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2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships

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2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships
Host cityLillehammer
CountryNorway
Edition1
Nations42[1]
Athletes852[1]
Sport4
Opening12 January 2022 (2022-01-12)
Closing23 January 2022 (2022-01-23)
Dates8 to 23 January 2022
← 2019 (alpine skiing)
2023 (alpine skiing)
2023 (biathlon, cross-country skiing) →

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

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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

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Alpine skiing

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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 Alexander Alyabyev (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 Varvara Voronchikhina (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 Varvara Voronchikhina (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 Varvara Voronchikhina (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  Nette Kiviranta (FIN) 1:55.79  Laurie Stephens (USA) 2:12.32
Standing  Ebba Årsjö (SWE) 1:27.30 Varvara Voronchikhina (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 Varvara Voronchikhina (RPC) 1:58.72  Marie Bochet (FRA) 1:59.68  Anna-Maria Rieder (GER) 2:08.47
Parallel event All classes  Ebba Årsjö (SWE) Varvara Voronchikhina (RPC)  Elina Stary (AUT)
Guide: Celine Arthofer

Biathlon

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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 Ivan Golubkov (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 Ivan Golubkov (RPC) 32:16.2  Taras Rad (UKR) 32:59.3 Danila Britik (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 Danila Britik (RPC) 47:18.2
Standing Vladislav Lekomtsev (RPC) 34:36.4 Vitalii Malyshev (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 Ekaterina Razumnaia (RPC)
Guide: Alexey Ivanov
17:51.2 Anna Panferova (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 Ekaterina Razumnaia (RPC)
Guide: Alexey Ivanov
32:31.6 Margarita Tereshchenkova (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 Ekaterina Razumnaia (RPC)
Guide: Alexey Ivanov
41:20.8 Margarita Tereshchenkova (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

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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 Vladimir Udaltsov (RPC)
Guide: Ruslan Bogachev
3:08.40
Sitting Ivan Golubkov (RPC) 2:27.28  Cristian Ribera (BRA) 2:24.94 Danila Britik (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  Witold Skupień (POL) 32:59.9 Aleksandr Pronkov (RPC) 33:01.7
10 km Sitting Ivan Golubkov (RPC) 31:22.7  Giuseppe Romele (ITA) 31:52.2 Danila Britik (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 Vitalii Malyshev (RPC) 42:24.6
18 km Sitting Ivan Golubkov (RPC) 51:14.5  Sin Eui-hyun (KOR) 51:42.8 Danila Britik (RPC) 52:17.4

Women's events:

Event Class Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
1 km Visually impaired Anna Panferova (RPC)
Guide: Andrei Zhukov
2:43.27  Sviatlana Sakhanenka (BLR)
Guide: Dzmitry Budzilovich
2:44.38 Anastasiia Bagiian (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 Anna Panferova (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 Anna Panferova (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

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Men's events:

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

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  *   Host nation (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 entries)848380247

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