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Boccia At The 1996 Summer Paralympics
Boccia at the 1996 Summer Paralympics consisted of five events. All events were mixed, meaning that men and women competed together. The 1996 Games marked the first year of separate competition for boccia players using an assistive device; a ramp or chute for delivering the balls onto the court. This group of very severely physically impaired athletes, unable to propel balls onto court using their limbs, would later become the separate BC3 classification. Medal table Participating nations * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Medal summary References * {{Paralympic Games Boccia 1996 Summer Paralympics events Boccia at the Summer Paralympics, 1996 1996 in bowls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boccia At The 1992 Summer Paralympics
Boccia at the 1992 Summer Paralympics consisted of three events. Medal summary Medal table References * {{Paralympic Games Boccia 1992 Summer Paralympics events Boccia at the Summer Paralympics, 1992 1992 in bowls, Paralympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kris Bignall
Kris Bignall (born 31 January 1979) is an Australian boccia Paralympian. He was born in Southport, Queensland. The pairs C/WAD team of Kris Bignall and Tu Huyhn were ranked as the seventh best pair in the world prior to the start of the games. They surprised the world when they won a bronze medal after beating Spain and New Zealand in the preliminaries, and after beating an American pair in the bronze medal match. Their medal was the first medal Australia had won in this sport in international competition. Kris Bignall also competed as an individual in the C1 WAD category. He made it to the medals play off stage, where he lost. See also * Australia at the 1996 Summer Paralympics The 1996 Summer Paralympics were held in the United States city of Atlanta. Australia competed in 13 of the 17 sports, winning medals in 10 of those sports. At the 1996 Summer Paralympics, Australia had the second highest medal tally of any coun ... References Bibliography * P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Summer Paralympics Events
File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on board; Eight people die in a blizzard on Mount Everest; Dolly the Sheep becomes the first mammal to have been cloned from an adult somatic cell; The Port Arthur Massacre occurs on Tasmania, and leads to major changes in Australia's gun laws; Macarena, sung by Los del Río and remixed by The Bayside Boys, becomes a major dance craze and cultural phenomenon; Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 crash-ditches off of the Comoros Islands after the plane was hijacked; the 1996 Summer Olympics are held in Atlanta, marking the Centennial (100th Anniversary) of the modern Olympic Games., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Centennial Olympic Park bombing rect 200 0 400 200 TWA FLight 800 rect 400 0 600 200 1996 Mount Everest disaster rect 0 200 30 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Paralympic Committee
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC; german: Internationales Paralympisches Komitee) is an international non-profit organisation and the global governing body for the Paralympic Movement. The IPC organizes the Paralympic Games and functions as the international federation for nine sports. Founded on 22 September 1989 in Düsseldorf, West Germany, its mission is to "enable Paralympic athletes to achieve sporting excellence and inspire and excite the world". Furthermore, the IPC wants to promote the Paralympic values and to create sport opportunities for all persons with a disability, from beginner to elite level. The IPC has a democratic constitution and structure and is composed of representatives from 182 National Paralympic Committees (NPCs), four international organizations of sport for the disabled (IOSDs) and five regional organizations. The IPC's headquarters is located in Bonn, Germany. Overview On the basis of being able to organize the Paralympic Games more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeong Yu-seok
Jeong (the Revised Romanization spelling of ) may refer to: * Jeong (surname) *Jung (Korean given name) Jung, also spelled Jeong or Jong, Chung, Chong is a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in many two-syllable Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. There are 84 hanja with the reading "''jung'' ... * Qing (concept), concept from Neo-Confucian philosophy {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoo Won-jeong
Yoo Won-jeong is a South Korean Paralympic Games, paralympic Boccia, boccia player. He participated at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the Boccia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, boccia competition, being awarded the bronze medal in the Boccia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Individual BC1, individual BC1 event. References External links Paralympic Games profile Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) South Korean boccia players Boccia players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Paralympic medalists in boccia Paralympic boccia players for South Korea Paralympic bronze medalists for South Korea 21st-century South Korean people {{SouthKorea-Paralympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Joon (boccia)
Kim Joon (born Kim Hyung-joon on February 3, 1984 in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi, South Korea) is a South Korean rapper and actor who rose to stardom with his portrayal of one of the famous F4 members in the 2009 hit drama '' Boys Over Flowers''. Career Kim Joon made his entertainment debut with the boyband T-Max in 2007, as a rapper and a songwriter for the group. In 2009, Kim became popular after playing the role of F4 member "Song Woo-bin" in the hit Korean drama '' Boys Over Flowers''. Together with his band, their song entitled "Paradise" was featured in the first edition of the ''Boys Over Flowers'' soundtrack. Other songs of T-Max that were featured in the subsequent editions of the ''Boys Over Flowers'' soundtrack were "Say Yes," "Wish You're My Love", "Fight The Bad Feeling," and "Bang Bang Boom". As a solo artist, Kim also had a single in the soundtrack titled "To Empty Out," which featured Kim Jo-han. He also released another song he had written himself, "Jun Be O.K.," a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Ferreira (boccia)
Fernando Ferreira can refer to: * Fernando Ferreira (boccia), Portuguese Paralympic medalist in boccia * Fernando Ferreira (cyclist) (born 1952), Portuguese cyclist * Fernando Ferreira (footballer) (born 1986), Portuguese footballer * Fernando Ferreira (high jumper) (born 1994), Brazilian high jumper See also * Fernando Fonseca (born 1997), full name Fernando Manuel Ferreira Fonseca, Brazilian footballer * Fernanda Ferreira (other) {{hndis, Ferreira, Fernando ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António Marques
Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular male baby names in the United States since the late 19th century and has been among the top 200 since the mid 20th century. In the English language it is translated as Anthony, and has some female derivatives: Antonia, Antónia, Antonieta, Antonietta, and Antonella'. It also has some male derivatives, such as Anthonio, Antón, Antò, Antonis, Antoñito, Antonino, Antonello, Tonio, Tono, Toño, Toñín, Tonino, Nantonio, Ninni, Totò, Tó, Tonini, Tony, Toni, Toninho, Toñito, and Tõnis. The Portuguese equivalent is António (Portuguese orthography) or Antônio (Brazilian Portuguese). In old Portuguese the form Antão was also used, not just to differentiate between older and younger but also between more and less important. In Gal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Silva (boccia)
Pedro Silva may refer to: * Pedro Adão e Silva (born 1974), Portuguese politician * Pedro da Silva (post courier) (1647–1717), Portuguese-Canadian post courier * Pedro Silva (baseball) (1900–?), Cuban baseball player * Pedro Silva (Portuguese footballer) (fl. 1929-1934), Portuguese football half-back *Pedro de Silva (born 1945), Spanish politician and writer * Pedro da Silva (athlete) (born 1966), Brazilian decathlete * Pedro Silva (swimmer) (born 1977), Portuguese freestyle swimmer *Pedro Silva (Brazilian footballer) Pedro Alves da Silva (born 25 April 1981) is a Brazilian retired Association football, footballer who played as a Defender (association football)#Full-back, right-back. Club career Silva was born in Brasília, Federal District (Brazil), Federal ... (born 1981), Brazilian football defender * Pedro da Silva (canoeist) (born 1993), Brazilian canoeist * Pedro Silva (footballer, born 1997), Portuguese goalkeeper {{hndis, Silva, Pedro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesus Fraile
Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label=Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader; he is the central figure of Christianity, the world's largest religion. Most Christians believe he is the incarnation of God the Son and the awaited Messiah (the Christ) prophesied in the Hebrew Bible. Virtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed historically. Research into the historical Jesus has yielded some uncertainty on the historical reliability of the Gospels and on how closely the Jesus portrayed in the New Testament reflects the historical Jesus, as the only detailed records of Jesus' life are contained in the Gospels. Jesus was a Galilean Jew who was circumcised, was baptized by John the Baptist, began his own ministry and was often referred to as "rabbi". Jesus debated with fellow Jews on ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
