2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships – Downhill

Downhill
at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships
Alpine skiing
VenueKandahar Banchetta Giovanni N.
LocationSestriere
DateJanuary 16
Alpine skiing at the
World Ski Championships 2011
Combinedmenwomen
Downhillmenwomen
Giant slalommenwomen
Slalommenwomen
Super-Gmenwomen
Teammixed

The Downhill competitions of the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships was held at Kandahar Banchetta Giovanni N., in Sestriere, Italy on January 16.

Women

Visually impaired

In the downhill visually impaired, the athlete with a visual impairment has a sighted guide.[1] The two skiers are considered a team, and dual medals are awarded.[2]

Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference
1st place, gold medalist(s) 2 Henrieta Farkasova
Guide: Natalia Subrtova		  Slovakia 1:28.36
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1 Melissa Perrine
Guide: Andrew Bor		  Australia 1:40.50 +12.14
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 5 Alexandra Frantseva
Guide: Evgenia Kolosovskaya		  Russia 1:41.87 +13.51
3 Anna Kuliskova
Guide: Michaela Hubacova		  Czech Republic DNF
4 Danelle Umstead
Guide: Robert Umstead		  United States DSQ

Standing

Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference
1st place, gold medalist(s) 10 Andrea Rothfuss  Germany 1:29.62
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 7 Marie Bochet  France 1:29.86 +0.24
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 8 Solène Jambaqué  France 1:30.09 +0.47
4 11 Melania Corradini  Italy 1:30.94 +1.32
5 9 Karolina Wisniewska  Canada 1:35.56 +5.94
6 6 Danja Haslacher  Austria 1:36.26 +6.64
7 12 Petra Smarzova  Slovakia 1:37.52 +7.90

Sitting

Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference
1st place, gold medalist(s) 14 Alana Nichols  United States 1:30.45
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 13 Laurie Stephens  United States 1:33.05 +2.60
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 15 Claudia Loesch  Austria 1:35.35 +4.90
4 16 Anna Schaffelhuber  Germany 1:37.59 +7.14

Men

Visually impaired

In the downhill visually impaired, the athlete with a visual impairment has a sighted guide.[1] The two skiers are considered a team, and dual medals are awarded.[2]

Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference
1st place, gold medalist(s) 20 Nicolas Berejny
Guide: Gregory Nouhaud		  France 1:21.40
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 21 Yon Santacana Maiztegui
Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces		  Spain 1:21.59 +0.19
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 25 Chris Williamson
Guide: Robin Femy		  Canada 1:22.76 +1.36
4 19 Miroslav Haraus
Guide: Martin Makovnik		  Slovakia 1:22.84 +1.44
5 26 Jakub Krako
Guide: Dusan Simo		  Slovakia 1:25.11 +3.71
6 22 Radomir Dudas
Guide: Maros Hudik		  Slovakia 1:26.35 +4.95
7 18 Christoph Prettner
Guide: Stefan Schoner		  Austria 1:28.42 +7.02
8 27 Ivan Frantsev
Guide: Evgeny Pinaev		  Russia 1:29.79 +8.39
T9 24 Michal Beladic
Guide: Martin Pavlak		  Slovakia 1:30.24 +8.84
T9 17 Norbert Holik
Guide: Lubos Bosela		  Slovakia 1:30.24 +8.84
11 Gabriel Juan Gorce Yepes
Guide: Josep Arnau Ferrer Ventura		  Spain 1:30.84 +9.44

Standing

Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference
1st place, gold medalist(s) 36 Gerd Schönfelder  Germany 1:21.84
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 39 Vincent Gauthier-Manuel  France 1:22.08 +0.24
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 34 Thomas Pfyl  Switzerland 1:22.96 +1.12
4 28 Toby Kane  Australia 1:24.13 +2.29
5 45 Markus Salcher  Austria 1:24.48 +2.64
6 30 Mitchell Gourley  Australia 1:25.83 +3.99
7 29 Michael Bruegger  Switzerland 1:25.84 +4.00
8 33 Andreas Preiss  Austria 1:27.20 +5.36
9 38 Bernhard Habersatter  Austria 1:27.28 +5.44
10 44 Alexandr Alyabyev  Russia 1:27.60 +5.76
11 35 Christian Lanthaler  Italy 1:28.21 +6.37
12 42 Kirk Schornstein  Canada 1:29.18 +7.34
13 37 Hiraku Misawa  Japan 1:31.37 +9.53
14 31 Ralph Green  United States 1:34.75 +12.91
15 43 Martin France  Slovakia 1:37.02 +15.18
41 Matt Hallat  Canada DNF
40 Bart Verbruggen  Netherlands DNF
32 Cameron Rahles-Rahbula  Australia DNF

Sitting

Great Britain's Talan Skeels-Piggins did not compete in the Downhill race, as he had a crash in a training run the day before.[3][4]

Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference
1st place, gold medalist(s) 55 Akira Kano  Japan 1:20.94
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 60 Taiki Morii  Japan 1:21.39 +0.45
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 48 Kees-Jan van der Klooster  Netherlands 1:21.63 +0.69
4 56 Takeshi Suzuki  Japan 1:22.04 +1.10
5 49 Josh Dueck  Canada 1:22.41 +1.47
6 50 Sean Rose  United Kingdom 1:23.00 +2.06
7 47 Thomas Nolte  Germany 1:23.95 +3.01
8 62 Philipp Bonadimann  Austria 1:24.09 +3.15
9 63 Franz Hanfstingl  Germany 1:24.81 +3.87
10 61 Sang Min Han  South Korea 1:25.04 +4.10
11 65 Cyril More  France 1:25.05 +4.11
12 54 Frederic Francois  France 1:25.51 +4.57
13 64 Robert Froehle  Austria 1:30.12 +9.18
14 46 Christopher Devlin-Young  United States 1:31.15 +10.21
15 66 Akira Taniguchi  Japan 1:36.20 +15.26
51 Jasmin Bambur  Serbia DNF
52 Jong Seork Park  South Korea DNF
59 Christoph Kunz  Switzerland DNF
58 Reinhold Sampl  Austria DNF
57 Yohann Taberlet  France DNF
53 Tyler Walker  United States DNS

References

  1. ^ a b official results of the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships - Downhill Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine, IPC Athletics
  2. ^ a b Visually impaired skiers put fate in guide's hands, thestar.com, March 13, 2010
  3. ^ Had huge crash, Talan Skeels-Piggins (talansp) on Twitter
  4. ^ 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships - Official Training Results Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine, IPC Alpine Skiing