Goalball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Men's tournament

The men's tournament in Goalball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics was contested from 8 to 16 September.

Twelve teams participated, with six athletes per team.

Participating teams

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

Group A

• Algeria (roster)
• Brazil (roster)
• Canada (roster)
• Germany (roster)
• Sweden (roster)

Group B

• China (roster)
• Finland (roster)
• Lithuania (roster)
• Turkey (roster)
• United States (roster)

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil (H)	4	4	0	0	42	15	+27	12	Quarter-finals
2	Sweden	4	3	0	1	33	23	+10	9
3	Germany	4	1	0	3	24	26	−2	3
4	Canada	4	1	0	3	26	39	−13	3
5	Algeria	4	1	0	3	25	47	−22	3

Source: Paralympic.org
(H) Hosts

8 September 2016 09:00	Brazil	9–6	Sweden	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Bülent Kimyon (TUR), Patricia Fras (SLO)
	Moreno 5 Sousa 2 Marques 1 Celente 1	Report	Björkstrand 5 Seremeti 1

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8 September 2016 13:15	Algeria	0–10	Germany	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Nejc Jakic (SLO), Daniel Voltan (BRA)
		Report	Horauf 5 Feistle 4 Steiger 1

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9 September 2016 13:15	Canada	3–11	Brazil	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Patricia Fras (SLO), Nejc Jakic (SLO)
	Hache 2 Ripley 1	Report	Marques 4 de Melo 3 Moreno 2 Sousa 1 Celente 1

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9 September 2016 17:30	Sweden	12–6	Algeria	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Daniel Voltan (BRA), Yoshinori Nii (JPN)
	Weichel 5 Björkstrand 4 Seremeti 3	Report	Belhouchat 5 Mokrane 1

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10 September 2016 17:30	Germany	5–7	Canada	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Vilma Basinkaite (LTU), Raili Sipura (FIN)
	Feistle 5	Report	Gaulin 6 Nesbitt 1

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11 September 2016 09:00	Brazil	12–2	Algeria	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Alexander Knecht (GER), Bülent Kimyon (TUR)
	Moreno 6 Marques 3 Sousa 2 Celente 1	Report	Mokrane 2

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12 September 2016 09:00	Sweden	9–5	Germany	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Bülent Kimyon (TUR), Dawna Christy (CAN)
	Björkstrand 4 Seremeti 3 Gahne 2	Report	Feistle 3 Horauf 2

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12 September 2016 11:30	Algeria	17–13	Canada	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Raili Sipura (FIN), Alexander Knecht (GER)
	Mokrane 9 Godmane 6 Larbi 1 Boutaleb 1	Report	Nesbitt 6 Hache 3 Gaulin 3 Larbi 1 (o.g)

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13 September 2016 10:15	Germany	4–10	Brazil	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Rudi Janssen (BEL), Raili Sipura (FIN)
	Feistle 2 Horauf 2	Report	Sousa 4 Moreno 2 Celente 2 de Melo 2

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13 September 2016 14:15	Canada	3–6	Sweden	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Alexander Knecht (GER), Vilma Basinkaite (LTU)
	Nesbitt 2 Zeividavi 1	Report	Björkstrand 3 Seremeti 3

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Lithuania	4	4	0	0	35	22	+13	12	Quarter-finals
2	United States	4	2	0	2	21	18	+3	6
3	Turkey	4	2	0	2	20	23	−3	6
4	China	4	1	0	3	25	28	−3	3
5	Finland	4	1	0	3	24	34	−10	3

Source: Paralympic.org

8 September 2016 17:30	Finland	6–13	Lithuania	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Raquel Aguado (ESP), Rudi Janssen (BEL)
	Miinala 3 Mattila 1 Posio 1 Honkanen 1	Report	Pavliukianec 7 Pažarauskas 5 Panovas 1

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9 September 2016 09:00	United States	5–2	China	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Rudi Janssen (BEL), Raquel Aguado (ESP)
	Hamilton 3 Kusku 2	Report	Cai 2

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10 September 2016 09:00	Turkey	8–5	Finland	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Alexander Knecht (GER), Rudi Janssen (BEL)
	Gündoğdu 6 Alkan 1 Karakaya 1	Report	Mattila 5

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10 September 2016 13:15	Lithuania	8–7	United States	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Raquel Aguado (ESP) Patricia Fras (SLO)
	Pavliukianec 6 Pazarauskas 2	Report	Hamilton 5 Merren 2

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11 September 2016 13:15	China	10–3	Turkey	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Vilma Basinkaite (LTU), Patricia Fras (SLO)
	Chen 4 Cai 4 Hu 1 Shao 1	Report	Karakaya 2 Gündoğdu 1

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11 September 2016 17:30	Finland	2–6	United States	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Dawna Christy (CAN), Yoshinori Nii (JPN)
	Mattila 1 Posio 1	Report	Merren 4 Hamilton 1 Kusku 1

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12 September 2016 14:15	Lithuania	3–1	China	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Patricia Fras (SLO), Joelle Boulet (CAN)
	Pavliukianec 2 Pazarauskas 1	Report	Chen 1

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12 September 2016 19:30	United States	3–6	Turkey	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Raili Sipura (FIN), Daniel Voltan (BRA)
	Kusku 1 Merren 1 Jenks 1	Report	Gündoğdu 4 Karakaya 2

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13 September 2016 18:15	China	7–11	Finland	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Joelle Boulet (CAN), Alexander Knecht (GER)
	Yang 4 Chen 1 Hu 1 Cai 1	Report	Mattila 6 Miinala 5

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13 September 2016 20:45	Turkey	3–5	Lithuania	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Nejc Jakic (SLO), Daniel Voltan (BRA)
	Karakaya 2 Gündoğdu 1	Report	Panovas 2 Pavliukianec 1 Pazarauskas 1 Montvydas 1

Knock-out round

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal
	14 September
	Brazil	10
					15 September
	China	3
					Brazil	1
	14 September
					United States	10
	United States	7
									16 September
	Germany	6
									United States	8
	14 September
									Lithuania	14
	Lithuania	5
					15 September
	Canada	4
					Lithuania	7
	14 September
					Sweden	2			Bronze medal
	Sweden	5
									16 September
	Turkey	1
									Brazil (a.e.t.)	6
									Sweden	5

Quarter-finals

14 September 2016 09:00	Brazil	10–3	China	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Yoshinori Nii (JPN), Rudi Janssen (BEL)
	Moreno 8 Sousa 2	Report	Shao 2 Yang 1

14 September 2016 12:00	United States	7–6	Germany	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Daniel Voltan (BRA), Patricia Fras (SLO)
	Merren 3 Hamilton 3 Kusku 1	Report	Steiger 3 Feistle 2 Horauf 1

14 September 2016 18:00	Lithuania	5–4	Canada	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Bülent Kimyon (TUR), Alexander Knecht (GER)
	Pazarauskas 3 Pavliukianec 2	Report	Ripley 2 Hache 1 Nesbitt 1

14 September 2016 21:00	Sweden	5–1	Turkey	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Nejc Jakic (SLO), Yoshinori Nii (JPN)
	Seremeti 2 Weichel 2 Björkstrand 1	Report	Akyüz

Semi-finals

15 September 2016 13:30	Brazil	1–10	United States	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Bülent Kimyon (TUR), Raili Sipura (FIN)
	Marques 1	Report	Merren 9 Hamilton 1

15 September 2016 18:30	Lithuania	7–2	Sweden	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Yoshinori Nii (JPN), Raquel Aguado (ESP)
	Pavliukianec 5 Pazarauskas 2	Report	Seremeti 1 Weichel 1

Bronze medal match

16 September 2016 15:00	Brazil	6–5 (a.e.t.)	Sweden	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Bülent Kimyon (TUR), Yoshinori Nii (JPN)
	Moreno 4 Sousa 2	Report	Björkstrand 3 Seremeti 2

Gold medal match

16 September 2016 20:00	United States	8–14	Lithuania	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Nejc Jakic (SLO), Daniel Voltan (BRA)
	Simpson 4 Hamilton 1 Jenks 1 Merren 1 Walker 1	Report	Pavliukianec 8 Pazarauskas 6

Final rankings

Rank	Team
	Lithuania
	United States
	Brazil
4.	Sweden
5.	Turkey
6.	Germany
7.	China
8.	Canada
9.	Finland
10.	Algeria

2016 men's Paralympic champions
Lithuania First title

Source: Paralympic.org

See also

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

External links

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