2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships

2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships

Host city	Panorama Mountain Village, British Columbia, Canada
Nations	22 [1]
Athletes	130
Events	Downhill, giant slalom, slalom, super combined, super-G
Dates	March 2–10
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The 2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships was an international disability sport alpine skiing event held in Panorama Mountain Village, British Columbia, Canada from March 2 to 10, 2015. The Championship is held biannually by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and is the largest event of its type outside the Winter Paralympics.

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, with Russia finishing the championship on top of the medal table in both gold medals won and total medals.

This proved to be the last event under the title of "IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships". On 30 November 2016, the IPC, which serves as the international governing body for 10 disability sports, including Alpine skiing, adopted the "World Para" branding for all of those sports. The world championships in said sports were immediately rebranded as "World Para" events. Accordingly, from 2017 forward, the event will be known as the "World Para Alpine Skiing Championships". ^[2]

Opening ceremony

On March 2, the opening ceremony was held.

Events

Men

Event	Date	Class	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Downhill	Mar 4	Visually impaired [3]	Mac Marcoux Guide: B.J. Marcoux   Canada	1:29.68	Mark Bathum Guide: Cade Yamamoto   United States	1:31.89	Miroslav Haraus Guide: Maris Hudik   Slovakia	1:32.12
		Standing [4]	Alexey Bugaev   Russia	1:27.60	Matthias Lanzinger   Austria	1:29.71	Alexander Vetrov   Russia	1:31.25
		Sitting [5]	Corey Peters   New Zealand	1:28.06	Roman Rabl   Austria	1:28.80	Taiki Morii   Japan	1:29.26
Super-G	Mar 5	Visually impaired [6]	Ivan Frantsev Guide: German Agranovskii   Russia	1:23.63	Mac Marcoux Guide: B.J. Marcoux   Canada	1:24.04	Miroslav Haraus Guide: Maris Hudik   Slovakia	1:24.81
		Standing [7]	Alexey Bugaev   Russia	1:19.88	Matthias Lanzinger   Austria	1:21.55	Thomas Pfyl   Switzerland	1:21.91
		Sitting [8]	Corey Peters   New Zealand	1:20.41	Frederic Francois   France	1:21.20	Andrew Earl Kurka   United States	1:21.32
Super combined	Mar 7	Visually impaired [9]	Miroslav Haraus Guide: Maris Hudik   Slovakia	1:59.81	Ivan Frantsev Guide: German Agranovskii   Russia	2:01.35	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces   Spain	2:03.32
		Standing [10]	Alexey Bugaev   Russia	1:54.46	Markus Salcher   Switzerland	1:56.94	Matthias Lanzinger   Austria	1:56.96
		Sitting [11]	Georg Kreiter   Germany	1:56.84	Roman Rabl   Austria	1.57.70	Frederic Francois   France	1:58.39
Giant slalom	Mar 8	Visually impaired [12]	Valerii Redkozubov Guide: Evgeny Geroev   Russia	2:09.28	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces   Spain	2:09.88	Patrik Hetmer Guide: Miroslav Macala   Czech Republic	2:11.71
		Standing [13]	Alexey Bugaev   Russia	2:01.19	Markus Salcher   Switzerland	2:02.16	Matthias Lanzinger   Austria	2:04.27
		Sitting [14]	Georg Kreiter   Germany	2:03.49	Corey Peters   New Zealand	2:03.89	Taiki Morii   Japan	2:04.71
Slalom	Mar 10	Visually impaired [15]	Valerii Redkozubov Guide: Evgeny Geroev   Russia	1:47.71	Miroslav Haraus Guide: Maris Hudik   Slovakia	1:48.90	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces   Spain	1:53.05
		Standing [16]	Alexey Bugaev   Russia	1:39.05	Alexander Alyabyev   Russia	1:46.15	Matt Hallat   Canada	1:47.86
		Sitting [17]	Takeshi Suzuki   Japan	1:47.93	Taiki Morii   Japan	1:53.67	Thomas Nolte   Germany	1:55.38

Women

Event	Date	Class	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Downhill	Mar 4	Visually impaired [18]	Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor   Australia	1:45.80	Danelle Umstead Guide: Robert Umstead   United States	1:46.32	Aleksandra Frantceva Guide: Semen Pliaskin   Russia	1:51.57
		Standing [19]	Marie Bochet   France	1:32.81	Andrea Rothfuss   Germany	1:36.83	Mariia Papulova   Russia	1:42.12
		Sitting [20]	Claudia Loesch   Austria	1:33.29	Momoka Muraoka   Japan	1:35.95	Anna Schaffelhuber   Germany	1:38.06
Super-G	Mar 5	Visually impaired [21]	Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor   Australia	1:33.52	Danelle Umstead Guide: Robert Umstead   United States	1:37.55	Aleksandra Frantceva Guide: Semen Pliaskin   Russia	1:40.55
		Standing [22]	Marie Bochet   France	1:24.77	Andrea Rothfuss   Germany	1:28.83	Mariia Papulova   Russia	1:33.60
		Sitting [23]	Anna Schaffelhuber   Germany	1:27.65	—		—
Super combined	Mar 7	Visually impaired [24]	Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor   Australia	2:14.18	Aleksandra Frantceva Guide: Semen Pliaskin   Russia	2:16.95	Danelle Umstead Guide: Robert Umstead   United States	2:22.20
		Standing [25]	Marie Bochet   France	2:03.17	Andrea Rothfuss   Germany	2:09.58	Anna Jochemsen   Netherlands	2:12.52
		Sitting [26]	Claudia Loesch   Austria	2:04.79	Anna Schaffelhuber   Germany	2:06.10	Laurie Stephens   United States	2:17.78
Giant slalom	Mar 8	Visually impaired [27]	Aleksandra Frantceva Guide: Semen Pliaskin   Russia	2:24.05	Millie Knight Guide: Jen Kehoe   Great Britain	2:24.39	Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor   Australia	2:25.41
		Standing [28]	Marie Bochet   France	2:11.63	Andrea Rothfuss   Germany	2:14.04	Stephanie Jallen   United States	2:20.49
		Sitting [29]	Anna Schaffelhuber   Germany	1:09.50	Claudia Loesch   Austria	1:11.38	Momoka Muraoka   Japan	1:15.44
Slalom	Mar 10	Visually impaired [30]	Aleksandra Frantceva Guide: Semen Pliaskin   Russia	2:03.31	Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor   Australia	2:04.50	Millie Knight Guide: Jen Kehoe   Great Britain	2:13.81
		Standing [31]	Marie Bochet   France	1:58.67	Mariia Papulova   Russia	2:04.22	Laura Valeanu   Romania	2:09.55
		Sitting [32]	Claudia Loesch   Austria	2:03.28	Anna Schaffelhuber   Germany	2:03.38	Anna-Lena Forster   Germany	2:04.31

Medals table

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Key

  The host country is highlighted in lavender blue

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia  (RUS)	10	4	5	19
2	France  (FRA)	5	1	1	7
3	Germany  (GER)	4	6	3	13
4	Austria  (AUT)	3	7	2	12
5	Australia  (AUS)	3	1	1	5
6	New Zealand  (NZL)	2	1	0	3
7	Japan  (JPN)	1	2	3	6
8	Slovakia  (SVK)	1	1	2	4
9	Canada  (CAN)*	1	1	1	3
10	United States  (USA)	0	3	4	7
11	Spain  (ESP)	0	1	2	3
12	Great Britain  (GBR)	0	1	1	2
13	Czech Republic  (CZE)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands  (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Romania  (ROU)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland  (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		30	29	29	88

Participating nations

Over 130 participants from 22 nations competed. ^[34]

•   Australia
•   Austria
•   Belgium
•   Canada
•   Croatia
•   Czech Republic
•   France
•   Greece
•   Germany
•   Great Britain
•   Italy
•   Japan
•   Netherlands
•   New Zealand
•   Poland
•   Romania
•   Russia
•   Slovakia
•   Slovenia
•   Spain
•   Switzerland
•   United States

Classifications

Skiers compete in sitting, standing or visually impaired events, depending on their classification of disability.

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

References

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2. "The IPC to rebrand the 10 sports it acts as International Federation for" (Press release). International Paralympic Committee. 30 November 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
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23. "Event Overview – Women's Downhill – Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 5 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
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External links

• Winter Sport Classification, Canadian Paralympic Committee
• official site
• IPC Alpine Skiing
  • World Championships – official results
• ParalympicSport.TV