BOCCIA

Boccia is a technical and strategic precision sport with the objective of placing your own balls as close to the target ball, called the jack, as possible. You also have to keep the opponent from scoring by shooting their balls away from the jack.

A set of boccia consists of six red and six blue boccia balls, as well as a white jack ball. Each ball has a circumference of 270 mm and weighs approximately 275 g.

Many different people benefit greatly from playing boccia. It is a sport everyone can take part in and acquire new skills in.

Boccia is a Paralympic sport, but it is also a very popular non-elite mass participation sport. It is said that boccia is the fastest growing sport in the world!