World Rankings Update

Following the end of the 2018 Boccia World Championships, the BISFed World Rankings have been updated with the results. The Boccia World Championships provides the highest Ranking points of any BISFed competition, along with the Paralympic Games.

12 of the participating 33 countries earned medal positions at the World Championships.

The ranking points won during the period from 1st January 2018 to 31st December 2019 will qualify athletes to the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.

You can view the rankings here or see the main movers below!

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Individual BC1

World Ranking moves: No changes in Rank 1, 2 & 5. However Witsanu Huadpradit has moved up to 3^rd after being ranked 6^th before the World Championship and Mikhail Gutnik has gone down from 3^rd to 4^th.

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Individual BC2

World Ranking moves: The current two top seeds have changed positions in the new Ranking. With Worawut Saengampa moving from 3^rd to 1^st and Watcharaphon Vongsa down one position from 1^st to 2^nd. Maciel Santos from Brazil has moved down one position from 2^nd to 3^rd. The biggest jump in the Ranking is from Zhiquiang Yan who has moved up to 4^th from a 12^th Rank before the World Championship. And Hidetaka Sugimura has also climbed from 10^th to the current 5^th Rank.

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Individual BC3

World Ranking moves: No changes in the 1^st and 2^nd Ranking. Daniel Michel has climbed 3 positions from 6^th to 3^rd and Howon Jeong has had an even bigger climb from 11^th to 4^th. Yuen Kei Ho has gone down one position, from 4^th before the World Championship to 5^th.

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Individual BC4

World Ranking moves: Yusansen Zheng from China has had a superb climb from 11^th in the World Ranking to 1^st. Euclides Grisales has climbed two positions to 2^nd and both Stephen McGuire and Pornchok Larpyen have fallen two positions to 3^rd and 4^th respectively. Alison Levine from Canada has climbed from 7^th to the 5^th World Ranking position.

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Pairs BC3

World Ranking moves: Other than South Korea, remaining in the 2^nd position, all other countries have shuffled around. Greece has climbed from 4^th to 1^st; Australia has climbed from 6^th to 3^rd; and both Brazil and Great Britain have fallen in the Rankings. Brazil from 1^st to 4^th and GB from 3^rd to 5^th.

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Pairs BC4

World Ranking moves: Slovakia keep their World Ranking position at the top and both Hong Kong China and Thailand have climbed in the Ranking. Hong Kong China from 3^rd to 2^nd and Thailand from 6^th to 3^rd. Great Britain have fallen from 2^nd to the current 4^th position and Colombia have fallen from 4^th to 5^th.

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Team BC1/BC2

World Ranking moves: Interestingly there have been no changes in the Rankings for the Team competition.