Belgium men's national goalball team
 Belgium men's team throwing at Australia, 2018 World Championships, Malmö, Sweden (2018). | |
| Nicknames | Belgian Bulls |
|---|---|
| Sport | Goalball |
| League | IBSA |
| Division | Men |
| Region | IBSA Europe |
| Location | Belgium |
| Colours | Red, white, black, yellow |
| Championships | Paralympic Games medals:
 : 0  : 0  : 1 |
| Parent group | Belgian Paralympic Committee |
| Website | www |
Belgium men's national goalball team is the men's national team of Belgium. Goalball is a team sport designed specifically for athletes with a vision impairment. The national team takes part in international competitions.
The team is also known as the Belgian Bulls as it is a tradition in Belgium to have animal names for national teams.
Paralympic Games
[edit]1976 Toronto
[edit]The 1976 Summer Paralympics were held in Toronto, Canada. The team was one of seven teams participating, and they finished fourth overall.
1980 Arnhem
[edit]At the 1980 Summer Paralympics in Arnhem, Netherlands, thirteen teams took part. The team finished fifth.[1]
2008 Beijing
[edit]The team came back to the international scene in the beginning of the 2000s and worked itself up to an international level. After coming back to the A-division in 2006, the team qualified in for the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China, where they finished eleventh.
2012 London
[edit]The team competed in the 2012 Summer Paralympics from 30 August to 7 September 2012, in London, England. In Group B, they finished the round-robin in third place behind China and Iran. The team was beaten by Brazil in the quarter-finals, 0:3, and finished in seventh overall place.[2]
The following is the Belgium roster in the men's goalball tournament of the 2012 Summer Paralympics.[3]
| No. | Player | Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Johan de Rick | 41 |
| 3 | Bruno Vanhove | 29 |
| 4 | Youssef Bihi | 35 |
| 5 | Klison Mapreni | 20 |
| 6 | Tom Vanhove | 29 |
| 7 | Glenn Van Thournout | 29 |
- Group B round-robin
| 30 August 2012 16:15 |
Canada 
|
2 – 4 |  Belgium
|
Copper Box, London Referees: Thomas Baerz (GER) Shinji Mizuno (JPN) |
| Caron 2 | Report | de Rick 2 Vanhove 1 Bihi 1 | ||
| 31 August 2012 21:00 |
Algeria 
|
5 – 2 | Belgium
|
Copper Box, London Referees: Ali Aldarsony (KSA), Juha Vuokila (FIN) |
| Mokrane 3 Larbi 2 |
Report | de Rick 1 Bihi 1 | ||
| 1 September 2012 18:30 |
Belgium
|
8 – 6 |  Iran
|
Copper Box, London Referees: Morten Hammershoi (DEN), Juha Vuokila (FIN) |
| de Rick 3 Bihi 3 Vanhove 1 Mapreni 1 |
Report | Sayahi 3 Jafari 2 Shahbazi 1 | ||
| 2 September 2012 15:00 |
Belgium
|
0 – 0 |  China
|
Copper Box, London Referees: Hooshang Shariati (IRI), Warrick Jackes (AUS) |
| Report | ||||
| 3 September 2012 09:00 |
South Korea 
|
3 – 5 | Belgium
|
Copper Box, London Referees: Juha Vuokila (FIN), Morten Hammershoi (DEN) |
| Kim C.-H. 2 Hong 1 |
Report | B. Vanhove 2 Bihi 2 Mapreni 1 | ||
- Semi-final
| 5 September 2012 19:30 |
Brazil 
|
3 – 0 | Belgium
|
Copper Box, London Referees: Tony Connolly (USA), Vilma Venckutonyte (LTU) |
| Marques 2 Almeida Maciel Celente 1 |
Report | |||
The team tried to qualify for the Rio 2016 games but missed out during the 2014 World Championships and IBSA World Games.
2020 Tokyo
[edit]The team competed in the 2020 Summer Paralympics, with competition from Wednesday 25 August to finals on Friday 3 September 2021, in the Makuhari Messe arena, Chiba, Tokyo, Japan. The team was selected for Tokyo 2020 following the 2018 World Championships in Malmö, Sweden.[2]
The following is the Belgium roster in the men's goalball tournament of the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[4]
| No. | Player | Class | Date of birth (age) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arne Vanhove | B2 | 17 August 1983 (aged 38) |
| 2 | Wassime Amnir | B1 | 1 February 1991 (aged 30) |
| 3 | Bruno Vanhove | B3 | 17 August 1983 (aged 38) |
| 5 | Klison Mapreni | B2 | 9 October 1992 (aged 28) |
| 6 | Tom Vanhove | B2 | 17 August 1983 (aged 38) |
| 8 | Rob Eijssen | B1 | 11 January 1991 (aged 30) |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Belgium
|
4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 13 | +5 | 6 | Quarter-finals |
| 2 |  Ukraine
|
4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 15 | +3 | 6 | |
| 3 |  Turkey
|
4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 6 | |
| 4 |  China
|
4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 22 | −1 | 6 | |
| 5 |  Germany
|
4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 23 | −7 | 6 |
- Round-robin
| 26 August 2021 09:00 |
Belgium
|
10−3 | China
|
Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Woradet Kultawongwattana (Thailand), Bas Spaans (Netherlands) |
| Mapreni 8 T. Vanhove 1 Amnir 1 |
Report | Yang Mingyuan 1 Hu Mingyao 1 Lai Liangyu 1 | ||
| 27 August 2021 09:00 |
Turkey
|
4–6 | Belgium
|
Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Yoshinori Nii (Japan), Robert Avery (Great Britain) |
| Karakaya 3 Gündoğdu 1 |
Report | B. Vanhove 3 Mapreni 2 T. Vanhove 1 | ||
| 28 August 2021 19:00 |
Germany
|
2–0 | Belgium
|
Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Raquel Gomez Aguado (Spain), Vaida Pokvytytė (Lithuania) |
| Dennis 2 | Report | |||
| 29 August 2021 13:15 |
Belgium
|
2–4 | Ukraine
|
Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Yoshinori Nii (Japan), Robert Avery (Great Britain) |
| Mapreni 2 | Report | Oliinyk 2 Zhyhalin 2 | ||
World Championships
[edit]2018 Malmö
[edit]The team competed in the 2018 World Championships from 3 to 8 June 2018, in Malmö, Sweden.[2] They confirmed their good level by winning the bronze at the Championships, and with this, they secured a ticket for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games.
2022 Matosinhos
[edit]The team competed in the 2022 World Championships from 7 to 16 December 2022, at the Centro de Desportos e Congressos de Matosinhos, Portugal. There were sixteen men's and sixteen women's teams. They placed fifth in Pool C, and tenth in final standings.[5]
IBSA World Games
[edit]2015 Seoul
[edit]The team competed in the 2015 IBSA World Games from 10 to 17 May 2015, in Seoul, South Korea.[2]
Regional championships
[edit]The team competes in the IBSA Europe goalball region.[6] Groups A and C are held one year, and Group B the following year. Strong teams move towards Group A.
2013 Konya (Group A)
[edit]The team competed in the 2013 IBSA Goalball European Championships, Group A, from 1 to 11 November 2013, at Konya, Turkey.[7] They beat Ukraine 5:3 to rank seventh in the overall standings.[2]
2015 Kaunas (Group A)
[edit]The team competed in the 2015 IBSA Goalball European A Championships in Kaunas, Lithuania. They lost their quarter-final match against Czech Republic, 4:10.[2]
2017 Pajulahti (Group A)
[edit]The team competed in the 2017 IBSA Goalball European A Championships from 15 to 23 September 2017, at Pajulahti, Nastola, Finland.[2] The team took its first ever medal on an international level by winning the bronze at the Championships.
2019 Rostock (Group A)
[edit]The team competed in the 2019 IBSA Goalball European A Championships from 5 to 14 October 2019, in Rostock, Germany.[2] In Pool B, they came third, winning two games of their four; finishing sixth overall.
See also
[edit]References
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- ^ "Final Ranking in Paralympic Games". Madrid, Spain: International Blind Sports Association. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "About goalball – Historical results". Goalball Sport. International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA). Retrieved 4 May 2021.
- ^ "Men's Goalball – Team Rosters – Belgium". London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
- ^ "Goalball – Team Belgium". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 25 August 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
- ^ "Schedule and Results - GMT+0". IBSA Goalball World Championships 2022. Archived from the original on 17 December 2022. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
- ^ "IBSA members". International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA). Retrieved 26 May 2021.
- ^ "Goalball Europan Championship". Turkey: International Blind Sports Association Goalball Turkey. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
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