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

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".

Opening ceremony

On March 2, the opening ceremony was held.

Events

Men

Event	Date	Class	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Downhill	Mar 4	Visually impaired	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	Alexey Bugaev Russia	1:27.60	Matthias Lanzinger Austria	1:29.71	Alexander Vetrov Russia	1:31.25
		Sitting	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	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	Alexey Bugaev Russia	1:19.88	Matthias Lanzinger Austria	1:21.55	Thomas Pfyl Switzerland	1:21.91
		Sitting	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	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	Alexey Bugaev Russia	1:54.46	Markus Salcher Switzerland	1:56.94	Matthias Lanzinger Austria	1:56.96
		Sitting	Georg Kreiter Germany	1:56.84	Roman Rabl Austria	1.57.70	Frederic Francois France	1:58.39
Giant slalom	Mar 8	Visually impaired	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	Alexey Bugaev Russia	2:01.19	Markus Salcher Switzerland	2:02.16	Matthias Lanzinger Austria	2:04.27
		Sitting	Georg Kreiter Germany	2:03.49	Corey Peters New Zealand	2:03.89	Taiki Morii Japan	2:04.71
Slalom	Mar 10	Visually impaired	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	Alexey Bugaev Russia	1:39.05	Alexander Alyabyev Russia	1:46.15	Matt Hallat Canada	1:47.86
		Sitting	Takeshi Suzuki Japan	1:47.93	Taiki Morii Japan	1:53.67	Thomas Nolte Germany	1:55.38

Women

Event	Date	Class	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Downhill	Mar 4	Visually impaired	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	Marie Bochet France	1:32.81	Andrea Rothfuss Germany	1:36.83	Mariia Papulova Russia	1:42.12
		Sitting	Claudia Loesch Austria	1:33.29	Momoka Muraoka Japan	1:35.95	Anna Schaffelhuber Germany	1:38.06
Super-G	Mar 5	Visually impaired	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	Marie Bochet France	1:24.77	Andrea Rothfuss Germany	1:28.83	Mariia Papulova Russia	1:33.60
		Sitting	Anna Schaffelhuber Germany	1:27.65	—		—
Super combined	Mar 7	Visually impaired	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	Marie Bochet France	2:03.17	Andrea Rothfuss Germany	2:09.58	Anna Jochemsen Netherlands	2:12.52
		Sitting	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	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	Marie Bochet France	2:11.63	Andrea Rothfuss Germany	2:14.04	Stephanie Jallen United States	2:20.49
		Sitting	Anna Schaffelhuber Germany	1:09.50	Claudia Loesch Austria	1:11.38	Momoka Muraoka Japan	1:15.44
Slalom	Mar 10	Visually impaired	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	Marie Bochet France	1:58.67	Mariia Papulova Russia	2:04.22	Laura Valeanu Romania	2:09.55
		Sitting	Claudia Loesch Austria	2:03.28	Anna Schaffelhuber Germany	2:03.38	Anna-Lena Forster Germany	2:04.31

Medals table

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

Over 130 participants from 22 nations competed.

• Australia
• Austria
• Belgium
• Canada
• Croatia
• Czech Republic
• France
• Greece
• Germany
• Great Britain
• Italy
• Japan
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Poland
• Romania
• Russia
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Spain
• Switzerland
• United States

Classifications

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

External links

• Winter Sport Classification, Canadian Paralympic Committee
• official site
• IPC Alpine Skiing
  • World Championships – official results
• ParalympicSport.TV