Canada at the 2014 Winter Paralympics explained

Npc:	CAN
Npcname:	Canadian Paralympic Committee
Games:	Winter Paralympics
Year:	2014
Flagcaption:	Flag of Canada
Location:	Sochi
Competitors:	54
Sports:	5
Flagbearer:	Sonja Gaudet (opening ceremony) Josh Dueck (closing ceremony)^[1]
Rank:	3
Gold:	7
Silver:	2
Bronze:	7
Appearances:	auto

Canada competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia, from March 7 to 16, 2014.^[2]

Canada sent a team of 54 athletes to compete in all five sports, and finished with 7 gold medals and 16 overall (ranking 3rd and 4th respectively). This met the performance goal set by the Canadian Paralympic Committee on a top three finish in total gold medals.^{[3] [4]}

Medalists

See main article: 2014 Winter Paralympics medal table.

Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
Alpine skiing	2	1	5	8
Biathlon	0	1	1	2
Cross-country skiing	4	0	0	4
Ice sledge hockey	0	0	1	1
Wheelchair curling	1	0	0	1
Total	7	2	7	16

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Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Run 1			Run 2			Final/Total
		Time	Diff	Rank	Time	Diff	Rank	Time	Diff	Rank
Caleb Brousseau	Downhill, sitting	1:25.62	+1.82	6
	Super-G, sitting	1:22.05	+2.54
	Combined, sitting	did not finish	did not advance
	Slalom, sitting	did not finish	did not advance
	Giant slalom, sitting	did not finish	did not advance
Josh Dueck	Downhill, sitting	1:24.19	+0.39
	Super-G, sitting	did not finish
	Combined, sitting	59.93	+1.22	5	1:18.27	0.00	1	2:18.20	0.00
	Slalom, sitting	did not finish	did not advance
	Giant slalom, sitting	did not finish	did not advance
Matthew Hallat	Super-G, standing	did not finish
	Combined, standing	did not finish	did not advance
	Slalom, standing	49.53	+1.84	5	54.28	+3.00	7	1:43.81	+4.84	6
Braydon Luscombe	Downhill, standing	did not finish
	Super-G, standing	did not finish
	Combined, standing	52.17	+1.87	2	did not finish
	Slalom, standing	49.94	+2.25	6	did not finish
Mac Marcoux Guide Robin Femy	Downhill, visually impaired	1:23.02	+1.26
	Super-G, visually impaired	1:20.77	+0.19
	Combined, visually impaired	did not finish	did not advance
	Slalom, visually impaired	52.03	+2.34	5	did not finish
	Giant slalom, visually impaired	1:16.02	0.00	1	1:13.60	+0.35	2	2:29.62	0.00
Kurt Oatway	Downhill, sitting	1:25.46	+1.66	5
	Super-G, sitting	1:29.10	+9.59	9
	Combined, sitting	did not finish	did not advance
	Slalom, sitting	57.61	+4.87	12	did not finish
	Giant slalom, sitting	did not finish	did not advance
Kirk Schornstein	Downhill, standing	did not finish
	Super-G, standing	1:27.83	+6.91	13
	Combined, standing	57.62	+7.32	17	1:24.45	+6.06	11	2:22.07	+12.35	12
	Slalom, standing	54.28	+6.59	17	59.77	+8.49	16	1:54.05	+15.08	16
	Giant slalom, standing	1:22.51	+7.79	14	1:18.46	+7.31	14	2:40.97	+15.10	13
Chris Williamson Guide Nick Brush	Slalom, visually impaired	50.18	+0.49	2	58.43	+4.91	6	1:48.61	+5.40
	Giant slalom, visually impaired	1:21.29	+5.27	5	1:16.28	+3.03	5	2:37.57	+7.95	5

Women

Athlete	Event	Run 1			Run 2			Final/Total
		Time	Diff	Rank	Time	Diff	Rank	Time	Diff	Rank
Kimberly Joines	Slalom, sitting	1:07.33	+0.92	2	1:07.83	0.00	1	2:15.16	+0.81
	Giant slalom, sitting	1:30.44	0.00	1	did not finish
Erin Latimer	Super-G, standing	did not finish
	Combined, standing	1:07.18	+13.70	8	1:34.67	+9.76	6	2:41.85	+23.46	7
	Slalom, standing	1:09.40	+10.03	8	1:09.91	+9.43	7	2:19.31	+19.46	8
	Giant slalom, standing	1:33.42	+8.44	9	1:22.71	+8.85	9	2:56.13	+17.29	9
Alana Ramsay	Super-G, standing	1:43.39	+19.19	10
	Combined, standing	did not start
	Slalom, standing	1:13.91	+14.54	9	1:10.15	+9.67	8	2:24.06	+24.21	9
	Giant slalom, standing	1:42.09	+17.11	16	did not finish
Alexandra Starker	Super-G, standing	1:36.52	+12.32	7
	Combined, standing	1:06.59	+13.11	7	did not start
	Slalom, standing	1:07.58	+8.21	7	1:06.58	+6.10	6	2:14.16	+14.31	6
	Giant slalom, standing	1:33.91	+8.93	10	1:23.62	+9.76	11	2:57.53	+18.69	10

Snowboarding

Para-snowboarding made its debut at the Winter Paralympics and it was placed under the Alpine skiing program during the 2014 Games. Canada's para-snowboarding team was announced on January 26, 2014.^[5] Michelle Salt was added to the team on February 22, 2014.^[6]

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Race 3		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
John Leslie	align=left rowspan=3	Snowboard cross	56.74	6	56.25	6	55.63	4	1:51.88	7
Ian Lockey	1:09.81	21	1:08.79	18	1:01.47	13	2:10.26	21
Tyler Mosher	1:03.73	14	59.69	11	1:00.11	8	1:59.80	12

Women

Biathlon

Men

Athlete	Events	Final
		Real Time	Calculated Time	Missed Shots	Result	Rank
Mark Arendz	7.5km, standing	20:02.5	19:14.4	1+0	19:14.4
	12.5km, standing	31:47.3	30:31.0	0+0+1+0	30:31.0
	15km, standing	40:10.6	40:34.2	1+0+0+1	40:34.2	11
Brian McKeever Guide Erik Carleton	7.5km, visually impaired	did not start

Women

Athlete	Events	Final
		Real Time	Calculated Time	Missed Shots	Result	Rank
Caroline Bisson	6km, standing	28:22.9	27:14.8	2+1	27:14.8	14
	10km, standing	41:33.6	39:53.9	2+0+1+0	39:53.9	11
	12.5km, standing	54:32.7	56:21.8	1+2+0+1	56:21.8	12
Margarita Gorbounova Guide Andrea Bundon	6km, visually impaired	26:17.8	26:17.8	2+0	26:17.8	7

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Semifinal		Final
		Real Time	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Real Time	Result	Rank
Mark Arendz	10km free, standing	26:19.6	25:16.4	11
Yves Bourque	1km sprint classic, sitting	2:50.67	2:50.67	24	did not qualify
	10km free, sitting	39:11.5	39:11.5	24
	15km, sitting	55:25.4	55:25.4	20
Sébastien Fortier	1km sprint classic, sitting	2:48.85	2:43.78	23	did not qualify
	10km free, sitting	41:17.7	41:17.7	26
	15km, sitting	53:19.3	51:43.3	18
Louis Fortin	1km sprint classic, standing	4:58.38	4:46.45	29	did not qualify
	10km free, standing	34:21.2	32:58.8	36
Christopher Klebl	1km sprint classic, sitting	2:24.29	2:15.63	5	2:29.9	5	did not advance
	10km free, sitting	32:50.2	30:52.0
	15km, sitting	45:52.0	43:06.9	6
Brian McKeever Guides Erik Carleton, Graham Nishikawa	1km sprint classic, visually impaired	3:32.51	3:32.51	1	4:09.50	1	3:59.60	3:59.60
	10km free, visually impaired	23:18.1	23:18.1
	20km, visually impaired	52:37.1	52:37.1

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Semifinal		Final
		Real Time	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Real Time	Result	Rank
Caroline Bisson	1km sprint classic, standing	did not start
	5km, standing	17:37.5	16:55.2	16
Colette Bourgonje	1km sprint classic, sitting	3:22.94	2:54.53	16	did not qualify
	5km, sitting	21:10.9	18:13.0	13
	12km, sitting	50:58.5	43:50.3	13
Margarita Gorbounova Guide Andrea Bundon	1km sprint classic, visually impaired	5:14.58	5:14.58	7	did not qualify
	5km, visually impaired	15:42.2	15:42.2	8
	15km, visually impaired	1:04:43.9	1:04:43.9	4
Brittany Hudak	1km sprint classic, standing	5:22.81	5:13.13	12	5:13.0	6	did not advance
	5km, standing	16:03.9	15:35.0	12
	15km, standing	1:05:01.8	59:10.6	10
Robbi Weldon Guides Phil Wood	1km sprint classic, visually impaired	5:06.03	4:59.91	6	5:10.3	3	did not advance
	5km, visually impaired	15:42.3	15:23.5	7

Relay

Athletes	Event	Final
		Time	Rank
Christopher Klebl Brian McKeever Guides Erik Carleton, Graham Nishikawa	4 x 2.5km open relay	25:51.9	4
Sébastien Fortier Margarita Gorbounova Guide Andrea Bundon Robbi Wheldon Guides: Phil Wood	4 x 2.5km mixed relay	did not finish

Ice sledge hockey

See main article: Ice sledge hockey at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.

Roster

No.	Pos.	Name	Height	Weight	Birthdate	Hometown	2012–13 team
22	G		5feet	166lb			Team Canada
30	G		5feet	193lb			Team Canada
4	D		6feet	167lb			Team Canada
11	D		5feet	176lb			Team Canada
14	D		5feet	177lb			Team Canada
25	D		5feet	175lb			Team Canada
29	D		5feet	179lb			Team Canada
5	F		6feet	199lb			Team Canada
7	F		5feet	137lb			Team Canada
8	F		5feet	153lb			Team Canada
9	F		5feet	163lb			Team Canada
10	F		5feet	154lb			Team Canada
12	F		6feet	173lb			Team Canada
18	F		5feet	190lb			Team Canada
20	F		4feet	128lb			Team Canada
26	F		6feet	184lb			Team Canada
27	F		5feet	161lb			Team Canada

Preliminaries--------

Semifinal

Bronze Medal Game

Wheelchair curling

See main article: Wheelchair curling at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.

Team

Position	Curler
Skip	Jim Armstrong
Third	Dennis Thiessen
Second	Ina Forrest
Lead	Sonja Gaudet
Alternate	Mark Ideson

Standings

Results

Draw 1Saturday, March 8, 9:30

Draw 2Saturday, March 8, 15:30

Draw 4Sunday, March 9, 15:30

Draw 5Monday, March 10, 9:30

Draw 6Monday, March 10, 15:30

Draw 8Tuesday, March 11, 15:30

Draw 9Wednesday, March 12, 9:30

Draw 11Thursday, March 13, 9:30

Draw 12Thursday, March 13, 15:30

SemifinalSaturday, March 15, 9:30

Gold medal gameSaturday, March 15, 15:30

See also

• Canada at the Paralympics
• Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Notes and References

1. Web site: Josh Dueck named Canada's flag-bearer for closing ceremony . Massie . Jon . March 16, 2014 . CBC Sports . CBC.ca . March 16, 2014.
2. Web site: Athletes - Sochi 2014 Paralympic winter Games . Sochi2014.com . 2014-02-17 . 16 February 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140216202406/http://www.sochi2014.com/en/paralympic/athletes-search . dead .
3. Web site: Canada to send 54 athletes to Sochi Paralympic Games . February 26, 2014 . The Canadian Press . CBC.ca . March 16, 2014.
4. Web site: Mission accomplished as Canada finishes Sochi 2014 Paralympic Games ranked third in gold medal count . March 16, 2014 . Canadian Paralympic Committee . CNW Group . March 16, 2014 . 17 March 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140317062409/http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1322967/mission-accomplished-as-canada-finishes-sochi-2014-paralympic-games-ranked-third-in-gold-medal-count . dead .
5. Web site: Canada's para-snowboarding team named for sport's debut in Sochi . January 26, 2014 . The Canadian Press . CBC Sports . March 16, 2014.
6. Web site: Para-snowboarder Michelle Salt nominated for Sochi 2014 Paralympic Games . February 22, 2014 . Canadian Paralympic Committee . Newswire.ca . . March 16, 2014.