Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
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IPC code	GBR
NPC	British Paralympic Association
Website	www.paralympics.org.uk
in Pyeongchang, South Korea 9-18 March 2018
Competitors	17 in 5 sports
Medals	Gold 1 Silver 4 Bronze 2 Total 7
Winter Paralympics appearances (overview)
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from 9 to 18 March 2018. They were known by the shortened name of Great Britain, for identification purposes.

Medallists[]

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Menna Fitzpatrick Guide: Jennifer Kehoe	Alpine skiing	Women's Slalom, vision impaired	17 March
Silver	Millie Knight Guide:	Alpine skiing	Women's downhill, vision impaired	10 March
Silver	Millie Knight Guide:	Alpine skiing	Women's super-G, vision impaired	11 March
Silver	Menna Fitzpatrick Guide: Jennifer Kehoe	Alpine skiing	Women's super combined, vision impaired	13 March
Silver	Menna Fitzpatrick Guide: Jennifer Kehoe	Alpine skiing	Women's giant slalom, vision impaired	14 March
Bronze	Menna Fitzpatrick Guide: Jennifer Kehoe	Alpine skiing	Women's super-G, vision impaired	11 March
Bronze	Millie Knight Guide:	Alpine skiing	Women's Slalom, vision impaired	17 March

Medal and performance targets[]

UK Sport announced "an ambition of at least 7 medals which if achieved would mark the best performance in 30 years, and best since National Lottery funding came on stream in 1997".^[1]

Competitors[]

Great Britain sent a total of 17 athletes to the games. This was the most sent by the British team since 2006.^[2]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Alpine skiing	4	4	8
Biathlon	1*	0	1*
Cross-country skiing	1*	0	1*
Snowboarding	3	0	3
Wheelchair curling	3	2	5
Total	11	6	17

• was selected to compete in both the biathlon and cross-country skiing competitions.

Alpine skiing[]

Women

Athlete	Classification	Event	Run 1			Run 2			Final/Total
			Time	Diff	Rank	Time	Diff	Rank	Time	Diff	Rank
Kelly Gallagher Guide:	Visually impaired	Giant Slalom	1:17.33	+6.50	5	1:15.46	+3.29	4	2:32.79	+9.79	5
		Slalom	57.35	+3.77	6	1:01.22	+2.89	6	1:58.57	+6.77	6
		Super-G	N/A						1:39.75	+9.58	8
		Super Combined	1:37.59	+7.75	7	1:00.49	+5.17	6	2:38.08	+10.36	7
Menna Fitzpatrick Guide: Jennifer Kehoe	Visually impaired	Downhill	N/A						DNF
		Giant Slalom	1:14.45	+3.62	2	1:13.89	+1.72	3	2:28.34	+5.34
		Slalom	54.24	+0.66	2	57.56	-	1	1:51.80	-
		Super-G	N/A						1:34.54	+4.37
		Super Combined	1:31.49	+1.65	2	57.51	2	+2.19	2:29.00	+1.28
Millie Knight Guide:	Visually impaired	Downhill	N/A						1:30.58	+0.86
		Giant Slalom	1:17.97	+7.14	6	1:16.55	+4.38	7	2:34.52	+11.52	7
		Slalom	54.28	+0.70	3	59.11	+1.55	4	1:53.39	+1.59
		Super-G	N/A						1:33.76	+3.59
		Super Combined	1:33.63	+3.79	3	58.10	+2.78	5	2:31.73	+4.01	4

Men

Athlete	Classification	Event	Run 1			Run 2			Final/Total
			Time	Diff	Rank	Time	Diff	Rank	Time	Diff	Rank
	Standing	Downhill	N/A						1:34.00	+8.55	20
		Super-G	N/A						1:34.43	+9.60	25
James Whitley	Standing	Downhill	N/A						1:29.85	+4.40	10
			1:09.91	+4.11	=11	1:10.00	+4.56	12	2:19.81	+7.34	11
		Slalom	52.61	+4.10	11	51.80	+4.38	6	1:44.41	+8.30	10
		Super-G	N/A						1:32.96	+8.13	22
		Super Combined	1:30.21	+5.31	13	50.07	+5.13	10	2:20.28	+9.72	11

Biathlon[]

Athlete	Classification	Event	Result	Rank
	Sitting	Men's 7.5 km	27:28.1	18
		Men's 12.5 km	54:52.9	13
		Men's 15 km	58:58.1	14

Cross-country skiing[]

Athlete	Classification	Event	Qualification		Semifinal		Final
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
	Sitting	Men's 1.1 km sprint	3:17.72	16	Did not advance
		Men's 7.5 km	N/A				25:17.5	14
		Men's 15km	N/A				46:07.4	17

Snowboarding[]

Slalom

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Result
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Diff	Rank
James Barnes-Miller	Men's banked slalom SB-UL	58.23	9	57.00	10	1:08.17	20	57.00	+6.23	=10
Ben Moore		56.79	5	54.33	5	DSQ		54.33	+3.56	7
Owen Pick	Men's banked slalom SB-LL2	52.81	7	DSQ		53.26	9	52.81	+4.13	9

Snowboard cross

Athlete	Event	Qualification					1/8 finals	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Race 1		Race 2		Seed
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank		Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Rank
James Barnes-Miller	Men's snowboard cross SB-UL	1:03.11	5	1:06.56	14	6	(CHN) W	Patmore (AUS) L	Did not advance		7
Ben Moore		1:04.80	9	1:04.47	7	8	(ITA) L	Did not advance			10
Owen Pick	Men's snowboard cross SB-LL2	1:00.11	6	59.32	2	5	(ARG) L	Did not advance			9

Wheelchair curling[]

Summary

Team	Event	Group stage												Tiebreaker	Semifinal	Final / BM
		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
Aileen Neilson Hugh Nibloe Gregor Ewan Robert McPherson Angie Malone	Mixed	NOR W 5–2	SUI L 4–7	FIN W 9–2	SWE W 6–1	CAN W 8–1	SVK L 5–6	NPA L 2–8	GER W 8–3	USA L 3–9	KOR L 4–5	CHN L 3–9	7	Did not advance

Round Robin[]

Standings

Final round robin standings^[3]

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%

Results

Great Britain had a bye in draws 2, 4, 6, 9, 14 and 16.

See also[]

• Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Olympics

References[]

External links[]

• International Paralympic Committee official website
• Paralympics GB website