Goalball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Women's tournament

The women's tournament in Goalball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics was contested from 8 to 16 September. 28 matches were played; 20 in the group play, 4 quarter-finals, 2 semi-finals, a bronze medal match, and a gold medal match.

Ten teams participated, with six athletes per team.

Participating teams

Main article: Goalball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Women's team rosters

Group C

• Algeria (roster)
• Brazil (roster)
• Israel (roster)
• Japan (roster)
• United States (roster)

Group D

• Australia (roster)
• Canada (roster)
• China (roster)
• Turkey (roster)
• Ukraine (roster)

Preliminary round

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil (H)	4	3	0	1	25	7	+18	9	Quarter-finals
2	United States	4	3	0	1	25	13	+12	9
3	Japan	4	2	1	1	13	8	+5	7
4	Israel	4	1	1	2	16	15	+1	4
5	Algeria	4	0	0	4	1	37	−36	0

Source: Paralympic.org
(H) Hosts

8 September 2016 10:15	United States	3–7	Brazil	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Joelle Boulet (CAN), Dawna Christy (CAN)
	Miller 2 Dennis 1	Report	Amorim 6 Custodio 1

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8 September 2016 14:30	Japan	1–1	Israel	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Alexander Knecht (GER), Vilma Basinkaite (LTU)
	Wakasugi 1	Report	Mahamid 1

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9 September 2016 14:30	Algeria	0–10 (walkover)	United States

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9 September 2016 18:45	Brazil	1–2	Japan	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Raili Sipura (FIN), Joelle Boulet (CAN)
	Amorim 1	Report	Adachi 2

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10 September 2016 18:45	Israel	10–0 (walkover)	Algeria

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11 September 2016 10:45	United States	5–3	Japan	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Nejc Jakic (SLO), Raquel Aguado (ESP)
	Armbruster 2 Miller 2 Dennis 1	Report	Temma 1 Adachi 1 Komiya 1

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12 September 2016 10:15	Brazil	7–2	Israel	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Yoshinori Nii (JPN), Raquel Aguado (ESP)
	Amorim 4 Custodio 3	Report	Mahamid 2

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12 September 2016 15:30	Japan	7–1	Algeria	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Nejc Jakic (SLO), Rudi Janssen (BEL)
	Temma 3 Kakehata 2 Adachi 2	Report	Benallou 1

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13 September 2016 09:00	Israel	3–7	United States	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Raquel Aguado (ESP), Dawna Christy (CAN)
	Ben-David 3	Report	Miller 4 Czechowski 2 Dennis 1

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13 September 2016 11:30	Algeria	0–10	Brazil	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Patricia Fras (SLO), Dawna Christy (CAN)
		Report	Amorim 6 Custodio 3 Rocha 1

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Turkey	4	4	0	0	37	11	+26	12	Quarter-finals
2	China	4	3	0	1	21	14	+7	9
3	Canada	4	2	0	2	16	22	−6	6
4	Ukraine	4	0	1	3	9	17	−8	1
5	Australia	4	0	1	3	6	25	−19	1

Source: Paralympic.org

8 September 2016 18:45	Australia	2–5	China	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Vilma Basinkaite (LTU), Yoshinori Nii (JPN)
	Horsburgh 1 Esdaile 1	Report	Zhang W. 4 Chen 1

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9 September 2016 10:15	Turkey	12–4	Canada	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Raili Sipura (FIN), Alexander Knecht (GER)
	Altunoluk 8 Özcan 2 Mercan 2	Report	Burk 4

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10 September 2016 10:15	Ukraine	2–2	Australia	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Bülent Kimyon (TUR), Daniel Voltan (BRA)
	Rud 2	Report	Horsburgh 1 Esdaile 1

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10 September 2016 14:30	China	2–7	Turkey	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Dawna Christy (CAN), Nejc Jakic (SLO)
	Zhang W. 1 Ju 1	Report	Altunoluk 7

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11 September 2016 14:30	Canada	3–2	Ukraine	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Raquel Aguado (ESP), Daniel Voltan (BRA)
	Burk 2 Bogart 1	Report	Rud 2

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11 September 2016 18:45	Australia	2–12	Turkey	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Joelle Boulet (CAN), Raili Sipura (FIN)
	Horsburgh 2	Report	Özcan 5 Mercan 5 Yıldız 1 Altunoluk 1

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12 September 2016 18:15	China	8–3	Canada	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Vilma Basinkaite (LTU), Yoshinori Nii (JPN)
	Zhang W. 7 Ju 1	Report	Andrews 2 Morin 1

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12 September 2016 20:45	Turkey	6–3	Ukraine	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Rudi Janssen (BEL), Nejc Jakic (SLO)
	Mercan 2 Altunoluk 2 Özcan 1 Yıldız 1	Report	Rud 2 Govorukha 1

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13 September 2016 15:30	Canada	6–0	Australia	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Daniel Voltan (BRA), Raili Sipura (FIN)
	Burk 6	Report

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13 September 2016 19:30	Ukraine	2–6	China	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Bülent Kimyon (TUR), Vilma Basinkaite (LTU)
	Rud 1 Miroshnyk 1	Report	Zhang W. 3 Chen 3

Knock-out round

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal
	14 September
	Brazil	10
					15 September
	Ukraine	0
					Brazil	3
	14 September
					China	4
	China	5
									16 September
	Japan	3
									China	1
	14 September
									Turkey	4
	Turkey	15
					15 September
	Israel	5
					Turkey	11
	14 September
					United States	1			Bronze medal
	United States	2
									16 September
	Canada	0
									Brazil	2
									United States	3

Quarter-finals

14 September 2016 10:30	Brazil	10–0	Ukraine	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Dawna Christy (CAN), Raili Sipura (FIN)
	Amorim 7 Custodio 2 Rocha 1	Report

14 September 2016 14:15	China	5–3	Japan	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Joelle Boulet (CAN), Nejc Jakic (SLO)
	Zhang W. 2 Chen 1 Zhang H. 1 Ju 1	Report	Kakehata 1 Adachi 1 Komiya 1

14 September 2016 19:30	United States	2–0	Canada	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Vilma Basinkaite (LTU), Daniel Voltan (BRA)
	Armbruster 2	Report

14 September 2016 15:45	Turkey	15–5	Israel	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Dawna Christy (CAN), Raquel Aguado (ESP)
	Altunoluk 7 Özcan 4 Mercan 3 Ben-David 1 (o.g.)	Report	Ben-David 5

Semi-finals

15 September 2016 15:00	Brazil	3–4	China	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Dawna Christy (CAN), Alexander Knecht (GER)
	Custodio 2 Amorim 1	Report	Chen 3 Zhang W. 1

15 September 2016 20:00	Turkey	11–1	United States	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Vilma Basinkaite (LTU), Nejc Jakic (SLO)
	Altunoluk 8 Yıldız 2 Özcan 1	Report	Miller 1

Bronze medal match

16 September 2016 13:30	Brazil	2–3	United States	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Dawna Christy (CAN), Raquel Aguado (ESP)
	Custodio 1 Amorim 1	Report	Armbruster 3

Gold medal match

16 September 2016 18:30	China	1–4	Turkey	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Vilma Basinkaite (LTU), Raili Sipura (FIN)
	Chen 1	Report	Altunoluk 3 Yıldız 1

Final rankings

Rank	Team
	Turkey
	China
	United States
4.	Brazil
5.	Japan
6.	Canada
7.	Israel
8.	Ukraine
9.	Australia
10.	Algeria

2016 women's Paralympic champions
Turkey First title

Source: Paralympic.org

See also

• Goalball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Men's tournament

External links

• "Goalball". Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 8 September 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.