2008 Summer Paralympics / Boccia

Boccia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
information
venue	Beijing
Competition venue	Olympic Green Exhibition Center
date	September 9-12, 2008
decisions	7th
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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
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
					1
	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
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
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 .

space	country	athlete
1	Brazil	Dirceu Pinto
2	Hong Kong	Yuk Wing Leung
3	Brazil	Eliseu Santos
4th	Spain	José Maria Dueso
5	People's Republic of China	Ni Suili
	Hong Kong	Wai Yan Vivian Lau
	Portugal	Fernando Pereira
	People's Republic of China	Qi Cuifang

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 .

space	country	team
1	South Korea	Ho-Won Jeong Keon-Woo Park Bo-Mee Shin
2	Spain	José Manuel Rodriguez Santiago Pesquera Yolanda Martin
3	Portugal	Eunice Raimundo Armando Costa Mario Peixoto
4th	Thailand	Akarapol Punsnit Tanimpat Visaratanunta Vilasinee Sukkarath
5	Canada	Paul Gauthier Alison Kabush Monica Martino
	Greece	Grigorios Polychronidis Maria Stavropoulou Dimitrios Michos
	People's Republic of China	Zhu Heqiao Zhu Jianhui Shen Cong
	New Zealand	Henk Dijkstra Greig Jackson Mandy Slade

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 .

space	country	team
1	Brazil	Dirceu Pinto Eliseu Santos
2	Portugal	Bruno Valentim Fernando Pereira
3	Czech Republic	Radek Prochazka Ladislav Kratina
4th	Spain	Maria Desamparados Baixauli José Maria Dueso
5	People's Republic of China	Qi Cuifang Ni Suili
	Hong Kong	Wai Yan Vivian Lau Leung Yuk
	Hungary	Dezso Beres Jozsef Gyurkota
	Slovakia	Robert Durkovic Martin Streharsky

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 .

space	country	team
1	United Kingdom	Dan Bentley Nigel Murray Zoe Robinson David Smith
2	Portugal	Cristina Goncalves Fernando Ferreira Joao Paulo Fernandes Antonio Marques
3	Spain	Francisco Javier Beltran José Vaquerizo Pedro Cordero Manuel Angel Martin
4th	People's Republic of China	Zhang Qi Yan Zhiqiang Cao Fei Wang Yi
5	Norway	John Norsterud Elisabeth Wilhelmsen Roger Aandalen
	Ireland	Roberta Connolly Tom Leahy Padraic Moran Gabriel Shelly
	Argentina	Pablo Cortez Mauricio Ibarbure Roberto Leglice Gabriela Villano
	Hong Kong	Hoi Ying Karen Kwok Mei Yee Leung John Loung Wing Hong Wong

Date: September 10-12, 2008

Boccia medal table

Boccia medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
01	Brazil	2	-	1	3
	South Korea	2	-	1	3
03	Portugal	1	3	1	5
04th	Hong Kong	1	1	-	2
	United Kingdom	1	1	-	2
06th	Spain	-	1	2	3
07th	Greece	-	1	-	1
08th	Ireland	-	-	1	1
	Czech Republic	-	-	1	1

Web links

• Results ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )