2015 Winter Deaflympics Explained

18th Winter Deaflympics
Size:	250 px
Motto:	Let’s give a voice to our sport success
Host City:	Khanty-Mansiysk Magnitogorsk
Nations:	27 countries
Athletes:	336 athletes
Opened By:	Vitaly Mutko
Opening:	28 March 2015
Closing:	5 April 2015
Events:	31 in 5 sports
Wprevious:	High Tatras 2011
Wnext:	Sondrio Province 2019
Wpreviouss:	Sofia-Füssen 2013

The 2015 Winter Deaflympics (Russian: Зимние Сурдлимпийские игры 2015 года), officially known as the 18th Winter Deaflympics (Russian: 18-е зимние сурдлимпийские игры), is an international multi-sport event that took place in Khanty-Mansiysk and Magnitogorsk, Russia from 28 March to 5 April 2015.^{[1] [2]}

Venues

Sport	Venue	Location
Alpine skiing (all except Slalom)	Alpine skiing Centre "Metallurg – Magnitogorsk"	Magnitogorsk
Cross-country skiing	Winter Sports Center n.a. A.V. Filipenko	Khanty-Mansiysk
Curling	Ice Palace	Khanty-Mansiysk
Ice Hockey	Arena Ugra	Khanty-Mansiysk
Alpine skiing (Slalom), Snowboarding	Alpine skiing Complex "Khvoyny Urman"	Khanty-Mansiysk

Logo

The games' logo is an abstract of a black grouse that symbolizes the wealth of khanti culture which resembles a hand of a man, the main device for communication of deaf and hard-of-hearing athletes and a bird. It consists of 4 colors which are red and orange that mean motion and energy and blue and violet that mean firmness and endurance. The ethnical ornament of khanti “hare’s ears” which is used in household items and clothes of khanti and mansi in the middle of the logo symbolizes motion. Overall, the logo represents host city, Khanty-Mansiysk as a confluence of two great rivers – Ob and Irtysh.^[3]

Mascot

The games' mascot is a baby mammoth, a symbol of Russian north that represents beauty and strength of Siberia and is described to have kind eyes crystal clear like rivers and lakes of Ugra and open as Russian soul.^[4] The name of the mascot was chosen as "Spartak" from an online voting process.^{[5] [6]}

Participating nations

• Armenia
• Austria
• Canada
• China
• Croatia
• Czech Republic
• Estonia
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Hungary
• Italy
• Japan
• Kazakhstan
  • Mongolia
• Norway
• Pakistan
• Poland
  • Slovenia
• Slovakia
• Spain
• Switzerland
• Turkey
• Ukraine
• United States

Schedule

OC

Opening ceremony

●

Event competitions

1

Gold medal events

CC

Closing ceremony

March/April	28th Sat	29th Sun	30th Mon	31st Tue	1st Wed	2nd Thu	3rd Fri	4th Sat	5th Sun	Events
Ceremonies	OC								CC
Alpine skiing<	-- 28 -->					2<	-- 2 -->		4<	-- 4 -->	2<	-- 5 -->	2<	-- T -->	10
Cross-country skiing<	-- 28 -->		2<	-- 30 -->	1<	-- 31 -->		2<	-- 2 -->	1<	-- 3 -->		2<	-- 5 -->		8
Curling<	-- 28 -->		●<	-- 30 -->	●<	-- 31 -->	●<	-- 1 -->	●<	-- 2 -->	●<	-- 3 -->	●<	-- 4 -->	●<	-- 5 -->	2<	-- T -->	2
Ice hockey<	-- 28 -->		●<	-- 30 -->	●<	-- 31 -->		●<	-- 2 -->	●<	-- 3 -->		●<	-- 5 -->	1<	-- T -->	1
Snowboarding<	-- 28 -->		2<	-- 30 -->	2<	-- 31 -->		2<	-- 2 -->		2<	-- 4 -->		2<	-- T -->	10
Daily medal events		4	3	0	6	1	6	4	7	31
Cumulative total		4	7	7	13	14	20	24	31	31
March/April	28th Sat	29th Sun	30th Mon	31st Tue	1st Wed	2nd Thu	3rd Fri	4th Sat	5th Sun	Events

Medal table

^[7]

Results

Alpine skiing

^[8]

Men Downhill
Women Downhill
Men Super Combined
Women Super Combined
Men Super-G
Women Super-G
Men Giant Slalom
Women Giant Slalom
Men Slalom
Women Slalom

Cross Country skiing

^[9]

Men 10 km + 10 km Skiathlon
Women 10 km Mass Start
Women 5 km + 5 km Skiathlon
Men Sprint Free
Women Sprint Free
Men 15 km Mass Start
Men 3x10km Relay	Sergey Ermilov, Alexey Groshev, Vladimir Mayorov	Andriy Andriyishyn, Pavlo Mandziuk, Volodymyr Pyshniak	Ren Jianchao, Wang Liguo, Zhang Xiaokun
Men team sprint classic	Sergey Ermilov, Vladimir Mayorov	Andriy Andriyishyn, Volodymyr Pyshniak	Ren Jianchao, Zhang Xiaokun

Curling

^[10]

Men

Round-robin

Key
	Teams to playoffs
	Teams to tiebreaker

width=160	Country	width=20		width=20
	8	0
	6	2
	6	2
	4	4
	4	4
	3	5
	2	6
	2	6
	1	7

Tiebreaker 7 : 6

Playoff

Women

Round-robin

width=160	Country	width=20		width=20
	6	1
	5	2
	5	2
	5	2
	4	3
	2	5
	1	6
	0	7

Playoff

Medalists

Men's team	Ge Shun Hai, Guan Jiquan, Li Haidong, Yang Li Guo, Yang Yan Chao	Joseph Comte, Marc Comte, Shawn Demianyk, John Gessner, David Morton	Oleg Darchiev, Denis Draga, Yury Makeev, Alexander Pyatkov
Women's team	Tatiana Karpushenkova, Elena Shagieva, Yulia Tretiakova, Svetlana Tsedik, Olga Yaroslavtsena	Li Hong, Wang Ming Ming, Yang Xue, Yin Yu, Zhao Lingyan	Brenda Davidson, Sally Korol, Donna Mcleod, Sarah Rabu, Sylvia Sigurdson

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 2015 Winter Deaflympics. ^[11]

Men's team

Dmitry Arsenyev Sergey Berlizov Roman Chernov Oleg Danilenko Dmitrii Dernov Pavel Evtushenko Rustam Gafurbaev Konstantin Gamayurov Stanislav Ilichev Yuriy Izmaylov Vyacheslav Kazantsev Orkhan Kazimov Stanislav Khakimov Sergey Kikin Alexey Kulikovskiy Roman Lukianov Vladimir Mashkov Vadim Mazurskii Vitalii Mokhov Andrey Prudnikov Ilya Shevtsov Artur Shimarov Viacheslav Sidorov Dmitrii Yadryshnikov Sergey Yushkin

Ryan Chramtchenko Steven Devine Patrick Escalambre Christopher Garbacz Ryan Howich Andrew Hughes Owen Hunter John Kyte Thomas Kyte Cole Laing Graeme Lauersen Jonathan Lobodzinski Jesse Mcintyre Scott Nelson Tyler Plett Matthew Sheffield Dimitrios Theofilaktidis

Troy Benson Joseph Bingham Christian Buczek Jameson Crane III Tyler Devore Max Finley Garrett Gintoli Peter Gintoli Samuel Holzrichter Grant Isenbarger Joseph Lingle Tomas Oricchto Robert Ruef Derek Struwing

Snowboarding

^[12]

Men Parallel Slalom
Men Half-pipe
Men Giant Slalom
Men Snowboard Cross
Men Snowboard Slopestyle
Women Half-pipe
Women Snowboard Cross
Women Snowboard Slopestyle
Women Giant Slalom
Women Parallel Slalom

Notes and References

1. Web site: 18 Winter Deaflympics games 2015 in Khanty-Mansiysk official website - ugra - #ugra2015. ugra2015.com. 30 June 2016.
2. Web site: Games - Deaflympics. deaflympics.com. 30 June 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20180211093206/http://deaflympics.com/games.asp?2015-w. 11 February 2018. dead.
3. Web site: The logo of the XVIII Winter Deaflympics. Ugra 2015 Winter Deaflympics.
4. Web site: mascot for the Deaflympics. Ugra 2015 Winter Deaflympics.
5. Web site: The contests are finished. Ugra 2015 Winter Deaflympics.
6. Web site: More than 50 contestants are claiming to give a name for the mascot of the Deaflympics. Ugra 2015 Winter Deaflympics.
7. Web site: Medals. Official website.
8. Web site: Alpine skiing.
9. Web site: Cross Country Skiing.
10. Web site: Curling.
11. Web site: Ice hockey.
12. Web site: Snowboarding.