Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Paralympics

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.[1]

Alpine skiing at the X Paralympic Winter Games
Venue	Whistler Blackcomb
Dates	13–21 March 2010

Whistler, Vancouver, the finals of the Alpine skiing.

In the Women's sitting giant slalom, Alana Nichols of the United States – a Paralympic champion in basketball from Beijing in 2008 – won her first of two skiing gold medals, becoming a rare winter-summer gold medalist. On 18 March, Viviane Forest became the first Canadian athlete to win a gold in both the Winter and Summer Paralympics, by winning the Women's Downhill for Visually Impaired. She had previously won gold in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Paralympics for women's goalball.[2][3]

Lauren Woolstencroft sets the gold medal record with 5 gold medals, for most gold medals won by any Winter Paralympian at a single Games.[4]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	7	4	4	15
2	Canada (CAN)	6	4	3	13
3	Slovakia (SVK)	6	2	3	11
4	United States (USA)	3	5	3	11
5	Austria (AUT)	3	4	4	11
6	France (FRA)	1	4	1	6
7	Spain (ESP)	1	2	0	3
	Switzerland (SUI)	1	2	0	3
9	Japan (JPN)	1	1	5	7
10	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	0	1
11	Italy (ITA)	0	2	2	4
12	Australia (AUS)	0	1	3	4
13	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 nations)		30	31	29	90

Events

The competition events are:

• Downhill: women – men
• Super-G: women – men
• Giant slalom: women – men
• Slalom: women – men
• Super combined: women – men

Each event has separate men's and women's competitions and separate standing, sitting, and visually impaired classifications. 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]

Women's events

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Downhill	visually impaired	Viviane Forest Guide: Lindsay Debou  Canada	1:27.51	Henrieta Farkasova Guide: Natalia Subrtova  Slovakia	1:28.17	Danelle Umstead Guide: Rob Umstead  United States	1:30.18
	sitting	Alana Nichols  United States	1:23.31	Laurie Stephens  United States	1:28.26	Claudia Lösch  Austria	1:29.89
	standing	Lauren Woolstencroft  Canada	1:25.54	Solène Jambaqué  France	1:29.94	Andrea Rothfuß  Germany	1:30.58
Super-G	visually impaired	Henrieta Farkasova Guide: Natalia Subrtova  Slovakia	1:33.81	Viviane Forest Guide: Lindsay Debou  Canada	1:37.54	Anna Kuliskova Guide: Michaela Hubacova  Czech Republic	1:38.02
	sitting	Claudia Lösch  Austria	1:33.89	Alana Nichols  United States	1:36.68	Anna Schaffelhuber  Germany	1:38.25
	standing	Lauren Woolstencroft  Canada	1:26.46	Melania Corradini  Italy	1:31.92	Andrea Rothfuß  Germany	1:32.47
Giant slalom	visually impaired	Henrieta Farkasova Guide: Natalia Subrtova  Slovakia	2:56.65	Sabine Gasteiger Guide: Stefan Schoner  Austria	3:02.18	Viviane Forest Guide: Lindsay Debou  Canada	3:11.17
	sitting	Alana Nichols  United States	2:57.57	Stephani Victor  United States	3:01.78	Kuniko Obinata  Japan	3:08.71
	standing	Lauren Woolstencroft  Canada	2:34.03	Andrea Rothfuß  Germany	2:41.60	Petra Smarzova  Slovakia	2:41.63
Slalom	visually impaired	Sabine Gasteiger Guide: Stefan Schoner  Austria	2:00.56	Viviane Forest Guide: Lindsay Debou  Canada	2:01.45	Jessica Gallagher Guide: Eric Bickerton  Australia	2:04.35
	sitting	Claudia Lösch  Austria	2:12.05	Stephani Victor  United States	2:12.63	Kuniko Obinata  Japan	2:18.60
	standing	Lauren Woolstencroft  Canada	1:51.97	Andrea Rothfuß  Germany	1:58.35	Karolina Wisniewska  Canada	1:58.84
Super Combined	visually impaired	Henrieta Farkasova Guide: Natalia Subrtova  Slovakia	2:34.61	Viviane Forest Guide: Lindsay Debou  Canada	2:35.94	Danelle Umstead Guide: Rob Umstead  United States	2:48.75
	sitting	Stephani Victor  United States	2:40.71	Claudia Lösch  Austria	2:44.28	Alana Nichols  United States	2:47.54
	standing	Lauren Woolstencroft  Canada	2:22.67	Solène Jambaqué  France	2:34.82	Karolina Wisniewska  Canada	2:35.47

Men's events

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Downhill	visually impaired	Jon Santacana Maiztegui Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces  Spain	1:18.23	Mark Bathum Guide: Slater Storey  United States	1:18.63	Gerd Gradwohl Guide: Karl-Heinz Vachenauer  Germany	1:20.40
	sitting	Christoph Kunz  Switzerland	1:18.19	Taiki Morii  Japan	1:18.63	Akira Kano  Japan	1:19.19
	standing	Gerd Schönfelder  Germany	1:20.80	Marty Mayberry  Australia Michael Brugger  Switzerland	1:22.78
Super-G	visually impaired	Nicolas Berejny Guide: Sophie Troc  France	1:21.55	Jakub Krako Guide: Juraj Medera  Slovakia	1:21.71	Miroslav Haraus Guide: Martin Makovnik  Slovakia	1:22.75
	sitting	Akira Kano  Japan	1:19.98	Martin Braxenthaler  Germany	1:20.63	Taiki Morii  Japan	1:20.98
	standing	Gerd Schönfelder  Germany	1:20.11	Vincent Gauthier-Manuel  France	1:21.24	Hubert Mandl  Austria	1:21.97
Giant slalom	visually impaired	Jakub Krako Guide: Juraj Medera  Slovakia	2:41.99	Jon Santacana Maiztegui Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces  Spain	2:42.20	Gianmaria dal Maistro Guide: Tommaso Balasso  Italy	2:44.25
	sitting	Martin Braxenthaler  Germany	2:37.40	Christoph Kunz  Switzerland	2:40.35	Takeshi Suzuki  Japan	2:45.61
	standing	Gerd Schönfelder  Germany	2:23.92	Robert Meusburger  Austria	2:26.08	Vincent Gauthier-Manuel  France	2:26.33
Slalom	visually impaired	Jakub Krako Guide: Juraj Medera  Slovakia	1:45.82	Jon Santacana Maiztegui Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces  Spain	1:46.91	Gianmaria dal Maistro Guide: Tommaso Balasso  Italy	1:48.32
	sitting	Martin Braxenthaler  Germany	1:41.63	Josh Dueck  Canada	1:46.29	Philipp Bonadimann  Austria	1:46.34
	standing	Adam Hall  New Zealand	1:45.40	Gerd Schönfelder  Germany	1:45.97	Cameron Rahles-Rahbula  Australia	1:47.69
Super Combined	visually impaired	Jakub Krako Guide: Juraj Medera  Slovakia	2:14.61	Gianmaria dal Maistro Guide: Tommaso Balasso  Italy	2:16.18	Miroslav Haraus Guide: Martin Makovnik  Slovakia	2:16.31
	sitting	Martin Braxenthaler  Germany	2:10.16	Jürgen Egle  Austria	2:12.80	Philipp Bonadimann  Austria	2:12.96
	standing	Gerd Schönfelder  Germany	2:11.84	Vincent Gauthier-Manuel  France	2:12.04	Cameron Rahles-Rahbula  Australia	2:13.85

Competition Schedule

All times are Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8).

Day	Date	Start	Event
Day 2	Sat 13 Mar,	11:30	Downhill Men & Women (all classes)
Day 3	Sun 14 Mar,	11:30	Super-G Men & Women (Standing)
Day 4	Mon 15 Mar,	11:30	Super-G Men & Women (Sitting & Visually Impaired)
Day 5	Tue 16 Mar,	9:30	Super Combined Men & Women (all classes)
		13:00
Day 7	Thu 18 Mar,	10:00	Giant Slalom Men & Women (Standing)
		13:00
Day 8	Fri 19 Mar,	10:00	Giant Slalom Men & Women (Sitting & Visually Impaired)
		13:00
Day 9	Sat 20 Mar,	10:00	Slalom Men & Women (Standing)
		13:00
Day 10	Sun 21 Mar,	10:00	Slalom Men & Women (Sitting & Visually Impaired)
		13:00

See also

• Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics

References

1. "Vancouver 2010 revises Paralympic alpine event schedule due to forecasted weather conditions; tickets valid for date on ticket", Vancouver 2010 official website, 13 March 2010
2. Vancouver Sun, "Paralympic para-alpine skiing: Canada’s Viviane Forest does the trifecta, wins visually impaired downhill gold" Archived 23 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Mike Beamish, 18 March 2010 (Retrieved 19 March 2010)
3. Vancouver Sun, "Para-alpine star Viviane Forest has potential for huge Games medal haul" Archived 24 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine, John Korobanik, 11 March 2010 (Retrieved 19 March 2010)
4. Vancouver Sun, "Woolstencroft wins fifth gold medal", CanWest News Service, 21 March 2010 (Retrieved 21 March 2010)
5. Visually impaired skiers put fate in guide's hands, thestar.com, 13 March 2010

• Alpine Skiing – Sports – Vancouver 2010
• Alpine Skiing Schedule