Belgium at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

Belgium at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	BEL
NPC	Belgian Paralympic Committee
Website	www.paralympic.be
in London
Competitors	42 in 9 sports
Medals Ranked 36th	Gold 3 Silver 1 Bronze 3 Total 7
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Belgium competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom from August 29 to September 9, 2012.^[1]

Athletics[]

Men

Athlete	Events	Final
		Result	Rank
Gino De Keersmaeker	F42 Discus throw	40.17	6
Frederic Van den Heede	T46 Marathon	2.31.38 PR

Women

Athlete	Events	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Marieke Vervoort	T52 100 m	N/A				19.69 PR
	T52 200 m	N/A				34.83 RR

Boccia[]

Athlete	Event	Seeding matches		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
	Mixed individual BC3	N/A		(JPN) W 5-1	(KOR) L 2-5	Did not advance
				N/A	S Pena (ESP) W 8-2	(POR) L 1-4	Did not advance
Pieter Cilissen Kirsten De Laender	Mixed pairs BC3	Thailand W 7-1  Spain W 12-1  Portugal W 3-2	1 Q	N/A			Greece L 0-7	South Korea W 4-3

Cycling[]

Road[]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Kris Bosmans	Men's Road race C1-3	1:42:51	5
	Men's Road race C4-5	DNF
		37:15.51	12
	Men's Road race H1	1:55:06	4
		39:46.68	7
	Men's Road race H4	2:00:35
		26:24.00	4

Track[]

Time Trial

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Kris Bosmans		1:12.825	14
		1:14.689	19

Pursuit

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Time	Rank	Opponent Results	Rank
Kris Bosmans	Men's C3 Pursuit	3:52.453	10	Did not advance
	Men's C4 Pursuit	5:27.624	14	Did not advance

Equestrian[]

Individual

Athlete	Horse	Event	Total
			Score	Rank
		Individual championship test grade IV	68.000	8
		Individual freestyle test grade IV	69.550	9
Michèle George		Individual championship test grade IV	77.065
		Individual freestyle test grade IV	82.100
Barbara Minneci	Barilla	Individual championship test grade II	70.095	8
		Individual freestyle test grade II	73.100	6
		Individual championship test grade IV	71.613	4
		Individual freestyle test grade IV	75.000	5

Team

Athlete	Horse	Event	Test round		Final round		Total
			Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Barbara Minneci	See above		68.571	5
			68.625	6
Michèle George			72.906	2
			66.750	9

Goalball[]

Men's tournament[]

Squad list	Group stage		Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
	Canada W 4–2	3 Q
	Algeria L 2–5
	Iran W 8–6
	China D 0–0
	South Korea W 5–3

Group B

	Qualified for the quarterfinals
	Eliminated

Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Iran	5	4	0	1	32	20	+12	12
China	5	3	1	1	20	14	+6	10
Belgium	5	3	1	1	19	16	+3	10
Algeria	5	2	0	3	18	17	+1	6
South Korea	5	1	0	4	18	28	−10	3
Canada	5	1	0	4	16	28	−12	3

30 August 2012 16:15 v	Canada	2 – 4	Belgium	Copper Box, London Referees: Thomas Baerz (GER) Shinji Mizuno (JPN)
	2	Report	2 1 1

31 August 2012 21:00 v	Algeria	5 – 2	Belgium	Copper Box, London Referees: Ali Aldarsony (KSA), Juha Vuokila (FIN)
	3 2	Report	1 1

1 September 2012 18:30 v	Belgium	8 – 6	Iran	Copper Box, London Referees: Morten Hammershoi (DEN), Juha Vuokila (FIN)
	3 3 1 1	Report	3 Jafari 2 1

2 September 2012 15:00 v	Belgium	0 – 0	China	Copper Box, London Referees: Hooshang Shariati (IRI), Warrick Jackes (AUS)
		Report

3 September 2012 09:00 v	South Korea	3 – 5	Belgium	Copper Box, London Referees: Juha Vuokila (FIN), Morten Hammershoi (DEN)
	2 1	Report	2 2 1

Quarter-final

5 September 2012 19:30 v	Brazil	3 – 0	Belgium	Copper Box, London Referees: Tony Connolly (USA), Vilma Venckutonyte (LTU)
	2 1	Report

Swimming[]

Men

Athlete	Events	Heats		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sven Decaesstecker	100 m backstroke S10	1:04.63	10	Did not advance
	200 m individual medley SM10	2:17.51	5 Q	2:15.99	5
	200 m freestyle S14	2:07.47	13	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke S14	1:09.02	15
	100 m breaststroke SB14	1:18.57	14

Women

Athlete	Events	Heats		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Tamara Medarts	200 m freestyle S14	2:30.10	15	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke S14	1:20.61	13
	100 m breaststroke SB14	1:23.51	6 Q	1:24.58	7

Table tennis[]

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
	Singles class 7	(CHI) W 3-1   (UKR) L 0-3	2	Did not advance
Marc Ledoux	Singles class 8	(BRA) W 3-0  M Skrzynecki (POL) L 1-3	2	Did not advance
Mathieu Loicq		A McKibbin (GBR) W 3-2   (CHN) L 0-3	2	Did not advance
Marc Ledoux Mathieu Loicq	Team class 6-8	France W 3-2		Poland L 2-3	Did not advance

Wheelchair rugby[]

Squad list
Peter Genyn

Group stage

	Qualified for the semifinals
	Eliminated

Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	G	GA	GD	Pts
Australia (AUS)	3	3	0	0	182	142	+40	6
Canada (CAN)	3	2	0	1	163	166	–3	4
Sweden (SWE)	3	1	0	2	151	155	–4	2
Belgium (BEL)	3	0	0	3	135	168	–33	0

5th–8th place semi-finals

Wheelchair tennis[]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
	Men's singles	S Olsson (6) (SWE) L 0-6 0-6	Did not advance
Joachim Gérard (11)		(BRA) W 6-3 6-2	S Welch (USA) W 7-6(4) 6-2	N Peifer (8) (FRA) W 6-3 2-6 7-5	R Vink (4) (NED) L 6(4)-7 6-2 3-6	Did not advance
Annick Sevenans (7)	Women's singles	N/A	H Koosz (AUT) W 6-0 6-1	Y Kamiji (JPN) L 6(3)-7 2-6	Did not advance
Joachim Gérard	Men's doubles	N/A	/ (RSA) W 6-2 6-3	McCarroll/Reid (7) (GBR) L 4-6 3-6	Did not advance

References[]