Summer Paralympics 2012 / Goalball

At the Summer Paralympics 2012 in London , medals were awarded in two goalball competitions. The games took place between August 29 and September 9, 2012 in the Copper Box .

Classes

Only visually impaired athletes take part in Goalball. Otherwise there are no further classifications.

Qualified teams

A total of twelve men's teams and ten women's teams with six players each took part in the Paralympic goalball competitions. The lists are sorted alphabetically.

Men

Qualification type	date	place	Places	Qualified countries
Host nation			1	United Kingdom
IBSA Goalball World Championships	18.-25. June 2010	Sheffield , UK	3	Lithuania People's Republic of China Iran
2010 Para-Asian Games	12-19 December 2010	Guangzhou , China	1	South Korea
Qualification competition 2011	1. – 11. April 2011	Antalya , Turkey	4th	Finland Turkey Canada Belgium
European Championship 2011	17.-23. October 2011	Assens , Denmark	1	Sweden
Africa Oceania Goalball Regional Championships 2011	14.-18. November 2011	Sydney , Australia	1	Algeria
Parapan American Games	November 12-20, 2011	Guadalajara (Mexico) , Mexico	1	Brazil
All in all			12

Women

Qualification type	date	place	Places	Qualified countries
Host nation			1	United Kingdom
IBSA Goalball World Championships 2010	18.-25. June 2010	Sheffield , UK	3	People's Republic of China United States Sweden
Asian Para Games	12-19 December 2010	Guangzhou , China	1	Japan
Qualification competition	1. – 11. April 2011	Antalya , Turkey	2	Canada Finland
European Championships 2011	17.-23. October 2011	Assens , Denmark	1	Denmark
Africa Oceania Goalball Regional Championships 2011	14.-18. November 2011	Sydney , Australia	1	Australia
Parapan American Games 2011	12-20 November 2011	Guadalajara , Mexico	1	Brazil
All in all			10

Medalist

Men

space	country	athlete
1	Finland	Jarno Mattila , Ville Montonen , Erkki Miinala , Toni Alenius , Tuomas Nousu , Petri Posio
2	Brazil	José Ferreira de Oliveira , Almeida Maciel Celente , Leomon Moreno da Silva , Romário Diego Marques , Filippe Santos Silvestre , Leandro Moreno da Silva
3	Turkey	Tekin Okan Düzgün , Hüseyin Alkan , Mehmet Cesur , Yusuf Uçar , Abdullah Aydoğdu , Tuncay Karakaya

Women

space	country	athlete
1	Japan	Masae Komiya , Rie Urata , Akane Nakashima , Eiko Kakehata , Haruka Wakasugi , Akiko Adachi
2	People's Republic of China	Wang Ruixue , Chen Fengqing , Lin Shan , Wang Shasha , Fan Feifei
3	Sweden	Anna Dahlberg , Malin Gustavsson , Josefine Jälmestål , Viktoria Andersson , Sofia Näsström , Maria Wåglund

Results

Men

After the preliminary round with six teams each in two groups, the best four qualified for the quarter-finals, after which the knockout system continued.

Group A

rank	country	S.	G	V	U	Gates	Diff.	Points
1	Turkey	5	4th	0	1	26: 6	+20	13
2	Brazil	5	3	2	0	30:20	+10	09
3	Lithuania	5	2	1	2	33:20	+13	08th
4th	Finland	5	2	0	3	16:24	−8	06th
5	Sweden	5	1	2	2	16:15	−9	05
6th	United Kingdom	5	0	4th	1	9:35	−26	01

game	date	encounter			Erg.
1	August 30th	Lithuania	-	United Kingdom	11: 1
1		Finland	-	Brazil	5: 6
1		Turkey	-	Sweden	9: 2
2	August 31	Lithuania	-	Finland	10-0
2		United Kingdom	-	Turkey	1: 7
2		Brazil	-	Sweden	4: 5
3	September 1	Turkey	-	Finland	4-0
3		Sweden	-	United Kingdom	3: 3
3		Brazil	-	Lithuania	12: 5
4th	September 2nd	United Kingdom	-	Finland	3: 7
4th		Sweden	-	Lithuania	5: 5
4th		Turkey	-	Brazil	4: 1
5	September 4th	Finland	-	Sweden	5: 5
5		United Kingdom	-	Brazil	1: 7
5		Lithuania	-	Turkey	2: 2

Group B

rank	country	S.	G	V	U	Gates	Diff.	Points
1	Iran	5	4th	1	0	32:20	+12	12
2	People's Republic of China	5	3	1	1	20:14	+6	10
3	Belgium	5	3	1	1	19:16	+3	10
4th	Algeria	5	2	3	0	18:17	+1	06th
5	South Korea	5	1	4th	0	18:28	−10	03
6th	Canada	5	1	4th	0	16:28	−12	03

game	date	encounter			Erg.
1	August 30th	China	-	Iran	5: 9
1		South Korea	-	Algeria	4: 3
1		Canada	-	Belgium	2: 4
2	August 31	China	-	South Korea	11: 4
2		Iran	-	Canada	9: 2
2		Algeria	-	Belgium	5: 2
3	September 1	Iran	-	South Korea	4: 3
3		Belgium	-	Iran	8: 6
3		Algeria	-	China	0: 1
4th	September 2nd	Iran	-	South Korea	4: 3
4th		Belgium	-	China	0-0
4th		Canada	-	Algeria	6: 8
4th	September 3	South Korea	-	Belgium	3: 5
4th		Iran	-	Algeria	4: 2
4th		China	-	Canada	3: 1

Final round

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

Turkey

3

Algeria

1

Turkey

0

Finland

2

Iran

1

Finland

5

Finland

8th

Brazil

1

Brazil

3

Belgium

0

Brazil

2

3rd place match

Lithuania

1

People's Republic of China

4th

Turkey

4th

Lithuania

12

Lithuania

1

Women

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

Group C

rank	country	S.	G	V	U	Gates	Diff.	Points
1	People's Republic of China	4th	4th	0	0	28: 4	+24	12
2	United Kingdom	4th	2	1	1	10: 9	+1	07th
3	Brazil	4th	2	2	0	8:15	−7	06th
4th	Finland	4th	1	2	1	10:13	−3	04th
5	Denmark	4th	0	4th	0	3:18	−15	00

game	date	encounter			Erg.
1	August 30th	China	-	United Kingdom	7: 1
1		Denmark	-	Brazil	0: 8
2	August 31	Finland	-	United Kingdom	1: 1
2		Brazil	-	China	0: 8
2	September 1	Denmark	-	Finland	2: 3
3	September 2nd	United Kingdom	-	Brazil	3: 1
3	September 3	China	-	Denmark	8: 1
4th		Brazil	-	Finland	5: 4
4th	September 4th	United Kingdom	-	Denmark	5-0
4th		Finland	-	China	2: 5

Group D

rank	country	S.	G	V	U	Gates	Diff.	Points
1	Canada	4th	3	1	0	6: 3	+3	9
2	Japan	4th	2	1	1	5: 3	+2	07th
3	Sweden	4th	2	1	1	11:11	0	07th
4th	United States	4th	2	2	0	9: 4	+5	06th
5	Australia	4th	0	4th	0	7:17	−10	00

game	date	encounter			Erg.
1	August 30th	United States	-	Sweden	5: 1
1	August 31	Australia	-	Japan	1: 3
2	September 1	Canada	-	Sweden	1: 2
2		Japan	-	United States	2: 1
3	September 2nd	Australia	-	Canada	1: 3
3		Sweden	-	Japan	0-0
3	September 3	United States	-	Australia	3-0
4th		Japan	-	Canada	0: 1
4th	September 4th	Sweden	-	Australia	8: 5
4th		Canada	-	United States	1-0

Final round

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

People's Republic of China

5

United States

0

People's Republic of China

4th

Finland

1

Finland

2

Canada

1

People's Republic of China

0

Japan

1

United Kingdom

1

Sweden

2

Sweden

3

3rd place match

Japan

4th

Japan

2

Finland

1

Brazil

0

Sweden

5

Goalball medal table

Goalball medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
01	Finland	1	-	-	2
01	Japan	1	-	-	1
03	Brazil	-	1	-	1
03	People's Republic of China	-	1	-	1
05	Sweden	-	-	1	1
05	Turkey	-	-	1	1