Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Paralympics – Men's downhill

Alpine skiing - Men's downhill at the VIII Paralympic Winter Games
Venue	Snowbasin
Competitors	107 from 21 nations

Men's downhill skiing events at the 2002 Winter Paralympics were contested at Snowbasin.

There were 8 events covering 12 disability classes. Final standings were decided by applying a disability factor to the actual times achieved.

Visually impaired

There was one event under the visually impaired classification.

B1-3

• B1 – visually impaired: no functional vision
• B2 – visually impaired: up to ca 3-5% functional vision
• B3 – visually impaired: under 10% functional vision

Rank	Name	Country	Class	Real Time	Calc Time	Difference
	Bart Bunting	Australia	B1	2:23.03	1:19.92
	Eric Villalon	Spain	B3	1:34.43	1:20.64	+0.72
	Yon Santacana	Spain	B2	1:30.79	1:21.57	+1.65
4	Andrew Parr	United States	B2	1:31.70	1:22.39	+2.47
5	Radomir Dudas	Slovakia	B2	1:38.12	1:23.79	+3.87
6	Gianmaria Dal Maistro	Italy	B3	1:33.51	1:24.01	+4.09
7	Stefan Kopcik	Slovakia	B2	1:43.30	1:28.22	+8.30
8	Josef Erlacher	Italy	B3	1:38.36	1:28.37	+8.45
9	Kurt Primus	Austria	B2	1:43.72	1:28.58	+8.66
10	Jordi Rozas	Spain	B3	1:40.16	1:29.99	+10.07

Sitting

There were three events under the sitting classification.

LW10

• LW 10 – sitting: paraplegia with no or some upper abdominal function and no functional sitting balance

Rank	Name	Country	Class	Real Time	Calc Time	Difference
	Martin Braxenthaler	Germany	LW10	1:41.14	1:22.20
	Chris Waddell	United States	LW10	1:41.50	1:22.49	+0.29
	Ronny Persson	Sweden	LW10	1:42.14	1:23.01	+0.81
4	Michael Kroener	Germany	LW10	1:31.70	1:24.75	+2.55
5	Nick Catanzarite	United States	LW10	1:38.12	1:28.60	+6.40
6	Iban Calzada	Spain	LW10	1:56.12	1:34.37	+12.17
7	Stephen Napier	Great Britain	LW10	2:13.93	1:48.85	+26.65
8	Thomas Bechter	Austria	LW10	DNF
8	Peter Toneatti	Switzerland	LW10	DNF

LW11

• LW 11 – sitting: paraplegia with fair functional sitting balance

Rank	Name	Country	Class	Real Time	Calc Time	Difference
	Harald Eder	Austria	LW11	1:38.05	1:21.04
	Andreas Schiestl	Austria	LW11	1:39.25	1:22.03	+0.99
	Fabrizio Zardini	Italy	LW11	1:40.43	1:23.01	+1.97
4	Denis Barbet	France	LW11	1:40.77	1:23.29	+2.25
5	Robert Froehle	Austria	LW11	1:42.81	1:24.98	+3.94
6	Joe Tompkins	United States	LW11	1:44.15	1:26.08	+5.04
7	Raynald Riu	France	LW11	1:45.04	1:26.82	+5.78
8	Ryuei Shinohe	Japan	LW11	1:48.19	1:29.42	+8.38
9	Nam Je Kim	South Korea	LW11	1:48.39	1:29.59	+8.55

LW12

• LW 12 – sitting: double leg amputation above the knees, or paraplegia with some leg function and good sitting balance

Rank	Name	Country	Class	Real Time	Calc Time	Difference
	Kevin Bramble	United States	LW12	1:37.80	1:22.05
	Christopher Devlin-Young	United States	LW12	1:38.00	1:22.22	+0.17
	Daniel Wesley	Canada	LW12	1:38.00	1:23.20	+1.15
4	Reinhold Sampl	Austria	LW12	1:39.32	1:23.33	+1.28
5	Stacy William Kohut	Canada	LW12	1:39.73	1:23.67	+1.62
6	Hans Joerg Arnold	Switzerland	LW12	1:40.76	1:24.53	+2.48
7	Ludwig Wolf	Germany	LW12	1:39.69	1:24.63	+2.58
8	Harald Guldahl	Norway	LW12	1:41.17	1:24.88	+2.83
9	Daniel Metivier	United States	LW12	1:41.51	1:25.16	+3.11
10	Toshihiko Takamura	Japan	LW12	1:44.15	1:27.38	+5.33
11	Luca Maraffio	Italy	LW12	1:45.09	1:28.17	+6.12
12	Sang Min Han	South Korea	LW12	1:47.33	1:30.05	+8.00
13	Knut Andre Nordstoga	Norway	LW12	1:52.40	1:34.30	+12.25
14	Peter Boonaerts	Australia	LW12	1:54.52	1:36.08	+14.03
15	Scott Patterson	Canada	LW12	2:01.32	1:42.99	+20.94
16	Peter Sutor	Slovakia	LW12	2:22.96	1:59.94	+37.89
-	Jean Yves Le Meur	France	LW12	DNF
-	Thomas Mayer	Germany	LW12	DNF
-	Noriyuki Mori	Japan	LW12	DNF
-	Russell Docker	Great Britain	LW12	DNF
-	Martin Krivos	Slovakia	LW12	DNF

Standing

There were 4 events under the standing classification.

LW2

• LW2 – standing: single leg amputation above the knee

Rank	Name	Country	Class	Real Time	Calc Time	Difference
	Michael Milton	Australia	LW2	1:28.37	1:23.64
	Christian Lanthaler	Italy	LW2	1:30.46	1:25.62	+1.98
	Jason Lalla	United States	LW2	1:30.74	1:25.88	+2.24
4	Greg Mannino	United States	LW2	1:30.79	1:25.93	+2.29
5	Monte Meier	United States	LW2	1:32.01	1:27.09	+3.45
6	Michael Hipp	Germany	LW2	1:32.98	1:28.00	+4.36
7	Florian Planker	Italy	LW2	1:33.08	1:28.10	+4.46
8	Fritz Berger	Switzerland	LW2	1:33.69	1:28.68	+5.04
9	Cameron Rahles-Rahbula	Australia	LW2	1:33.80	1:28.78	+5.14
10	Gordon Michael Tuck	Canada	LW2	1:35.70	1:30.58	+6.94
11	Asle Tangvik	Norway	LW2	1:35.85	1:30.72	+7.08
12	Kjeld Punt	Netherlands	LW2	1:36.68	1:31.51	+7.87
13	Matthias Uhlig	Germany	LW2	1:37.01	1:31.82	+8.18
14	Martijn Wijsman	Netherlands	LW2	1:37.23	1:32.03	+8.39
15	David Warner	South Africa	LW2	1:37.52	1:32.30	+8.66
16	Michal Nevrkla	Czech Republic	LW2	1:37.55	1:32.33	+8.69
17	Tetsuya Tanaka	Japan	LW2	1:37.86	1:32.62	+8.98
18	Garush Danielyan	Armenia	LW2	1:46.41	1:40.72	+17.08
19	Hayk Abgaryan	Armenia	LW2	1:48.73	1:42.91	+19.27
20	Simon Raaflaub	Switzerland	LW2	1:50.05	1:44.16	+20.52
-	Stasik Nazaryan	Armenia	LW2	DSQ

LW3, 5/7, 9

• LW3 – standing: double leg amputation below the knee, mild cerebral palsy, or equivalent impairment
• LW5/7 – standing: double arm amputation
• LW9 – standing: amputation or equivalent impairment of one arm and one leg

Rank	Name	Country	Class	Real Time	Calc Time	Difference
	Gerd Schoenfelder	Germany	LW9	1:25.19	1:23.76
	Arno Hirschbuehl	Austria	LW5/7	1:33.55	1:27.71	+3.95
	Jacob Rife	United States	LW5/7	1:33.86	1:28.07	+4.31
4	Walter Kaelin	Switzerland	LW3	1:46.42	1:28.51	+4.75
5	Romain Riboud	France	LW5/7	1:34.71	1:28.79	+5.03
6	George Sansonetis	United States	LW5/7	1:38.99	1:32.81	+9.05
7	Jozef Mistina	Slovakia	LW5/7	1:40.47	1:34.27	+10.51
8	Mark Drinnan	Australia	LW5/7	1:41.60	1:35.33	+11.57
9	Jin Jeon Young	South Korea	LW9	1:37.63	1:35.99	+12.23
10	Mher Avanesyan	Armenia	LW9	1:37.78	1:36.14	+12.38
-	Hongbin Kim	South Korea	LW9	DSQ

LW4

• LW4 – standing: single leg amputation below the knee

Rank	Name	Country	Class	Real Time	Calc Time	Difference
	Hans Burn	Switzerland	LW4	1:23.86	1:23.65
	James Lagerstrom	United States	LW4	1:24.42	1:24.20	+0.55
	Steven Bayley	New Zealand	LW4	1:25.13	1:24.91	+1.26
4	Michael Bruegger	Switzerland	LW4	1:25.86	1:25.64	+1.99
5	Robert Meusburger	Austria	LW4	1:26.18	1:25.96	+2.31
6	Manfred Auer	Austria	LW4	1:26.82	1:26.60	+2.95
7	Hubert Mandl	Austria	LW4	1:27.09	1:26.87	+3.22
8	Cedric Amafroi-Broisat	France	LW4	1:27.42	1:27.20	+3.55
9	Mark Ludbrook	Canada	LW4	1:28.24	1:28.01	+4.36
10	Clay Fox	United States	LW4	1:29.14	1:28.91	+5.26
11	Igor Kostenko	Russia	LW4	1:31.77	1:31.54	+7.89
12	Scott Adams	Australia	LW4	1:36.62	1:36.37	+12.72
-	Naoya Maruyama	Japan	LW4	DNF

LW6/8

• LW6/8 – standing: single arm amputation

Rank	Name	Country	Class	Real Time	Calc Time	Difference
	Rolf Heinzmann	Switzerland	LW6/8	1:24.26	1:24.26
	Lionel Brun	France	LW6/8	1:24.27	1:24.27	+0.01
	Markus Pfefferle	Germany	LW6/8	1:24.70	1:24.70	+0.44
4	Ian Balfour	Canada	LW6/8	1:25.60	1:25.60	+1.34
5	Frank Pfortmueller	Germany	LW6/8	1:25.76	1:25.76	+1.50
6	Martin Cupka	Slovakia	LW6/8	1:26.17	1:26.17	+1.91
7	Adam Fromma	United States	LW6/8	1:26.30	1:26.30	+2.04
8	Wolfgang Moosbrugger	Austria	LW6/8	1:26.97	1:26.97	+2.71
9	Stanislav Loska	Czech Republic	LW6/8	1:27.37	1:27.37	+3.11
10	Walter Lackner	Austria	LW6/8	1:27.52	1:27.52	+3.26
11	Shinji Inoue	Japan	LW6/8	1:29.11	1:29.11	+4.85
12	Walter Kaelin	Switzerland	LW6/8	1:29.40	1:29.40	+5.14
13	Yasunori Todoroki	Japan	LW6/8	1:33.18	1:33.18	+8.92