All eyes were on court 3 and 5 at the beginning of the afternoon session. A packed arena with over 5,000 spectators watched on as Dirceu Pinto, Eliseu Dos Santos and Marcelo Dos Santos booked their place in the…
The morning session saw an end to Great Britain and Brazil’s chance to get a medal in the Team competition. Great Britain were beat 11-0 in their contest with favourites Thailand and Brazil narrowly lost out 6-5 Portugal. The…
On a noisy day in Carioca 2 the home boccia fans were not left disappointed!
All the noise was directed towards the only Brazilian athletes in action on court number 4. The BC1/BC2 team took an early lead but their…
We’ve looked at the strength of the teams from Asia, we’ve looked at who might provide a challenge from Europe and we’ve had a thorough look at what the Brazilian athletes have to offer but now its time to…
The 2016 Rio Paralympic Games get underway later today so when better to take a look at the Brazilian team to see how likely they will be able to turn home advantage into medals!
It is going to take strong performances to prevent the current World umber 1’s from taking home the gold medals in Rio. Pattaya Tadtong (Thailand), Zhiqiang Yan (China), Ho Won Jeong (Korea) and Yuk Wing Leung (Hong Kong) will…
Anybody new to boccia would be forgiven for looking at the current world rankings and thinking that Asian athletes dominate the game. All 7 disciplines have an individual, team or pair from Asia sat firmly at the top of…
The training schedule and equipment check has been updated. Please see the updated documents here:
Dear Members: Please note the current classification list has been published on the Classification page of the site (http://www.bisfed.com/about-boccia/classification/) Should you have any questions contact admin@bisfed.com.
BISFed are please to release the Boccia training schedule for the Paralympic Games. Training commences on the 31st August and runs through to the end of the competition on the 16th September (no sessions on the 7th September due…
