Summer Paralympics 2016 / Boccia

Boccia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
information
venue	Rio de Janeiro
Competition venue	Carioca Arena 2
Teams	40
Nations	23
Athletes	108 (including 26 women and 80 gender neutral)
date	10-16 September 2016
decisions	7th
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At the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro , medals were awarded in a total of seven boccia competitions. The decisions were made on September 12 and 16, 2016 in the Carioca Arena 2 .

Classes

There are four classes of Paralympic boccia competitions:

• BC1: Athletes with infantile cerebral palsy with motor disorders affecting the whole body. Play the ball with your hands or feet. Can be supported by a helper.
• BC2: Athletes with infantile cerebral palsy with motor disorders affecting the whole body. Play the ball with your hands. No help from a helper.
• BC3: Athletes with infantile cerebral palsy or similar diseases that affect all four limbs. Need the help of a ramp to be able to play the ball, whereby a helper can also be called in.
• BC4: Athletes who do not suffer from infantile cerebral palsy , but from diseases of muscular dystrophy or tetraplegia , all four limbs are affected. Playing the ball with their hands are not supported by an assistant.

Qualified teams

competition		BC1 / BC2 team		BC3 double		BC4 double
		Qualified teams	Attendees	Qualified teams	Attendees	Qualified teams	Attendees
Host		Brazil	4th	Brazil	3	Brazil	3
BISFED 2015 Boccia Regional Championships	Europe London United Kingdom	United Kingdom	4th	Belgium	3	Slovakia	3
	Asia Hong Kong	Thailand	4th	South Korea	3	People's Republic of China	3
	North / South America Montreal Canada	Argentina	4th	Brazil 1 Canada	3	Canada	3
BISFED 2015 Boccia World Team Rankings April 30, 2016		Slovakia Portugal Spain Japan People's Republic of China South Korea Hong Kong Netherlands	32	Greece Portugal United Kingdom Singapore	12	Hong Kong United Kingdom Thailand Hungary	12
BISFED 2015 Boccia World Individual Rankings April 30, 2016		BC1 Greece Norway BC2 Israel Mexico Canada	5	Japan Hong Kong Czech Republic Sweden Australia	5	South Korea Portugal	2
Total athletes - 108			53		29		26th

¹

The places to participate were canceled because Brazil had already qualified as an organizer.

Results

singles

Single BC1

space	country	athlete
1	GBR	David Smith
2	NED	Daniel Perez
3	COR	Yoo Won Yeong

Single BC2

space	country	athlete
1	THA	Watcharaphon Vongsa
2	THA	Woravut Saengampa
3	CHN	Yan Zhiqiang

Single BC3

space	country	athlete
1	COR	Jeong Ho Won
2	GRC	Grigorios Polychronidis
3	POR	José Carlos Macedo

Single BC4

space	country	athlete
1	HKG	Leung Yuk Wing
2	SVK	Samuel Andrejčík
3	THA	Pornchok Larpyen

team

Team BC1 / BC2

space	country	athlete
1	THA
2	JPN
3	POR

Double

Double BC3

space	country	athlete
1	BRA	Antônio Leme Evani Soares da Silva Evelyn de Oliveira
2	COR	Jeong Ho Won Kim Han Soo Choi Ye Jin
3	GRC	Anna Ntenta Nikolaos Pananos Grigorios Polychronidis

Double BC4

space	country	athlete
1	SVK	Samuel Andrejcik Michaela Balcová Róbert Ďurkovič
2	BRA	Dirceo Pinto Eliseu dos Santos Marcelo dos Santos
3	THA	Nuanchan Phonsila Pornchok Larpyen Chaloemphon Tanbut

Medal table

Boccia medal table
space	country				total
01	Thailand	2	1	2	5
02	South Korea	1	1	1	3
03	Brazil	1	1	-	2
	Slovakia	1	1	-	2
05	Great Britain	1	-	-	1
	Hong Kong	1	-	-	1
07th	Greece	-	1	1	2
08th	Japan	-	1	-	1
	Netherlands	-	1	-	1
10	Portugal	-	-	2	2
11	People's Republic of China	-	-	1	1

Web links

• Historical results on Paralympic.org
• Boccia on Rio2016.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bisfed Regional Team and Pairs Champs. Retrieved September 4, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Final World Rankings. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 1, 2016 ; accessed on September 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.