Canada at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

Canada at the
2014 Winter Paralympics
Canada at the; 2014 Winter Paralympics
	Flag of Canada
IPC code	CAN
NPC	Canadian Paralympic Committee
Website	www.paralympic.ca
in Sochi
Competitors	54 in 5 sports
Flag bearers	Sonja Gaudet (opening ceremony); Josh Dueck (closing ceremony)
Medals; Ranked 3rd	Gold 7 Silver 2 Bronze 7 Total 16
Winter Paralympics appearances (overview)
	1976; 1980; 1984; 1988; 1992; 1994; 1998; 2002; 2006; 2010; 2014; 2018; 2022;

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[]

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Brian McKeever Guide:	Cross-country skiing	Men's 20 km, visually impaired	March 10
Gold	Brian McKeever Guide:	Cross-country skiing	Men's 1 km sprint classic, visually impaired	March 12
Gold	Josh Dueck	Alpine skiing	Men's combined, sitting	March 14
Gold	Mac Marcoux Guide: Robin Femy	Alpine skiing	Men's giant slalom, visually impaired	March 15
Gold	Jim Armstrong Ina Forrest Sonja Gaudet Mark Ideson Dennis Thiessen	Wheelchair curling	Mixed	March 15
Gold	Christopher Klebl	Cross-country skiing	Men's 10 km, sitting	March 16
Gold	Brian McKeever Guide:	Cross-country skiing	Men's 10 km, visually impaired	March 16
Silver	Josh Dueck	Alpine skiing	Men's downhill, sitting	March 8
Silver	Mark Arendz	Biathlon	Men's 7.5 km, standing	March 8
Bronze	Mac Marcoux Guide: Robin Femy	Alpine skiing	Men's downhill, visually impaired	March 8
Bronze	Caleb Brousseau	Alpine skiing	Men's Super-G, sitting	March 9
Bronze	Mac Marcoux Guide: Robin Femy	Alpine skiing	Men's Super-G, visually impaired	March 9
Bronze	Mark Arendz	Biathlon	Men's 12.5 km, standing	March 11
Bronze	Kimberly Joines	Alpine skiing	Women's slalom, sitting	March 12
Bronze	Chris Williamson Guide: Nick Brush	Alpine skiing	Men's slalom, visually impaired	March 13
Bronze	Canada national ice sledge hockey team Steve Arsenault Bradley Bowden Billy Bridges Ben Delaney Adam Dixon Marc Dorion Anthony Gale James Gemmell Dominic Larocque Karl Ludwig Tyler McGregor Graeme Murray Kevin Rempel Benoit St-Amand Corbin Watson Greg Westlake Derek Whitson	Ice sledge hockey	Mixed	March 15

Medals by sport
Sport				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

Alpine skiing[]

Men

Athlete	Event	Run 1			Run 2			Final/Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Diff	Rank	Time	Diff	Rank	Time	Diff	Rank
Caleb Brousseau	Downhill, sitting	N/A						1:25.62	+1.82	6
	Super-G, sitting	N/A						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	N/A						1:24.19	+0.39
	Super-G, sitting	N/A						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
	Super-G, standing	N/A						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
	Downhill, standing	N/A						Did not finish
	Super-G, standing	N/A						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	N/A						1:23.02	+1.26
	Super-G, visually impaired	N/A						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	N/A						1:25.46	+1.66	5
	Super-G, sitting	N/A						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
	Downhill, standing	N/A						Did not finish
	Super-G, standing	N/A						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
Chris Williamson Guide: Nick Brush	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
Athlete	Event	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
Kimberly Joines	Giant slalom, sitting	1:30.44	0.00	1	Did not finish
	Super-G, standing	N/A						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	N/A						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
	Super-G, standing	N/A						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
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
	Snowboard cross	56.74	6	56.25	6	55.63	4	1:51.88	7
		1:09.81	21	1:08.79	18	1:01.47	13	2:10.26	21
		1:03.73	14	59.69	11	1:00.11	8	1:59.80	12

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Race 3		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Michelle Salt	Snowboard cross	1:34.43	9	1:49.80	7	1:46.85	8	3:21.28	9

Biathlon[]

Men

Athlete	Events	Final
Athlete	Events	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:	7.5km, visually impaired	Did not start

Women

Athlete	Events	Final
Athlete	Events	Real Time	Calculated Time	Missed Shots	Result	Rank
	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
Guide:	6km, visually impaired	26:17.8	26:17.8	2+0	26:17.8	7

Cross-country skiing[]

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Real Time	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Real Time	Result	Rank
Mark Arendz	10km free, standing	N/A					26:19.6	25:16.4	11
	1km sprint classic, sitting	2:50.67	2:50.67	24	Did not qualify
	10km free, sitting	N/A					39:11.5	39:11.5	24
	15km, sitting	N/A					55:25.4	55:25.4	20
	1km sprint classic, sitting	2:48.85	2:43.78	23	Did not qualify
	10km free, sitting	N/A					41:17.7	41:17.7	26
	15km, sitting	N/A					53:19.3	51:43.3	18
	1km sprint classic, standing	4:58.38	4:46.45	29	Did not qualify
	10km free, standing	N/A					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	N/A					32:50.2	30:52.0
	15km, sitting	N/A					45:52.0	43:06.9	6
Brian McKeever Guides: ,	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	N/A					23:18.1	23:18.1
	20km, visually impaired	N/A					52:37.1	52:37.1

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Real Time	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Real Time	Result	Rank
	1km sprint classic, standing	Did not start
	5km, standing	N/A					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	N/A					21:10.9	18:13.0	13
	12km, sitting	N/A					50:58.5	43:50.3	13
Guide:	1km sprint classic, visually impaired	5:14.58	5:14.58	7	Did not qualify
	5km, visually impaired	N/A					15:42.2	15:42.2	8
	15km, visually impaired	N/A					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	N/A					16:03.9	15:35.0	12
	15km, standing	N/A					1:05:01.8	59:10.6	10
Robbi Weldon Guides:	1km sprint classic, visually impaired	5:06.03	4:59.91	6	5:10.3	3	Did not advance
Robbi Weldon Guides:	5km, visually impaired	N/A					15:42.3	15:23.5	7

Relay

Athletes	Event	Final
Athletes	Event	Time	Rank
Christopher Klebl Brian McKeever Guides: ,	4 x 2.5km open relay	25:51.9	4
Guide: Guides:	4 x 2.5km mixed relay	Did not finish

Ice sledge hockey[]

Roster

No.	Pos.	Name	Height	Weight	Birthdate	Hometown	2012–13 team
22	G	Benoit St-Amand	5 ft 10 in (178 cm)	166 lb (75 kg)	19 April 1978	St-Hubert, QC	Team Canada
30	G	Corbin Watson	5 ft 11 in (180 cm)	193 lb (88 kg)	6 January 1987	Kingsville, ON	Team Canada
4	D	Derek Whitson	6 ft 1 in (185 cm)	167 lb (76 kg)	21 June 1989	Chatham, ON	Team Canada
11	D	Adam Dixon	5 ft 9 in (175 cm)	176 lb (80 kg)	13 August 1989	Midland, ON	Team Canada
14	D	Steve Arsenault	5 ft 7 in (170 cm)	177 lb (80 kg)	6 September 1988	Spruce Grove, AB	Team Canada
25	D	James Gemmell	5 ft 11 in (180 cm)	175 lb (79 kg)	26 April 1980	Quesnel, BC	Team Canada
29	D	Graeme Murray	5 ft 5 in (165 cm)	179 lb (81 kg)	14 December 1984	Gravenhurst, ON	Team Canada
5	F	Kevin Rempel	6 ft 1 in (185 cm)	199 lb (90 kg)	15 September 1982	Vineland, ON	Team Canada
7	F	Marc Dorion	5 ft 0 in (152 cm)	137 lb (62 kg)	22 June 1987	Bourget, ON	Team Canada
8	F	Tyler McGregor	5 ft 9 in (175 cm)	153 lb (69 kg)	11 March 1994	Forest, ON	Team Canada
9	F	Anthony Gale	5 ft 0 in (152 cm)	163 lb (74 kg)	12 May 1993	Brampton, ON	Team Canada
10	F	Ben Delaney	5 ft 11 in (180 cm)	154 lb (70 kg)	23 August 1996	Ottawa, ON	Team Canada
12	F	Greg Westlake	6 ft 2 in (188 cm)	173 lb (78 kg)	12 June 1986	Oakville, ON	Team Canada
18	F	Billy Bridges	5 ft 8 in (173 cm)	190 lb (86 kg)	22 March 1984	Summerside, PE	Team Canada
20	F	Karl Ludwig	4 ft 10 in (147 cm)	128 lb (58 kg)	25 November 1988	Brampton, ON	Team Canada
26	F	Dominic Larocque	6 ft 0 in (183 cm)	184 lb (83 kg)	30 July 1987	Quebec City, QC	Team Canada
27	F	Bradley Bowden	5 ft 0 in (152 cm)	161 lb (73 kg)	26 May 1983	Orton, ON	Team Canada

Preliminaries

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Canada (CAN)	3	3	0	0	0	15	1	+14	6
Norway (NOR)	3	1	1	0	1	4	5	−1	5
Czech Republic (CZE)	3	0	1	1	1	3	3	0	3
Sweden (SWE)	3	0	0	1	2	2	14	−12	1

March 8, 2014
13:00 MSK

Canada

10–1
(4–0, 3–0, 3–1)

Sweden

Shayba Arena

Referee:

Petter Hegle

B. Bridges (01:03)	1–0
B. Delaney (06:42)	2–0
A. Gale (12:30)	3–0
D. Larocque (13:03)	4–0
A. Dixon (26:47)	5–0
G. Murray (27:40)	6–0
G. Westlake (29:45)	7–0
	7–1	P. Kasperi (35:22)
A. Dixon (40:12)	8–1
D. Larocque (40:32)	9–1
A. Gale (41:30)	10–1

March 9, 2014
13:00 MSK

Canada

4–0
(0–0, 2–0, 2–0)

Norway

Shayba Arena

D. Larocque (19:20)	1–0
A. Dixon (25:34)	2–0
A. Dixon (31:07)	3–0
M. Dorion (44:38)	4–0

March 11, 2014
20:00 MSK

Canada

1–0
(0–0, 1–0, 0–0)

Czech Republic

Shayba Arena

Referee:

Igor Samoylov

G. Westlake (22:33)

1–0

Semifinal

March 13, 2014
20:00 MSK

Canada

0-3
(0–2,0–1,0–0)

United States

Shayba Arena

Referee:

Paul Boese

	0–1	D. Farmer 9:12
	0–2	D. Farmer 14:04
	0–3	19:55

Bronze Medal Game

March 15, 2014
13:00 MSK

Canada

3–0
(0–0,3–0,0–0)

Norway

Shayba Arena

Referee:

Jonhnathan Morrison

B. Bowden (15:30)	1–0
B. Bridges (17:22)	2–0
B. Bridges (21:42)	3–0

Wheelchair curling[]

Team

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

Standings

Final round robin standings^[7]

Key
	Teams to playoffs

Country v t	Skip	W	L	PF	PA
Russia	Andrei Smirnov	8	1	60	38
Canada	Jim Armstrong	7	2	66	42
China	Wang Haitao	5	4	54	45
Great Britain	Aileen Neilson	5	4	53	56
United States	Patrick McDonald	4	5	56	42
Slovakia	Radoslav Ďuriš	4	5	47	68
Sweden	Jalle Jungnell	4	5	59	49
Norway	Rune Lorentsen	3	6	45	62
South Korea	Kim Myung-jin	3	6	41	74
Finland	Markku Karjalainen	2	7	61	58

Results

Draw 1

Saturday, March 8, 9:30

Sheet C v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Canada (Armstrong)	0	0	2	0	1	1	1	1	6
Great Britain (Neilson)	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	3

Draw 2

Saturday, March 8, 15:30

Sheet B v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Canada (Armstrong)	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	5
Russia (Smirnov)	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	4

Draw 4

Sunday, March 9, 15:30

Sheet A v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Canada (Armstrong)	1	0	1	1	2	0	1	1	7
Sweden (Jungnell)	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	4

Draw 5

Monday, March 10, 9:30

Sheet B v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
United States (McDonald)	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	X	2
Canada (Armstrong)	1	0	2	0	2	1	1	X	7

Draw 6

Monday, March 10, 15:30

Sheet D v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	EE	Final
Canada (Armstrong)	2	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	6
Norway (Lorentsen)	0	1	0	1	1	0	2	1	2	8

Draw 8

Tuesday, March 11, 15:30

Sheet A v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
China (Wang)	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	5
Canada (Armstrong)	0	0	0	0	3	0	4	1	8

Draw 9

Wednesday, March 12, 9:30

Sheet B v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Canada (Armstrong)	0	3	2	0	1	0	4	X	10
South Korea (Kim)	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	X	4

Draw 11

Thursday, March 13, 9:30

Sheet C v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Slovakia (Ďuriš)	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	X	0
Canada (Armstrong)	3	4	2	3	2	2	X	X	16

Draw 12

Thursday, March 13, 15:30

Sheet D v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Finland (Karjalainen)	2	5	1	1	3	0	X	X	12
Canada (Armstrong)	0	0	0	0	0	1	X	X	1

Semifinal

Saturday, March 15, 9:30

Sheet v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Canada (Armstrong)	1	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	5
China (Wang)	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	4

Gold medal game

Saturday, March 15, 15:30

Sheet v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Russia (Smirnov)	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	X	3
Canada (Armstrong)	0	1	1	2	1	3	0	X	8

References[]

^ Massie, Jon (16 March 2014). "Josh Dueck named Canada's flag-bearer for closing ceremony". CBC Sports. CBC.ca. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
^ "Athletes - Sochi 2014 Paralympic winter Games". Sochi2014.com. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
^ "Canada to send 54 athletes to Sochi Paralympic Games". The Canadian Press. CBC.ca. 26 February 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
^ "Mission accomplished as Canada finishes Sochi 2014 Paralympic Games ranked third in gold medal count". Canadian Paralympic Committee. CNW Group. 16 March 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
^ The Canadian Press (26 January 2014). "Canada's para-snowboarding team named for sport's debut in Sochi". CBC Sports. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
^ Canadian Paralympic Committee (22 February 2014). "Para-snowboarder Michelle Salt nominated for Sochi 2014 Paralympic Games". Newswire.ca. CNW Group. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
^ Round robin standings

[1] Massie, Jon (16 March 2014). "Josh Dueck named Canada's flag-bearer for closing ceremony". CBC Sports. CBC.ca. Retrieved 16 March 2014.

[athletes-2] "Athletes - Sochi 2014 Paralympic winter Games". Sochi2014.com. Retrieved 17 February 2014.

[3] "Canada to send 54 athletes to Sochi Paralympic Games". The Canadian Press. CBC.ca. 26 February 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2014.

[4] "Mission accomplished as Canada finishes Sochi 2014 Paralympic Games ranked third in gold medal count". Canadian Paralympic Committee. CNW Group. 16 March 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2014.

[5] The Canadian Press (26 January 2014). "Canada's para-snowboarding team named for sport's debut in Sochi". CBC Sports. Retrieved 16 March 2014.

[6] Canadian Paralympic Committee (22 February 2014). "Para-snowboarder Michelle Salt nominated for Sochi 2014 Paralympic Games". Newswire.ca. CNW Group. Retrieved 16 March 2014.

[7] Round robin standings

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v t Nations at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia
America	Argentina Brazil Canada Chile Mexico United States
Asia	China Iran Japan Kazakhstan Mongolia South Korea Uzbekistan
Europe	Andorra Armenia Austria Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Great Britain Greece Iceland Italy Netherlands Norway Poland Romania Russia Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
Oceania	Australia New Zealand

Canada at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

Contents

Medalists[]

Alpine skiing[]

Snowboarding[]

Biathlon[]

Cross-country skiing[]

Ice sledge hockey[]

Wheelchair curling[]

See also[]

References[]