Arnott & Kidson earn GB boccia quota spots

Boccia players Will Arnott and Sally Kidson have secured places for Great Britain in the BC3 events at the Paris Paralympics.

The duo beat Poland 5-4 to reach the pairs final of the European qualifying tournament in Portugal.

Arnott, 25, and Kidson, 19, are now in line to make their Games debut later this summer.

They will face Japan in Wednesday’s decider.

Arnott, who won pairs silver with Robyn McBride at last year’s European Championships, and Kidson opened their campaign in Portugal with a 7-0 loss to Greece and a narrow 4-3 defeat to Peru, but they recovered to beat the hosts 4-3 and Singapore 4-1 to reach the semi-finals.

“We’re so happy to have been able to qualify the spot for the BC3 pair and now are waiting for the results of selection for Paris,” said Kidson.

“We had a difficult start to the week but we are so happy we managed to turn it around in the way that we did to have made it all the way to the final.”

Stephen McGuire and Fiona Muirhead failed to advance to the medal matches in the BC4 pairs event after only winning one of their four pool matches.