Summer Paralympics 2016 / Goalball

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Goalball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
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venue BrazilBrazil Rio de Janeiro
Competition venue Arena do Futuro
Teams 20th
Nations 14th
Athletes 119
date 8-16 September 2016
decisions 2
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At the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro , medals were awarded in two goalball competitions. The decisions were made on September 16, 2016 in the Arena do Futuro .

Classes

Only visually impaired athletes take part in Goalball. They all wear opaque blindfolds so as not to disadvantage any of the athletes. Of six players on each team, only three are ever on the field at a time.

Qualified teams

A total of ten men's and women's teams, each with six players, take part in the Paralympic goalball competitions.

Men

Type of qualification date place Starting places Qualified teams
Host October 2, 2009 Copenhagen , Denmark
DenmarkDenmark  		1 BrazilBrazil Brazil
2014 IBSA Goalball World Championships June 30th – 5th July 2014 Espoo , Finland
FinlandFinland  		2 FinlandFinland Finland United States
United StatesUnited States 
2015 IBSA World Games 10-17 May 2015 Seoul , South Korea
Korea SouthSouth Korea  		3 LithuaniaLithuania Lithuania Sweden Germany 1
SwedenSweden 
GermanyGermany 
2015 European Championships 2nd-11th July 2015 Kaunas , Lithuania
LithuaniaLithuania  		1 TurkeyTurkey Turkey
2015 Parapan American Games 7-15 August 2015 Toronto , Canada
CanadaCanada  		1 CanadaCanada Canada
2015 Asian / Pacific Championships 5th - 13th November 2015 Hangzhou , People's Republic of China
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  		1 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China
2016 African Championships February 29–4. March 2016 Algiers , Algeria
AlgeriaAlgeria  		1 AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria
Total 10
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China actually qualified via the World Games, but also achieved the only starting place for the Asia / Pacific region, whereupon the next-placed team, Germany, moved up.

Women

Type of qualification date place Starting places Qualified teams
Host October 2, 2009 Copenhagen , Denmark
DenmarkDenmark  		1 BrazilBrazil Brazil
2014 IBSA Goalball World Championships June 30th – 5th July 2014 Espoo , Finland
FinlandFinland  		3 AustraliaAustralia Australia United States Turkey
United StatesUnited States 
TurkeyTurkey 
2015 IBSA World Games 10-17 May 2015 Seoul , South Korea
Korea SouthSouth Korea  		2 IsraelIsrael Israel People's Republic of China
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 
2015 European Championships 2nd-11th July 2015 Kaunas , Lithuania
LithuaniaLithuania  		1 UkraineUkraine Ukraine
2015 Parapan American Games 7-15 August 2015 Toronto , Canada
CanadaCanada  		1 CanadaCanada Canada
2015 Asian / Pacific Championships 5th - 13th November 2015 Hangzhou , People's Republic of China
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  		1 JapanJapan Japan
2016 African Championships February 29–4. March 2016 Algiers , Algeria
AlgeriaAlgeria  		1 AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria
Total 10

Medalist

Men

space country athlete
1 LithuaniaLithuania Lithuania Nerijus Montvydas , Justas Pazarauskas , Mantas Brazauskis , Mantas Panovas , Genrik Pavliukianec , Mindaugas Suchovejus
2 United StatesUnited States United States Andy Jenks , Tyler Merren , Daryl Walker , John Kusku , Joseph Hamilton, Matt Simpson
3 BrazilBrazil Brazil José Roberto Oliveira , Alex de Melo , Alexsander Celente , Leomon Moreno , José Márcio Sousa , Romário Marques

Women

space country Sportswomen
1 TurkeyTurkey Turkey Neşe Mercan , Seda Yıldız , Sevda Altınoluk , Gülşah Düzgün , Buket Atalay , Sümeyye Özcan
2 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China Chen Fengqing , Ju Zhen , Zhang Wei, Zhao Kaimei , Zhang Huiwen , Sun Ie
3 United StatesUnited States United States Jen Armbruster , Lisa Czechowski , Asya Miller , Amanda Dennis , Eliana Mason , Marybai Huking

Results

Men

The ten men's teams are divided into two groups of five. After a round-robin tournament, the first four teams in each group qualify for an elimination tournament.

Group A

rank country S. G V U Gates Diff. Points
1 BrazilBrazil Brazil 4th 4th - - 42:15 +27 12
2 SwedenSweden Sweden 4th 3 1 - 33:23 +10 9
3 GermanyGermany Germany 4th 1 3 - 24:26 −2 3
4th CanadaCanada Canada 4th 1 3 - 26:39 −13 3
5 AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 4th 1 3 - 25:47 −22 3

Group B

rank country S. G V U Gates Diff. Points
1 LithuaniaLithuania Lithuania 4th 4th - - 35:22 +13 12
2 United StatesUnited States United States 4th 2 2 - 21:18 +3 6th
3 TurkeyTurkey Turkey 4th 2 2 - 20:23 −3 6th
4th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 4th 1 3 - 25:25 +0 3
5 FinlandFinland Finland 4th 1 3 - 24:34 −10 3

Final round

  Quarter finals Semifinals final
                           
   BrazilBrazil Brazil 10            
 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 3  
 BrazilBrazil Brazil 1
   United StatesUnited States United States 10  
 United StatesUnited States United States 7th
 
 GermanyGermany Germany 6th  
 United StatesUnited States United States 8th
   LithuaniaLithuania Lithuania 14th
 LithuaniaLithuania Lithuania 5
 
 CanadaCanada Canada 4th  
 LithuaniaLithuania Lithuania 7th
3rd place match
   SwedenSweden Sweden 2  
 SwedenSweden Sweden 5  BrazilBrazil Brazil 6th
 
   TurkeyTurkey Turkey 1    SwedenSweden Sweden 5

Women

The ten women's teams are divided into two groups of five. After a round-robin tournament, the first four teams in each group qualify for an elimination tournament.

Group C

rank country S. G V U Gates Diff. Points
1 BrazilBrazil Brazil 4th 3 1 - 25: 7 +18 9
2 United StatesUnited States United States 4th 3 1 - 25:13 +12 9
3 JapanJapan Japan 4th 2 1 1 13: 8 +5 7th
4th IsraelIsrael Israel 4th 1 2 1 16:15 +1 4th
5 AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 4th - 4th - 1:37 −36 0

Group D

rank country S. G V U Gates Diff. Points
1 TurkeyTurkey Turkey 4th 4th - - 37:11 +26 12
2 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 4th 3 1 - 21:14 +7 9
3 CanadaCanada Canada 4th 2 2 - 16:17 −1 6th
4th UkraineUkraine Ukraine 4th - 3 1 9:17 −8 1
5 AustraliaAustralia Australia 4th - 3 1 6:25 −19 1

Final round

  Quarter finals Semifinals final
                           
   BrazilBrazil Brazil 10            
 UkraineUkraine Ukraine 0  
 BrazilBrazil Brazil 3
   China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 4th  
 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 5
 
 JapanJapan Japan 3  
 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 1
   TurkeyTurkey Turkey 4th
 TurkeyTurkey Turkey 15th
 
 IsraelIsrael Israel 5  
 TurkeyTurkey Turkey 11
3rd place match
   United StatesUnited States United States 1  
 United StatesUnited States United States 2  BrazilBrazil Brazil 2
 
   CanadaCanada Canada 0    United StatesUnited States United States 3

Final placement

Men

space country
01 LithuaniaLithuania Lithuania
02 United StatesUnited States United States
03 BrazilBrazil Brazil
04th SwedenSweden Sweden

Women

space country
01 TurkeyTurkey Turkey
02 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China
03 United StatesUnited States United States
04th BrazilBrazil Brazil

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Groups drawn for goalball at Rio 2016. In: paralympic.org. Paralympic.org, May 5, 2016, accessed September 3, 2016 .