	+6	10
Belgium	5	3	1	1	19	16	+3	10
Algeria	5	2	0	3	18	17	+1	6
South Korea	5	1	0	4	18	28	−10	3	Eliminated
Canada	5	1	0	4	16	28	−12	3	Eliminated

Source: "London 2012 Paralympic Games - Goalball results" (PDF). Paralympic.org. 2012-10-03. Retrieved 2024-04-27 – via Goalball.sport.

30 August 2012 16:15	Canada	2 – 4	Belgium	Copper Box, London Referees: Thomas Baerz (GER) Shinji Mizuno (JPN)
	Caron 2	Report	de Rick 2 Vanhove 1 Bihi 1

31 August 2012 21:00	Algeria	5 – 2	Belgium	Copper Box, London Referees: Ali Aldarsony (KSA), Juha Vuokila (FIN)
	Mokrane 3 Larbi 2	Report	de Rick 1 Bihi 1

1 September 2012 18:30	Belgium	8 – 6	Iran	Copper Box, London Referees: Morten Hammershoi (DEN), Juha Vuokila (FIN)
	de Rick 3 Bihi 3 Vanhove 1 Mapreni 1	Report	Sayahi 3 Jafari 2 Shahbazi 1

2 September 2012 15:00	Belgium	0 – 0	China	Copper Box, London Referees: Hooshang Shariati (IRI), Warrick Jackes (AUS)
		Report

3 September 2012 09:00	South Korea	3 – 5	Belgium	Copper Box, London Referees: Juha Vuokila (FIN), Morten Hammershoi (DEN)
	Kim C.-H. 2 Hong 1	Report	B. Vanhove 2 Bihi 2 Mapreni 1

Quarter-final

5 September 2012 19:30	Brazil	3 – 0	Belgium	Copper Box, London Referees: Tony Connolly (USA), Vilma Venckutonyte (LTU)
	Marques 2 Almeida Maciel Celente 1	Report

Swimming

Men

Athlete	Events	Heats		Final
Athlete	Events	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sven Decaesstecker	100 m backstroke S10	1:04.63	10	Did not advance
Sven Decaesstecker	200 m individual medley SM10	2:17.51	5 Q	2:15.99	5
Yannick Vandeput	200 m freestyle S14	2:07.47	13	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke S14	1:09.02	15
	100 m breaststroke SB14	1:18.57	14

Women

Athlete	Events	Heats		Final
Athlete	Events	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Tamara Medarts	200 m freestyle S14	2:30.10	15	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke S14	1:20.61	13	Did not advance
	100 m breaststroke SB14	1:23.51	6 Q	1:24.58	7

Table tennis

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ben Despineux	Singles class 7	C Dettoni (CHI) W 3-1 M Nikolenko (UKR) L 0-3	2	Did not advance
Marc Ledoux	Singles class 8	P Salmin (BRA) W 3-0 M Skrzynecki (POL) L 1-3	2	Did not advance
Mathieu Loicq	Singles class 8	A McKibbin (GBR) W 3-2 C Sun (CHN) L 0-3	2	Did not advance
Ben Despineux Marc Ledoux Mathieu Loicq	Team class 6-8	France W 3-2		Poland L 2-3	Did not advance

Wheelchair rugby

Squad list
Ludwig Budeners David Duquenne Peter Genyn Raf Hendrix Bieke Ketelbuters Gunther Meersschaut Lars Mertens Ive Theuwissen Bob Vanacker Ronald Verhaegen Frederik Windey

Group stage

Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Australia (AUS)	3	3	0	182	142	+40	6	Semifinals
Canada (CAN)	3	2	1	163	166	−3	4	Semifinals
Sweden (SWE)	3	1	2	151	155	−4	2	Eliminated
Belgium (BEL)	3	0	3	135	168	−33	0	Eliminated

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

5 September 2012

16:15

Sweden	52 – 42	Belgium
Uhlmann 15 Hjert 9 Jansson 7 Sandberg 6 Kulle 5 Norlin 4 Team 4 Collin 2	Report	Mertens 20 Verhaegen 9 Genyn 6 Vanacker 3 Team 2 Budeners 1 Meersschaut 1

Basketball Arena

Attendance: 4,404

Referee: Motoko Izumiya (JPN), Philip Washbourn (NZL)

6 September 2012

16:15

Canada	58 – 50	Belgium
Madell 18 Hickling 9 Hirschfield 9 Lavoie 5 Chan 4 Whitehead 3 Simard 3 Team 3 Willsie 2 Funk 1	Report	Mertens 24 Genyn 10 Verhaegen 5 Budeners 4 Team 4 Vanacker 3

Basketball Arena

Attendance: 6,225

Referee: Mitch Carr (USA), Chris van de Riet (NED)

7 September 2012

10:00

Australia	58 – 43	Belgium
Batt 29 Carr 11 Bond 9 Smith 4 Hose 1 Lees 1 Meakin 1 Harrison 1 Team 1	Report	Mertens 14 Genyn 11 Verhaegen 5 Hendrix 4 Team 4 Budeners 3 Vanacker 2

Basketball Arena

Attendance: 2,822

Referee: Motoko Izumiya (JPN), Chris van de Riet (NED)

5th–8th place semi-finals

8 September 2012

14:00

Great Britain	54 – 49	Belgium
	Report

Basketball Arena

Attendance: 1,567

Referee: Pierre-Alexandre Brière (CAN), Philip Washbourn (NZL)

Wheelchair tennis

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Mike Denayer	Men's singles	S Olsson (6) (SWE) L 0-6 0-6	Did not advance
Joachim Gérard (11)	Men's singles	C Santos (BRA) W 6-3 6-2	S Welch (USA) W 7-6(4) 6-2	N Peifer (8) (FRA) W 6-3 2-6 7-5	R Vink (4) (NED) L 6(4)-7 6-2 3-6	Did not advance
Annick Sevenans (7)	Women's singles	—	H Koosz (AUT) W 6-0 6-1	Y Kamiji (JPN) L 6(3)-7 2-6	Did not advance
Mike Denayer Joachim Gérard	Men's doubles	—	Maripa/Mathonsi (RSA) W 6-2 6-3	McCarroll/Reid (7) (GBR) L 4-6 3-6	Did not advance

References

^ "Belgium - 2012 Paralympic News, Athletes, Medals". LOCOG. Archived from the original on 20 August 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2012.

[1] "Belgium - 2012 Paralympic News, Athletes, Medals". LOCOG. Archived from the original on 20 August 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2012.

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