BISFed President David Hadfield and Vice President Joaquim Viegas visited Rio de Janeiro this week for progress meetings on preparation for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.
At the General Assembly in September 2014, BISFed announced that it would redesign the organisation structure enable to Federation to focus on the most important areas of work and to spread the workload more evenly.
The first entry for the 2015 Boccia World Open in Poznan is now open. All forms are attached and the first entry deadline is the 13th February.
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.
