| Boccia at the VIII Paralympic Games | |
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 Paralympic Boccia | |
Boccia at the 1988 Summer Paralympics consisted of three events.
| Boccia at the VIII Paralympic Games | |
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| Paralympic Boccia | |
Boccia at the 1988 Summer Paralympics consisted of three events.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| Mixed individual C1 | Yun Kang-no  South Korea | Henrik Jorgensen  Denmark | João Alves  Portugal |
| Mixed individual C2 | Thomas Leahy  Ireland | Lee Jin-woo South Korea | Fernando Ferreira Portugal |
| Mixed team C1–C2 |  Portugal (POR)João Alves António Marques Maria Melo |  South Korea (KOR)Choi Koh-dong Jung Yu-seok Yun Kang-no |  Denmark (DEN)Lone Bak-Pedersen Henrik Jorgensen Mansoor Siddiqi |
Boccia is a precision ball sport, similar to bocce, and related to bowls and pétanque. The name "boccia" is derived from the Latin word for "boss" – bottia. The sport is contested at local, national and international levels, by athletes with severe physical disabilities. It was originally designed to be played by people with cerebral palsy but now includes athletes with other severe disabilities affecting motor skills. In 1984, it became a Paralympic sport and as of 2020, 75 boccia national organizations have joined one or more of the international organizations. Boccia is governed by the Boccia International Sports Federation (BISFed) and is one of only two Paralympic sports that have no counterpart in the Olympic program.
Portugal competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. The country participated with 35 competitors in seven sports.
Nigel Patrick Murray is a British Paralympic athlete. He is twelve time English National Champion and seven time British Champion and multiple Paralympic medal winner in the sport of boccia.
Boccia at the 1984 Summer Paralympics consisted of five events.
Boccia has been contested at the Summer Paralympics since the 1984 Games in New York City and Stoke Mandeville. Five boccia events were held at those games, two for men, two for women, and one mixed event where men and women competed together. Since then, all boccia events at the Paralympics have been mixed. Athletes in this sport have cerebral palsy and are given a classification according to the extent of their disability. There were originally two classes, C1 and C2, with C1 corresponding to those with more severe impairment. In 1996 a "C1 with aid device" class was added, and in 2000 the system was changed to have four classes, BC1 through BC4.
Greece, the birthplace of the Ancient Olympic Games that hosted the inaugural 1896 Summer Olympics, did not compete in the Summer Paralympics until 1976 and in the Winter Paralympics until 2002, but since then the Greeks have taken part in every edition of both events. Although the Greek delegation traditionally enters first during the parade of nations at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, this tradition does not apply to the Paralympics, where Greece enters within alphabetical order. The National Paralympic Committee for Greece is the Hellenic Paralympic Committee.
Boccia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics was held in the ExCeL from 2 September to 8 September, with a maximum of 104 athletes competing in seven events. There were four individual events, two pair events, and one team event.
Paralympics Ireland is the National Paralympic Committee in Ireland for the Paralympic Games movement. It is a non-profit organisation that selects teams, and raises funds to send Irish competitors to Paralympic events organised by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
Tom Leahy is a paralympic athlete from Ireland competing mainly in category BC2 Boccia events and F32 throwing events. Leahy competed in eight Paralympic Games. He won three Paralympic gold medals, three silver medals, and two bronze medals.
Boccia classification is the classification system governing boccia, a sport designed specifically for people with disabilities. Classification is handled by Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association. There are four classifications for this sport. All four classes are eligible to compete at the Paralympic Games.
Francisco Javier Beltrán Manero is a Spanish boccia player, who has represented the country internationally at the Paralympic Games.
José Manuel Rodríguez Vázquez is a Spanish boccia player, who has represented the country internationally at the Paralympic Games. Vazquez won a gold medal in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens.
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 competing in seven events. The programme consisted of four individual events, two pairs events, and one team event, spread across four classifications.
Belgium competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016.
Terry Hudson is a paralympic athlete from Great Britain competing mainly in category C1 events.
Boccia was the first cerebral palsy sport to be added to the Paralympic program in the 1984 Summer Paralympics.
Leung Yuk Wing is a Hong Kong boccia player. He competed for Hong Kong at the Summer Paralympics. He won two gold medals at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. He won a silver medal four years later at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. He also competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. At the 2016 Summer Paralympics, he won a gold medal. At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, he won a bronze medal in the individual event and a silver medal in the pairs event.
Pornchok Larpyen is a Thai boccia player who represented Thailand at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Paralympics. He won two bronze medals at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, one in the Pairs BC4 event and another in the Individual BC4 event.
Josh Vander Vies is a Canadian lawyer and former Paralympic athlete. He won a bronze medal for doubles boccia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London before retiring.
José Carlos Chagas de Oliveira is a Brazilian paralympic boccia player. He participated at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in the boccia competition, being awarded the bronze medal in the mixed individual BC1 event. Carlos Chagas de Oliveira also participated at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and 2016 Summer Paralympics in the boccia competition, winning no medal in both.
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