The 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships was an international disability sport competition held in Lillehammer, Norway from 8 to 23 January 2022. 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. It was scheduled for 7 to 20 February 2021 but it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway. The rescheduled event retained 2021 in its name.
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.
Sports
The following competitions were held:
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 TimeDownhillVisually impairedGuide: Valentin Giraud Moine1:09.88Guide: Maros Hudik1:12.73Guide: Branislav Brozman1:13.11Sitting1:12.851:14.511:15.80Standing1:12.001:12.38Alexey Bugaev ()1:13.94Super-GVisually impairedGuide: Valentin Giraud Moine1:05.79Guide: Matteo Fleischmann1:06.05Guide: Maros Hudik1:08.86Sitting1:04.381:07.601:08.52Standing1:06.37Alexey Bugaev ()1:07.761:07.87Giant slalomVisually impairedGuide: Andrea Ravelli2:14.17Guide: Matteo Fleischmann2:15.46Guide: Maxime Jourdan2:17.92Sitting2:14.422:20.932:21.25StandingAlexey Bugaev ()2:15.042:15.182:17.85SlalomVisually impairedGuide: Matteo Fleischmann1:28.18Guide: Andrea Ravelli1:28.29Guide: Branislav Brozman1:29.22Sitting1:27.611:30.281:31.37Standing1:25.471:30.20Alexander Alyabyev ()1:31.77Super combinedVisually impairedGuide: Maxime Jourdan1:51.92Guide: Andrew Simpson1:52.82Guide: Maros Hudik1:53.25Sitting1:53.651:53.831:56.18Standing1:49.22Alexey Bugaev ()1:50.061:54.17Parallel eventAll classes Guide: Matteo Fleischmann Guide: Andrea Ravelli Alexey Bugaev ()
Women's events:
Event Class Gold Time Silver Time Bronze TimeDownhillVisually impairedGuide: Michal Cerven1:17.78Guide: Pierre Couquelet1:24.99Guide: Kim Yooseong1:27.22Sitting1:23.331:24.781:38.95Standing1:16.95Varvara Voronchikhina ()1:17.381:18.67Super-GVisually impairedGuide: Michal Cerven1:11.80Guide: Pierre Couquelet1:23.99Guide: Brett Wild1:24.02Sitting1:19.911:37.45 Not awardedStandingVarvara Voronchikhina ()1:11.231:11.681:11.80Giant slalomVisually impairedGuide: Klara Sykora2:32.26Guide: Eva Trajcikova2:32.69Guide: Celine Arthofer2:38.58Sitting3:10.093:10.973:29.48Standing2:30.65Varvara Voronchikhina ()2:31.252:31.44SlalomVisually impairedGuide: Katie Guest1:29.87Guide: Celine Arthofer1:30.40Guide: Ylenia Sabidussi1:33.85Sitting1:41.381:55.792:12.32Standing1:27.30Varvara Voronchikhina ()1:31.741:40.49Super combinedVisually impairedGuide: Brett Wild2:12.10Guide: Katie Guest2:12.62Guide: Kim Yooseong2:18.02Sitting2:11.162:47.84 Not awardedStandingVarvara Voronchikhina ()1:58.721:59.682:08.47Parallel eventAll classes Varvara Voronchikhina () Guide: Celine Arthofer
Biathlon
Men's events:
Event Class Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time6 kmVisually impairedGuide: Uladzimir Chapelin15:03.5Stanislav Chokhlaev ()Guide: Oleg Kolodiichuk15:45.3Guide: Serhii Kucheriavyi15:57.7SittingIvan Golubkov ()18:38.819:00.019:02.9StandingVladislav Lekomtsev ()14:49.0Aleksandr Pronkov ()15:23.615:26.910 kmVisually impairedGuide: Uladzimir Chapelin26:41.5Stanislav Chokhlaev ()Guide: Oleg Kolodiichuk27:55.6Oleg Ponomarev ()Guide: Andrei Romanov29:11.8SittingIvan Golubkov ()32:16.232:59.3Danila Britik ()32:59.8StandingVladislav Lekomtsev ()25:35.2Aleksandr Pronkov ()27:02.127:15.412.5 kmVisually impairedStanislav Chokhlaev ()Guide: Oleg Kolodiichuk35:46.0Guide: Oleksandr Mukshyn37:14.5Guide: Serhii Kucheriavyi37:50.6Sitting46:53.047:16.0Danila Britik ()47:18.2StandingVladislav Lekomtsev ()34:36.4Vitalii Malyshev ()36:02.136:22.9
Women's events:
Event Class Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time6 kmVisually impairedVera Khlyzova ()Guide: Natalia Iakimova16:56.6Ekaterina Razumnaia ()Guide: Alexey Ivanov17:51.2Anna Panferova ()Guide: Andrei Zhukov18:19.6Sitting21:51.221:52.8Natalia Kocherova ()22:53.7Standing17:35.617:58.918:16.510 kmVisually impairedVera Khlyzova ()Guide: Natalia Iakimova30:16.7Ekaterina Razumnaia ()Guide: Alexey Ivanov32:31.6Margarita Tereshchenkova ()Guide: Anton Podzorov33:03.8Sitting36:44.7Natalia Kocherova ()39:09.639:46.3Standing31:23.831:54.832:41.712.5 kmVisually impairedVera Khlyzova ()Guide: Natalia Iakimova40:13.7Ekaterina Razumnaia ()Guide: Alexey Ivanov41:20.8Margarita Tereshchenkova ()Guide: Anton Podzorov43:30.8Sitting52:25.0Natalia Kocherova ()54:16.855:25.7Standing41:08.746:26.846:57.8
Cross-country skiing
Men's events:
Event Class Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time1 kmVisually impairedOleg Ponomarev ()Guide: Andrei Romanov3:00.77Guide: Sam Wood3:03.76Vladimir Udaltsov ()Guide: Ruslan Bogachev3:08.40SittingIvan Golubkov ()2:27.282:24.94Danila Britik ()2:32.70StandingVladislav Lekomtsev ()2:59.60Rushan Minnegulov ()3:01.93Aleksandr Pronkov ()3:13.1412.5 kmVisually impairedGuide: Sam Wood33:54.0Stanislav Chokhlaev ()Guide: Oleg Kolodiichuk34:10.8Guide: Mikita Maslouski34:25.5StandingVladislav Lekomtsev ()32:29.132:59.9Aleksandr Pronkov ()33:01.710 kmSittingIvan Golubkov ()31:22.731:52.2Danila Britik ()33:25.620 kmVisually impairedOleg Ponomarev ()Guide: Andrei Romanov41:15.7Stanislav Chokhlaev ()Guide: Oleg Kolodiichuk41:21.0Guide: Sam Wood41:41.5StandingVladislav Lekomtsev ()41:41.4Rushan Minnegulov ()42:21.0Vitalii Malyshev ()42:24.618 kmSittingIvan Golubkov ()51:14.551:42.8Danila Britik ()52:17.4
Women's events:
Event Class Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time1 kmVisually impairedAnna Panferova ()Guide: Andrei Zhukov2:43.27Guide: Dzmitry Budzilovich2:44.38Anastasiia Bagiian ()Guide: Sergei Siniakin2:48.34Sitting2:47.632:47.07Natalia Kocherova ()3:01.41Standing2:46.452:58.102:53.2510 kmVisually impairedGuide: Dzmitry Budzilovich32:16.4Anna Panferova ()Guide: Andrei Zhukov33:28.1Vera Khlyzova ()Guide: Natalia Iakimova33:43.9Standing31:02.432:27.232:37.17.5 kmSitting26:57.627:47.028:37.415 kmVisually impairedGuide: Dzmitry Budzilovich34:40.0Vera Khlyzova ()Guide: Natalia Iakimova35:13.7Anna Panferova ()Guide: Andrei Zhukov35:25.1Sitting46:45.247:54.948:23.5Standing36:18.636:21.336:30.5
Team events: Event Class Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time4 × 2.5 km mixed relayAll classesTaras RadLiudmyla LiashenkoPavlo BalLiudmyla Liashenko 28:49.4RPCNatalia KocherovaVera KhlyzovaAlexey BychenokStanislav Chokhlaev 29:11.2Arkadz ShykutsSviatlana SakhanenkaValiantsina ShytsMikita Ladzesau 29:30.74 × 2.5 km open relayAll classesRPCVitalii MalyshevOleg PonomarevIvan GolubkovVladislav Lekomtsev 24:50.7Benjamin DavietAnthony ChalenconBenjamin DavietAnthony Chalencon 25:28.7Kjartan HaugenVilde NilsenTrygve Steinar LarsenThomas Oxaal 26:10.9
Snowboard
Men's events:
Event Class Gold Silver BronzeSnowboard crossSB-ULMikhail Slinkin ()SB-LL1SB-LL2Dual Banked SlalomSB-ULSB-LL1SB-LL2Team eventAll classesAlex MassieTyler TurnerTakahito IchikawaMasataka OiwaneOllie HillJames Barnes-Miller
Women's events:
Event Class Gold Silver BronzeSnowboard crossSB-ULNot awardedNot awardedSB-LL1SB-LL2Dual Banked SlalomSB-ULNot awardedSB-LL1SB-LL2Team eventAll classesLisa DeJongSandrine HamelLisa BunschotenRenske van BeekRomy TschoppEllen Walther
Medal table
References
External links 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships website 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships, Paralympic.org Para Alpine results Para Biathlon results Para Cross-Country results Para Snowboard results