| Boccia – Pairs BC3 at the XIV Paralympic Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | ExCeL London | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 2 September 2012 – 4 September 2012 | ||||||||||||
| Teams | 8 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Boccia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics | |
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| Individual | |
| BC1 | |
| BC2 | |
| BC3 | |
| BC4 | |
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| BC1–2 | |
| Pairs | |
| BC3 | |
| BC4 | |
The mixed pairs BC3 boccia event at the 2012 Summer Paralympics was contested from 2 to 4 September at ExCeL London.
| Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD |
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 Ye-Jin Choi / Ho-Won Jeong / Kim Han-soo (KOR) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 7 | 14 |
 Maria-Eleni Kordali / Nikolaos Pananos / Grigorios Polychronidis (GRE) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 13 | -5 |
 Jessica Hunter / Scott McCowan / Jacob Thomas (GBR) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 12 | -1 |
 Bruno Garneau / Paul Gauthier / Monica Martino (CAN) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 16 | -8 |
| Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Pieter Cilissen / Kirsten de Laender / Pieter Verlinden (BEL) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 4 | 18 |
 Armando Costa / José Macedo / Luis Silva (POR) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 10 |
 Somboon Chaipanich / Tanimpat Visaratanunta (THA) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 12 | -1 |
 Veronica Pamies Morera / Sandra Pena Cortes / Jose Rodriguez Vazquez (ESP) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 28 | -27 |
| Semifinals | Gold medal match | |||||||
| A1 | South Korea (KOR) | 3 | ||||||
| B2 | Portugal (POR) | 4 | ||||||
| B2 | Portugal (POR) | 1 | ||||||
| A2 | Greece (GRE) | 4 | ||||||
| B1 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | ||||||
| A2 | Greece (GRE) | 7 | Bronze medal match | |||||
| A1 | South Korea (KOR) | 3 | ||||||
| B1 | Belgium (BEL) | 4 | ||||||
Boccia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics consisted of seven events. The competitions were held in the Beijing National Convention Center from September 7 to September 12.
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.
Great Britain competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom, from 29 August to 9 September 2012 as the host nation. A total of 288 athletes were selected to compete along with 13 other team members such as sighted guides. The country finished third in the medals table, behind China and Russia, winning 120 medals in total; 34 gold, 43 silver and 43 bronze. Multiple medallists included cyclist Sarah Storey and wheelchair athlete David Weir, who won four gold medals each, and swimmer Stephanie Millward who won a total of five medals. Storey also became the British athlete with the most overall medals, 22, and equal-most gold medals, 11, in Paralympic Games history.
BC3 is a Paralympic boccia classification. The class is open to people with several different types of disabilities, including cerebral palsy. BC3 players have events open to them in boccia on the Paralympic Games program.
BC4 is a Paralympic boccia classification.
Grigorios Polychronidis (Greek: Γρηγόρης Πολυχρονίδης) is a Greek boccia player with a Paralympic boccia classification of BC3. His specific disability is Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
The mixed pairs BC4 boccia event at the 2012 Summer Paralympics was contested from 2 to 4 September at ExCeL London.
Dirceu José Pinto was a Brazilian Paralympic boccia player with muscular dystrophy. He won individual and pairs gold medals at the 2008 and 2012 Paralympics in the BC4 category. At the 2016 Olympics he placed second in the mixed pairs.
Eliseu dos Santos is a Paralympic boccia player of Brazil who competes in the BC4 category. He took up the sport in 2005. At the 2008 and 2012 Paralympics he won individual bronze medals and shared gold medals in pairs with Dirceu Pinto. At the 2016 Paralympics he won a silver medal in the mixed pairs.
The individual BC3 boccia event at the 2012 Summer Paralympics is being contested from 5 to 8 September at ExCeL London.
The Mixed Pairs BC3 boccia competition at the 2004 Summer Paralympics was held from 26 to 28 September at the Ano Liosia Olympic Hall.
The Mixed Pairs BC4 boccia competition at the 2004 Summer Paralympics was held from 26 to 28 September at the Ano Liosia Olympic Hall.
Thailand competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016.
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.
Luís Silva is a Paralympian boccia player who won a silver medal at the 2012 Paralympic Games in Mixed Pairs BC3 with Armando Costa and José Macedo.
Daniel Michel is an Australian boccia player. He represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics and 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. He won the bronze medal in the Mixed B3 at the Tokyo Paralympics.
Boccia at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, took place at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre. There were expected to be 116 qualification slots across eight mixed events: four individual events, two pairs events and one team event.
Maria-Eleni Kordali is a Greek boccia player with a Paralympic boccia classification of BC3. Her specific disability is cerebral palsy. She won the gold medal during the 2012 Summer Paralympics in BC3 mixed pairs along with Nikolaos Pananos and Grigorios Polychronidis.
Anna Ntenta is a Greek boccia player with a Paralympic boccia classification of BC3. She won the bronze medal during the 2016 Summer Paralympics in BC3 mixed pairs along with Nikolaos Pananos and Grigorios Polychronidis and also a second bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in BC3 mixed pairs along with Grigorios Polychronidis and Anastasia Pyrgioti.
Zhang Qi is a Chinese boccia player competing in the BC1 classification.
