Football 7-a-side at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
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2008 Summer Paralympics
The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games, the thirteenth Paralympics, took place in Beijing, China from September 6 to September 17, 2008. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in Qingdao....
was held at the Olympic Green Hockey Field
Olympic Green Hockey Field
The Olympic Green Hockey Field was one of nine temporary venues used for the 2008 Summer Olympics. It hosted the field hockey competitions during those games....
from September 8 to September 16. One event was contested, a men's team competition.
Classfication
The sport of 7-a-side football is for people with cerebral palsy; athletes classified as CP5 through CP8 may take part. The classification system grades player by the extent of their disability, with lower numbers corresponding to more severe impairment. At least one CP5 or CP6 player, and no more than three CP8 players, may be on the field at a given time.Qualification
| Match | Qualification Criteria | Amount | Nations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006/2007 Zonal Qualify Tournament (Team qualify with this must reach top 10 in world championship, otherwise the slots will allocate to highest rank and not qualifed team in the world championship) | 2006 European CPISRA Football 7-a-side Championship | 1 | |
| 2006 FESPIC Games | 1 | ||
| 2007 Para-Pan America Games | 1 | ||
| 2007 CPISRA Football 7-a-side World Championship | Top 4 in the team not qualifed | 4 | |
| 1 | |||
| 2 | |||
| Host Nation | Auto-qualification if take part in either 2007 World Championship or 2006/07 Zonal Championship | 1 | |
| Total | 8 | ||
- The slot was won by team ScotlandScotlandScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
but is allocated to the unified team of Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. - The rank of the united team of England and Wales is higher than Ireland, but only one team can represent Great Britain, so the Republic of Ireland qualified as following best non-qualified team.
Competition format
The eight teams were divided into two even groups for a single round robin group stage. The top two teams of each group qualified for the semifinal, while the lower two teams from each group competed for 5th through 8th places. Games consisted of two 30-minute halves. A victory ceremony was held just after the finish of the gold medal match, at 18:00 on September 16.Group A
| Team | P | W | D | L | G | GA | GD | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 9 | ||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 6 | ||
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 14 | |||
| 3 | ||||||||
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 22 | |||
| 0 |
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Group B
| Team | P | W | D | L | G | GA | GD | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 9 | ||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 6 | ||
| 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 12 | |||
| 1 | ||||||||
| 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 12 | |||
| 1 |
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5th-8th classfication
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Semifinal
----Bronze medal match
Final
Medallists
| Men's team | Volodymyr Antonyuk (captain) Kostyantyn Symashko Vitaliy Trushev Serhiy Vakulenko Taras Dutko Anatolii Shevchyk Oleksandr Devlysh Ivan Shkvarlo Andriy Tsukanov Denys Ponomaryov Mykola Mikhovych Ihor Kosenko Coach: Sergiy Ovcharenko |
Ivan Potekhin (captain) Alexander Lekov Lasha Murvanadze Pavel Borisov Aleksey Tumakov Alexey Chesmin Andrey Kuvaev Oleg Smirnov Andrey Lozhechnikov Georgy Nadzharyan Mamuka Dzimistarishvili Stanislav Kolykhalov Coach: Avtandil Baramidze |
Ardeshir Mahini (captain) Esmaeil Malekzadeh Bahman Ansari Morteza Heidari Ehsan Gholam-Hosseinpour Moslem Akbari Abdolreza Karimzadeh Habibollah Heidari-Mehr Gholamreza Najafi Hadi Safari Rasoul Atash-Afrouz Coach: Alireza Raadi |