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Boccia At The 2008 Summer Paralympics – Individual BC2
The Boccia Individual BC2 event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was held in the Olympic Green Convention Center on 7–9 September. The preliminary stages consisted of 7 round-robin groups of 4 competitors each. The winner of each group plus the best second place player qualified for the final stages. The event was won by Kwok Hoi Ying Karen, representing Hong Kong. Results * indicates matches in which an extra (fifth) end was played Preliminaries Pool A Pool B Pool C Pool D Pool E Pool F Pool G Competition bracket References {{DEFAULTSORT:Boccia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics - Individual BC2 Boccia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paralympic Boccia
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" – '. 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 (along with goalball) that have no counterpart in the Olympic sports, Olympic program. About the game Boccia can be played by individuals, pairs, or teams of three. All events are mixed gender. The aim of the game is to throw leather balls — coloured red or blue (which side uses which is det ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loung John
Loung Ung ( km, អ៊ឹង លួង; born 19 November 1970) is a Cambodian American human-rights activist, lecturer and national spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine-Free World, between 1997 and 2003. She has served in the same capacity for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which is affiliated with the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation. Born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Ung was the sixth of seven children and the third of four girls to Seng Im Ung and Ay Choung Ung. At the age of 10, she escaped from Cambodia as a survivor of what became known as "the Killing Fields" during the reign of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime. After emigrating to United States and assimilating, she wrote two books which related to her life experiences from 1975 through 2003. Biography Memoirs Ung's first memoir, '' First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers'', details her experiences in Cambodia from 1975 until 1980: "From 1975 to 1979—through execution, starvatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Cortez
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Vesa Koivuniemi
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Tammy Lee McLeod
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Yan Zhiqiang
Yan Zhiqiang is a Chinese Paralympic Games, paralympic Boccia, boccia player. He participated at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the Boccia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, boccia competition, being awarded the silver medal in the Boccia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Individual BC2, individual BC2 event. Zhiqiang also participated in the Boccia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Team BC1–2, team BC1–2 event, being awarded the silver medal with his teammates Weibo Yuan, Zhang Qi (boccia), Zhang Qi and Kai Zhong. He participated at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the Boccia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, boccia competition, being awarded the bronze medal in the Boccia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Individual BC2, individual BC2 event. Zhiqiang also participated at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in the Boccia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, boccia competition, winning no medal. References External links Paralympic Games profile Living people Place of birth missi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Cordero (boccia)
Pedro Cordero Martín (born 28 January 1972) is a Spanish boccia player. He represented Spain at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Paralympics, winning a bronze medal at both the 2004 and 2008 games in the BC1-BC2 boccia team event. Personal Cordero was born 28 January 1972 in Badalona, Province of Barcelona, and in 2012 was living in the nearby town of Olesa de Montserrat. He has cerebral palsy. Before he concentrated on boccia, he participated in athletics and cycling. , he was working as an office automation consultant, and is the athlete representative on the Catalan Sports Federation of Cerebral Palsy. Boccia Cordero is classed as a BC2 boccia competitor, a category for players with cerebral palsy who are able to throw the ball without assistance. His first major international medal came at the 2003 World Cup in New Zealand: he won bronze as an individual and silver as part of the Spain team. At the 2004 Paralympics, he reached the semifinal of the individual BC2 clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wong Wing Hong
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John Norsterud
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Cristina Gonçalves
Cristina Gonçalves (born 15 September 1977) is a Portugal, Portuguese boccia player who has cerebral palsy, She has competed for her country and won medals at several Summer Paralympics. Career Cristina Gonçalves was born on 15 September 1977 in Lisbon, Portugal. When she was 11 months old, she contracted meningitis resulting in cerebral palsy. She began competing nationally in boccia in 1998, having taken up the sport at the age of 14. She is classified as BC2 (classification), BC2. Gonçalves' first overall victory came in 2003 in the boccia World Cup in New Zealand. She attended her first Summer Paralympics in 2004 Summer Paralympics, 2004 in Athens, Greece, where she won a gold medal as part of the Boccia at the 2004 Summer Paralympics – Team BC1–2, team BC1-2 competition with a victory over New Zealand at the 2004 Summer Paralympics, New Zealand. She continued to compete at successive Paralympic Games, where she won a silver medal in the Boccia at the 2008 Summer Paral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoe Robinson
Zoe Robinson is a British boccia player who won a gold medal in the Team BC1–2 event at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. She went on to win a bronze in the same event at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, UK. Life Robinson was born in Bury and went to school in the Tottington area of Greater Manchester. At the 2008 Games Robinson competed in the BC1-2 mixed team and the B2 mixed individual events. She was eliminated at the group stage of the individual competition after losing all three of her matches. Alongside Robinson in the British quartet for the BC1-2 team competition were Nigel Murray, the individual silver medallist in Beijing who had previously won gold at the 2000 Summer Paralympics, Dan Bentley and David Smith. Victories over Canada, Argentina, Norway and China earned Great Britain a place in the final against reigning gold medallists Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timo Ollikka
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