Brazil’s four-time Paralympic boccia champion Direcu Jose Pinto has set his sights on winning gold at August’s Parapan American Games to underline his credentials as the man to beat at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.
We are asking all of our members to give us information about referees, classifiers and officials ahead of our busy 2015 competition schedule.
Our Referees Committee is working with our event hosts to allocate referees for our competitions. Members in…
As part of BISFed’s ‘Making Boccia Accessible’ project, we have entered into an agreement with Handi Life Sports to manufacture and supply sets of ‘BISFed Standard Boccia Balls.’ These high quality boccia balls represent excellent value for money and…
I trust you all enjoyed your boccia in 2014 as much as I did watching some fantastic competition – whether this was live at the World Championships in Beijing, or on-line at one of the World Open events..
Having recently become members, Azerbaijan hosted their first ever boccia National Championships on Saturday 6th December, in Baku.
The mascots for the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games have been unveiled this week.The mascots, yet to be named, were joined by mascots from previous games as they were unveiled. Fans can help chose their names by voting…
We are now welcoming bids from our members for our 2016 Boccia events. The 2015 calendar has been filled with 7 events and a further 4 are scheduled to take place in 2016.
The countdown to the new year has begun!
Over the next 50 days the IPC will be revealing one moment each day up to the 31st December to celebrate another fantastic year for Paralympic sport.
September was another huge month of para-sport with four world and one European Championships taking place.
After some incredible performances across the board, the public now has the chance to vote for the Allianz Athlete of the Month for September…
Following the success of the 2014 Boccia World Championships in Beijing, BISFed held its first General Assembly meeting on Sunday 28th September, also in Beijing. 30 of BISFed’s 51 Member nations attended the General Assembly.
