United States at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

United States at the 2014 Winter Paralympics
Flag of the United States
IPC code	USA
NPC	United States Paralympic Committee
Website	www.teamusa.org/US-Paralympics
in Sochi
Competitors	74 in 5 sports
Flag bearer	Jonathan Lujan (opening) Steve Cash (closing)
Medals Ranked 8th	Gold 2 Silver 7 Bronze 9 Total 18
Winter Paralympics appearances
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The United States competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia, held between 7–16 March 2014. The team consists of 80 athletes (58 men and 22 women), including 6 guides for visually impaired athletes, competing in all five sports.^[1]

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Total
		Time	Rank
Jasmin Bambur	Super-G, sitting	1:26.36	7
	Downhill, sitting	DNF
	Combined, sitting	DNF
	Slalom, sitting	DNF
	Giant slalom, sitting	2:50.99	17
Mark Bathum Guide: Cade Yamamoto	Super-G, visually impaired	1:20.71
	Downhill, visually impaired	1:23.81	5
	Combined, visually impaired	2:17.38
	Slalom, visually impaired	1:49.13	4
	Giant slalom, visually impaired	DNF
Heath Calhoun	Super-G, sitting	1:24.65	4
	Combined, sitting	2:19.09
	Slalom, sitting	DNF
	Giant slalom, sitting	2:35.03	6
Tyler Carter	Giant slalom, standing	3:00.14	27
Chris Devlin-Young	Downhill, sitting	1:27.84	10
	Super-G, sitting	DNF
	Giant slalom, sitting	DNF
Ralph Green	Super-G, standing	DNF
	Slalom, standing	1:57.20	17
	Giant slalom, standing	2:44.87	16
Gerald Hayden	Slalom, sitting	2:00.16	8
Joel Hunt	Giant slalom, standing	2:58.33	24
Ian Jansing	Slalom, standing	2:10.75	28
Jon Lujan	Super-G, standing	DNF
	Slalom, standing	DNF
	Giant slalom, standing	DNF
Stephen Lawler	Giant slalom, sitting	DNS
Scott Meyer	Slalom, sitting	DNF
	Giant slalom, sitting	DNF
Pat Parnell	Slalom, standing	DNF
Jamie Stanton	Super-G, standing	1:24.66	6
	Combined, sitting	2:22.65	13
	Slalom, standing	2:02.57	22
	Giant slalom, standing	DNF
Tyler Walker	Downhill, sitting	DNF

Women

Athlete	Event	Total
		Time	Rank
Lindsay Ball Guide: Diane Barras	Giant slalom, visually impaired	DNF
Stephanie Jallen	Super-G, standing	1:30.14
	Combined, standing	2:23.13
	Slalom, standing	DNF
	Giant slalom, standing	DNF
Allison Jones	Downhill, standing	1:34.09
	Super-G, standing	1:30.66	4
	Combined, standing	2:29.50	4
	Slalom, standing	DNF
	Giant slalom, standing	2:48.57	4
Staci Mannella Guide: Kim Seevers	Slalom, visually impaired	2:21.05	6
	Giant slalom, visually impaired	3:10.77	6
Alana Nichols	Downhill, sitting	1:35.69
	Super-G, sitting	DNF
	Giant slalom, sitting	3:00.24	4
Melanie Schwartz	Super-G, standing	1:40.27	9
	Combined, standing	DNF
	Slalom, standing	2:31.08	10
	Giant slalom, standing	3:13.06	14
Laurie Stephens	Downhill, sitting	1:36.94
	Super-G, sitting	1:32.09
	Combined, sitting	DNS
	Slalom, sitting	2:18.45	4
	Giant slalom, sitting	3:04.90	6
Danelle Umstead Guide: Rob Umstead	Downhill, visually impaired	1:36.70	5
	Super-G, visually impaired	1:32.04	4
	Combined, visually impaired	2:42.09
	Slalom, visually impaired	2:16.21	4
Stephani Victor	Super-G, sitting	DNF

Snowboarding

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Race 3		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Tyler Burdick	Snowboard cross	57.03	7	56.73	7	55.76	5	1:52.49	8
Keith Gabel		54.02	3	53.61	3	53.49	3	1:47.10
Dan Monzo		1:04.67	16	1:14.57	22	1:02.85	16	2:07.52	18
Mike Shea		52.29	1	51.89	2	1:00.27	9	1:44.18
Evan Strong		52.55	2	51.62	1	51.99	1	1:43.61

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Race 3		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Cristina Albert	Snowboard cross	1:10.55	4	1:30.75	4	1:24.71	5	2:35.26	4
Heidi Jo Duce		1:17.40	6	DSQ		1:20.03	4	2:37.43	5
Megan Harmon		1:40.07	10	1:55.84	9	1:51.02	10	3:31.09	10
Amy Purdy		1:08.61	3	1:06.88	3	1:07.41	3	2:14.29
Nicole Roundy		1:24.10	8	1:59.54	10	1:35.47	7	2:59.57	8

Biathlon

Visually impaired

Sitting

Standing

Cross-country skiing

Visually impaired

Sitting

Athlete	Events	Class	Factor %	Qualification		Semifinal		Final
				Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Daniel Cnossen	Men's 1 km sprint	LW12	100%	2:18.01	9 Q	2:23.4	3 Q	2:39.9	6
	Men's 10 km			N/A				33:02.0	10
	Men's 15 km			N/A				45:22.4	13
Travis Dodson	Men's 1 km sprint	LW12	100%	2:27.55	19	Did not advance
	Men's 10 km			N/A				35:49.6	23
Sean Halsted	Men's 1 km sprint	LW11.5	97%	2:25.57	17	Did not advance
	Men's 10 km			N/A				34:21.9	16
	Men's 15 km			N/A				44:57.9	9
Augusto Perez	Men's 15 km			N/A				51:24.2	17
Aaron Pike	Men's 1 km sprint	LW11.5	97%	2:20.86	14	Did not advance
	Men's 10 km			N/A				34:00.0	14
	Men's 15 km			N/A				45:20.6	12
Brian Price	Men's 15 km	LW11.5	97%	N/A				52:19.5	19
Andy Soule	Men's 1 km sprint	LW12	100%	2:19.31	11 Q	2:34.0	3 Q	2:38.0	5
	Men's 10 km			N/A				32:56.1	9
	Men's 15 km			N/A				42:53.8	5
Jeremy Wagner	Men's 1 km sprint	LW11.5	97%	2:22.35	15	Did not advance
	Men's 10 km			N/A				35:40.5	22
Monica Bascio	Women's 1 km sprint	LW11	94%	2:56.81	18	Did not advance
	Women's 5 km			N/A				18:50.4	16
	Women's 12 km			N/A				41:56.2	7
Oksana Masters	Women's 1 km sprint	LW12	100%	2:34.81	3	2:52.3	2	2:47.6	4
	Women's 5 km			N/A				17:04.8
	Women's 12 km			N/A				39:16.0
Tatyana McFadden	Women's 1 km sprint		94%	2:35.22	4	2:57.9	2	2:45.7
	Women's 5 km			N/A				17:27.8	7
	Women's 12 km			N/A				40:38.2	5
Beth Requist	Women's 1 km sprint		94%	3:09.79	19	Did not advance
	Women's 5 km			N/A				20:17.4	19
	Women's 12 km			N/A				46:29.1	16
Jacob Adicoff Guide: Reid Pletcher Tatyana McFadden	Mixed relay			N/A				29:06.7	6
Omar Bermejo Kevin Burton Guide: David Chamberlain Augusto Perez Brian Price	Open relay			N/A				29:58.3	9

Standing

Ice sledge hockey

Preliminary round

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Russia (RUS)	3	2	0	1	0	8	1	+7	7
United States (USA)	3	2	0	0	1	9	3	+6	6
Italy (ITA)	3	1	0	0	2	3	13	−10	3
South Korea (KOR)	3	0	1	0	2	4	7	−2	2

March 8, 2014 16:30 MSK

United States

5–1 (1–0, 1–0, 3–1)

Italy

Shayba Arena

				Referee: Paul Boese
	D. Farmer (13:45) 1–0 B. Roybal (26:12) 2–0 J. Sweeney (33:04) 3–0 B. Roybal (40:18) 4–0 4–1 F. Planker (43:34) P. Schaus (44:55) 5–1

March 9, 2014 16:30 MSK

United States

3–0 (2–0, 1–0, 0–0)

South Korea

Shayba Arena

				Referee: Jan Vanek
	T. Chace (00:57) 1–0 A. Page (11:51) 2–0 A. Page (29:29) 3–0

March 11, 2014 16:30 MSK

United States

1–2 (0–1, 0–0, 1–1)

Russia

Shayba Arena

				Referee: Petter Hegle
	0–1 I. Volkov (11:57) 0–2 K. Shikhov (17:37) A. Page (34:50) 1–2

Semifinal

March 13, 2014 20:00 MSK

Canada

0-3 (0–2,0–1,0–0)

United States

Shayba Arena

				Referee: Paul Boese
	0–1 D. Farmer 9:12 0–2 D. Farmer 14:04 0–3 J. Pauls 19:55

Gold Medal Game

March 15, 2014 20:00 MSK

United States

1-0

Russia

Shayba Arena

United States Tyler Carron Steve Cash Taylor Chace Declan Farmer Nikko Landeros Jen Lee Taylor Lipsett Dan McCoy Kevin McKee Adam Page Josh Pauls Rico Roman Brody Roybal Paul Schaus Greg Shaw Joshua Sweeney Andy Yohe

Wheelchair curling

The United States qualified a mixed wheelchair curling team as one of the nine highest-ranked nations based on results from the last three World Wheelchair Curling Championships.

Team

Standings

Final round robin standings^[2]

Country	Skip	W	L	PF	PA
Russia	Andrei Smirnov	8	1	60	38
Canada	Jim Armstrong	7	2	66	42
China	Wang Haitao	5	4	54	45
Great Britain	Aileen Neilson	5	4	53	56
United States	Patrick McDonald	4	5	56	42
Slovakia	Radoslav Ďuriš	4	5	47	68
Sweden	Jalle Jungnell	4	5	59	49
Norway	Rune Lorentsen	3	6	45	62
South Korea	Kim Myung-jin	3	6	41	74
Finland	Markku Karjalainen	2	7	61	58

Results

Draw 1 Saturday, March 8, 9:30 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Slovakia (Ďuriš) 2 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 6  United States (McDonald) 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 4 Draw 2 Saturday, March 8, 15:30 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  United States (McDonald) 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 X 5  South Korea (Kim) 3 0 3 0 2 0 1 X 9 Draw 3 Sunday, March 9, 9:30 Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  United States (McDonald) 2 0 2 0 3 0 0 1 8  Norway (Lorentsen) 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 5 Draw 5 Monday, March 10, 9:30 Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  United States (McDonald) 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 X 2  Canada (Armstrong) 1 0 2 0 2 1 1 X 7 Draw 6 Monday, March 10, 15:30 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Russia (Smirnov) 2 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 6  United States (McDonald) 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 5

Draw 8 Tuesday, March 11, 15:30 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  United States (McDonald) 1 0 1 3 0 1 1 0 7  Finland (Karjalainen) 0 1 0 0 4 0 0 1 6 Draw 9 Wednesday, March 12, 9:30 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  United States (McDonald) 1 1 1 1 0 2 4 X 10  China (Wang) 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 X 2 Draw 10 Wednesday, March 12, 15:30 Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Sweden (Jungnell) 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 X 3  United States (McDonald) 1 0 1 3 2 0 1 X 8 Draw 11 Thursday, March 13, 9:30 Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 EE Final  Great Britain (Neilson) 0 0 1 0 1 0 5 0 1 8  United States (McDonald) 2 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 7

See also

• United States at the Paralympics
• United States at the 2014 Winter Olympics

References