2008 Summer Paralympics / Boccia
Boccia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics |
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venue | Beijing |
Competition venue | Olympic Green Exhibition Center |
date | September 9-12, 2008 |
decisions | 7th |
← Athens 2004 |
At the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing , medals were awarded in a total of seven boccia competitions. The decisions were made between September 9th and September 12th, 2008 in the Olympic Green Exhibition Center .
Classes
In boccia, athletes with infantile cerebral palsy or other major physical disabilities were allowed to compete at the Paralympics . The classification goes from BC1 to BC4.
Results
A total of 88 athletes took part in the Paralympic boccia competitions. Men and women started mixed in the team (two decisions), in doubles (1) and in singles (4). The individual decisions took place on the first day of competition, September 9th, the doubles and team competitions on the second, September 12th.
Single BC1
Initially, the game was played in four groups with four players each. The group winners as well as the runners-up then qualified for the quarter-finals, from where it continued in the knockout system .
space | country | athlete |
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1 | Portugal | Joao Paulo Fernandes |
2 | Portugal | Antonio Marques |
3 | Ireland | Gabriel Shelly |
4th | People's Republic of China | Wang Yi |
5 | Spain | Francisco Javier Beltran |
Ireland | Padraic Moran | |
Spain | José Vaquerizo | |
South Korea | Jae-Suk Park |
Date: September 7th to 9th, 2008
Quarter finals | Semifinals | final | ||||||||
Francisco Javier Beltran | ||||||||||
3 | Antonio Marques | |||||||||
Wang Yi | ||||||||||
4th | Gabriel Shelly | |||||||||
4th | Joao Paulo Fernandes | |||||||||
8th | ||||||||||
5 | Antonio Marques | |||||||||
José Vaquerizo | 2 | |||||||||
Gabriel Shelly | ||||||||||
Padraic Moran | 5 | |||||||||
6th | ||||||||||
Wang Yi | ||||||||||
6th | Joao Paulo Fernandes | |||||||||
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3 | Jae-Suk Park | |||||||||
Joao Paulo Fernandes | 8th | Game for third place | ||||||||
2 | ||||||||||
Wang Yi | 2 | |||||||||
Antonio Marques | 4th | |||||||||
Gabriel Shelly | 1 | |||||||||
Single BC2
Initially, the game was played in seven groups of four players each. The group winners and the best runner-up then qualified for the quarter-finals, from where the knockout system continued.
space | country | athlete |
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1 | Hong Kong | Hoi Ying Karen Kwok |
2 | United Kingdom | Nigel Murray |
3 | Spain | Manuel Angel Martin |
4th | Argentina | Pablo Cortez |
5 | Portugal | Cristina Goncalves |
Japan | Keizo Uchida | |
Portugal | Fernando Ferreira | |
Spain | Pedro Cordero |
Date: September 7th to 9th, 2008
Single BC3
Initially, the game was played in seven groups of four players each. The group winners and the best runner-up then qualified for the quarter-finals, from where the knockout system continued.
space | country | athlete |
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1 | South Korea | Keon-Woo Park |
2 | Greece | Grigorios Polychronidis |
3 | South Korea | Ho-Won Yeong |
4th | Portugal | Mario Peixoto |
5 | Canada | Paul Gauthier |
Spain | Santiago Pesquera | |
Portugal | Armando Costa | |
South Korea | Bo-Mee Shin |
Date: September 7th to 9th, 2008
Single BC4
Initially, the game was played in four groups with four players each. The group winners as well as the runners-up then qualified for the quarter-finals, from where it continued in the knockout system .
Date: September 7th to 9th, 2008
Team BC3
Initially, the game was played in two groups with four teams each. The group winners and the runners-up then qualified for the semi-finals, which, like the final, were carried out in the knockout system .
Date: September 10-12, 2008
Double BC4
Initially, the game was played in two groups with four teams each. The group winners and the runners-up then qualified for the semi-finals, which, like the final, were carried out in the knockout system .
Date: September 10-12, 2008
Team BC1 / BC2
Initially, the game was played in four groups with three teams each. The group winners and the runners-up then qualified for the quarter-finals, this and the remaining games were played in the knockout system .
Date: September 10-12, 2008
Boccia medal table
Boccia medal table | |||||
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space | country | G | S. | B. | total |
1 | Brazil | 2 | - | 1 | 3 |
South Korea | 2 | - | 1 | 3 | |
3 | Portugal | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
4th | Hong Kong | 1 | 1 | - | 2 |
United Kingdom | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | |
6th | Spain | - | 1 | 2 | 3 |
7th | Greece | - | 1 | - | 1 |
8th | Ireland | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Czech Republic | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Web links
- Results ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )