2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships explained

2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships
Host City:	La Molina, Spain
Dates:	18–27 February 2013
Nations:	29
Athletes:	118
Events:	Downhill, giant slalom, slalom, super combined, super-G
Previous:	2011

The 2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships was an international disability sport alpine skiing event held in La Molina ski resort in Spain from 18 to 27 February 2013. The Championship is held biannually by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and is the largest event of its type outside the Winter Paralympics.

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

Over 118 skiers competed, with France finishing the Championship on top of the medal table with the most gold medals and Canada finishing with the highest total medals won (14).

Opening ceremony

The opening ceremony was held on the 18 February.

Events

Men

Event	Date	Class	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Downhill	Feb 20	Visually impaired^[1]	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide M. Galidno Garces	1:25.14	Alessandro Daldoss Guide Davide Riva	1:26.80	Chris Williamson Guide Robin Femy	1:27.77
		Standing^[2]	Markus Salcher	1:29.74	Michael Bruegger	1:32.51	Matthias Lanzinger	1:33.80
		Sitting^[3]	Franz Hanfstingl	1:31.92	Stephen Lawler	1:32.58	Yohann Taberlet	1:32.77
Super-G	Feb 21	Visually impaired^[4]	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide M. Galidno Garces	1:10.49	Chris Williamson Guide Robin Femy	1:11.65	Hugo Thomas Guide Luana Bergamin	1:12.78
		Standing^[5]	Markus Salcher	1:12.49	Matthias Lanzinger	1:13.66	Michael Bruegger	1:14.82
		Sitting^[6]	Taiki Morii	1:13.49	Yohann Taberlet	1:13.50	Akira Kano	1:13.69
Slalom	Feb 24	Visually impaired^[7]	Ivan Frantsev Guide German Agranovskii	1:57.94	Miroslav Haraus Guide Maria Zatovicova	1:59.21	Valery Redkozubov Guide V. Molodtsov	2:00.11
		Standing^[8]	Vincent Gauthier-Manuel	1:55.85	Thomas Pfyl	1:57.30	Adam Hall	1:57.69
		Sitting^[9]	Philipp Bonadimann	1:58.52	Taiki Morii	2:02.67	Dietmar Dorn	2:05.46
Super combined	Feb 25	Visually impaired^[10]	Chris Williamson Guide Robin Femy	1:43.47	Miroslav Haraus Guide Maria Zatovicova	1:45.02	Ivan Frantsev Guide German Agranovskii	1:47.90
		Standing^[11]	Matthias Lanzinger	1:42.44	Alexey Bugaev	1:42.90	Cedric Amafroi-Broisat	1:44.89
		Sitting^[12]	Taiki Morii	1:44.74	Takeshi Suzuki	1:47.37	Philipp Bonadimann	1:47.58
Giant slalom	Feb 26	Visually impaired^[13]	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide M. Galidno Garces	2:12.32	Mac Marcoux Guide B. J. Marcoux	2:13.59	Chris Williamson Guide Robin Femy	2:13.87
		Standing^[14]	Vincent Gauthier-Manuel	2:09.02	Alexey Bugaev	2:09.61	Michael Bruegger	2:11.50
		Sitting^[15]	Taiki Morii	2:15.80	Takeshi Suzuki	2:20.12	Christoph Kunz	2:20.26

Women

Event	Date	Class	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Downhill	Feb 20	Visually impaired^[16]	Henrieta Farkasova Guide Natalia Subrtova	1:33.11	Aleksandra Frantceva Guide Pavel Zabotin	1:34.63	Kelly Gallagher Guide Charlotte Evans	1:51.57
		Standing^[17]	Marie Bochet	1:35.62	Andrea Rothfuss	1:37.23	Solene Jambaque	1:38.52
		Sitting^[18]	Laurie Stephens	1:41.07	Kimberly Joines	1:41.37	Anna Schaffelhuber	1:44.17
Super-G	Feb 21	Visually impaired^[19]	Alexandra Frantseva Guide Pavel Zabotin	1:18.20	Kelly Gallagher Guide Charlotte Evans	1:21.30;	Jade Etherington Guide John Clark	1:21.58
		Standing^[20]	Marie Bochet	1:18.94	Solene Jambaque	1:19.29	Inga Medvedeva	1:20.99
		Sitting^[21]	Claudia Loesch	1:18.86	Anna Schaffelhuber	1:22.65	Laurie Stephens	1:23.33
Slalom	Feb 24	Visually impaired^[22]	Henrieta Farkasova Guide Natalia Subrtova	2:08.82	Alexandra Frantseva Guide Pavel Zabotin	2:10.49	Viviane Forest Guide C. Lauzon-Gauthier	2:13.60
		Standing^[23]	Marie Bochet	2:04.98	Andrea Rothfuss	2:11.80	Alexandra Starker	2:13.65
		Sitting^[24]	Anna Schaffelhuber	2:26.18	Anna-Lena Forster	2:31.31	Kimberly Joines	2:32.76
Super combined	Feb 25	Visually impaired^[25]	Alexandra Frantseva Guide Pavel Zabotin	1:56.21	Kelly Gallagher Guide Charlotte Evans	1:58.81	Petra Kozickova Guide Tomas Hajek	2:04.63
		Standing^[26]	Marie Bochet	1:55.32	Andrea Rothfuss	1:57.23	Alexandra Starker	2:00.49
		Sitting^[27]	Claudia Loesch	2:04.29	Kimberly Joines	2:07.51	Anna Schaffelhuber	2:08.05
Giant slalom	Feb 26	Visually impaired^[28]	Henrieta Farkasova Guide Natalia Subrtova	2:27.57	Viviane Forest Guide C. Lauzon-Gauthier	2:27.81	Kelly Gallagher Guide Charlotte Evans	2:29.07
		Standing^[29]	Marie Bochet	2:21.61	Andrea Rothfuss	2:22.95	Alexandra Starker	2:28.26
		Sitting^[30]	Claudia Loesch	2:29.70	Anna Schaffelhuber	2:31.23	Kimberly Joines	2:38.40

Participating nations

Over 118 participants from 29 nations competed.

Classifications

Skiers compete in sitting, standing or visually impaired events, depending on their classification of disability.

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

References

• Winter Sport Classification, Canadian Paralympic Committee

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Men's Downhill – Visually Impaired . 20 December 2015. 21 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
2. Web site: Event Overview – Men Downhill Standing . 21 December 2015. 20 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
3. Web site: Event Overview – Men's Downhill – Sitting . 21 December 2015. 20 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
4. Web site: Men's Super-G – Visually Impaired . 23 December 2015. 21 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
5. Web site: Event Overview – Men Super-G Standing . 23 December 2015. 20 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
6. Web site: Event Overview – Men's Super-G – Sitting . 23 December 2015. 20 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
7. Web site: Men's Slalom – Visually Impaired . 24 December 2015. 24 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
8. Web site: Event Overview – Men Slalom Standing . 24 December 2015. 24 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
9. Web site: Event Overview – Men's slalom – Sitting . 24 December 2015. 24 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
10. Web site: Men's Super combined – Visually Impaired . 24 December 2015. 25 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
11. Web site: Event Overview – Men Super combined Standing . 24 December 2015. 25 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
12. Web site: Event Overview – Men's Super combined – Sitting . 24 December 2015. 25 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
13. Web site: Men's Giant Slalom – Visually Impaired . 24 December 2015. 26 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
14. Web site: Event Overview – Men Giant slalom Standing . 24 December 2015. 26 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
15. Web site: Event Overview – Men's giant slalom – Sitting . 24 December 2015. 26 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
16. Web site: Women's Downhill – Visually Impaired . 20 December 2015. 20 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
17. Web site: Event Overview – Women Downhill Standing . 20 December 2015. 20 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
18. Web site: Event Overview – Women's Downhill – Sitting . 20 December 2015. 20 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
19. Web site: Women's Super-G – Visually Impaired . 21 December 2015. 21 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
20. Web site: Event Overview – Women Super-G Standing . 21 December 2015. 21 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
21. Web site: Event Overview – Women's Super-G – Sitting . 21 December 2015. 21 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
22. Web site: Women's Slalom – Visually Impaired . 20 December 2015. 24 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
23. Web site: Event Overview – Women Slalom Standing . 20 December 2015. 24 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
24. Web site: Event Overview – Women's slalom – Sitting . 20 December 2015. 24 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
25. Web site: Women's Super Combined – Visually Impaired . 21 December 2015. 25 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
26. Web site: Event Overview – Women Super Combined Standing . 21 December 2015. 25 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
27. Web site: Event Overview – Women's Super Combined – Sitting . 21 December 2015. 25 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
28. Web site: Women's Giant Slalom – Visually Impaired . 20 December 2015. 26 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
29. Web site: Event Overview – Women Giant slalom Standing . 20 December 2015. 26 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.
30. Web site: Event Overview – Women's giant slalom – Sitting . 20 December 2015. 26 February 2013. IPC Alpine Skiing.