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The 2018 Winter Paralympics , officially the XII Paralympic Winter Games, or the 12th Winter Paralympics, were held from 9 to 18 March 2018 in PyeongChang, South Korea. 80 events in 6 winter sport disciplines were contested.
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The 2018 Winter Paralympics , officially the XII Paralympic Winter Games, or the 12th Winter Paralympics, were held from 9 to 18 March 2018 in PyeongChang, South Korea. 80 events in 6 winter sport disciplines were contested.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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| 4 x 2.5km mixed relay [67] |  Ukraine (UKR)Iurii Utkin Guide: Ruslan Perekhoda Liudmyla Liashenko Yuliia Batenkova-Bauman Oksana Shyshkova Guide: Vitaliy Kazakov | 24:31.9 |  Canada (CAN)Natalie Wilkie Emily Young Chris Klebl Mark Arendz | 25:21.9 |  Germany (GER)Andrea Eskau Steffen Lehmker Alexander Ehler | 25:25.3 |
| 4 x 2.5km open relay [68] |  France (FRA)Benjamin Daviet Anthony Chalencon Guide: Simon Valverde Thomas Clarion Guide: Antoine Bollet | 22:46.6 |  Norway (NOR)Nils-Erik Ulset Håkon Olsrud Eirik Bye Guide: Arvid Nelson | 23:09.1 | Canada (CAN) Collin Cameron Brian McKeever Guide: Graham Nishikawa | 23:52.4 |
| Event | Class | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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| Banked slalom | SB-LL1 [70] | Brenna Huckaby  United States | 56.17 | Cécile Hernandez  France | 56.53 | Amy Purdy United States | 1:05.40 |
| SB-LL2 [71] | Bibian Mentel-Spee  Netherlands | 56.94 | Brittani Coury United States | 59.87 | Lisa Bunschoten Netherlands | 1:00.04 | |
| Snowboard cross | SB-LL1 [72] | Brenna Huckaby United States | Amy Purdy United States | Cécile Hernandez France | |||
| SB-LL2 [73] | Bibian Mentel-Spee Netherlands | Lisa Bunschoten Netherlands | Astrid Fina  Spain | ||||
| Event | Class | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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| Banked slalom | SB-UL [74] | Mike Minor United States | 50.77 | Patrick Mayrhofer  Austria | 51.36 | Simon Patmore  Australia | 51.99 |
| SB-LL1 [75] | Noah Elliott United States | 51.90 | Mike Schultz United States | 53.42 | Bruno Bosnjak  Croatia | 54.08 | |
| SB-LL2 [76] | Gurimu Narita  Japan | 48.68 | Evan Strong United States | 49.20 | Matti Suur-Hamari  Finland | 49.51 | |
| Snowboard cross | SB-UL [77] | Simon Patmore Australia | Manuel Pozzerle  Italy | Mike Minor United States | |||
| SB-LL1 [78] | Mike Schultz United States | Chris Vos Netherlands | Noah Elliott United States | ||||
| SB-LL2 [79] | Matti Suur-Hamari Finland | Keith Gabel United States | Gurimu Narita Japan | ||||
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mixed [80] |  China (CHN)Wang Haitao Chen Jianxin Liu Wei Wang Meng Zhang Qiang | Norway (NOR) Rune Lorentsen Jostein Stordahl Ole Fredrik Syversen Sissel Løchen Rikke Iversen | Canada (CAN) Mark Ideson Ina Forrest Dennis Thiessen Marie Wright James Anseeuw |
Alpine Canada is the national governing body for alpine, para-alpine and ski cross racing in Canada. Alpine Canada represents coaches, officials, supporters and athletes, including the racers of the Canadian Alpine Ski Team, Canadian Ski Cross Team and the Canadian Para-Alpine Ski Team. Alpine Canada is also involved in promoting participation within Canada's four million recreational skiers. Alpine Canada celebrated 100 years of ski racing in Canada in 2021.
Paralympic alpine skiing is an adaptation of alpine skiing for athletes with a disability. The sport evolved from the efforts of disabled veterans in Germany and Austria during and after the Second World War. The sport is governed by the International Paralympic Committee Sports Committee. The primary equipment used includes outrigger skis, sit-skis, and mono-skis. Para-alpine skiing disciplines include the Downhill, Super-G, Giant slalom, Slalom, Super Combined and Snowboard.
The Winter Paralympic Games is an international multi-sport event where athletes with physical disabilities compete in snow and ice sports. The event includes athletes with mobility impairments, amputations, blindness, and cerebral palsy. The Winter Paralympic Games are held every four years directly following the Winter Olympic Games and hosted in the same city. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) oversees the Games. Medals are awarded in each event: with gold for first place, silver for second, and bronze for third, following the tradition that the Olympic Games began in 1904.
The alpine skiing competition of the Vancouver 2010 Paralympics will be held at Whistler, British Columbia. The events were due to be held between 13 March, and 21 March 2010. Events scheduled for 13 March, however, were postponed due to weather conditions – specifically, low visibility. The snowboard cross event was a demonstration sport until 2014.
Germany sent 20 competitors to compete in four disciplines at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They placed first overall in the medal standings with a total of 13 gold medals.
Austria sent delegation to compete at the 2010 Winter Paralympics, in Vancouver. It fielded a total of nineteen athletes, in alpine skiing, biathlon and cross-country skiing.
The compactness of the venue locations for the 2018 Winter Olympics and 2018 Winter Paralympics, hosted by the county of Pyeongchang, South Korea was one of the winning arguments of the bid. The Games were gathered around two main venues: these were the mountain resort of Alpensia in Pyeongchang for the outdoor (snow) sports and the coastal city of Gangneung for the indoor (ice) sports There were also two stand-alone mountain venues.
Para-snowboarding classification is the classification system for para-snowboarding. The sport originally called Adaptive Snowboard is now practiced by hundreds of athletes around the world. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) defines three classes: SB-LL for athletes with a physical impairment affecting one or both legs, and SB-UL for athletes with a physical impairment affecting one or both arms who compete standing. The sport made its official Winter Paralympic debut in the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia.
LW12 is a para-Alpine and para-Nordic sit skiing sport class defined by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). An LW12 skier needs to meet a minimum of one of several conditions including a single below knee but above ankle amputation, monoplegia that exhibits similar to below knee amputation, legs of different length where there is at least a 7 centimetres difference, combined muscle strength in the lower extremities less than 71. For international competitions, classification is done through IPC Alpine Skiing or IPC Nordic Skiing. For sub-international competitions, classification is done by a national federation such as Alpine Canada. For para-Alpine, this class is subdivided into two subclasses.: LW12.1 and LW12.2. A new sit-skier competitor with only national classification will compete as LW12.2 in international competitions until they have been internationally classified.
LW11 is a para-Alpine and para-Nordic sit skiing sport class, a classification defined by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC for people with paralysis in the lower extremities and people with cerebral palsy that affects the lower half of the body. Outside of skiing, the competitor in this class is unable to walk. For international competitions, classification is done through IPC Alpine Skiing or IPC Nordic Skiing. For sub-international competitions, classification is done by a national federation such as Alpine Canada.
LW10 is a para-Alpine and para-Nordic sit-skiing classification for skiers who cannot sit up without support. For international skiing competitions, classification is conducted by International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Alpine Skiing and IPC Nordic Skiing, while national federations such as Alpine Canada handle classification for domestic competitions.
LW5/7 is a standing para-Alpine and para-Nordic skiing classification for skiers with upper extremity issues in both limbs that may include double amputation of both arms and hands or dysmelia of the upper limbs. The class has three subclasses defined by the location of the disability on the upper extremities. International classification is done by IPC Alpine Skiing and IPC Nordic Skiing. On the national level, classification is handled by national sports federation such as Cross-Country Canada.
LW6/8 is a para-Alpine and para-Nordic standing skiing sport class, a classification defined by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) for people with an upper extremity issue who have paralysis, motor paresis affecting one arm, a single upper arm amputation or CP8 classified cerebral palsy. LW6/8 skiers use two skis and one pole in both para-Alpine and para-Nordic skiing.
Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Paralympics was held at the Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort near Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. The thirty-two events occurred on 8–16 March 2014.
Uzbekistan sent a delegation to compete at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia, held between 7–16 March 2014. This marked the first time the nation competed at the Winter Paralympics. The delegation consisted of two athletes, Yevgeniy Slepov and Ramil Gayazov, both were competitors in Alpine skiing. Gayazov failed to post an event finish, while Slepov finished 32nd in the snowboard cross.
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.
Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Paralympics was held at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre, South Korea. The thirty events occurred from 10 to 18 March 2018.
This is a chronological summary of the major events of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang County, South Korea. Two events, the curling mixed doubles tournament and the men's normal hill ski jumping competition, held their preliminary rounds on 8 February. The opening ceremony took place one day later on 9 February. The last day of competition and the closing ceremony was on 25 February.
Austria sent competitors the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Austria sent 13 people to compete in three sports: para-alpine skiing, para-snowboarding, and cross-country skiing.
Anthony Chalençon is a French male visually impaired cross-country skier and biathlete who also formerly competed as an alpine skier. He switched from alpine skiing to take up Paralympic Nordic skiing after a disastrous start to his Paralympic career as an alpine skier in 2010. Anthony Chalençon clinched his first Paralympic medals after clinching a bronze medal in the 15km visually impaired biathlon event and gold in the Open Relay during the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
