Boccia at the 2004 Summer Paralympics

Boccia
Boccia
Boccia is a traditional recreational sport, similar to bocce. The name Boccia is derived from the Latin word for boss – bottia. The sport is competed at national and international level, by athletes who require a wheelchair because of physical disability...

at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
2004 Summer Paralympics
The 2004 Summer Paralympics were held in Athens, Greece, from September 17 to September 28. The twelfth Paralympic Games, an estimated 4,000 athletes took part in the Athens programme, with ages ranging from 11 to 66. Paralympic events had already taken place during the 2004 Summer Olympics as...

took place in the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall in Athens

Athens

Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...

. Contestants were categorised as follows:

BC1: players with cerebral palsy
Cerebral palsy
Cerebral palsy is an umbrella term encompassing a group of non-progressive, non-contagious motor conditions that cause physical disability in human development, chiefly in the various areas of body movement....

, competing with the help of an aide, who can only adjust the playing chair and give a ball to the player.
BC2: players with cerebral palsy not requiring an aide.
BC3: players with a very severe locomotor dysfunction, using an assistive device and assisted by an aide, who will remain in the player's box but who must keep his/her back to the court and eyes averted from play.
BC4: players with other locomotor disabilities, without an aide.

Medal summary

Individual BC1
Individual BC2
Individual BC3
Individual BC4
Team BC1/BC2	Joao Paulo Fernandes João Paulo Fernandes João Paulo dos Santos Fernandes is a Portuguese boccia player and three-time Paralympic champion.He took two gold medals at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, and one gold and one silver at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing.... Fernando Ferreira Fernando Ferreira Fernando José Almeida Sequeira Ferreira is a Portuguese footballer who is playing for C.F. Os Belenenses, as a midfielder.- External links :* *... Cristina Goncalves Antonio Marques	Ross Flood Ross Flood Aaron Ross Flood was an American wrestler who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 he won the silver medal in the Freestyle bantamweight competition.... Jeremy Morriss Liam Sanders Maurice Toon	Francisco Javier Beltran Antonio Cid Cortes Pedro Cordero Jose Javier Curto
Pairs BC3	Myung Hoon An Seong Hyeon Park	Santiago Pesquera Jose Manuel Rodriguez	Paul Gauthier Alison Kabush
Pairs BC4	Yan Chi Lau Yuk Wing Leung	Fernando de Oliveira Pereira Bruno Valentim	Dezső Béres József Gyurkota

Medal table

1	2	3	1	6
2	2	0	0	2
3	1	2	2	5
4	1	0	1	2
4	1	0	1	2
6	0	1	0	1
6	0	1	0	1
8	0	0	1	1
8	0	0	1	1

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