Finland at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

Finland at the
2018 Winter Paralympics
Finland at the; 2018 Winter Paralympics
	Flag of Finland
IPC code	FIN
NPC	Finnish Paralympic Committee
Website	www.paralympia.fi/en
in Pyeongchang, South Korea; 9-18 March 2018
Competitors	13 in 5 sports
Flag bearer	Matti Suur-Hamari
Medals; Ranked 16th	Gold 1 Silver 0 Bronze 2 Total 3
Winter Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Finland competed at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, from 9 to 18 March 2018.

Medalists[]

Finnish Paralympic Committee has announced a medal target of 3 medals,^[1] which Finland managed to win.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Matti Suur-Hamari	Snowboarding	Men's snowboard cross SB-LL2	12 March
Bronze	Ilkka Tuomisto	Cross-country skiing	Men's 1.5 km sprint classical, standing	14 March
Bronze	Matti Suur-Hamari	Snowboarding	Men's banked slalom SB-LL2	16 March

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Cross-country skiing	0	0	1	1
Snowboarding	1	0	1	2
Total	1	0	2	3

Alpine skiing[]

Men

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
	Super combined, standing	1:28.92	6	48.86	5	2:17.78	6
	Downhill, standing	N/A				1:30.64	13
		1:08.64	8	1:07.62	7	2:16.26	6
	Slalom, standing	49.61	6	50.14	4	1:39.75	4
	Super-G, standing	N/A				1:30.03	11

Biathlon[]

Men

Event	Real Time	Calculation Time	Misses	Result	Rank
7.5 km, standing	22:53.3	22:12.1	1 (0+1)	22:12.1	13
12.5 km, standing	45:04.1	43:43.0	0 (0+0+0+0)	43:43.0	10
15 km, standing	53:01.0	51:25.6	4 (1+1+0+2)	55:25.6	14

Women

Athlete	Event	Real Time	Calculation Time	Misses	Result	Rank
	6 km, sitting	Did not finish
	12.5 km, sitting	1:03:24.1	59:35.9	7 (2+1+2+2)	1:06:35.9	14

Cross-country skiing[]

Distance
Men

Athlete	Event	Real Time	Time	Rank
Guide:	10 km classical, visually impaired	26:38.2	26:38.2	8
Guide:	20 km free, visually impaired	54:10.5	54:10.5	10
Guide:	10 km classical, visually impaired	29:05.4	29:05.4	14
Guide:	20 km free, visually impaired	58:05.6	58:05.6	12
Ilkka Tuomisto	10 km classical, standing	27:10.0	24:43.3	5

Women

Athlete	Event	Real Time	Time	Rank
	5 km, sitting	20:54.7	19:39.4	14

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Time	Deficit	Rank
Guide: Sini Pyy Ilkka Tuomisto		28:11.0	+3:39.1	10

Sprint
Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Real Time	Calculated Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Guide:	Sprint, visually impaired	3:52.10	3:52.10	7 Q	4:17.6	4	DNA
Guide:	Sprint, visually impaired	4:28.36	4:28.36	17	Did not advance
Ilkka Tuomisto	Sprint, standing	4:03.91	3:41.96	7 Q	4:53.8	3 Q	4:20.8

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Real Time	Calculated Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
	Sprint, sitting	4:10.54	3:55.51	13	Did not advance

Snowboarding[]

Banked slalom

Athlete	Event	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Best	Rank
Matti Suur-Hamari	Men's banked slalom SB-LL2	51.05	51.64	49.51	49.51
	Men's banked slalom SB-UL	DNF	DNF	1:02.45	1:02.45	20

Snowboard cross

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Run 1	Run 2	Best	Rank	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Matti Suur-Hamari	Men's snowboard cross SB-LL2	58.35	1:01.28	58.35	2 Q	(UKR) W	Murphy (NZL) W	Strong (USA) W	Gabel (USA) W
	Men's snowboard cross SB-UL	1:07.89	1:11.81	1:07.89	17	Did not advance				17

Wheelchair curling[]

Summary

Team	Event	Group Stage												Tiebreaker	Semifinal	Final / BM
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Markku Karjalainen Yrjö Jääskeläinen Sari Karjalainen Riitta Särösalo Vesa Leppänen	Mixed	SVK L 6–7	NPA L 5–12	GBR L 2–9	CHN L 4–6	USA W 8–5	KOR L 3–11	SUI L 7–10	SWE W 6–5	NOR L 4–6	CAN L 4–8	GER L 4–8	11	Did not advance

Final round robin standings^[2]

Key
	Teams to playoffs

Pos	Country v t	Skip	W	L	PF	PA	Ends Won	Ends Lost	Blank Ends	Stolen Ends	Shot %
1	South Korea	Seo Soon-seok	9	2	65	51	38	36	9	11	66%
2	Canada	Mark Ideson	9	2	74	45	47	28	6	27	62%
3	China	Wang Haitao	9	2	85	42	43	32	2	16	67%
4	Norway	Rune Lorentsen	7	4	55	57	41	35	5	15	58%
5	Neutral Paralympic Athletes	Konstantin Kurokhtin	5	6	61	63	44	37	2	23	62%
6	Switzerland	Felix Wagner	5	6	56	63	36	45	2	11	61%
7	Great Britain	Aileen Neilson	5	6	57	53	41	33	6	20	62%
8	Germany	Christiane Putzich	5	6	57	68	37	39	5	16	54%
9	Slovakia	Radoslav Ďuriš	4	7	62	72	39	46	1	11	57%
10	Sweden	Viljo Petersson Dahl	4	7	47	66	29	45	8	8	57%
11	Finland	Sari Karjalainen	2	9	53	87	35	46	1	11	51%
12	United States	Kirk Black	2	9	58	63	37	45	3	12	60%

Round-robin

Finland has a bye in draws 1, 3, 8, 11, 13 and 15.

Draw 2

Saturday, 10 March, 19:35

Sheet C v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Slovakia (Ďuriš)	1	0	0	2	0	3	1	0	7
Finland (S. Karjalainen)	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	3	6

Draw 4

Sunday, 11 March, 14:35

Sheet A v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Neutral Paralympic Athletes (Kurokhtin)	3	0	0	0	1	3	5	X	12
Finland (S. Karjalainen)	0	1	2	2	0	0	0	X	5

Draw 5

Sunday, 11 March, 19:35

Sheet B v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Great Britain (Neilson)	2	0	0	1	2	2	2	X	9
Finland (S. Karjalainen)	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	X	2

Draw 6

Monday, 12 March, 9:35

Sheet D v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Finland (S. Karjalainen)	0	0	1	0	2	0	1	X	4
China (Wang)	1	2	0	2	0	1	0	X	6

Draw 7

Monday, 12 March, 14:35

Sheet C v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Finland (S. Karjalainen)	0	0	4	0	1	0	1	2	8
United States (Black)	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	5

Draw 9

Tuesday, 13 March, 9:35

Sheet A v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Finland (S. Karjalainen)	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	X	3
South Korea (Seo)	4	0	0	0	4	0	3	X	11

Draw 10

Tuesday, 13 March, 14:35

Sheet D v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Finland (S. Karjalainen)	0	0	3	0	1	2	1	0	7
Switzerland (Wagner)	3	2	0	3	0	0	0	2	10

Draw 12

Wednesday, 14 March, 9:35

Sheet A v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Finland (S. Karjalainen)	2	0	1	2	0	0	1	0	6
Sweden (Petersson Dahl)	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	1	5

Draw 14

Wednesday, 14 March, 19:35

Sheet D v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Norway (Lorentsen)	2	2	0	1	0	1	0	X	6
Finland (S. Karjalainen)	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	X	4

Draw 16

Thursday, 15 March, 14:35

Sheet C v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Canada (Ideson)	0	0	1	1	1	0	3	2	8
Finland (Karjalainen)	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	4

Draw 17

Thursday, 15 March, 19:35

Sheet B v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Finland (S. Karjalainen)	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	X	4
Germany (Putzich)	0	1	1	1	0	3	2	X	8

References[]

^ "Kisajoukkue PyeongChang 2018 talviparalympialaisiin nimetty" (in Finnish). Finnish Paralympic Committee. 13 February 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
^ "Wheelchair Curling – Mixed – Competition Summary" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 15 March 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2018.

[kisajoukkue-1] "Kisajoukkue PyeongChang 2018 talviparalympialaisiin nimetty" (in Finnish). Finnish Paralympic Committee. 13 February 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2018.

[2] "Wheelchair Curling – Mixed – Competition Summary" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 15 March 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2018.

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v t Nations at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea
America	Argentina Brazil Canada Chile Mexico United States
Asia	China Iran Japan Kazakhstan Mongolia North Korea South Korea Tajikistan Uzbekistan
Europe	Andorra Armenia Austria Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Georgia Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Italy Netherlands Norway Poland Romania Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
Oceania	Australia New Zealand
Others	Neutral Paralympic Athletes