Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Paralympics

Alpine skiing
at the X Paralympic Winter Games
VenueWhistler Blackcomb
Dates13–21 March
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Alpine skiing at the
2010 Winter Paralympics
Combinedmenwomen
Downhillmenwomen
Giant slalommenwomen
Slalommenwomen
Super-Gmenwomen
Whistler, Vancouver, the finals of the Alpine skiing.

The alpine skiing competition of the Vancouver 2010 Paralympics will be held at Whistler, British Columbia. The events were due to be held between 13 March, and 21 March 2010. Events scheduled for 13 March, however, were postponed due to weather conditions – specifically, low visibility.[1] The snowboard cross event was a demonstration sport until 2014.

In the Women's sitting giant slalom, Alana Nichols of the United States – a Paralympic champion in basketball from Beijing in 2008 – won her first of two skiing gold medals, becoming a rare winter-summer gold medalist. On 18 March, Viviane Forest became the first Canadian athlete to win a gold in both the Winter and Summer Paralympics, by winning the Women's Downhill for Visually Impaired. She had previously won gold in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Paralympics for women's goalball.[2][3]

Lauren Woolstencroft sets the gold medal record with 5 gold medals, for most gold medals won by any Winter Paralympian at a single Games.[4]

  1. ^ "Vancouver 2010 revises Paralympic alpine event schedule due to forecasted weather conditions; tickets valid for date on ticket" Archived 17 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Vancouver 2010 official website, 13 March 2010
  2. ^ Vancouver Sun, "Paralympic para-alpine skiing: Canada’s Viviane Forest does the trifecta, wins visually impaired downhill gold" Archived 23 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Mike Beamish, 18 March 2010 (Retrieved 19 March 2010)
  3. ^ Vancouver Sun, "Para-alpine star Viviane Forest has potential for huge Games medal haul" Archived 24 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine, John Korobanik, 11 March 2010 (Retrieved 19 March 2010)
  4. ^ Vancouver Sun, "Woolstencroft wins fifth gold medal", CanWest News Service, 21 March 2010 (Retrieved 21 March 2010)