2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships

2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships

Host city	Sestriere, Italy
Nations	23 [1] [2]
Athletes	130
Dates	January 14 – 23
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The 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships was held in Sestriere, Italy, from January 14 to 23, 2011. IPC stands for International Paralympic Committee.

Skiers competed in sitting, standing or visually impaired classification categories in Downhill, giant slalom, Slalom, Super-G, Super Combined and Team events.

Over 130 skiers competed, including German multiple-Paralympic medalist Gerd Schönfelder, who competed in classification-category standing events.

Sestriere hosted the Paralympic alpine skiing competition, at the 2006 Winter Paralympics.

The internet-TV channel ParalympicSport.TV, owned by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) broadcast daily live coverage of the Championships, from January 18–23, ^[3] also available after the Championships as Video on Demand (VOD). They also added some interview clips to their YouTube channel.

Opening ceremony

On January 15, the opening ceremony was held at the Palazzetto dello Sport in the town square of Sestriere, and included a series of performances by three dance couples. The dancers were to represent the people of the region. Among the dignitaries in attendance was the IPC President Sir Philip Craven. ^[4]

Medal winners

The men's events and the women's events were held at Kandahar Banchetta Giovanni N., in Sestriere. Visually impaired skiers compete with the help of a sighted guide. The skier with the visual impairment and the guide are considered a team, and dual medals are awarded. ^[5]

Men

Event	Date	Class	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Downhill details	Jan 16	Visually impaired	Nicolas Berejny Guide: Gregory Nouhaud   France	1:21.40	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces   Spain	1:21.59	Chris Williamson Guide: Robin Femy   Canada	1:22.76
		Standing	Gerd Schönfelder   Germany	1:21.84	Vincent Gauthier-Manuel   France	1:22.08	Thomas Pfyl   Switzerland	1:22.96
		Sitting	Akira Kano   Japan	1:20.94	Taiki Morii   Japan	1:21.39	Kees-Jan van der Klooster   Netherlands	1:21.63
Super-G details	Jan 18	Visually impaired	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces   Spain	1:19.20	Chris Williamson Guide: Robin Femy   Canada	1:19.50	Nicolas Berejny Guide: Gregory Nouhaud   France	1:20.47
		Standing	Gerd Schönfelder   Germany	1:19.22	Vincent Gauthier-Manuel   France	1:19.26	Thomas Pfyl   Switzerland	1:19.95
		Sitting	Christopher Devlin-Young  United States	1:17.67	Taiki Morii   Japan	1:18.29	Cyril More   France	1:19.50
Super Combined details	Jan 19	Visually impaired	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces   Spain	2:07.43	Jakub Krako Guide: Dusan Simo   Slovakia	2:08.36	Chris Williamson Guide: Robin Femy   Canada	2:09.29
		Standing	Vincent Gauthier-Manuel   France	2:05.31	Gerd Schönfelder   Germany	2:07.06	Thomas Pfyl   Switzerland	2:08.88
		Sitting	Takeshi Suzuki   Japan	2:07.79	Cyril More   France	2:08.93	Yohann Taberlet   France	2:09.98
Slalom details	Jan 20	Visually impaired	Jakub Krako Guide: Dusan Simo   Slovakia	1:28.83	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces   Spain	1:29.11	Chris Williamson Guide: Robin Femy   Canada	1:30.68
		Standing	Vincent Gauthier-Manuel   France	1:27.05	Gerd Schönfelder   Germany	1:27.22	Toby Kane   Australia	1:28.49
		Sitting	Takeshi Suzuki   Japan	1:29.31	Yohann Taberlet   France	1:32.24	Thomas Nolte   Germany	1:33.76
Giant slalom details	Jan 22	Visually impaired	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces   Spain	2:10.78	Jakub Krako Guide: Dusan Simo   Slovakia	2:12.10	Radomir Dudas Guide: Maros Hudik   Slovakia	2:17.42
		Standing	Vincent Gauthier-Manuel   France	2:10.98	Thomas Pfyl   Switzerland	2:11.41	Gerd Schönfelder   Germany	2:11.47
		Sitting	Taiki Morii   Japan	2:15.79	Takeshi Suzuki   Japan	2:15.90	Christoph Kunz   Switzerland	2:16.11

Women

Event	Date	Class	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Downhill details	Jan 16	Visually impaired	Henrieta Farkasova Guide: Natalia Subrtova   Slovakia	1:28.36	Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor   Australia	1:40.50	Alexandra Frantseva Guide: Evgenia Kolosovskaya   Russia	1:41.87
		Standing	Andrea Rothfuss   Germany	1:29.62	Marie Bochet   France	1:29.86	Solène Jambaqué   France	1:30.09
		Sitting	Alana Nichols  United States	1:30.45	Laurie Stephens  United States	1:33.05	Claudia Loesch   Austria	1:35.35
Super-G details	Jan 18	Visually impaired	Anna Kuliskova Guide: Michaela Hubacova   Czech Republic	1:34.28	Alexandra Frantseva Guide: Evgenia Kolosovskaya   Russia	1:35.49	Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor   Australia	1:38.08
		Standing	Solène Jambaqué   France	1:25.08	Marie Bochet   France	1:25.48	Andrea Rothfuss   Germany	1:26.48
		Sitting	Alana Nichols  United States	1:27.56	Laurie Stephens  United States	1:28.66	Claudia Loesch   Austria	1:29.04
Super Combined details	Jan 19	Visually impaired	Henrieta Farkasova Guide: Natalia Subrtova   Slovakia	2:25.83	Alexandra Frantseva Guide: Evgenia Kolosovskaya   Russia	2:32.31	Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor   Australia	2:32.84
		Standing	Solène Jambaqué   France	2:21.94	Andrea Rothfuss   Germany	2:22.28	Karolina Wisniewska   Canada	2:25.79
		Sitting	Anna Schaffelhuber   Germany	2:31.62	Claudia Loesch   Austria	2:33.11	Laurie Stephens  United States	2:42.68
Slalom details	Jan 20	Visually impaired	Henrieta Farkasova Guide: Natalia Subrtova   Slovakia	1:42.71	Kelly Gallagher Guide: Charlotte Evans   Great Britain	1:47.67	Alexandra Frantseva Guide: Evgenia Kolosovskaya   Russia	1:49.98
		Standing	Andrea Rothfuss   Germany	1:39.98	Petra Smarzova   Slovakia	1:43.72	Karolina Wisniewska   Canada	1:45.53
		Sitting	Anna Schaffelhuber   Germany	1:48.80	Claudia Loesch   Austria	1:52.62	Alana Nichols  United States	2:27.49
Giant slalom details	Jan 22	Visually impaired	Henrieta Farkasova Guide: Natalia Subrtova   Slovakia	2:19.20	Alexandra Frantseva Guide: Evgenia Kolosovskaya   Russia	2:28.73	Kelly Gallagher Guide: Charlotte Evans   Great Britain	2:31.68
		Standing	Marie Bochet   France	2:23.32	Petra Smarzova   Slovakia	2:24.55	Andrea Rothfuss   Germany	2:24.99
		Sitting	Anna Schaffelhuber   Germany	2:31.73	Claudia Loesch   Austria	2:32.43	Alana Nichols  United States	2:38.22

Team

Event	Date	Class	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Nations team event details	Jan 23	Open	France Vincent Gauthier-Manuel, Nicolas Berejny Guide: Gregory Nouhaud, Marie Bochet. Cyril More, Yohann Taberlet.	6:55.09	Germany Gerd Schönfelder, Andrea Rothfuss, Thomas Nolte. Georg Kreiter, Franz Hanfstingl, Anna Schaffelhuber.	6:56.28	Slovakia Henrieta Farkasova Guide: Natalia Subrtova, Jakub Krako Guide: Dusan Simo , Martin France. Norbert Holik Guide: Lubos Bosela .	7:03.86

Medals table

^[6]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France  (FRA)	8	6	4	18
2	Germany  (GER)	7	4	4	15
3	Slovakia  (SVK)	5	4	2	11
4	Japan  (JPN)	4	3	0	7
5	United States  (USA)	3	2	3	8
6	Spain  (ESP)	3	2	0	5
7	Czech Republic  (CZE)	1	0	0	1
8	Austria  (AUT)	0	3	2	5
	Russia  (RUS)	0	3	2	5
10	Canada  (CAN)	0	1	5	6
11	Switzerland  (SUI)	0	1	4	5
12	Australia  (AUS)	0	1	3	4
13	Great Britain  (GBR)	0	1	1	2
14	Netherlands  (NED)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		31	31	31	93

Participating nations

Over 130 participants from 23 nations competed. ^[1]

•   Australia
•   Austria
•   Belgium
•   Canada
•   Croatia
•   Czech Republic
•   Finland
•   France
•   Germany
•   Italy
•   Japan
•   Netherlands
•   New Zealand
•   Russia
•   Serbia
•   Slovakia
•   Slovenia
•   South Korea
•   Spain
•   Sweden
•   Switzerland
•   United Kingdom
•  United States

Classifications

Skiers compete in sitting, standing or visually impaired events, after what classification of disability they have.

Standing

• LW2 – single leg amputation above the knee
• LW3 – double leg amputation below the knee, mild cerebral palsy, or equivalent impairment
• LW4 – single leg amputation below the knee
• LW5/7 – double arm amputation
• LW6/8 – single arm amputation
• LW9 – amputation or equivalent impairment of one arm and one leg

Sitting

• LW 10 – paraplegia with no or some upper abdominal function and no functional sitting balance
• LW 11 – paraplegia with fair functional sitting balance
• LW 12 – double leg amputation above the knees, or paraplegia with some leg function and good sitting balance

Visually impaired

• B1 – no functional vision
• B2 – up to ca 3–5% functional vision
• B3 – under 10% functional vision

See also

• FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011

References

1. 11 Countries Medal in Slalom at World Championships, International Paralympic Committee (IPC), January 20, 2011
2. 50 Days to Alpine World Champs in Sestriere Archived July 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine , IPC Alpine Skiing, November 26, 2010
3. ParalympicSport.TV to Broadcast Live Coverage of Athletics World Champs, International Paralympic Committee (IPC), January 14, 2011
4. Opening Ceremony in Sestriere Kicks off World Champs, International Paralympic Committee (IPC), January 15, 2011
5. Visually impaired skiers put fate in guide's hands, thestar.com, March 13, 2010
6. Medal Standings 23 Jan 2011 Archived July 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine , IPC Athletics

• Winter Sport Classification, Canadian Paralympic Committee

External links

• IPC Alpine Skiing
  • World Championships – official results
• ParalympicSport.TV