2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships

Host city

Sestriere, Italy

Nations participating

23^[1]^[2]

Athletes participating

130

Dates

January 14 – 23

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2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships
Combined	men	women
Downhill	men	women
Giant slalom	men	women
Slalom	men	women
Super-G	men	women
Team	mixed

The 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships was held in Sestriere, Italy, from January 14 to 23, 2011. IPC stands for International Paralympic Committee.

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, including German multiple-Paralympic medalist Gerd Schönfelder, who competed in classification-category standing events.

Sestriere hosted the Paralympic alpine skiing competition, at the 2006 Winter Paralympics.

The internet-TV channel ParalympicSport.TV, owned by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) broadcast daily live coverage of the Championships, from January 18–23,^[3] also available after the Championships as Video on Demand (VOD). They also added some interview clips to their YouTube channel.

Opening ceremony

On January 15, the opening ceremony was held at the Palazzetto dello Sport in the town square of Sestriere, and included a series of performances by three dance couples. The dancers were to represent the people of the region. Among the dignitaries in attendance was the IPC President Sir Philip Craven.^[4]

Medal winners

The men's events and the women's events were held at Kandahar Banchetta Giovanni N., in Sestriere. Visually impaired skiers compete with the help of a sighted guide. The skier with the visual impairment and the guide are considered a team, and dual medals are awarded.^[5]

Men

Event	Date	Class	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Downhill details	Jan 16	Visually impaired	Nicolas Berejny Guide: Gregory Nouhaud France	1:21.40	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces Spain	1:21.59	Chris Williamson Guide: Robin Femy Canada	1:22.76
		Standing	Gerd Schönfelder Germany	1:21.84	Vincent Gauthier-Manuel France	1:22.08	Thomas Pfyl Switzerland	1:22.96
		Sitting	Akira Kano Japan	1:20.94	Taiki Morii Japan	1:21.39	Kees-Jan van der Klooster Netherlands	1:21.63
Super-G details	Jan 18	Visually impaired	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces Spain	1:19.20	Chris Williamson Guide: Robin Femy Canada	1:19.50	Nicolas Berejny Guide: Gregory Nouhaud France	1:20.47
		Standing	Gerd Schönfelder Germany	1:19.22	Vincent Gauthier-Manuel France	1:19.26	Thomas Pfyl Switzerland	1:19.95
		Sitting	Christopher Devlin-Young United States	1:17.67	Taiki Morii Japan	1:18.29	Cyril More France	1:19.50
Super Combined details	Jan 19	Visually impaired	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces Spain	2:07.43	Jakub Krako Guide: Dusan Simo Slovakia	2:08.36	Chris Williamson Guide: Robin Femy Canada	2:09.29
		Standing	Vincent Gauthier-Manuel France	2:05.31	Gerd Schönfelder Germany	2:07.06	Thomas Pfyl Switzerland	2:08.88
		Sitting	Takeshi Suzuki Japan	2:07.79	Cyril More France	2:08.93	Yohann Taberlet France	2:09.98
Slalom details	Jan 20	Visually impaired	Jakub Krako Guide: Dusan Simo Slovakia	1:28.83	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces Spain	1:29.11	Chris Williamson Guide: Robin Femy Canada	1:30.68
		Standing	Vincent Gauthier-Manuel France	1:27.05	Gerd Schönfelder Germany	1:27.22	Toby Kane Australia	1:28.49
		Sitting	Takeshi Suzuki Japan	1:29.31	Yohann Taberlet France	1:32.24	Thomas Nolte Germany	1:33.76
Giant slalom details	Jan 22	Visually impaired	Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces Spain	2:10.78	Jakub Krako Guide: Dusan Simo Slovakia	2:12.10	Radomir Dudas Guide: Maros Hudik Slovakia	2:17.42
		Standing	Vincent Gauthier-Manuel France	2:10.98	Thomas Pfyl Switzerland	2:11.41	Gerd Schönfelder Germany	2:11.47
		Sitting	Taiki Morii Japan	2:15.79	Takeshi Suzuki Japan	2:15.90	Christoph Kunz Switzerland	2:16.11

Women

Event	Date	Class	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Downhill details	Jan 16	Visually impaired	Henrieta Farkasova Guide: Natalia Subrtova Slovakia	1:28.36	Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor Australia	1:40.50	Alexandra Frantseva Guide: Evgenia Kolosovskaya Russia	1:41.87
		Standing	Andrea Rothfuss Germany	1:29.62	Marie Bochet France	1:29.86	Solène Jambaqué France	1:30.09
		Sitting	Alana Nichols United States	1:30.45	Laurie Stephens United States	1:33.05	Claudia Loesch Austria	1:35.35
Super-G details	Jan 18	Visually impaired	Anna Kuliskova Guide: Michaela Hubacova Czech Republic	1:34.28	Alexandra Frantseva Guide: Evgenia Kolosovskaya Russia	1:35.49	Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor Australia	1:38.08
		Standing	Solène Jambaqué France	1:25.08	Marie Bochet France	1:25.48	Andrea Rothfuss Germany	1:26.48
		Sitting	Alana Nichols United States	1:27.56	Laurie Stephens United States	1:28.66	Claudia Loesch Austria	1:29.04
Super Combined details	Jan 19	Visually impaired	Henrieta Farkasova Guide: Natalia Subrtova Slovakia	2:25.83	Alexandra Frantseva Guide: Evgenia Kolosovskaya Russia	2:32.31	Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor Australia	2:32.84
		Standing	Solène Jambaqué France	2:21.94	Andrea Rothfuss Germany	2:22.28	Karolina Wisniewska Canada	2:25.79
		Sitting	Anna Schaffelhuber Germany	2:31.62	Claudia Loesch Austria	2:33.11	Laurie Stephens United States	2:42.68
Slalom details	Jan 20	Visually impaired	Henrieta Farkasova Guide: Natalia Subrtova Slovakia	1:42.71	Kelly Gallagher Guide: Charlotte Evans United Kingdom	1:47.67	Alexandra Frantseva Guide: Evgenia Kolosovskaya Russia	1:49.98
		Standing	Andrea Rothfuss Germany	1:39.98	Petra Smarzova Slovakia	1:43.72	Karolina Wisniewska Canada	1:45.53
		Sitting	Anna Schaffelhuber Germany	1:48.80	Claudia Loesch Austria	1:52.62	Alana Nichols United States	2:27.49
Giant slalom details	Jan 22	Visually impaired	Henrieta Farkasova Guide: Natalia Subrtova Slovakia	2:19.20	Alexandra Frantseva Guide: Evgenia Kolosovskaya Russia	2:28.73	Kelly Gallagher Guide: Charlotte Evans United Kingdom	2:31.68
		Standing	Marie Bochet France	2:23.32	Petra Smarzova Slovakia	2:24.55	Andrea Rothfuss Germany	2:24.99
		Sitting	Anna Schaffelhuber Germany	2:31.73	Claudia Loesch Austria	2:32.43	Alana Nichols United States	2:38.22

Team

Event	Date	Class	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
Nations team event details	Jan 23	Open	France Vincent Gauthier-Manuel, Nicolas Berejny Guide: Gregory Nouhaud, Marie Bochet. Cyril More, Yohann Taberlet.	6:55.09	Germany Gerd Schönfelder, Andrea Rothfuss, Thomas Nolte. Georg Kreiter, Franz Hanfstingl, Anna Schaffelhuber.	6:56.28	Slovakia Henrieta Farkasova Guide: Natalia Subrtova, Jakub Krako Guide: Dusan Simo, Martin France. Norbert Holik Guide: Lubos Bosela.	7:03.86

Medals table

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Key

The host country is highlighted in lavender blue

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	8	6	4	18
2	Germany	7	4	4	15
3	Slovakia	5	4	2	11
4	Japan	4	3	0	7
5	United States	3	2	3	8
6	Spain	3	2	0	5
7	Czech Republic	1	0	0	1
8	Austria	0	3	2	5
8	Russia	0	3	2	5
10	Canada	0	1	5	6
11	Switzerland	0	1	4	5
12	Australia	0	1	3	4
13	United Kingdom	0	1	1	2
14	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	0	0
	Total	31	31	31	93

Participating nations

Over 130 participants from 23 nations competed.^[1]

Classifications

Skiers compete in sitting, standing or visually impaired events, after what classification of disability they have.

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