Nigel Murray

Nigel Murray (born May 22, 1964 in Leamington Spa ) is a British bocce player. The British international won the 2000 individual competition in the BC2 competition class of the Paralympics .

As a spastic, Murray has been able to control his movements since birth and is dependent on a wheelchair . He has been playing boccia since 1992. At his first major international competition in Sydney in 2000, he won the individual competition in the BC2 competition class and thus secured his first gold medal. With the team, however, he already failed in the quarter-finals to New Zealand. At the 2002 World Cup, he won gold in both individual and team tournaments, but medals at the 2004 Paralympics were denied; in individual he failed in the quarterfinals, with the team he lost both the semifinals and the game for third place, so that he was only fourth.

In 2005 he was vice European champion with the team, in 2007 in the individual.

In summer 2008 he was nominated for his third Paralympic Games in Beijing 2008 . There he won a silver medal in the individual competition in the BC2 competition class. In the team competition Team BC1 / BC2 he won a gold medal together with Dan Bentley , Zoe Robinson and David Smith .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andreas Lesch: "Silent passion - Nigel Murray wants to defend his title in boccia", Berliner Zeitung of September 25, 2004.
2. ↑ Tournament statistics on paralympic.org ( visited August 18, 2008 ).
3. ↑ [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Athlete biography on the 2004 Paralympics page.