2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships

2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships

Host city	Sestriere, Italy
Nations participating	23[1][2]
Athletes participating	130
Dates	January 14 – 23
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Alpine skiing at the World Ski Championships 2011
Combined	men	women
Downhill	men	women
Giant slalom	men	women
Slalom	men	women
Super-G	men	women
Team	mixed
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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,^[3] 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.^[4]

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.^[5]

Men[]

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

Women[]

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

Team[]

Event	Date	Class	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Nations team event details	Jan 23	Open	France Vincent Gauthier-Manuel, Nicolas Berejny Guide: , Marie Bochet. , Yohann Taberlet.	6:55.09	Germany Gerd Schönfelder, Andrea Rothfuss, . , , Anna Schaffelhuber.	6:56.28	Slovakia Henrieta Farkasova Guide: Natalia Subrtova, Jakub Krako Guide: , . Norbert Holik Guide: .	7:03.86

Medals table[]

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  *   Host nation (ITA)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	FRA	8	6	4	18
2	GER	7	4	4	15
3	SVK	5	4	2	11
4	JPN	4	3	0	7
5	USA	3	2	3	8
6	ESP	3	2	0	5
7	CZE	1	0	0	1
8	AUT	0	3	2	5
	RUS	0	3	2	5
10	CAN	0	1	5	6
11	SUI	0	1	4	5
12	AUS	0	1	3	4
13	GBR	0	1	1	2
14	NED	0	0	1	1
15	ITA*	0	0	0	0
Totals (15 nations)		31	31	31	93

Participating nations[]

Over 130 participants from 23 nations competed.^[1]

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[]

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