Boccia events will take place between Thursday, August 29 and Thursday, September 5 in Paris. Taking its name from the Italian word for “ball,” boccia was originally developed as a competition for ...

Cerebral Palsy Sport (CPS) has produced Boccia Games Resource – which will allow anyone delivering the sport with access to a range of alternate games. Boccia Games Resource provides a number of ...

The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games kicks off tonight, with the opening ceremony beginning at 8 p.m. local time. The Games will feature 4,400 athletes representing 184 delegations who will compete in 22 ...

Nurulasyiqah Mohd Taha claimed Singapore's first gold in boccia at the 2014 Asean Para Games in Naypyidaw, Myanmar on Friday. The 29-year-old beat Thailand's Visaratanunta Tunimpat 9-0 in the women's ...

Pétanque, LUPs and gender diversity: welcome to the world of boccia! In our "24 Sports Chrono" series, we tell you everything you need to know about Olympic and Paralympic Games disciplines. On your ...

Boccia England has released results of its 2020 survey which the governing body says demonstrates the sport is making a difference to the lives of players, despite the coronavirus pandemic. The ...

Omar Hayward played in his opening game of the BC1 male division at the World Boccia Americas Regional Championships in Cali, Colombia, yesterday [October 7]. Hayward, competing in pool A, was ...

The court is silent as Sachin Chamaria eyes a singular white ball — the jack — resting in front of him. The 30-year-old wheelchair-bound paraplegic athlete studies the distance from the ball and the ...

The Bermuda boccia team of Omar Hayward, Steve Wilson and Yushae Desilva-Andrade began competition in the BISFed 2017 Regional Open Championships in Montreal today [April 29], recording three ...

One of the most distinctive and tense sports set to take place at the Paralympic Games in Japan is boccia, an event, like goalball, with no Olympic equivalent. A tactical target sport akin to bowls or ...

At the end of each round (both players taking six shots), the referee measures the closest ball to the target and awards a point to that player. If that player has additional balls closer to the ...

Boccia sounds remarkably simple. Throw one or more of six coloured balls closer to a white target ball, or jack, than your opponent. Simple? Think again. This sport is a combination of chess, snooker ...