2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships

2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships
Host city	Panorama Mountain Village, British Columbia, Canada
Nations	22
Athletes	130
Events	Downhill, giant slalom, slalom, super combined, super-G
Dates	March 2–10
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The 2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships was an international disability sport alpine skiing event held in Panorama Mountain Village, British Columbia, Canada from March 2 to 10, 2015. The Championship is held biannually by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and is the largest event of its type outside the Winter Paralympics.

Skiers competed in sitting, standing or visually impaired classification categories in downhill, giant slalom, slalom, super-G, super combined and team events.

Over 130 skiers competed, with Russia finishing the championship on top of the medal table in both gold medals won and total medals.

This proved to be the last event under the title of "IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships". On 30 November 2016, the IPC, which serves as the international governing body for 10 disability sports, including Alpine skiing, adopted the "World Para" branding for all of those sports. The world championships in said sports were immediately rebranded as "World Para" events. Accordingly, from 2017 forward, the event will be known as the "World Para Alpine Skiing Championships".^[2]

Opening ceremony[edit]

On March 2, the opening ceremony was held.

Events[edit]

Men[edit]

Event	Date	Class	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Downhill	Mar 4	Visually impaired^[3]	Mac Marcoux Guide: B.J. Marcoux Canada	1:29.68	Mark Bathum Guide: Cade Yamamoto United States	1:31.89	Miroslav Haraus Guide: Maris Hudik Slovakia	1:32.12
		Standing^[4]	Alexey Bugaev Russia	1:27.60	Matthias Lanzinger Austria	1:29.71	Alexander Vetrov Russia	1:31.25
		Sitting^[5]	Corey Peters New Zealand	1:28.06	Roman Rabl Austria	1:28.80	Taiki Morii Japan	1:29.26
Super-G	Mar 5	Visually impaired^[6]	Ivan Frantsev Guide: German Agranovskii Russia	1:23.63	Mac Marcoux Guide: B.J. Marcoux Canada	1:24.04	Miroslav Haraus Guide: Maris Hudik Slovakia	1:24.81
		Standing^[7]	Alexey Bugaev Russia	1:19.88	Matthias Lanzinger Austria	1:21.55	Thomas Pfyl Switzerland	1:21.91
		Sitting^[8]	Corey Peters New Zealand	1:20.41	Frederic Francois France	1:21.20	Andrew Earl Kurka United States	1:21.32
Super combined	Mar 7	Visually impaired^[9]	Miroslav Haraus Guide: Maris Hudik Slovakia	1:59.81	Ivan Frantsev Guide: German Agranovskii Russia	2:01.35	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces Spain	2:03.32
		Standing^[10]	Alexey Bugaev Russia	1:54.46	Markus Salcher Switzerland	1:56.94	Matthias Lanzinger Austria	1:56.96
		Sitting^[11]	Georg Kreiter Germany	1:56.84	Roman Rabl Austria	1.57.70	Frederic Francois France	1:58.39
Giant slalom	Mar 8	Visually impaired^[12]	Valerii Redkozubov Guide: Evgeny Geroev Russia	2:09.28	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces Spain	2:09.88	Patrik Hetmer Guide: Miroslav Macala Czech Republic	2:11.71
		Standing^[13]	Alexey Bugaev Russia	2:01.19	Markus Salcher Switzerland	2:02.16	Matthias Lanzinger Austria	2:04.27
		Sitting^[14]	Georg Kreiter Germany	2:03.49	Corey Peters New Zealand	2:03.89	Taiki Morii Japan	2:04.71
Slalom	Mar 10	Visually impaired^[15]	Valerii Redkozubov Guide: Evgeny Geroev Russia	1:47.71	Miroslav Haraus Guide: Maris Hudik Slovakia	1:48.90	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces Spain	1:53.05
		Standing^[16]	Alexey Bugaev Russia	1:39.05	Alexander Alyabyev Russia	1:46.15	Matt Hallat Canada	1:47.86
		Sitting^[17]	Takeshi Suzuki Japan	1:47.93	Taiki Morii Japan	1:53.67	Thomas Nolte Germany	1:55.38

Women[edit]

Event	Date	Class	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Downhill	Mar 4	Visually impaired^[18]	Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor Australia	1:45.80	Danelle Umstead Guide: Robert Umstead United States	1:46.32	Aleksandra Frantceva Guide: Semen Pliaskin Russia	1:51.57
		Standing^[19]	Marie Bochet France	1:32.81	Andrea Rothfuss Germany	1:36.83	Mariia Papulova Russia	1:42.12
		Sitting^[20]	Claudia Loesch Austria	1:33.29	Momoka Muraoka Japan	1:35.95	Anna Schaffelhuber Germany	1:38.06
Super-G	Mar 5	Visually impaired^[21]	Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor Australia	1:33.52	Danelle Umstead Guide: Robert Umstead United States	1:37.55	Aleksandra Frantceva Guide: Semen Pliaskin Russia	1:40.55
		Standing^[22]	Marie Bochet France	1:24.77	Andrea Rothfuss Germany	1:28.83	Mariia Papulova Russia	1:33.60
		Sitting^[23]	Anna Schaffelhuber Germany	1:27.65	—		—
Super combined	Mar 7	Visually impaired^[24]	Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor Australia	2:14.18	Aleksandra Frantceva Guide: Semen Pliaskin Russia	2:16.95	Danelle Umstead Guide: Robert Umstead United States	2:22.20
		Standing^[25]	Marie Bochet France	2:03.17	Andrea Rothfuss Germany	2:09.58	Anna Jochemsen Netherlands	2:12.52
		Sitting^[26]	Claudia Loesch Austria	2:04.79	Anna Schaffelhuber Germany	2:06.10	Laurie Stephens United States	2:17.78
Giant slalom	Mar 8	Visually impaired^[27]	Aleksandra Frantceva Guide: Semen Pliaskin Russia	2:24.05	Millie Knight Guide: Jen Kehoe Great Britain	2:24.39	Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor Australia	2:25.41
		Standing^[28]	Marie Bochet France	2:11.63	Andrea Rothfuss Germany	2:14.04	Stephanie Jallen United States	2:20.49
		Sitting^[29]	Anna Schaffelhuber Germany	1:09.50	Claudia Loesch Austria	1:11.38	Momoka Muraoka Japan	1:15.44
Slalom	Mar 10	Visually impaired^[30]	Aleksandra Frantceva Guide: Semen Pliaskin Russia	2:03.31	Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor Australia	2:04.50	Millie Knight Guide: Jen Kehoe Great Britain	2:13.81
		Standing^[31]	Marie Bochet France	1:58.67	Mariia Papulova Russia	2:04.22	Laura Valeanu Romania	2:09.55
		Sitting^[32]	Claudia Loesch Austria	2:03.28	Anna Schaffelhuber Germany	2:03.38	Anna-Lena Forster Germany	2:04.31

Medals table[edit]

^[33]

Key

The host country is highlighted in lavender blue


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	10	4	5	19
2	France (FRA)	5	1	1	7
3	Germany (GER)	4	6	3	13
4	Austria (AUT)	3	7	2	12
5	Australia (AUS)	3	1	1	5
6	New Zealand (NZL)	2	1	0	3
7	Japan (JPN)	1	2	3	6
8	Slovakia (SVK)	1	1	2	4
9	Canada (CAN)*	1	1	1	3
10	United States (USA)	0	3	4	7
11	Spain (ESP)	0	1	2	3
12	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	1	2
13	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		30	29	29	88

Participating nations[edit]

Over 130 participants from 22 nations competed.^[34]

Classifications[edit]

Skiers compete in sitting, standing or visually impaired events, depending on their classification of disability.

Standing

LW2 – single leg amputation above the knee
LW3 – double leg amputation below the knee, mild cerebral palsy, or equivalent impairment
LW4 – single leg amputation below the knee
LW5/7 – double arm amputation
LW6/8 – single arm amputation
LW9 – amputation or equivalent impairment of one arm and one leg

Sitting

LW 10 – paraplegia with no or some upper abdominal function and no functional sitting balance
LW 11 – paraplegia with fair functional sitting balance
LW 12 – double leg amputation above the knees, or paraplegia with some leg function and good sitting balance

Visually impaired

B1 – no functional vision
B2 – up to ca 3–5% functional vision
B3 – under 10% functional vision

References[edit]

^ "2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships, Panorama". paralympic.org. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
^ "The IPC to rebrand the 10 sports it acts as International Federation for" (Press release). International Paralympic Committee. 30 November 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
^ "Results – Men Downhill – Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 4 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Results – Men Downhill Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 4 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Results – Men Downhill Sitting". IPC Alpine Skiing. 4 March 2015. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
^ "Results – Men's Super-G – Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 5 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Results – Men's Super-G – Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 5 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Results – Men's Super-G – Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 5 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Results – Men's Super Combined – Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 7 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Results – Men's Super Combined – Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 7 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Results – Men's Super Combined – Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 7 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Men's Giant Slalom – Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 8 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Men's Giant Slalom – Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 8 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Men's Giant Slalom – Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 8 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Men's Slalom – Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 10 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Men's Slalom – Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 10 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Men's Slalom – Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 10 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Women's Downhill – Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 4 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Event Overview - W DH Standing". IPC Alpine Skiing. 4 March 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2015.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Event Overview – Women's Downhill – Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 4 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Event Overview - W SG Visually Impaired". IPC Alpine Skiing. 5 March 2015. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
^ "Event Overview – Women's Downhill – Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 5 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Event Overview – Women's Downhill – Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 5 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Event Overview – Women's Super Combined – Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 7 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Event Overview – Women's Super Combined – Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 7 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Event Overview – Women's Super Combined – Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 7 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Event Overview – Women's giant slalom – Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 8 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Event Overview – Women's giant slalom – Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 8 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Event Overview – Women's giant slalom – Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 8 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Event Overview – Women's slalom – Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 10 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Event Overview – Women's slalom – Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 10 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Event Overview – Women's slalom – Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 10 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ "Medal Standings as of 16 Mar 2015" (PDF). IPC Athletics. 16 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
^ "NPC list". IPC. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 19, 2015.

External links[edit]

[ipc50-1] "2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships, Panorama". paralympic.org. Retrieved December 18, 2015.

[2] "The IPC to rebrand the 10 sports it acts as International Federation for" (Press release). International Paralympic Committee. 30 November 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[3] "Results – Men Downhill – Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 4 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[4] "Results – Men Downhill Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 4 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[5] "Results – Men Downhill Sitting". IPC Alpine Skiing. 4 March 2015. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2015.

[6] "Results – Men's Super-G – Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 5 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[7] "Results – Men's Super-G – Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 5 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[8] "Results – Men's Super-G – Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 5 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[9] "Results – Men's Super Combined – Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 7 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[10] "Results – Men's Super Combined – Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 7 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[11] "Results – Men's Super Combined – Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 7 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[12] "Men's Giant Slalom – Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 8 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[13] "Men's Giant Slalom – Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 8 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[14] "Men's Giant Slalom – Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 8 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[15] "Men's Slalom – Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 10 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[16] "Men's Slalom – Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 10 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[17] "Men's Slalom – Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 10 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[18] "Women's Downhill – Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 4 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[19] "Event Overview - W DH Standing". IPC Alpine Skiing. 4 March 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2015.^{[permanent dead link]}

[20] "Event Overview – Women's Downhill – Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 4 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[21] "Event Overview - W SG Visually Impaired". IPC Alpine Skiing. 5 March 2015. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2015.

[22] "Event Overview – Women's Downhill – Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 5 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[23] "Event Overview – Women's Downhill – Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 5 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[24] "Event Overview – Women's Super Combined – Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 7 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[25] "Event Overview – Women's Super Combined – Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 7 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[26] "Event Overview – Women's Super Combined – Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 7 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[27] "Event Overview – Women's giant slalom – Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 8 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[28] "Event Overview – Women's giant slalom – Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 8 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[29] "Event Overview – Women's giant slalom – Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 8 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[30] "Event Overview – Women's slalom – Visually Impaired" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 10 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[31] "Event Overview – Women's slalom – Standing" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 10 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[32] "Event Overview – Women's slalom – Sitting" (PDF). IPC Alpine Skiing. 10 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

[33] "Medal Standings as of 16 Mar 2015" (PDF). IPC Athletics. 16 March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2015.

[34] "NPC list". IPC. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 19, 2015.

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