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BC1
BC1 is a boccia sport class for athletes with severe neurological impairment of all four limbs (spastic quadriplegia, athetosis, or ataxia); BC1 athletes throw with a Sport Assistant and join BC2 athletes in the team event.
BC2 (classification)
BC2 is a boccia sport class for athletes with cerebral palsy or acquired brain damage, less severe than BC1, who throw with the hand and receive no assistant; also used in the BC1/BC2 team event.
BC3
BC3 is the most severely impaired boccia sport class (BC1-BC4): athletes cannot throw or kick the ball and use a ramp, pointer, and Ramp Operator; individual and pairs events under World Boccia rules.
Boccia classification
Boccia classification divides Paralympic boccia athletes into sport classes BC1-BC4 by impairment impact, via four-stage evaluation by panels of a physiotherapist, technical classifier, and medical doctor under World Boccia rules.