BOCCIA NEWS

Aurélie Aubert's Paralympic flame still burns brightly
Two months after the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, French boccia champion Aurélie Aubert looks back on winning her maiden gold medal on home soil and the unforgettable moment she extinguished the Paralympic flame at the Closing Ceremony

Best boccia moments of Paris 2024
Gender-specific medal events in individual competition were introduced at the Paralympics for the first time

Indonesia impress on Paralympic boccia debut
Medals galore for Indonesia at Paris 2024 in their first time competing in boccia, as all four of the team land on the podium in their first Games

Top medal moments on Day 8
Japan's Yui Kamiji and Manami Tanaka become first Japanese women to win wheelchair tennis gold

Hadfield receives Paralympic Order
Former President of World Boccia recognised with Paralympic Movement's highest honour

Top medal highlights from Day 5
Brazil's Gabriel Geraldo dos Santos Araujo completed his mission of winning three Para swimming golds at one Games

Smith: “Boccia gods were playing with me” in shock defeat
Three-time Paralympic boccia champion David Smith missed out on a medal in the men’s individual BC1 tournament at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

Top medal highlights from Day 4
Para archer Jason Tabansky was a late call-up but made the most of it, winning gold

Big moments on Day 4
Japan stun Australia in "miraculous" wheelchair rugby semi-final

Blind football kicks off on Day 4
Blind football athletes will launch their campaigns at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, while boccia will hand out its first medals

Costa’s great Paralympic boccia adventure
Portuguese star hopes fans will fall ‘in love’ with the sport as she aims for maiden gold

Ones to Watch in boccia
The ten boccia athletes you should be looking out for when the Paris 2024 Paralympics kick off in France this summer

Ntenta and Polychronidis on what it takes to win a Paralympic medal
The Tokyo 2020 boccia bronze medallists stars open up on the trials and triumphs of the path to the Paralympic podium

Adam Peska shares how boccia is the 'driving force in my life'
Adam Peska topped the podium in the individual BC3 tournament at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Three years later, the Czech star reflects on his journey and shares what he looks forward to at Paris 2024.

Introduction to boccia
All you need to know about boccia, a precision ball game that made its Paralympic debut 40 years ago

David Smith ‘rips up the rulebook’ in bid for boccia gold
Three-time Paralympic champion finds the fun in competing again ahead of his fifth Games

Road to Paris 2024: Get the latest on the qualification for the Paralympics
Get to know the major qualification events coming up and follow athletes on their journeys to the Games

Paralympic Games tickets to go on sale on 9 October
Half of the 2.8 million tickets available will be priced EUR 25 or less

Paris 2024 will be most spectacular Paralympics in history
Andrew Parsons pays tribute to work of Organising Committee on the one-year-to-go milestone

Rotterdam 2023: Top moments
From hosts dominance to multiple world records, the first multi-sport Championships saw sporting history made