| Event: | Boccia |
| Games: | 2016 Summer |
| Venue: | Riocentro, Barra Cluster |
| Dates: | 10–16 September 2016 |
| Competitors: | 104 |
| Prev: | 2012 |
| Next: | 2020 |
Boccia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics[1] was held in Riocentro, in the Barra district of Rio de Janeiro in September 2016, with a maximum of 104 athletes (24 women, 80 gender unspecified) competing in seven events. The programme consisted of four individual events, two pairs events, and one team event, spread across four classifications.
When competing in boccia at national or international level, the athletes were competing in events with different classifications, based on level of physical disability.[2] [3]
All events in boccia are mixed gender. there are four individual events, two pairs events and a combined classification team event.
| Boccia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics - Events | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Classification | Events | ||
| Individual | Pairs | Team | |
| BC1 | ● | ● | |
| BC2 | ● | ||
| BC3 | ● | ● | rowspan="2" |
| BC4 | ● | ● | |
An NPC can enter one BC1/BC2 Team consisting of four athletes of which a minimum of one must be in the BC1 sport class. An NPC can enter one BC3 Pair consisting of three athletes. An NPC can enter one BC4 Pair consisting of three athletes.
The number of female athletes representing an NPC must be: - at least one female athlete for NPCs qualifying one Team or Pair; - at least two female athletes for NPCs qualifying two or three Team/Pairs.
An NPC can enter a maximum of three athletes in each of the Individual medal events.[4]
| Competition | BC1/BC2 Team | BC3 Pairs | BC4 Pairs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualified Teams | Quota | Qualified Teams | Quota | Qualified Teams | Quota | |||
| Host Nation | 4 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| BISFED 2015 Boccia Regional Championships[5] | Europe London | 4 | 3 | 3 | ||||
Asia  Hong Kong | 4 | 3 | 3 | |||||
Americas  Montreal | 4 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| BISFED 2015 Boccia World Team Rankings 30 April 2016[7] | 32 | 12 | 12 | |||||
| BISFED 2015 Boccia World Individual Rankings 30 April 2016 | BC1 BC2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | ||||
| Total Athletes - 108 | 53 | 29 | 26 | |||||
Competition lasts from 10 to 16 September. Each day, contains a morning and afternoon session.[8]
| OC | Opening ceremony | Preliminaries | ● | finals | CC | Closing ceremony |
103 athletes from 23 nations competed.
The Boccia tournament in Rio 2016 was dominated by the traditional Asian powers, with four golds, three of the four individual titles, and nine medals in total, shared between Thailand, South Korea and Hong Kong. Great Britain took the other individual gold in the Individual BC1 class through David Smith, while Slovakia and hosts Brazil shared the two pairs titles on offer.
| Individual | BC1 | |||||
| BC2 | nowrap | |||||
| BC3 | nowrap | |||||
| BC4 | ||||||
| Pairs | BC3 | Jeong Ho-won Kim Han-soo Choi Ye-jin | nowrap | Anna Ntenta Nikolaos Pananos Grigorios Polychronidis | ||
| BC4 | Róbert Ďurkovič Michaela Balcová Samuel Andrejčík | Dirceu Pinto Eliseu dos Santos Marcelo dos Santos | Pornchok Larpyen Luanchan Phonsila Chaloemphon Tanbut | |||
| Team | nowrap | BC1–2 | Pattaya Tadtong Watcharaphon Vongsa Worawut Saengampa Supin Tipmanee | Takayuki Kitani Takayuki Hirose Yuriko Fujii Hidetaka Sugimura | Abílio Valente António Marques Cristina Gonçalves Fernando Ferreira |