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The Paralympic Games or Paralympics are a periodic series of international multi-sport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities, including impaired muscle power, impaired passive range of movement, limb deficiency, leg length difference, short stature, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision impairment and intellectual impairment. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, are held almost immediately following the respective Olympic Games. All Paralympic Games are governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
The 2010 Winter Paralympics, officially the X Paralympic Winter Games, or the tenth Winter Paralympics, were held in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada from March 12 to 21, 2010. The Opening Ceremony took place in BC Place Stadium in Vancouver and the Closing Ceremony in Whistler. With a theme of "One Inspires Many," the Opening Ceremony featured over 5000 local performers. Fifteen-year-old snowboarder Zach Beaumont, who is an amputee, was the final torch bearer and lit the Games Cauldron. The 2 hours live ceremony was produced by Vancouver-based Patrick Roberge Productions Inc.
The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) was the non-profit organization responsible for planning, organizing, financing and staging the 2010 Winter Olympics and 2010 Winter Paralympics. Established on September 30, 2003, about four months after the 2010 games were awarded to Vancouver, British Columbia, it performed these roles with "the mandate to support and promote the development of sport in Canada."
Gerd Schönfelder is a German para-alpine skier, one of the most decorated in the sport's history.
Grygorii Vasylovych Vovchynskyi is a Ukrainian biathlete, cross-country skier and Paralympian. He is classified LW8, and compete in classification category standing.
Vitaliy Volodymyrovych Lukyanenko is a Ukrainian biathlete, cross-country skier and Paralympian.
Maria Igorevna Shkanova is an alpine skier from Belarus. She competed for Belarus at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Her best result was a 33rd place in the super-G. She won a bronze medal in the combined event at the 2013 Winter Universiade.
Zsófia Döme is an alpine skier from Hungary. She competed for Hungary at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Her best result was a 36th in the super-G.
Nicole Schmidhofer is an Austrian World Cup alpine ski racer. She specializes in the speed events of downhill and super-G.
Lyaysan Rayanova is an alpine skier from Russia. She competed for Russia at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Her best result was a 33rd in the slalom.
Tea Palić is a former Croatian alpine skier who competed in slalom and giant slalom. She competed for Croatia at the 2010 Winter Olympics. She finished 36th in the giant slalom, her only event at the Olympics.
Nicol Gastaldi is an alpine skier from Argentina. She competed for Argentina at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Her best result was a 48th place in the giant slalom.
Kim Sun-joo is an alpine skier from South Korea. She competed for South Korea at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Her best result was a 46th place in the slalom.
Liene Fimbauere is an alpine skier from Latvia. She competed for Latvia at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Her best result was a 49th place in the slalom.
Maja Klepić Jokanović is an alpine skier from Bosnia and Herzegovina. She competed as Maja Klepić for Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Her best result was a 52nd place in the giant slalom
Lizaveta Kuzmenka is an alpine skier from Belarus. She competed for Belarus at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Her best result was a 54th place in the giant slalom.
Matea Ferk is a retired alpine skier from Croatia. She has competed for Croatia at both the 2006 and 2010 Olympics. Her best result in the Olympics was a 34th place in the slalom in 2010.
Anne-Sophie Barthet is a French World Cup alpine ski racer and soldier. She competed for France at four Winter Olympics and five World Championships.
Karen Persyn is an alpine skier from Belgium. She competed for Belgium at the 2010 Winter Olympics. She finished in 27th place in the slalom, her only event of the competition.
Claire Dautherives is an alpine skier from France. She competed for France at the 2010 Winter Olympics. She failed to finish in the slalom, her only event at the games. She has one top ten place on the World Cup, an eighth-place finish in the slalom at Lienz, Austria in 2007.
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- ↑ "Anastasiya Skryabina". Vancouver2010.com. Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Archived from the original on 2010-04-08. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
- ↑ "Ladies' Super-G Results". Vancouver2010.com. Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Archived from the original on 2010-04-08. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
