Murray Ends Paralympic Boccia Career With Win

September 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Nigel Murray today (Friday) ended a Paralympic career that brought him four medals, watched by London 2012 chairman Lord Coe, on the final day of Boccia action at the ExCeL.

Murray, the top seed in individual BC2 tournament, suffered an upset quarter-final defeat on Thursday but won a play-off against Sohn Jeong-Min of Korea 7-2 to take 7th place overall.

“I didn’t actually see him [Lord Coe] but someone mentioned that he’d come in, so I thought I better put on a bit of show for him, rather than go out with a bit of a whimper,” said Murray. [Read more...]

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Medal Hopes For Day 7

September 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment

We have plenty more medal contenders competing today and hoping to add to the coveted collection of medals achieved so far.

Read on to find out who you should be keeping an eye on today… [Read more...]

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Britain’s Boccia Team Bronze Medallists

September 4, 2012 By 1 Comment

Great Britain’s defending champions recovered from a crushing semi-final defeat by winning BC1-2 Team bronze in front of another large crowd at the ExCeL.

Nigel Murray, Dan Bentley, David Smith and Zoe Robinson lost 18-1 to Thailand on Monday but they bounced back to beat Portugal 7-5, despite needing the judge’s measuring tape on several occasions.  [Read more...]

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Wells Wins Second Silver

September 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Equestrian competitor Sophie Wells performed the ride of her life in the grade IV Freestyle test this morning (Tuesday) but was beaten for gold by a brilliant Belgian for the second time in two days at Greenwich Park.

Wells won ParalympicsGB’s first medal of day six with a routine on Pinocchio which scored [Read more...]

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GB On Medal Target

September 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment

GB on target at ‘incredible Games’ say Paralympic chiefs.

ParalympicsGB chiefs hailed Britain’s great start to the London 2012 Games with the team second in the medal table and more than half way to their target total after “a challenging” first four days of competition. [Read more...]

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