2017 – World Boccia

17 October 2017

BISFed sends condolences to the friends and family of José-Luis Campo

BISFed was saddened to hear the tragic news that Jose-Luis Campo, President of the Americas Paralympic Committee passed away suddenly yesterday. José-Luis was a fantastic ambassador for Paralympic sport, and a wonderful friend of the game of boccia. He was…

13 October 2017

BISFed 2017 Bangkok World Open – Results Booklet

The final results booklet for the BISFed 2017 Bangkok World Open Individual competition is available: HERE

3 October 2017

Live Streaming from Bangkok

Live streaming will be available for the event in Thailand this week on Facebook. The link to the official Facebook page is HERE. There will be a minimum of 8 matches each day with athletes from 15 countries around…

29 September 2017

Update from BISFed’s Board

The board met by conference call again on 14th September to discuss the latest issues surrounding boccia. Key highlights from the meeting were:

28 September 2017

Live Streaming from Kansas

Subscribe to USA Boccia to watch all of the action from the last 5 days of competition in Kansas!

21 September 2017

New Female Quota in BISFed-sanctioned Competitions

BISFed promotes the growing participation of women in its sanctioned events. As recently announced, boccia has been granted an increased allocation of slots at the 2020 Paralympic Games and the number of slots reserved for females will also be…

5 September 2017

Bid Documents Released

Documents are out for members that want to bid for 2019 and 2020 events:

4 September 2017

IPC announces athlete allocation for Tokyo 2020; Boccia gets 8 more slots

BISFed received good news following today’s meeting of the International Paralympic Committee’s Global Board in Abu Dhabi.

1 September 2017

2018 BISFed Provisional Competition Calendar

The BISFed Competition Committee can now announce the provisional schedule for the 2018 season. Final details are subject to negotiation with Host Organising Committees and there are 4 events that will be announced shortly.

27 August 2017

Congratulations Katerina & Grigorios

Greek BC3 World Number 2, Greg Polychronidis married his long time assistant, Katerina Patroni last week. The pair enjoyed a beautiful wedding and are now straight back into training ready for the 2017 BISFed World Open in Kansas at the…

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