GB gathered four medals at the BISFed 2018 World Boccia Open Povoa, Portugal. With only a month until the World Championships in Liverpool, three Scottish players contributed to 75% of Boccia UK’s medal haul.
World Number 2 Jamie McCowan was up against Greg Polychronidis of Greece but his winning run came to an end when he succumbed 0-5, to take the silver medal. Polychronidis was also responsible for Patrick Wilson’s defeat in the semi-final but he bounced back to take the bronze medal from another Greek, Anna Ntenta.
In the Individual BC4 World Number 1 Stephen McGuire rallied after a surprise loss in his first match to make it to the semi-finals, where he was beaten by old rival Samuel Andrecijk of Slovakia. He was unable to claim the bronze losing a tight match 3-4 to Pornchok Larpyen of Thailand.
Stephen did leave Portugal with a medal though as he teamed up with Evie Edwards and Louis Saunders to clinch BC4 Pairs bronze. The Slovakians again accounted for GB at the semi final stage but Canada were vanquished in the playoff to bring GB’s medal tally to four.
Neither the BC3 Pair nor BC1/BC2 Team were able to advance through the pool stages.
Full results are available from the BISFed website: http://www.bisfed.com/latest-results/