Boccia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Boccia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics was held in Riocentro, in the Barra district of Rio de Janeiro in September 2016, with a maximum of 104 athletes (24 women, 80 gender unspecified) competing in seven events. The programme consisted of four individual events, two pairs events, and one team event, spread across four classifications.

Boccia at the XV Paralympic Games
Venue	Riocentro, Barra Cluster
Dates	10–16 September 2016
Competitors	104

Classification

When competing in boccia at national or international level, the athletes were competing in events with different classifications, based on level of physical disability.

• BC1 - Cerebral palsy.
  • Locomotor dysfunction affecting the whole body.
  • Use hands or feet to propel the ball into play
  • May be assisted by an aide.
• BC2 - Cerebral palsy.
  • Locomotor dysfunction affecting the whole body
  • Use hands to propel the ball into play
  • Not assisted by an aide.
• BC3 - Cerebral palsy or another disability.
  • Locomotor dysfunction in all four limbs.
  • Use the help of a ramp to propel the ball into play.
  • Assisted by an aide (ramper).
• BC4 - Not cerebral palsy, but another disability, for example muscular dystrophy or tetraplegia.
  • Locomotor dysfunction in all four limbs
  • Use hands to propel the ball into play
  • Not assisted by an aide.

Events

All events in boccia are mixed gender. there are four individual events, two pairs events and a combined classification team event.

Boccia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics - Events
Classification	Events
	Individual	Pairs	Team
BC1	●	—	●
BC2	●
BC3	●	●	—
BC4	●	●

Qualification

An NPC can enter one BC1/BC2 Team consisting of four athletes of which a minimum of one must be in the BC1 sport class. An NPC can enter one BC3 Pair consisting of three athletes. An NPC can enter one BC4 Pair consisting of three athletes.

The number of female athletes representing an NPC must be: ƒ - at least one female athlete for NPCs qualifying one Team or Pair; ƒ - at least two female athletes for NPCs qualifying two or three Team/Pairs.

An NPC can enter a maximum of three athletes in each of the Individual medal events.

Qualified teams

Competition		BC1/BC2 Team		BC3 Pairs		BC4 Pairs
		Qualified Teams	Quota	Qualified Teams	Quota	Qualified Teams	Quota
Host Nation		Brazil (BRA)	4	Brazil (BRA)	3	Brazil (BRA)	3
BISFED 2015 Boccia Regional Championships	Europe London	Great Britain (GBR)	4	Belgium (BEL)	3	Slovakia (SVK)	3
	Asia Hong Kong	Thailand (THA)	4	South Korea (KOR)	3	China (CHN)	3
	Americas Montreal	Argentina (ARG)	4	Brazil (BRA)  Canada (CAN)	3	Canada (CAN)	3
BISFED 2015 Boccia World Team Rankings 30 April 2016		Slovakia (SVK)  Portugal (POR)  Spain (ESP)  Japan (JPN)  China (CHN)  South Korea (KOR)  Hong Kong (HKG)  Netherlands (NED)	32	Greece (GRE)  Portugal (POR)  Great Britain (GBR)  Singapore (SIN)	12	Hong Kong (HKG)  Great Britain (GBR)  Thailand (THA)  Hungary (HUN)	12
BISFED 2015 Boccia World Individual Rankings 30 April 2016		BC1  Greece (GRE)  Norway (NOR) BC2  Israel (ISR)  Mexico (MEX)  Canada (CAN)	5	Japan (JPN)  Hong Kong (HKG)  Czech Republic (CZE)  Sweden (SWE)  Australia (AUS)	5	South Korea (KOR)  Portugal (POR)	2
Total Athletes - 108			53		29		26

Competition schedule

Competition lasts from 10 to 16 September. Each day , contains a morning and afternoon session.

OC

Opening ceremony

Preliminaries

●

finals

CC

Closing ceremony

September 2016	7 Wed	8 Thu	9 Fri	10 Sat	11 Sun	12 Mon	13 Tue	14 Wed	15 Thu	16 Fri	17 Sat	18 Sun	Gold medals
Boccia	OC					●   ●  ●				●  ●   ●  ●		CC	7

Participating nations

103 athletes from 23 nations competed.

•  Argentina (4)
•  Australia (1)
•  Belgium (3)
•  Bermuda (1)
•  Brazil (10)
•  Canada (6)
•  China (6)
•  Czech Republic (2)
•  Great Britain (10)
•  Greece (5)
•  Hong Kong (8)
•  Israel (1)
•  Japan (5)
•  Mexico (1)
•  Netherlands (3)
•  Norway (1)
•  Portugal (10)
•  Singapore (2)
•  Slovakia (7)
•  South Korea (8)
•  Spain (4)
•  Sweden (1)
•  Thailand (7)

Medal summary

The Boccia tournament in Rio 2016 was dominated by the traditional Asian powers, with four golds, three of the four individual titles, and nine medals in total, shared between Thailand, South Korea and Hong Kong. Great Britain took the other individual gold in the Individual BC1 class through David Smith, while Slovakia and hosts Brazil shared the two pairs titles on offer.

Medalists

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual	BC1	David Smith  Great Britain	Daniel Perez  Netherlands	Yoo Won-jeong  South Korea
	BC2	Watcharaphon Vongsa  Thailand	Worawut Saengampa  Thailand	Yan Zhiqiang  China
	BC3	Jeong Ho-won  South Korea	Grigorios Polychronidis  Greece	José Carlos Macedo  Portugal
	BC4	Leung Yuk Wing  Hong Kong	Samuel Andrejcik  Slovakia	Pornchok Larpyen  Thailand
Pairs	BC3	Brazil Evelyn de Oliveira Evani Soares da Silva Antônio Leme	South Korea Jeong Ho-won Kim Han-soo Choi Ye-jin	Greece Anna Ntenta Nikolaos Pananos Grigorios Polychronidis
	BC4	Slovakia Róbert Ďurkovič Michaela Balcová Samuel Andrejčík	Brazil Dirceu Pinto Eliseu dos Santos Marcelo dos Santos	Thailand Pornchok Larpyen Luanchan Phonsila Chaloemphon Tanbut
Team	BC1–2	Thailand Pattaya Tadtong Watcharaphon Vongsa Worawut Saengampa Supin Tipmanee	Japan Takayuki Kitani Takayuki Hirose Yuriko Fujii Hidetaka Sugimura	Portugal Abílio Valente António Marques Cristina Gonçalves Fernando Ferreira

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Brazil)

Rank	NPC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Thailand	2	1	2	5
2	South Korea	1	1	1	3
3	Brazil*	1	1	0	2
	Slovakia	1	1	0	2
5	Great Britain	1	0	0	1
	Hong Kong	1	0	0	1
7	Greece	0	1	1	2
8	Japan	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
10	Portugal	0	0	2	2
11	China	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		7	7	7	21

External links

• - Rankings at CPISRA