2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships

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2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships
Host cityLillehammer
CountryNorway
Edition1
Nations participating42[1]
Athletes participating852[1]
Sport(s)4
Opening ceremony12 January 2022 (2022-01-12)
Closing ceremony23 January 2022 (2022-01-23)
Dates8 to 23 January 2022
← 2019 (alpine skiing)
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The 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships was an international disability sport competition held in Lillehammer, Norway from 8 to 23 January 2022.[2] It was the inaugural edition of the World Para Snow Sports Championships with para-alpine skiing, para cross-country skiing, para biathlon and para snowboard being held.[3][4] It was scheduled for 7 to 20 February 2021 but it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway.[2][5] The rescheduled event retained 2021 in its name.[6][7]

The biathlon and cross-country skiing events were held at the Birkebeineren Ski Stadium and the alpine skiing and snowboard events were held at Hafjell.[8]

Sports[]

The following competitions were held:[9][10]

  • Alpine skiing (32 medal events, of which 18 speed events: Downhill, Super-G, Super combined and 14 technical events: Slalom, Giant Slalom, Parallel Event)
  • Biathlon (18 medal events)
  • Cross-country skiing (20 medal events)
  • Snowboard (14 medal events)

In total, 84 medal events were contested.

Medal summary[]

Alpine skiing[]

Men's events:

Event Class Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
Downhill Visually impaired  Hyacinthe Deleplace (FRA)
Guide: Valentin Giraud Moine 		1:09.88  Miroslav Haraus (SVK)
Guide: Maros Hudik 		1:12.73  Jakub Krako (SVK)
Guide: Branislav Brozman 		1:13.11
Sitting  Jesper Pedersen (NOR) 1:12.85  Jeroen Kampschreur (NED) 1:14.51  Andrew Kurka (USA) 1:15.80
Standing  Markus Salcher (AUT) 1:12.00  Arthur Bauchet (FRA) 1:12.38 Alexey Bugaev (RPC) 1:13.94
Super-G Visually impaired  Hyacinthe Deleplace (FRA)
Guide: Valentin Giraud Moine 		1:05.79  Johannes Aigner (AUT)
Guide: Matteo Fleischmann 		1:06.05  Miroslav Haraus (SVK)
Guide: Maros Hudik 		1:08.86
Sitting  Jeroen Kampschreur (NED) 1:04.38  Jesper Pedersen (NOR) 1:07.60  Rene de Silvestro (ITA) 1:08.52
Standing  Markus Salcher (AUT) 1:06.37 Alexey Bugaev (RPC) 1:07.76  Théo Gmür (SUI) 1:07.87
Giant slalom Visually impaired  Giacomo Bertagnolli (ITA)
Guide: Andrea Ravelli 		2:14.17  Johannes Aigner (AUT)
Guide: Matteo Fleischmann 		2:15.46  Hyacinthe Deleplace (FRA)
Guide: Maxime Jourdan 		2:17.92
Sitting  Jesper Pedersen (NOR) 2:14.42  Igor Sikorski (POL) 2:20.93  Andrew Kurka (USA) 2:21.25
Standing Alexey Bugaev (RPC) 2:15.04  Arthur Bauchet (FRA) 2:15.18  Théo Gmür (SUI) 2:17.85
Slalom Visually impaired  Johannes Aigner (AUT)
Guide: Matteo Fleischmann 		1:28.18  Giacomo Bertagnolli (ITA)
Guide: Andrea Ravelli 		1:28.29  Jakub Krako (SVK)
Guide: Branislav Brozman 		1:29.22
Sitting  Jesper Pedersen (NOR) 1:27.61  Victor Pierrel (FRA) 1:30.28  Niels de Langen (NED) 1:31.37
Standing  Arthur Bauchet (FRA) 1:25.47  Adam Hall (NZL) 1:30.20 (RPC) 1:31.77
Super combined Visually impaired  Hyacinthe Deleplace (FRA)
Guide: Maxime Jourdan 		1:51.92  Neil Simpson (GBR)
Guide: Andrew Simpson 		1:52.82  Miroslav Haraus (SVK)
Guide: Maros Hudik 		1:53.25
Sitting  Rene de Silvestro (ITA) 1:53.65  Jesper Pedersen (NOR) 1:53.83  Niels de Langen (NED) 1:56.18
Standing  Arthur Bauchet (FRA) 1:49.22 Alexey Bugaev (RPC) 1:50.06  Federico Pelizzari (ITA) 1:54.17
Parallel event All classes  Johannes Aigner (AUT)
Guide: Matteo Fleischmann 		 Giacomo Bertagnolli (ITA)
Guide: Andrea Ravelli 		Alexey Bugaev (RPC)

Women's events:

Event Class Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
Downhill Visually impaired  Henrieta Farkašová (SVK)
Guide: Michal Cerven 		1:17.78  Linda Le Bon (BEL)
Guide: Pierre Couquelet 		1:24.99  Sara Choi (KOR)
Guide: Kim Yooseong 		1:27.22
Sitting  Anna-Lena Forster (GER) 1:23.33  Barbara van Bergen (NED) 1:24.78  Katie Combaluzier (CAN) 1:38.95
Standing  Marie Bochet (FRA) 1:16.95 (RPC) 1:17.38  Mollie Jepsen (CAN) 1:18.67
Super-G Visually impaired  Henrieta Farkašová (SVK)
Guide: Michal Cerven 		1:11.80  Linda Le Bon (BEL)
Guide: Pierre Couquelet 		1:23.99  Millie Knight (GBR)
Guide: Brett Wild 		1:24.02
Sitting  Anna-Lena Forster (GER) 1:19.91  Shona Brownlee (GBR) 1:37.45 Not awarded
Standing (RPC) 1:11.23  Mollie Jepsen (CAN) 1:11.68  Marie Bochet (FRA) 1:11.80
Giant slalom Visually impaired  Barbara Aigner (AUT)
Guide: Klara Sykora 		2:32.26  Henrieta Farkašová (SVK)
Guide: Eva Trajcikova 		2:32.69  Elina Stary (AUT)
Guide: Celine Arthofer 		2:38.58
Sitting  Laurie Stephens (USA) 3:10.09  Katie Combaluzier (CAN) 3:10.97  Shona Brownlee (GBR) 3:29.48
Standing  Marie Bochet (FRA) 2:30.65 (RPC) 2:31.25  Mollie Jepsen (CAN) 2:31.44
Slalom Visually impaired  Menna Fitzpatrick (GBR)
Guide: Katie Guest 		1:29.87  Elina Stary (AUT)
Guide: Celine Arthofer 		1:30.40  Martina Vozza (ITA)
Guide: Ylenia Sabidussi 		1:33.85
Sitting  Anna-Lena Forster (GER) 1:41.38   (FIN) 1:55.79  Laurie Stephens (USA) 2:12.32
Standing  Ebba Årsjö (SWE) 1:27.30 (RPC) 1:31.74  Michaela Gosselin (CAN) 1:40.49
Super combined Visually impaired  Millie Knight (GBR)
Guide: Brett Wild 		2:12.10  Menna Fitzpatrick (GBR)
Guide: Katie Guest 		2:12.62  Sara Choi (KOR)
Guide: Kim Yooseong 		2:18.02
Sitting  Anna-Lena Forster (GER) 2:11.16  Katie Combaluzier (CAN) 2:47.84 Not awarded
Standing (RPC) 1:58.72  Marie Bochet (FRA) 1:59.68  Anna-Maria Rieder (GER) 2:08.47
Parallel event All classes  Ebba Årsjö (SWE) (RPC)  Elina Stary (AUT)
Guide: Celine Arthofer

Biathlon[]

Men's events:

Event Class Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
6 km Visually impaired  Yury Holub (BLR)
Guide: Uladzimir Chapelin 		15:03.5 Stanislav Chokhlaev (RPC)
Guide: Oleg Kolodiichuk 		15:45.3  Oleksandr Kazik (UKR)
Guide: Serhii Kucheriavyi 		15:57.7
Sitting (RPC) 18:38.8  Vasyl Kravchuk (UKR) 19:00.0  Taras Rad (UKR) 19:02.9
Standing Vladislav Lekomtsev (RPC) 14:49.0 Aleksandr Pronkov (RPC) 15:23.6  Grygorii Vovchynskyi (UKR) 15:26.9
10 km Visually impaired  Yury Holub (BLR)
Guide: Uladzimir Chapelin 		26:41.5 Stanislav Chokhlaev (RPC)
Guide: Oleg Kolodiichuk 		27:55.6 Oleg Ponomarev (RPC)
Guide: Andrei Romanov 		29:11.8
Sitting (RPC) 32:16.2  Taras Rad (UKR) 32:59.3 (RPC) 32:59.8
Standing Vladislav Lekomtsev (RPC) 25:35.2 Aleksandr Pronkov (RPC) 27:02.1  Benjamin Daviet (FRA) 27:15.4
12.5 km Visually impaired Stanislav Chokhlaev (RPC)
Guide: Oleg Kolodiichuk 		35:46.0  Anatolii Kovalevskyi (UKR)
Guide: Oleksandr Mukshyn 		37:14.5  Oleksandr Kazik (UKR)
Guide: Serhii Kucheriavyi 		37:50.6
Sitting  Pavlo Bal (UKR) 46:53.0  Aaron Pike (USA) 47:16.0 (RPC) 47:18.2
Standing Vladislav Lekomtsev (RPC) 34:36.4 (RPC) 36:02.1  Benjamin Daviet (FRA) 36:22.9

Women's events:

Event Class Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
6 km Visually impaired Vera Khlyzova (RPC)
Guide: Natalia Iakimova 		16:56.6 (RPC)
Guide: Alexey Ivanov 		17:51.2 (RPC)
Guide: Andrei Zhukov 		18:19.6
Sitting  Anja Wicker (GER) 21:51.2  Oksana Masters (USA) 21:52.8 Natalia Kocherova (RPC) 22:53.7
Standing  Oleksandra Kononova (UKR) 17:35.6  Liudmyla Liashenko (UKR) 17:58.9  Iuliia Batenkova (UKR) 18:16.5
10 km Visually impaired Vera Khlyzova (RPC)
Guide: Natalia Iakimova 		30:16.7 (RPC)
Guide: Alexey Ivanov 		32:31.6 (RPC)
Guide: Anton Podzorov 		33:03.8
Sitting  Kendall Gretsch (USA) 36:44.7 Natalia Kocherova (RPC) 39:09.6  Oksana Masters (USA) 39:46.3
Standing  Liudmyla Liashenko (UKR) 31:23.8  Iryna Bui (UKR) 31:54.8  Oleksandra Kononova (UKR) 32:41.7
12.5 km Visually impaired Vera Khlyzova (RPC)
Guide: Natalia Iakimova 		40:13.7 (RPC)
Guide: Alexey Ivanov 		41:20.8 (RPC)
Guide: Anton Podzorov 		43:30.8
Sitting  Kendall Gretsch (USA) 52:25.0 Natalia Kocherova (RPC) 54:16.8  Oksana Masters (USA) 55:25.7
Standing  Iryna Bui (UKR) 41:08.7  Oleksandra Kononova (UKR) 46:26.8  Liudmyla Liashenko (UKR) 46:57.8

Cross-country skiing[]

Men's events:

Event Class Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
1 km Visually impaired Oleg Ponomarev (RPC)
Guide: Andrei Romanov 		3:00.77  Jake Adicoff (USA)
Guide: Sam Wood 		3:03.76 (RPC)
Guide: Ruslan Bogachev 		3:08.40
Sitting (RPC) 2:27.28  Cristian Ribera (BRA) 2:24.94 (RPC) 2:32.70
Standing Vladislav Lekomtsev (RPC) 2:59.60 Rushan Minnegulov (RPC) 3:01.93 Aleksandr Pronkov (RPC) 3:13.14
12.5 km Visually impaired  Jake Adicoff (USA)
Guide: Sam Wood 		33:54.0 Stanislav Chokhlaev (RPC)
Guide: Oleg Kolodiichuk 		34:10.8  Yury Holub (BLR)
Guide: Mikita Maslouski 		34:25.5
Standing Vladislav Lekomtsev (RPC) 32:29.1   (POL) 32:59.9 Aleksandr Pronkov (RPC) 33:01.7
10 km Sitting (RPC) 31:22.7  Giuseppe Romele (ITA) 31:52.2 (RPC) 33:25.6
20 km Visually impaired Oleg Ponomarev (RPC)
Guide: Andrei Romanov 		41:15.7 Stanislav Chokhlaev (RPC)
Guide: Oleg Kolodiichuk 		41:21.0  Jake Adicoff (USA)
Guide: Sam Wood 		41:41.5
Standing Vladislav Lekomtsev (RPC) 41:41.4 Rushan Minnegulov (RPC) 42:21.0 (RPC) 42:24.6
18 km Sitting (RPC) 51:14.5  Sin Eui-hyun (KOR) 51:42.8 (RPC) 52:17.4

Women's events:

Event Class Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
1 km Visually impaired (RPC)
Guide: Andrei Zhukov 		2:43.27  Sviatlana Sakhanenka (BLR)
Guide: Dzmitry Budzilovich 		2:44.38 (RPC)
Guide: Sergei Siniakin 		2:48.34
Sitting  Oksana Masters (USA) 2:47.63  Valiantsina Shyts (BLR) 2:47.07 Natalia Kocherova (RPC) 3:01.41
Standing  Vilde Nilsen (NOR) 2:46.45  Sydney Peterson (USA) 2:58.10  Liudmyla Liashenko (UKR) 2:53.25
10 km Visually impaired  Sviatlana Sakhanenka (BLR)
Guide: Dzmitry Budzilovich 		32:16.4 (RPC)
Guide: Andrei Zhukov 		33:28.1 Vera Khlyzova (RPC)
Guide: Natalia Iakimova 		33:43.9
Standing  Vilde Nilsen (NOR) 31:02.4  Sydney Peterson (USA) 32:27.2  Liudmyla Liashenko (UKR) 32:37.1
7.5 km Sitting  Kendall Gretsch (USA) 26:57.6  Valiantsina Shyts (BLR) 27:47.0  Anja Wicker (GER) 28:37.4
15 km Visually impaired  Sviatlana Sakhanenka (BLR)
Guide: Dzmitry Budzilovich 		34:40.0 Vera Khlyzova (RPC)
Guide: Natalia Iakimova 		35:13.7 (RPC)
Guide: Andrei Zhukov 		35:25.1
Sitting  Oksana Masters (USA) 46:45.2  Kendall Gretsch (USA) 47:54.9  Valiantsina Shyts (BLR) 48:23.5
Standing  Liudmyla Liashenko (UKR) 36:18.6  Vilde Nilsen (NOR) 36:21.3  Sydney Peterson (USA) 36:30.5

Team events:

Event Class Gold Silver Bronze
2.5 km mixed relay All classes  Ukraine RPC  Belarus
2.5 km open relay All classes RPC  France  Norway

Snowboard[]

Men's events:

Event Class Gold Silver Bronze
Snowboard cross SB-UL  Maxime Montaggioni (FRA)  James Barnes-Miller (GBR) (RPC)
SB-LL1  Tyler Turner (CAN)  Mike Schultz (USA)   (USA)
SB-LL2  Matti Suur-Hamari (FIN)  Ben Tudhope (AUS)  Evan Strong (USA)
Dual Banked Slalom SB-UL  Maxime Montaggioni (FRA)   (ITA)  James Barnes-Miller (GBR)
SB-LL1  Noah Elliott (USA)  Mike Schultz (USA)  Tyler Turner (CAN)
SB-LL2   (USA)  Alex Massie (CAN)  Ben Tudhope (AUS)
Team event All classes  Canada
Alex Massie
Tyler Turner 		 Japan

  Great Britain
Ollie Hill
James Barnes-Miller

Women's events:

Event Class Gold Silver Bronze
Snowboard cross SB-UL  Monika Kotzian (POL) Not awarded Not awarded
SB-LL1  Cécile Hernandez (FRA)  Brenna Huckaby (USA)  Ellen Walther (SUI)
SB-LL2  Lisa Bunschoten (NED)  Lisa DeJong (CAN)  Renske van Beek (NED)
Dual Banked Slalom SB-UL  Monika Kotzian (POL)  Irati Idiakez (ESP) Not awarded
SB-LL1  Brenna Huckaby (USA)  Cécile Hernandez (FRA)  Ellen Walther (SUI)
SB-LL2  Lisa Bunschoten (NED)  Lisa DeJong (CAN)  Sandrine Hamel (CAN)
Team event All classes  Canada
Lisa DeJong
Sandrine Hamel 		 Netherlands
Lisa Bunschoten
Renske van Beek 		  Switzerland
Romy Tschopp
Ellen Walther

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (Norway)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 RPC (RPC)22232267
2 United States (USA)109928
3 France (FRA)106420
4 Ukraine (UKR)66921
5 Austria (AUT)53210
6 Norway (NOR)*5319
7 Germany (GER)5027
8 Belarus (BLR)43310
9 Canada (CAN)36615
10 Netherlands (NED)3339
11 Great Britain (GBR)24410
12 Italy (ITA)2439
13 Slovakia (SVK)2248
14 Poland (POL)2204
15 Sweden (SWE)2002
16 Finland (FIN)1102
17 Belgium (BEL)0202
18 South Korea (KOR)0123
19 Australia (AUS)0112
20 Brazil (BRA)0101
 Japan (JPN)0101
 New Zealand (NZL)0101
 Spain (ESP)0101
24  Switzerland (SUI)0055
Totals (24 nations)848380247

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