Goalball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Medalists

Classification

Qualification

Men's

Women's

References

External links

Men's

Women's

Competition Format

Group stage

Tournament bracket

11/12 Classification

Competition format

Preliminary stage

Tournament bracket

Group A

Group B

Goalball at the XIII Paralympic Games
Paralympic Goalball
Venue	Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium
Dates	7–14 September 2008

Goalball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was held in the Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium from September 7 to September 14. The competition consisted of men's and women's team events, and what had been billed as one of the most open tournaments certainly lived up to expectations.

In the women's gold medal game, the lead changed hands five times, with the USA outlasting China by a score of 6–5, with never more than one goal in it. The winning goal came from Asya Miller with less than a minute to go.

The gold medal in the men's game was even more dramatic. Lithuania, the current world champions, took advantage of a clutch of penalties in the first half to jump ahead of China by 6 goals to 2 at the half, and looked to be holding on despite a steady comeback. With only 50 seconds on the clock, the Chinese were two goals behind (6–8) but managed to overturn the deficit with three goals in 30 seconds to take the gold 9–8, sending the packed BIT Gymnasium into rapture.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	China (CHN) Bao Daolei Cai Changgui Chen Liangliang Du Jinran Yang Chunhong Yao Yongquan	Lithuania (LTU) Arvydas Juchna Saulius Leonavicius Nerijus Montvydas Genrik Pavliukianec Zydrunas Simkus Marius Zibolis	Sweden (SWE) Mikael Akerberg Jimmy Bjorkstrand Stefan Gahne Niklas Hultqvist Oskar Kuus Fatmir Seremeti
Women	United States (USA) Jen Armbruster Lisa Banta Jackie Barnes Jessie Lorenz Asya Miller Robin Theryoung	China (CHN) Chen Fengqing Fan Feifei Lin Shan Wang Ruixue Wang Shasha Xu Juan	Denmark (DEN) Karina Joergensen Maria Larsen Mette Nissen Kamilla Ryding Ninna Thomsen Lykke Vedsted

Players are given a classification depending on the type and extent of their disability. Visually impaired athletes in classes B1 through B3 can take part in goalball. Partially sighted players wear blindfolds so that they compete on equal terms with blind players.

There will be 12 men's teams and 8 women's teams taking part in this sport.

Qualified by 2006 IBSA World Goalball Championships
- Lithuania
- Sweden
- United States
- Slovenia
- Canada
- Denmark
Qualified by goalball event of 2007 IBSA World Games
- Spain
- Brazil
- Iran
- Finland
- Belgium
Qualified as host nation
- China

Qualified by 2006 IBSA World Goalball Championships(*)
Qualified by goalball event of 2007 IBSA World Games(*)
- Germany
- Brazil
- Sweden
- Japan
Qualified as host nation
- China

Note: The slots allocated to 2006 World Championships is 4, but as host nation China PR win the silver medal, so the 1 unused slots is allocated to 2007 World Games, so the slots of 2007 World Games add to 4.

The twelve men's teams were divided into two even groups for a single round robin group stage. The top four teams of each group will advance to the quarter finals to compete for 1st through 8th place, while the last two teams of each group compete for 9th through 12th place. All matches in the second stage are knock-out format.

	Qualified for the quarterfinals


2008-09-07
Lithuania	9 – 5	Belgium
Denmark	2 – 2	Spain
Slovenia	7 – 2	Finland
2008-09-08
Finland	5 – 15	Lithuania
Slovenia	4 – 2	Denmark
Belgium	12 – 6	Spain
2008-09-09
Finland	4 – 11	Denmark
Lithuania	10 – 0	Spain
Belgium	5 – 6	Slovenia
2008-09-10
Spain	9 – 11	Slovenia
Finland	8 – 5	Belgium
Denmark	1 – 10	Lithuania
2008-09-11
Denmark	13 – 6	Belgium
Lithuania	6 – 7	Slovenia
Spain	3 – 7	Finland


2008-09-07
Sweden	8 – 6	Brazil
Canada	9 – 5	Iran
United States	3 – 13	China
2008-09-08
China	13 – 8	Sweden
United States	2 – 8	Canada
Brazil	5 – 8	Iran
2008-09-09
China	11 – 2	Canada
Sweden	10 – 5	Iran
Brazil	4 – 6	United States
2008-09-10
Iran	3 – 4	United States
China	14 – 4	Brazil
Canada	5 – 6	Sweden
2008-09-11
Canada	3 – 6	Brazil
Sweden	9 – 1	United States
Iran	8 – 6	China

Quarterfinals (2008-09-12)			Semifinals (2008-09-13)				Gold medal game (2008-09-14)

1	Lithuania	10
8	Canada	0
				Lithuania	10

				Sweden	3
4	Sweden	4

5	Denmark	2
								Lithuania	8
								China	9
3	Slovenia	2
6	United States	4
				United States	0	Bronze medal game

				China	4
2	China	7						Sweden	5

7	Finland	6						United States	2

2008-09-12

Spain

3 – 7

Brazil

The eight women's teams will play a single round robin tournament. The top four teams advance to the semi-final to compete for 1st through 4th place.

	Qualified for the semifinals

Team	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD
China (CHN)	6	1	0	21	7	+14
Brazil (BRA)	2	1	4	21	24	−3
Canada (CAN)	2	3	2	15	13	+2
Sweden (SWE)	3	1	3	30	27	+3
United States (USA)	4	2	1	18	11	+7
Japan (JPN)	2	0	5	8	16	−8
Denmark (DEN)	4	2	1	13	9	+4
Germany (GER)	0	0	7	8	27	−19


2008-09-07
China	5 – 3	Brazil
Canada	3 – 3	Sweden
United States	2 – 0	Japan
Denmark	4 – 1	Germany
2008-09-08
United States	2 – 0	Denmark
China	3 – 0	Germany
Brazil	6 – 5	Canada
Sweden	4 – 1	Japan
2008-09-09
Canada	3 – 0	Japan
Brazil	3 – 1	Germany
Sweden	1 – 2	Denmark
China	4 – 0	United States
2008-09-10
Germany	0 – 1	Canada
Japan	1 – 2	Denmark
Sweden	3 – 5	China
Brazil	2 – 2	United States
2008-09-11
Japan	1 – 3	China
Brazil	4 – 5	Sweden
Germany	0 – 4	United States
Canada	2 – 2	Denmark
2008-09-12
United States	1 – 1	Canada
Denmark	0 – 0	China
Japan	3 – 1	Brazil
Germany	5 – 10	Sweden
2008-09-13
Denmark	3 – 2	Brazil
Germany	1 – 2	Japan
United States	7 – 4	Sweden
Canada	0 – 1	China

Semifinals
	United States	4
	Denmark	3	Gold medal game
				United States	6
Semifinals				China	5
	China	1 (3)
	Sweden	1 (2)		Bronze medal game
				Denmark	3
				Sweden	2

China-Sweden PSC

"Schedules and Results – Goalball". The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Retrieved 2008-09-13.

Slovenia (SLO)

Lithuania (LTU)

Denmark (DEN)

Finland (FIN)

Belgium (BEL)

Spain (ESP)

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