Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Paralympics – Women's downhill explained

Event:	Women's downhill
Games:	2010 Winter
Venue:	Whistler Blackcomb
Dates:	March 13
Prev:	2006
Next:	2014

The women's downhill competition of the Vancouver 2010 Paralympics was held at Whistler Blackcomb in Whistler, British Columbia. The competition was scheduled for Saturday, March 13, but was postponed to Thursday, March 18, due to bad weather conditions.

Viviane Forest became the first Paralympian to win a gold in both the Winter and Summer Games, 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.^{[1] [2]}

Visually impaired

In the downhill visually impaired, the athlete with a visual impairment has a sighted guide.^[3] The two skiers are considered a team, and dual medals are awarded.^[4]

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	1	Viviane Forest Guide		1:27.51
	6	Henrieta Farkašová Guide: Natalia Subrtova		1:28.17	+0.66
	2	Danielle Umstead Guide: Rob Umstead		1:30.18	+2.67
	4	Sabine Gasteiger Guide: Stefan Schoner		1:32.00	+4.49
	3	Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor		1:33.30	+5.79
	10	Alexandra Frantseva Guide: Polina Popova		1:38.71	+11.20
	8	Anna Cohi Fornell Guide: Raquel Garcia Borreguero		1:45.94	+18.43
	7	Natasha de Troyer Guide: Diego van de Voorde		1:48.85	+21.34
	5	Anna Kuliskova Guide: Michaela Hubacova
	9	Caitlin Sarubbi Guide: Gwynn Watkins

Sitting

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	3			1:23.31
	2			1:28.26	+6.95
	1			1:29.89	+6.58
	6			1:36.99	+13.68
	4
	5

Standing

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	10			1:25.54
	7			1:29.94	+4.40
	11			1:30.58	+5.04
	3			1:30.70	+5.16
	9			1:30.82	+5.28
	6			1:32.32	+6.78
	4			1:35.23	+9.69
	1			1:35.58	+10.04
	8			1:37.53	+11.99
10	12			1:37.55	+12.01
11	13			1:45.37	+19.83
	2
	5

See also

• Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics

External links

• 2010 Winter Plympics schedule and results, at the official website of the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver

Notes and References

1. Vancouver Sun, "Paralympic para-alpine skiing: Canada's Viviane Forest does the trifecta, wins visually impaired downhill gold", Mike Beamish, March 18, 2010 (Retrieved March 19, 2010)
2. Vancouver Sun, "Para-alpine star Viviane Forest has potential for huge Games medal haul", John Korobanik, March 11, 2010 (Retrieved March 19, 2010)
3. http://www.vancouver2010.com/ns/pdf/ASW310101C73A.pdf OFFICIAL RESULTS / RÉSULTATS OFFICIELS
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