Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Paralympics

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

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]

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
7	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)
Day 5	Tue 16 Mar,	13:00	Super Combined Men & Women (all classes)
Day 7	Thu 18 Mar,	10:00	Giant Slalom Men & Women (Standing)
Day 7	Thu 18 Mar,	13:00	Giant Slalom Men & Women (Standing)
Day 8	Fri 19 Mar,	10:00	Giant Slalom Men & Women (Sitting & Visually Impaired)
Day 8	Fri 19 Mar,	13:00	Giant Slalom Men & Women (Sitting & Visually Impaired)
Day 9	Sat 20 Mar,	10:00	Slalom Men & Women (Standing)
Day 9	Sat 20 Mar,	13:00	Slalom Men & Women (Standing)
Day 10	Sun 21 Mar,	10:00	Slalom Men & Women (Sitting & Visually Impaired)
Day 10	Sun 21 Mar,	13:00	Slalom Men & Women (Sitting & Visually Impaired)

References

"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
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)
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)
Vancouver Sun, "Woolstencroft wins fifth gold medal", CanWest News Service, 21 March 2010 (Retrieved 21 March 2010)
Visually impaired skiers put fate in guide's hands, thestar.com, 13 March 2010

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[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

[VanSun-2010-03-18-2] 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