2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships

2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships

Host city	Lillehammer
Country	Norway
Edition	1
Nations	42[1]
Athletes	852[1]
Sport	4
Opening	12 January 2022 (2022-01-12)
Closing	23 January 2022 (2022-01-23)
Dates	8 to 23 January 2022

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

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

Alpine skiing

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

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

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

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

  *   Host nation (Host nation (Norway))

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	RPC (RPC)	22	23	22	67
2	United States (USA)	10	9	9	28
3	France (FRA)	10	6	4	20
4	Ukraine (UKR)	6	6	9	21
5	Austria (AUT)	5	3	2	10
6	Norway (NOR)*	5	3	1	9
7	Germany (GER)	5	0	2	7
8	Belarus (BLR)	4	3	3	10
9	Canada (CAN)	3	6	6	15
10	Netherlands (NED)	3	3	3	9
11	Great Britain (GBR)	2	4	4	10
12	Italy (ITA)	2	4	3	9
13	Slovakia (SVK)	2	2	4	8
14	Poland (POL)	2	2	0	4
15	Sweden (SWE)	2	0	0	2
16	Finland (FIN)	1	1	0	2
17	Belgium (BEL)	0	2	0	2
18	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	2	3
19	Australia (AUS)	0	1	1	2
20	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	1	0	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
24	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	5	5
Totals (24 entries)		84	83	80	247

References

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External links

• 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships website
• 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships, Paralympic.org