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Alpine Skiing At The 2014 Winter Paralympics – Women's Downhill ...
The women's downhill competition of the 2014 Winter Paralympics was held at Rosa Khutor Alpine Resort near Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. The competition took place on 8 March 2014. Medal table Visually impaired In the downhill visually impaired, the athlete with a visual impairment has a sighted guide. The two skiers are considered a team, and dual medals are awarded. Standing Sitting See also *Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics References {{DEFAULTSORT:Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Paralympics - Women's downhill Women's downhill Para Para, or PARA, may refer to: Businesses, professions, and organizations * Paramount Global, traded as PARA on the Nasdaq stock exchange * Para Group, the former name of CT Corp * Para Rubber, now Skellerup, a New Zealand manufacturer * Para ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Paralympic Alpine Skiing
Para-alpine skiing is an adaptation of alpine skiing for athletes with a disability. The sport evolved from the efforts of disabled veterans in Germany and Austria during and after the Second World War. The sport is governed by the International Paralympic Committee Sports Committee. The primary equipment used includes outrigger skis, sit-skis, and mono-skis. Para-alpine skiing disciplines include the Downhill (ski competition), downhill, Super giant slalom skiing, super-G, giant slalom, Slalom skiing, slalom, super combined, and Para snowboard, snowboard. Para-alpine skiing classification is the classification system for para-alpine skiing designed to ensure fair competition between alpine skiers with different types of disabilities. The classifications are grouped into three general disability types: standing, blind and sitting. A factoring system was created for para-alpine skiing to allow the three classification groupings to fairly compete against each other in the same race ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Laurie Stephens
Laurie Stephens (born March 5, 1984) is an alpine monoskier who has spina bifida. She has won multiple medals for the United States at the Paralympics. She has also had success at the IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup. Career Laurie Stephens started skiing at age 12 on Loon Mountain in New Hampshire and then began racing 3 years later at age 15 when she became a member of Chris Devlin-Young's New England Disabled Ski Team. Stephens competes in 5 different skiing events which are the downhill, slalom, giant slalom, super-G, and Super Combined. She has competed in 4 Paralympic games and 5 world championships. Her debut as a Paralympian was in 2006 and since she has competed in the 2010, 2014, and the 2018 games. She has won a total of 7 Paralympic medals (2 gold, 2 silver, and 3 bronze) and 7 world championship medals (1 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze). Stephens was named the Paralympic Sportswoman of the Year in 2006 by the United States Olympic Committee. Some of her best racing performance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Anna Jochemsen
Anna Jochemsen (born March 30, 1985) is a Dutch Paralympic skier who was born in Eswatini. She competed at the Sochi Paralympics in 2014 and carried the closing flag. She also represented the Netherlands at the 2018 Winter Paralympics. Life Jochemsen was born in 1985 in the African city of Manzini and some of her early life was spent in Finland and the USA. One of her legs was not complete when she was born. With her father's support she took to skiing, when she was seven. She had a professional coach and when she was 23 she took part in her first competition. From 2007, she was competing internationally and training for three or four hours for six days out of every seven. She trained at the National Sports Centre Papendal, but the Netherlands is very flat so when she was mountain skiing in the for nearly half of the year she was in other countries. She also enjoys scuba diving and she became a qualified instructor. She came sixth in the 2012/13 world championships during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mariia Papulova
Mariia (, ) is a given name. It is cognate to the given name Maria in English and other languages. The Russian and Ukrainian given names have the spelling variants Maria, Marija, and Mariya. People with the name Finnish * Mariia Posa Russian * Mariia Bogacheva * Mariia Cherepanova * Mariia Dudina * Mariia Ignateva * Mariia Kravtsova * Mariia Pavlova * Mariia Persidskaia * Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa * Mariia Tailakova * Mariia Tkacheva Ukrainian * Mariia Biletska * Mariia Dilai * Mariia Grazhina Chaplin * Mariia Hanhur * Mariia Holubtsova * Mariia Kichasova-Skoryk * Mariia Lafina * Mariia Sakharuk * Mariia Vysochanska * Mariia Pinchuk * Mariia Pomazan * Mariia Shtepa * Mariia Stefiuk * Mariia Stoliarenko Mariia Stoliarenko (; born 30 April 2004) is a Ukrainian badminton player. She competed at the 2022 BWF World Championships in the women's doubles with her partner, Yelyzaveta Zharka. Achievements BWF International Challenge/Series (4 runn ... Other uses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Solène Jambaqué
Solène Jambaqué (born 14 April 1988 in Toulouse) is a French alpine skiing, alpine skier and two time Paralympic Champion. She competed in the France at the 2006 Winter Paralympics, 2006 Winter Paralympics in Turin, Italy. She won a gold medal in the Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Paralympics – Women's super-G#Standing, super-G and Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Paralympics – Women's downhill#Standing, Downhill, a silver medal in Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Paralympics – Women's slalom#Standing, Slalom, and a bronze medal in the Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Paralympics – Women's giant slalom#Standing, Giant slalom, standing. She competed in the France at the 2010 Winter Paralympics, 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver, Canada, where she won a silver medal in the Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Paralympics – Women's downhill#Standing, Downhill and the Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Paralympics – Women's Super combined#Standing, Super combined, stand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Charlotte Evans
Charlotte Evans MBE (born 29 March 1991) is a British skier, sighted guide and Paralympian. She is from Chatham in Kent, and attended Rochester Grammar School and then MidKent College. She started skiing as a child at the Chatham Ski Centre, a dry ski slope, moving on to snow at the age of 14. At the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games, as guide for visually impaired skier Kelly Gallagher, she won gold in the women's super-G. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours The 2014 Birthday Honours were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth II to Orders and decorations of the Commonwealth realms, various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens ... for services to Paralympic sport. Charlotte skied with several famous people such as Fanny Chmelar. References Living people British female alpine skiers Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Paralympics 1991 bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kelly Gallagher (alpine Skier)
Kelly Gallagher Member of the Order of the British Empire, MBE (born 18 May 1985), is a retired British alpine skiing, skier and the first athlete from Northern Ireland to compete in the Winter Paralympics. Gallagher won Britain's first ever Winter Paralympic gold medal during 2014 Winter Paralympics, Sochi 2014. Childhood Kelly was born on 18 May 1985 and was raised in Bangor, County Down, Bangor in the north of County Down. Her father, Patrick Gallagher, was an airline pilot. She is a graduate in mathematics from the University of Bath. Pre-Paralympics Kelly has oculocutaneous albinism, is visually impaired and competes with a sighted guide. At the 2009 New Zealand Winter Games Gallagher, competing with guide Claire Robb, won gold in her first ever international race, the giant slalom. She was selected for the British team at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in February 2010. Gallagher is funded by the Sport Northern Ireland Athlete Support Programme and supported by the Sports I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Robert Umstead
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown, godlike" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.Reaney & Wilson, 1997. ''Dictionary of English Surnames''. Oxford University Press. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe, the name entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Danelle Umstead
Danelle D’Aquanni Umstead (born February 15, 1972) is an American alpine skier and Paralympian. She is part of the US Paralympics team. She competed at the women's slalom, giant slalom, downhill, super-G and combined at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver, with her husband Rob Umstead as her sighted guide. They took the bronze medal at the downhill and combined. She also competed in the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, winning a bronze medal in the super combined. She competed in the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang the downhill, slalom, giant slalom, super-g, and the super combined. She has a genetic eye condition called retinitis pigmentosa. On September 12, 2018, Umstead was announced as one of the celebrities being on season 27 of ''Dancing with the Stars''. Her professional partner was Artem Chigvintsev Artem Vladimirovich Chigvintsev (; born 12 June 1982) is a Russian-born American professional dancer, specializing in Latin dancing. Chigvintsev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Andrew Bor
Andy Bor (born 14 April 1963) is an Australian former ski coach and sighted guide for visually impaired skiers. He was a coach at the 2006 Winter Paralympics in Torino, and was Melissa Perrine's guide skier at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver and 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi. Bor became Melissa Perrine's guide in 2009. He first skied with her in competition at the IPC North America Cup in Colorado, in 2009, where the pair finished second in the super-G. As Perrine's guide skier, he competed in the Downhill (ski competition), downhill, super-G, Alpine skiing combined, super combined, giant slalom and Slalom skiing, slalom events at Vancouver. They won silver in the Downhill (ski competition), downhill and bronze medals in super-G and super combined at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships in Sestriere. At an August 2011 Winter Games IPC event at Coronet Peak, Perrine and Bor finished first in the women's slalom visually impaired event. At the 2014 Winter Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Melissa Perrine
Melissa Perrine (born 21 February 1988) is a B2 classified visually impaired para-alpine skier from Australia. She has competed at the four Winter Paralympics from 2010 to 2022. At the 2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships, she won three gold, one silver and one bronze medals. At the 2018 Winter Paralympics, she won two bronze medals. Personal Melissa Perrine was born in Nowra, New South Wales, on 21 February 1988. In 2007, the Wingecarribee Council area named her their Young Australian of the Year. She was featured on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's ''X Paralympic Games'' in March 2010. She was born with four separate eye conditions, including cataracts, nystagmus, micropthalmia and glaucoma. Her eyesight has been slowly deteriorating since she was very young. Her vision is limited to blurry shapes and colours. , she lives in Welby, New South Wales, and is studying Exercise Science at the Australian Catholic University in Sydney. In 2011, she completed a Bachel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sighted Guide
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