Adaptive sport: Porto trio in action at the Boccia World Cup | OneFootball

FC Porto has three representatives at the Boccia World Cup, which runs until Saturday at the Mário Mexia Municipal Multisports Pavilion in Coimbra. In the first two days of competition, Carla Oliveira has already secured qualification for the semi-finals.

The two-time European champion in the BC4 class started the tournament with two convincing victories – 10-0 against Slovakia’s Kristina Vazarova and 8-1 against Greece’s Chrysi Morfi Metzou – results that guaranteed her a place in the semi-finals. Before that, she will still face Hungary’s Alexandra Szabo in the group stage (Wednesday, 10:30 am).

Diogo Castro (BC3) followed in his teammate’s footsteps by defeating Sweden’s Christoffer Hagdahl 6-2 in the opening round and will face Greece’s Grigorios Plychronidis this Tuesday (4:10 pm).

National champion David Araújo (BC2) makes his group stage debut with two matches on the same day: first against the Netherlands’ Marco Dekker (Tuesday, 12:50 pm) and then against Indonesia’s Felix Ardi Yudha (Tuesday, 4:10 pm).

The matches of FC Porto’s athletes can be watched live on the World Boccia YouTube channel.

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