Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Paralympics | |
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IPC code | GBR |
NPC | British Paralympic Association |
Website | www |
in Pyeongchang, South Korea 9-18 March 2018 | |
Competitors | 17 in 5 sports |
Medals Ranked 13th |
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Winter Paralympics appearances (overview) | |
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from 9 to 18 March 2018. They were known by the shortened name of Great Britain, for identification purposes.
Medallists
[edit]Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date |
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Gold | Menna Fitzpatrick Guide: Jennifer Kehoe |
Alpine skiing | Women's slalom, vision impaired | 17 March |
Silver | Millie Knight Guide: Brett Wild |
Alpine skiing | Women's downhill, vision impaired | 10 March |
Silver | Millie Knight Guide: Brett Wild |
Alpine skiing | Women's super-G, vision impaired | 11 March |
Silver | Menna Fitzpatrick Guide: Jennifer Kehoe |
Alpine skiing | Women's super combined, vision impaired | 13 March |
Silver | Menna Fitzpatrick Guide: Jennifer Kehoe |
Alpine skiing | Women's giant slalom, vision impaired | 14 March |
Bronze | Menna Fitzpatrick Guide: Jennifer Kehoe |
Alpine skiing | Women's super-G, vision impaired | 11 March |
Bronze | Millie Knight Guide: Brett Wild |
Alpine skiing | Women's slalom, vision impaired | 17 March |
Medal and performance targets
[edit]UK Sport announced "an ambition of at least 7 medals which if achieved would mark the best performance in 30 years, and best since National Lottery funding came on stream in 1997".[1]
Competitors
[edit]Great Britain sent a total of 17 athletes to the games. This was the most sent by the British team since 2006.[2]
Sport | Men | Women | Total |
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Alpine skiing | 4 | 4 | 8 |
Biathlon | 1* | 0 | 1* |
Cross-country skiing | 1* | 0 | 1* |
Snowboarding | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Wheelchair curling | 3 | 2 | 5 |
Total | 11 | 6 | 17 |
- Scott Meenagh was selected to compete in both the biathlon and cross-country skiing competitions.
Alpine skiing
[edit]- Women
Athlete | Classification | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Final/Total | ||||||
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Time | Diff | Rank | Time | Diff | Rank | Time | Diff | Rank | |||
Kelly Gallagher Guide: Gary Smith |
Visually impaired | Giant slalom | 1:17.33 | +6.50 | 5 | 1:15.46 | +3.29 | 4 | 2:32.79 | +9.79 | 5 |
Slalom | 57.35 | +3.77 | 6 | 1:01.22 | +2.89 | 6 | 1:58.57 | +6.77 | 6 | ||
Super-G | — | 1:39.75 | +9.58 | 8 | |||||||
Super combined | 1:37.59 | +7.75 | 7 | 1:00.49 | +5.17 | 6 | 2:38.08 | +10.36 | 7 | ||
Menna Fitzpatrick Guide: Jennifer Kehoe |
Visually impaired | Downhill | — | DNF | |||||||
Giant slalom | 1:14.45 | +3.62 | 2 | 1:13.89 | +1.72 | 3 | 2:28.34 | +5.34 | |||
Slalom | 54.24 | +0.66 | 2 | 57.56 | - | 1 | 1:51.80 | - | |||
Super-G | — | 1:34.54 | +4.37 | ||||||||
Super combined | 1:31.49 | +1.65 | 2 | 57.51 | 2 | +2.19 | 2:29.00 | +1.28 | |||
Millie Knight Guide: Brett Wild |
Visually impaired | Downhill | — | 1:30.58 | +0.86 | ||||||
Giant slalom | 1:17.97 | +7.14 | 6 | 1:16.55 | +4.38 | 7 | 2:34.52 | +11.52 | 7 | ||
Slalom | 54.28 | +0.70 | 3 | 59.11 | +1.55 | 4 | 1:53.39 | +1.59 | |||
Super-G | — | 1:33.76 | +3.59 | ||||||||
Super combined | 1:33.63 | +3.79 | 3 | 58.10 | +2.78 | 5 | 2:31.73 | +4.01 | 4 |
- Men
Athlete | Classification | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Final/Total | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Time | Diff | Rank | Time | Diff | Rank | Time | Diff | Rank | |||
Chris Lloyd | Standing | Downhill | — | 1:34.00 | +8.55 | 20 | |||||
Super-G | — | 1:34.43 | +9.60 | 25 | |||||||
James Whitley | Standing | Downhill | — | 1:29.85 | +4.40 | 10 | |||||
Giant slalom | 1:09.91 | +4.11 | =11 | 1:10.00 | +4.56 | 12 | 2:19.81 | +7.34 | 11 | ||
Slalom | 52.61 | +4.10 | 11 | 51.80 | +4.38 | 6 | 1:44.41 | +8.30 | 10 | ||
Super-G | — | 1:32.96 | +8.13 | 22 | |||||||
Super combined | 1:30.21 | +5.31 | 13 | 50.07 | +5.13 | 10 | 2:20.28 | +9.72 | 11 |
Biathlon
[edit]- Men
Athlete | Classification | Event | Result | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|
Scott Meenagh | Sitting | 7.5 km | 27:28.1 | 18 |
12.5 km | 54:52.9 | 13 | ||
15 km | 58:58.1 | 14 |
Cross-country skiing
[edit]- Men
Athlete | Classification | Event | Qualification | Semifinal | Final | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
Scott Meenagh | Sitting | 1.1 km sprint | 3:17.72 | 16 | did not advance | |||
7.5 km | — | 25:17.5 | 14 | |||||
15 km | — | 46:07.4 | 17 |
Snowboarding
[edit]- Slalom
Athlete | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Result | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Diff | Rank | ||
James Barnes-Miller | Men's banked slalom SB-UL | 58.23 | 9 | 57.00 | 10 | 1:08.17 | 20 | 57.00 | +6.23 | =10 |
Ben Moore | 56.79 | 5 | 54.33 | 5 | DSQ | 54.33 | +3.56 | 7 | ||
Owen Pick | Men's banked slalom SB-LL2 | 52.81 | 7 | DSQ | 53.26 | 9 | 52.81 | +4.13 | 9 |
- Snowboard cross
Athlete | Event | Qualification | 1/8 finals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |||||
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Race 1 | Race 2 | Seed | |||||||||
Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Opponent Result |
Opponent Result |
Opponent Result |
Opponent Result |
Rank | |||
James Barnes-Miller | Men's snowboard cross SB-UL | 1:03.11 | 5 | 1:06.56 | 14 | 6 | Jiang (CHN) W |
Patmore (AUS) L |
did not advance | 7 | |
Ben Moore | 1:04.80 | 9 | 1:04.47 | 7 | 8 | Priolo (ITA) L |
did not advance | 10 | |||
Owen Pick | Men's snowboard cross SB-LL2 | 1:00.11 | 6 | 59.32 | 2 | 5 | Codina (ARG) L |
did not advance | 9 |
Wheelchair curling
[edit]- Summary
Team | Event | Group stage | Tiebreaker | Semifinal | Final / BM | ||||||||||||
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Rank | Opposition Score |
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Rank | ||
Aileen Neilson Hugh Nibloe Gregor Ewan Robert McPherson Angie Malone |
Mixed | NOR W 5–2 |
SUI L 4–7 |
FIN W 9–2 |
SWE W 6–1 |
CAN W 8–1 |
SVK L 5–6 |
NPA L 2–8 |
GER W 8–3 |
USA L 3–9 |
KOR L 4–5 |
CHN L 3–9 |
7 | did not advance |
Round Robin
[edit]- Standings
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | PD | PCT | Ends Won | Ends Lost | Blank Ends | Stolen Ends | Shot % | Qualification |
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1 | South Korea | 11 | 9 | 2 | 65 | 51 | 14 | 0.818 | 38 | 36 | 9 | 11 | 66% | Advance to playoffs |
2 | Canada | 11 | 9 | 2 | 74 | 45 | 29 | 0.818 | 47 | 28 | 6 | 27 | 62% | |
3 | China | 11 | 9 | 2 | 85 | 42 | 43 | 0.818 | 43 | 32 | 2 | 16 | 67% | |
4 | Norway | 11 | 7 | 4 | 55 | 57 | −2 | 0.636 | 41 | 35 | 5 | 15 | 58% | |
5 | Neutral Paralympic Athletes | 11 | 5 | 6 | 61 | 63 | −2 | 0.455 | 44 | 37 | 2 | 23 | 62% | |
6 | Switzerland | 11 | 5 | 6 | 56 | 63 | −7 | 0.455 | 36 | 45 | 2 | 11 | 61% | |
7 | Great Britain | 11 | 5 | 6 | 57 | 53 | 4 | 0.455 | 41 | 41 | 6 | 20 | 62% | |
8 | Germany | 11 | 5 | 6 | 57 | 68 | −11 | 0.455 | 37 | 39 | 5 | 16 | 54% | |
9 | Slovakia | 11 | 4 | 7 | 62 | 72 | −10 | 0.364 | 39 | 46 | 1 | 11 | 57% | |
10 | Sweden | 11 | 4 | 7 | 47 | 66 | −19 | 0.364 | 29 | 45 | 8 | 8 | 57% | |
11 | Finland | 11 | 2 | 9 | 53 | 87 | −34 | 0.182 | 35 | 46 | 1 | 11 | 51% | |
12 | United States | 11 | 2 | 9 | 58 | 63 | −5 | 0.182 | 37 | 45 | 3 | 12 | 60% |
- Results
Great Britain had a bye in draws 2, 4, 6, 9, 14 and 16.
- Draw 1
Saturday, 10 March, 14:35
Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
Norway (Lorentsen) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Great Britain (Neilson) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
- Draw 3
Sunday, 11 March, 9:35
Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
Switzerland (Wagner) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
Great Britain (Neilson) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
- Draw 5
Sunday, 11 March, 19:35
Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
Great Britain (Neilson) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | X | 9 |
Finland (S. Karjalainen) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 2 |
- Draw 7
Monday, 12 March, 14:35
Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
Sweden (Petersson Dahl) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | 1 |
Great Britain (Neilson) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 6 |
- Draw 8
Monday, 12 March, 19:35
Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
Great Britain (Neilson) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | X | 8 |
Canada (Ideson) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 1 |
- Draw 10
Tuesday, 13 March, 14:35
Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
Great Britain (Neilson) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
Slovakia (Ďuriš) | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
- Draw 11
Tuesday, 13 March, 19:35
Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
Neutral Paralympic Athletes (Kurokhtin) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | X | 8 |
Great Britain (Neilson) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 2 |
- Draw 12
Wednesday, 14 March, 9:35
Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
Germany (Putzich) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 3 |
Great Britain (Neilson) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | X | 8 |
- Draw 13
Wednesday, 14 March, 14:35
Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
Great Britain (Neilson) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | X | 3 |
United States (Black) | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | X | 9 |
- Draw 15
Thursday, 15 March, 9:35
Sheet D | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
Great Britain (Neilson) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
South Korea (Seo) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
- Draw 17
Thursday, 15 March, 19:35
Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
China (Wang) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | X | X | 9 |
Great Britain (Neilson) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | X | X | 3 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "UK Sport targets best ever Winter Games in PyeongChang". UK Sport. 9 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ "Great Britain's Winter Paralympics team". BBC Sport.