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Boccia At The 2012 Summer Paralympics – Individual BC2
The individual BC2 boccia event at the 2012 Summer Paralympics was contested from 5 to 8 September at ExCeL London ExCeL London (an abbreviation for Exhibition Centre London) is an exhibition centre, international convention centre and former hospital in the Custom House, Newham, Custom House area of London Borough of Newham, Newham, East London. It is sit .... Seeding matches Two preliminary matches were held to determine the participants' seed for the tournament bracket. Draw Finals 5th–8th place matches Top half Bottom half Final ranking References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Boccia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics - Individual BC2 Individual BC2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ExCeL London
ExCeL London (an abbreviation for Exhibition Centre London) is an exhibition centre, international convention centre and former hospital in the Custom House, Newham, Custom House area of London Borough of Newham, Newham, East London. It is situated on a site on the northern quay of the Royal Victoria Dock in London Docklands, located between Canary Wharf and London City Airport History The centre was designed by Moxley Architects and built by Sir Robert McAlpine. It opened in November 2000. In May 2008 it was acquired by Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company. Phase II of development, which included building London's first International Convention Centre (ICC) and creating an "eastern arrival experience", was completed on 1 May 2010 with Phase 3 expected to be completed by 2023/24. In 2015, CentrEd at ExCeL was opened, which expanded the centre's facilities to incorporate training and meeting space near the western entrance of the venue overlooking Royal Victoria Dock. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Ferreira (boccia)
Fernando Ferreira can refer to: * Fernando Ferreira (boccia), Portuguese Paralympic medalist in boccia * Fernando Ferreira (cyclist) (born 1952), Portuguese cyclist * Fernando Ferreira (footballer) (born 1986), Portuguese footballer * Fernando Ferreira (high jumper) (born 1994), Brazilian high jumper See also * Fernando Fonseca Fernando Manuel Ferreira Fonseca (born 14 March 1997) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a right-back for AVS Futebol SAD. Club career Porto Born in Porto, Fonseca joined FC Porto's youth system in 2009, from neighbours Boa ... (born 1997), full name Fernando Manuel Ferreira Fonseca, Brazilian footballer * Fernanda Ferreira (other) {{hndis, Ferreira, Fernando ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watcharaphon Vongsa
Watcharaphon Vongsa ( th, วัชรพล วงษา, born 15 October 1990) is a Thai boccia player who represented Thailand at the 2012, 2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses duri ... and 2020 Summer Paralympics, and won four Paralympic gold medals in total. References External links * * Watcharaphon Vongsa Watcharaphon Vongsa Watcharaphon Vongsa Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Paralympic medalists in boccia Boccia players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Boccia players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Boccia players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Sportspeople with cerebral palsy Watcharaphon Vongsa 1990 births Living people Watcharaphon Vongsa Medalists at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hidetaka Sugimura
is a Japanese boccia player. He has represented Japan since 2010 and in the Summer Paralympics since 2012. Career Sugimura and his teammates Yuriko Fujii, Takayuki Hirose and Takayuki Kitani helped secure Japan's first ever silver medal in Boccia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics The 2016 Summer Paralympics (), the 15th Summer Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for disabled sports, athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, fro .... During the 2020 Summer Paralympics, he won the gold medal in the individual BC1 event and a bronze medal at the mixed team event. References 1982 births Living people Sportspeople from Shizuoka Prefecture Paralympic medalists in boccia Boccia players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Boccia players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Boccia players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2020 Sum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mongkol Jitsa-Ngiem , different romanization of the same Thai term, referring to a talismanic headgear used in ''Muay Thai''
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Mongkol ( km, មង្គល, links=no, th, มงคล, links=no, meaning ''auspicious'', from sa, maṅgala, links=no) may refer to: *Mongkol (name) * Mongkol Borei District, a district of Banteay Meanchey Province in north eastern Cambodia *Mongkol Borei River, a river that flows through the district to the Tonle Sap * Mongkol Borei (town), the capital of Mongkol Borei District * Robas Mongkol, a commune in north-western Cambodia See also * Mangala (other) *Mongkhon Mongkon ( th, มงคล ) is a type of headgear worn by Muay Thai athletes. The Mongkhon is given to a boxer after their trainer saw that the student had become an experienced fighter and learned a great deal of knowledge about Muay Thai. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Cordero Martin
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 c ... [...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] |
Adam Dukovich
Adam; el, Ἀδάμ, Adám; la, Adam is the name given in Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, ''adam'' is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as "mankind". tells of God's creation of the world and its creatures, including ''adam'', meaning humankind; in God forms "Adam", this time meaning a single male human, out of "the dust of the ground", places him in the Garden of Eden, and forms a woman, Eve, as his helpmate; in Adam and Eve eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge and God condemns Adam to labour on the earth for his food and to return to it on his death; deals with the birth of Adam's sons, and lists his descendants from Seth to Noah. The Genesis creation myth was adopted by both Christianity and Islam, and the name of Adam accordingly appears in the Christian scriptures and in the Quran. He also features in subsequent folkloric and mystical elaborations in later Judaism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen (hoi Ying) Kwok
Karen may refer to: * Karen (name), a given name and surname * Karen (slang), a term and meme for a demanding woman displaying certain behaviors People * Karen people, an ethnic group in Myanmar and Thailand ** Karen languages or Karenic languages * House of Karen, a historical feudal family of Tabaristan, Iran * Karen (singer), Danish R&B singer Places * Karen, Kenya, a suburb of Nairobi * Karen City or Hualien City, Taiwan * Karen Hills or Karen Hills, Myanmar * Karen State, a state in Myanmar Film and television * ''Karen'' (1964 TV series), an American sitcom * ''Karen'' (1975 TV series), an American sitcom * ''Karen'' (film), a 2021 American crime thriller Other uses * Karen (orangutan), the first to have open heart surgery * AS-10 Karen or Kh-25, a Soviet air-to-ground missile * Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network * Tropical Storm Karen (other) See also * Karren (name) * Karyn (given name) * Keren, Eritrea a city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Dan Bentley
Daniel James Bentley (born 15 August 1984 in Chelmsford) is a Paralympic boccia player with cerebral palsy. At the 2008 Beijing Paralympics he was part of the first British team to win gold at boccia at the Paralympics, in the Team BC1-2 category. He competed again as part of the team for Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It is ... at the 2012 London Paralympics, taking bronze in the Team BC1–2 event. References 1984 births Living people Paralympic boccia players for Great Britain Boccia players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Boccia players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for Great Britain Paralympic bronze medalists for Great Britain Cerebral Palsy category Paralympic competitors Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paraly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
