John Cronin is an Irish boccia player. He won a gold medal alongside Margaret Grant at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in the mixed pairs BC3 boccia event.
Cronin began playing boccia in 1996 and won a bronze medal two years later in the 1998 Boccia World Championships. He also earned two silver medals at the 1999 Boccia World Cup. [1] In the 2000 Summer Paralympics, his first Paralympic Games, Cronin won a gold medal with Margaret Grant in the mixed pairs BC3 boccia event. [2] [3] In the 2002 World Championships in Portugal, Cronin won two bronze medals. [1] He later competed in the mixed pairs BC3 boccia event at the 2004 Summer Paralympics but failed to qualify for a medal. [4] After winning another silver medal at the 2008 Boccia World Cup, Cronin and his partner Steven Valentine won a silver medal at the 2009 Boccia European Championships in Porto, Portugal. [1]
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.
2015 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. This year, some sporting events listed below are qualifying ones, for athletes, to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. From July 2015 to May 2016, the venues for the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics will be tested, by hosting various events in them.
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.
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Grigorios Polychronidis (Greek: Γρηγόρης Πολυχρονίδης) is a Greek boccia player with a Paralympic boccia classification of BC3. His specific disability is Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
Jeong Ho-won is a Paralympic boccia player from South Korea.
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.
South Korea competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016.
Slovakia competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016.
Belgium competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016.
Singapore competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016.
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.
Nikolaos Pananos, born on 29 March 1968 in Athens, is a Greek boccia player with a Paralympic boccia classification of BC3. His specific disability is cerebral palsy. He won the gold medal during the 2012 Summer Paralympics in BC3 mixed pairs along with Maria-Eleni Kordali and Grigorios Polychronidis. In the 2016 Summer Paralympics he won the bronze medal at the same event.
Thailand competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics from 24 August to 5 September 2021. This was the country's tenth appearance at the Paralympic Games.
Margaret Grant is an Irish boccia player. She won a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Paralympics with John Cronin in the Mixed pairs BC3 boccia event.
Spencer Cotie is an Australian boccia player. He represented Australia at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.
Jamieson Leeson is an Australian boccia player. She represented Australia at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.
Kirsten De Laender is a Belgian Paralympian. Her first Paralympics was London 2012, where she won a bronze medal in boccia for mixed pairs BC3. De Laender also competed in the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Yuriko Fujii is a Japanese boccia player. She won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the mixed pairs BC1-2 boccia event and a bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in the mixed team BC1-2 boccia event.