2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships explained

2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships
Host City:	Sestriere, Italy
Dates:	January 14 – 23
Nations:	23^[1]
Athletes:	130
Previous:	2009

The 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships was held in Sestriere, Italy, from January 14 to 23, 2011. IPC stands for International Paralympic Committee.

Skiers competed in sitting, standing or visually impaired classification categories in Downhill, giant slalom, Slalom, Super-G, Super Combined and Team events.

Over 130 skiers competed, including German multiple-Paralympic medalist Gerd Schönfelder, who competed in classification-category standing events.

Sestriere hosted the Paralympic alpine skiing competition, at the 2006 Winter Paralympics.

The internet-TV channel ParalympicSport.TV, owned by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) broadcast daily live coverage of the Championships, from January 18–23,^[2] also available after the Championships as Video on Demand (VOD). They also added some interview clips to their YouTube channel.

Opening ceremony

On January 15, the opening ceremony was held at the Palazzetto dello Sport in the town square of Sestriere, and included a series of performances by three dance couples. The dancers were to represent the people of the region. Among the dignitaries in attendance was the IPC President Sir Philip Craven.^[3]

Medal winners

The men's events and the women's events were held at Kandahar Banchetta Giovanni N., in Sestriere. 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.^[4]

Men

Event	Date	Class	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Downhill details	Jan 16	Visually impaired	Nicolas Berejny Guide Gregory Nouhaud	1:21.40	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide Miguel Galindo Garces	1:21.59	Chris Williamson Guide Robin Femy	1:22.76
		Standing	Gerd Schönfelder	1:21.84	Vincent Gauthier-Manuel	1:22.08	Thomas Pfyl	1:22.96
		Sitting	Akira Kano	1:20.94	Taiki Morii	1:21.39	Kees-Jan van der Klooster	1:21.63
Super-G details	Jan 18	Visually impaired	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide Miguel Galindo Garces	1:19.20	Chris Williamson Guide Robin Femy	1:19.50	Nicolas Berejny Guide Gregory Nouhaud	1:20.47
		Standing	Gerd Schönfelder	1:19.22	Vincent Gauthier-Manuel	1:19.26	Thomas Pfyl	1:19.95
		Sitting	Christopher Devlin-Young	1:17.67	Taiki Morii	1:18.29	Cyril More	1:19.50
Super Combined details	Jan 19	Visually impaired	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide Miguel Galindo Garces	2:07.43	Jakub Krako Guide Dusan Simo	2:08.36	Chris Williamson Guide Robin Femy	2:09.29
		Standing	Vincent Gauthier-Manuel	2:05.31	Gerd Schönfelder	2:07.06	Thomas Pfyl	2:08.88
		Sitting	Takeshi Suzuki	2:07.79	Cyril More	2:08.93	Yohann Taberlet	2:09.98
Slalom details	Jan 20	Visually impaired	Jakub Krako Guide Dusan Simo	1:28.83	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide Miguel Galindo Garces	1:29.11	Chris Williamson Guide Robin Femy	1:30.68
		Standing	Vincent Gauthier-Manuel	1:27.05	Gerd Schönfelder	1:27.22	Toby Kane	1:28.49
		Sitting	Takeshi Suzuki	1:29.31	Yohann Taberlet	1:32.24	Thomas Nolte	1:33.76
Giant slalom details	Jan 22	Visually impaired	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide Miguel Galindo Garces	2:10.78	Jakub Krako Guide Dusan Simo	2:12.10	Radomir Dudas Guide Maros Hudik	2:17.42
		Standing	Vincent Gauthier-Manuel	2:10.98	Thomas Pfyl	2:11.41	Gerd Schönfelder	2:11.47
		Sitting	Taiki Morii	2:15.79	Takeshi Suzuki	2:15.90	Christoph Kunz	2:16.11

Women

Event	Date	Class	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Downhill details	Jan 16	Visually impaired	Henrieta Farkasova Guide Natalia Subrtova	1:28.36	Melissa Perrine Guide Andrew Bor	1:40.50	Alexandra Frantseva Guide Evgenia Kolosovskaya	1:41.87
		Standing	Andrea Rothfuss	1:29.62	Marie Bochet	1:29.86	Solène Jambaqué	1:30.09
		Sitting	Alana Nichols	1:30.45	Laurie Stephens	1:33.05	Claudia Loesch	1:35.35
Super-G details	Jan 18	Visually impaired	Anna Kuliskova Guide Michaela Hubacova	1:34.28	Alexandra Frantseva Guide Evgenia Kolosovskaya	1:35.49	Melissa Perrine Guide Andrew Bor	1:38.08
		Standing	Solène Jambaqué	1:25.08	Marie Bochet	1:25.48	Andrea Rothfuss	1:26.48
		Sitting	Alana Nichols	1:27.56	Laurie Stephens	1:28.66	Claudia Loesch	1:29.04
Super Combined details	Jan 19	Visually impaired	Henrieta Farkasova Guide Natalia Subrtova	2:25.83	Alexandra Frantseva Guide Evgenia Kolosovskaya	2:32.31	Melissa Perrine Guide Andrew Bor	2:32.84
		Standing	Solène Jambaqué	2:21.94	Andrea Rothfuss	2:22.28	Karolina Wisniewska	2:25.79
		Sitting	Anna Schaffelhuber	2:31.62	Claudia Loesch	2:33.11	Laurie Stephens	2:42.68
Slalom details	Jan 20	Visually impaired	Henrieta Farkasova Guide Natalia Subrtova	1:42.71	Kelly Gallagher Guide Charlotte Evans	1:47.67	Alexandra Frantseva Guide Evgenia Kolosovskaya	1:49.98
		Standing	Andrea Rothfuss	1:39.98	Petra Smarzova	1:43.72	Karolina Wisniewska	1:45.53
		Sitting	Anna Schaffelhuber	1:48.80	Claudia Loesch	1:52.62	Alana Nichols	2:27.49
Giant slalom details	Jan 22	Visually impaired	Henrieta Farkasova Guide Natalia Subrtova	2:19.20	Alexandra Frantseva Guide Evgenia Kolosovskaya	2:28.73	Kelly Gallagher Guide Charlotte Evans	2:31.68
		Standing	Marie Bochet	2:23.32	Petra Smarzova	2:24.55	Andrea Rothfuss	2:24.99
		Sitting	Anna Schaffelhuber	2:31.73	Claudia Loesch	2:32.43	Alana Nichols	2:38.22

Team

Event	Date	Class	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Nations team event details	Jan 23	Open	Vincent Gauthier-Manuel, Nicolas Berejny Guide: Gregory Nouhaud, Marie Bochet. Cyril More, Yohann Taberlet.	6:55.09	Gerd Schönfelder, Andrea Rothfuss, Thomas Nolte. Georg Kreiter, Franz Hanfstingl, Anna Schaffelhuber.	6:56.28	Henrieta Farkasova Guide Natalia Subrtova, Jakub Krako Guide: Dusan Simo, Martin France. Norbert Holik Guide: Lubos Bosela.	7:03.86

Medals table

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Participating nations

Over 130 participants from 23 nations competed.^[6]

Classifications

Skiers compete in sitting, standing or visually impaired events, after what classification of disability they have.

Standing

• LW2 – single leg amputation above the knee
• LW3 – double leg amputation below the knee, mild cerebral palsy, or equivalent impairment
• LW4 – single leg amputation below the knee
• LW5/7 – double arm amputation
• LW6/8 – single arm amputation
• LW9 – amputation or equivalent impairment of one arm and one leg

Sitting

• LW 10 – paraplegia with no or some upper abdominal function and no functional sitting balance
• LW 11 – paraplegia with fair functional sitting balance
• LW 12 – double leg amputation above the knees, or paraplegia with some leg function and good sitting balance

Visually impaired

• B1 – no functional vision
• B2 – up to ca 3–5% functional vision
• B3 – under 10% functional vision

See also

• FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011

References

• Winter Sport Classification, Canadian Paralympic Committee

External links

• IPC Alpine Skiing
  • World Championships – official results
• ParalympicSport.TV

Notes and References

1. http://www.ipc-alpineskiing.org/news/2010_11_26_b.html 50 Days to Alpine World Champs in Sestriere
2. http://www.paralympic.org/Media_Centre/News/Sport_News/2011_01_18_a.html ParalympicSport.TV to Broadcast Live Coverage of Athletics World Champs
3. http://www.paralympic.org/Media_Centre/News/Sport_News/2011_01_15_a.html Opening Ceremony in Sestriere Kicks off World Champs
4. https://www.thestar.com/sports/article/779425--visually-impaired-skiers-put-fate-in-guide-s-hands Visually impaired skiers put fate in guide's hands
5. http://www.ipc-alpineskiing.org/export/sites/ipc_sports_alpine_skiing/Results/World_Championships/Medal_Standings_Final.pdf Medal Standings 23 Jan 2011
6. http://www.paralympic.org/Media_Centre/News/Sport_News/2011_01_20_f.html 11 Countries Medal in Slalom at World Championships