Boccia (/ˈbɒtʃə/ BOTCH-ə) is a precision ball sport, similar to bocce, and related to bowls and pétanque. The name "boccia" is derived from the Latin word...
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Vito Genovese (redirect from Ferdinand Boccia)
Ferdinand Boccia. Genovese and Boccia had conspired to cheat a wealthy gambler out of $150,000 in a high-stakes card game. After the game, Boccia demanded...
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Boccia is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Edward Boccia (1921–2012), American painter and poet Ferdinand Boccia (1900–1934), American...
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Edward Eugene Boccia (1921–2012) was an Italian American painter and poet who lived and worked in St. Louis, Missouri and served as a university professor...
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Boccia at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France took place at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. There were 124 qualification slots (48 female...
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Boccia has been contested at the Summer Paralympics since the 1984 Games in New York City and Stoke Mandeville. This sport requires strategy and precision...
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Ernest Rupolo (section The Boccia murder)
Genovese and Ferdinand Boccia had conspired to cheat a wealthy gambler out of $150,000 in a high-stakes card game. After the game, Boccia demanded a share of...
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Will Arnott (category Paralympic boccia players for Great Britain)
December 2024) was a British Paralympian who made his Paralympic debut in boccia at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris. Arnott was diagnosed with muscular...
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The mixed pairs BC3 boccia event at the 2024 Summer Paralympics will be contested between 2 and 4 September 2024 at the South Paris Arena. Since this event...
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Francesco Boccia (born 18 March 1968) is an Italian academic and politician of the Democratic Party (PD) who served as Minister of Regional Affairs and...
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Pizzonia allegedly murdered mobster Frank Boccia at the family's request. The Gambinos ordered Boccia's murder because he had punched his mother-in-law...
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The men's individual BC1 boccia event at the 2024 Summer Paralympics is being contested between 28 August and 2 September 2024 at the South Paris Arena...
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The men's individual BC3 boccia event at the 2024 Summer Paralympics will be contested between 29 August and 2 September 2024 at the South Paris Arena...
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Hiromi Endo (born 14 July 1986) is a Japanese boccia player. She is a bronze medalist at the Boccia World Championships and the Summer Paralympics. Endo...
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The mixed pairs BC4 boccia event at the 2024 Summer Paralympics will be contested between 2 and 4 September 2024 at the South Paris Arena. Since this event...
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Fernando Manuel da Costa Ferreira (born 23 September 1971) is a Portuguese boccia player. He has competed for his country and won medals at several Summer...
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José Manuel Rodríguez Vázquez (born 2 September 1980) is a Spanish boccia player, who has represented the country internationally at the Paralympic Games...
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The women's individual BC1 boccia event at the 2024 Summer Paralympics will be contested between 28 August and 2 September 2024 at the South Paris Arena...
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The men's individual BC4 boccia event at the 2024 Summer Paralympics will be contested between 29 August and 2 September 2024 at the South Paris Arena...
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Alison Levine (born May 11, 1990) is a Canadian boccia competitor. Levine grew up in Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec. She attended JPPS Elementary School and Bialik...
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The women's individual BC3 boccia event at the 2024 Summer Paralympics will be contested between 29 August and 2 September 2024 at the South Paris Arena...
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Tunisia at the 2024 Summer Paralympics (section Boccia)
the Paralympics "Boccia - Paris 2024". Paris 2024. 7 January 2023. "Cairo 2023 World Boccia Africa Regional Championships". World Boccia. 7 January 2023...
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The women's individual BC4 boccia event at the 2024 Summer Paralympics will be contested between 29 August and 2 September 2024 at the South Paris Arena...
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The men's individual BC2 boccia event at the 2024 Summer Paralympics will be contested between 28 August and 2 September 2024 at the South Paris Arena...
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Cronin is an Irish boccia player. He won a gold medal alongside Margaret Grant at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in the mixed pairs BC3 boccia event. Cronin began...
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Stephen McGuire (category Paralympic boccia players for Great Britain)
Stephen William McGuire MBE (born 18 August 1984) is a Scottish Boccia player from Bellshill, Scotland. McGuire was born on 18 August 1984, in Bellshill...
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Camillo Tanio Boccia (15 June 1911 – 12 March 1982), was an Italian film director and screenwriter active between the 1950s and the early 1970s. From 1960...
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Boccia at the 2004 Summer Paralympics took place in the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall in Athens. Contestants were categorised as follows: BC1: players with...
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footballer) (1923–1992), Irish Gaelic footballer John Cronin (boccia), Paralympic boccia player This disambiguation page lists articles about people with...
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