Boccia at the 2004 Summer Paralympics explained

Event:	Boccia
Games:	2004 Summer
Venue:	Ano Liossia Olympic Hall
Dates:	23–28 September
Competitors:	84
Nations:	18
Prev:	2000
Next:	2008

Boccia at the 2004 Summer Paralympics took place in the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall in Athens. Contestants were categorised as follows:

• BC1: players with cerebral palsy, 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	João Paulo Fernandes Fernando Ferreira Cristina Gonçalves António Marques	Ross Flood Jeremy Morriss Liam Sanders Maurice Toon	Francisco Javier Beltran Antonio Cid Cortes Pedro Cordero José Javier Curto
Pairs BC3	An Myung-hoon Park Seong-hyeon	Santiago Pesquera José Manuel Rodríguez	Paul Gauthier Alison Kabush
Pairs BC4	Yan Chi Lau Yuk Wing Leung	Fernando de Oliveira Pereira Bruno Valentim	Dezső Béres József Gyurkota

References

Web site: Medallists: Athens 2004 Paralympic Games: Boccia. 18 October 2012. International Paralympic Committee. 7 January 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140107213439/http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/reports.php?type=event&criteria=0&games=2004PG&sport=5. dead.