The Men's Downhill

Downhill

Downhill is an alpine skiing discipline. The rules for the Downhill were originally developed by Sir Arnold Lunn for the 1921 British National Ski Championships....

competition of the Vancouver 2010 Paralympics

Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Paralympics

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...

 was held at Whistler Blackcomb in Whistler, British Columbia

Whistler, British Columbia

Whistler is a Canadian resort town in the southern Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in the province of British Columbia, Canada, approximately north of Vancouver...

. The competition was scheduled for Saturday, March 13, but was postponed to Thursday, March 18 due to bad weather conditions.

Visually Impaired

In the downhill visually impaired, the athlete with a visual impairement has a sighted guide

Sighted guide

A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment....

. The two skiers are considered a team, and dual medals are awarded.

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	4	Jon Santacana Maiztegui Jon Santacana Maiztegui Jon Santacana Maiztegui is a Spanish alpine skier and Paralympic Champion.He competed in the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver, Canada.... Guide Sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.... : Miguel Galindo Garces Miguel Galindo Garces Miguel Galindo Garces is a Spanish alpine skier, sighted guide and Paralympic Champion.He competed as a sighted guide in the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver, Canada, with Jon Santacana Maiztegui....		1:18.23
	7	Mark Bathum Guide Sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.... : Slater Storey		1:18.63	+0.40
	6	Gerd Gradwohl Gerd Gradwohl Gerd Gradwohl is a visually impaired alpine skier from Germany. He won a gold medal and a bronze medal in Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Paralympics. He was disqualified for a gold medal due to a rules violation concerning distance from his guide- References :... Guide Sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.... : Karl-Heinz Vachenauer		1:20.40	+2.17
	8	Jakub Krako Jakub Krako Jakub Krako is a visually impaired alpine skier who competed for Slovakia at the 2010 Winter Paralympics. He won three gold medals and a silver medal at the 2010 Winter Paralympics.- References :... Guide Sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.... : Juraj Medera		1:20.84	+2.61
	5	Nicolas Berejny Nicolas Berejny Nicolas Berejny is a French alpine skier and 3-time Paralympic Champion.He competed in the 2006 Winter Paralympics in Turin, Italy.... Guide Sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.... : Sophie Troc Sophie Troc Sophie Troc is a French alpine skier, sighted guide and 3-time Paralympic Champion.She was Nicolas Berejny's sighted guide at Turin 2006 and Vancouver 2010....		1:20.96	+2.73
	11	Christoph Prettner Guide Sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.... : Kurt Wastian		1:21.83	+3.60
	1	Radomir Dudas Guide Sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.... : Maros Hudik		1:21.88	+3.65
	12	Ivan Frantsev Guide Sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.... : Valentina Morozova		1:31.89	+13.66
	10	Gabriel Gorce Yepes Guide Sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.... : Felix Aznar Ruiz de Alegria		1:38.02	+19.79

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Bart Bunting

Bart Bunting is a Paralympic alpine skier from Australia. He won a pair of gold medals at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games in the Men's Downhill B1-3 event and the Men's Super-G B1-3 event. He won a silver medal at the Men's Giant Slalom B1-2 event in the same games.-References:...

Guide

Sighted guide

A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment....

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Chris Williamson (alpine skier)

Chris Williamson is a Canadian alpine skier and Paralympic Champion.He competed in the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver, Canada....

Guide

Sighted guide

A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment....

: Nick Brush

Nick Brush

Nicholas Brush is a Canadian alpine skier, sighted guide and Paralympian.He competed as the sighted guide for Chris Williamson in the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver, Canada....

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Guide

Sighted guide

A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment....

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Sitting

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	11	Christoph Kunz		1:18.19
	2	Taiki Morii Taiki Morii is a Japanese alpine skier and Paralympian.He competed in the 2002 Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City, USA, where he placed 6th at the Slalom and 8th at the Giant slalom, sitting LW11....		1:18.63	+0.44
	15	Akira Kano Akira Kano is a Japanese alpine skier and Paralympic Champion.He competed in the 2006 Winter Paralympics in Turin, Italy, where he became 27th at the Slalom, sitting.He competed in the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver, Canada....		1:19.19	+1.00
	19	Thomas Nolte		1:19.60	+1.41
	10	Josh Dueck Josh Dueck Josh Dueck is a Canadian alpine skier.He won a silver medal at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in the men's slalom sit-ski event.-External links:* * site* *...		1:19.88	+1.69
	8	Yohann Taberlet		1:19.92	+1.73
	4	Sean Rose		1:20.41	+2.22
	17	Hans Pleisch		1:21.36	+3.17
	28	Jasmin Bambur		1:21.41	+3.22
10	1	Reinhold Sampl		1:21.88	+3.69
11	18	Takeshi Suzuki		1:22.28	+4.09
12	7	Jong-Seork Park		1:22.52	+4.33
13	9	Christopher Devlin-Young		1:22.65	+4.46
14	27	Franz Hanfstingl		1:23.16	+4.97
15	21	Dietmar Dorn		1:23.23	+5.04
16	26	Enrico Giorge		1:39.83	+21.64
17	23	Philipp Bonadimann		1:42.07	+23.88
18	20	Luca Maraffio		1:49.89	+31.70

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Martin Braxenthaler

Martin Braxenthaler is a German monoskier and Paralympian. He has participated in alpine skiing at four Winter Paralympic Games, in 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010...

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Kees-Jan van der Klooster

Kees-Jan van der Klooster is a Paralympian athlete from Netherlands competing in alpine skiing events. In March 2001 he had a snowboard accident and broke his back. Since then he is paralysed from his waist down...

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Russell Docker

Russell Docker is a British Paralympic skier. Docker was paralysed from the chest down after he broke two vertebrae in his back in a five metre fall while on a skiing holiday in 1995. He has competed at three Winter Paralympic Games, his best finish was a 23rd place in 2006.-Early life and...

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Standing

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	12	Gerd Schönfelder Gerd Schönfelder Gerd Schönfelder is a German alpine skier, one of the most decorated in history.He is a multiple Paralympic Champion. He won his first three gold medals at the 1992 Winter Paralympics...		1:20.80
T	11	Michael Brugger		1:22.78	+1.98
T	14	Marty Mayberry Marty Mayberry Marty Mayberry is a Paralympic alpine skier from Australia. He won a silver medal at the 2010 Vancouver Games in the Men's Downhill standing event. He also competed in the Men's Super-G standing event, Men's Slalom standing event and the Men's Giant Slalom standing event.-References:...		1:22.78	+1.98
4	10	Cameron Rahles-Rahbula		1:22.88	+2.08
5	15	Vincent Gauthier-Manuel Vincent Gauthier-Manuel Vincent Gauthier-Manuel is a French alpine skier and Paralympic athlete.He competed in the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver, Canada....		1:23.24	+2.44
6	3	Robert Meusburger		1:23.70	+2.90
7	17	Hubert Mandl		1:23.85	+3.05
8	5	Thomas Pfyl Thomas Pfyl Thomas Pfyl is a Swiss alpine skier and Paralympian.He competed in the 2006 Winter Paralympics in Turin, Italy.He won a silver medal in the Slalom, and a bronze medal in the Giant Slalom, standing...		1:24.17	+3.37
9	26	Christian Lanthaler		1:25.01	+4.21
10	1	Toby Kane Toby Kane Toby Kane is an Australian Paralympian who won bronze in the Men's Super-G - Standing at the 2006 Winter Paralympics. He lost his lower right leg in a car accident when he was two, but has no memory of this or ever skiing on two legs. He is expected to compete in the 2010 Winter Paralympics and is...		1:25.26	+4.46
11	2	Matt Hallat		1:25.44	+4.64
12	21	Gakuta Koike		1:26.31	+5.51
13	6	Manfred Auer		1:26.33	+5.53
14	20	Bradley Washburn		1:26.40	+5.60
T15	7	Morgan Perrin		1:26.52	+5.72
T15	24	Hiraku Misawa		1:26.52	+5.72
17	18	Martin Cupka		1:26.89	+6.09
18	28	Stanislav Loska Stanislav Loska Stanislav Loska is a veteran on the Czech paralympic team, competing in alpine skiing. The 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver were his fifth Paralympic Games. At the 1994 Winter Paralympics in Lillehammer he won the bronze medal in slalom. He won the same medal in the world championship in Lech...		1:26.93	+6.13
19	8	Martin France		1:27.67	+6.87
20	25	Micha Josi		1:28.10	+7.30
21	13	George Sansonetis		1:28.47	+7.67
22	16	Monte Meier		1:28.48	+7.68
23	9	Romain Riboud		1:28.63	+7.83
24	23	Alexandr Alyabyev		1:34.30	+13.50
25	27	David Warner Bruce Warner David Bruce Warner is a South African alpine skier. He is the only person ever to have represented South Africa at the Winter Paralympic Games, and he is one of only two Africans to have competed at the Games to date.Warner lost a leg in a car crash in 1988...		1:34.82	+14.02
	4	Lionel Brun		DNF
	19	Jeff Dickson		DNF
	22	Kevin Wermeester		DNF

External links

• 2010 Winter Plympics schedule and results, at the official website of the 2010 Winter Paralympics
  2010 Winter Paralympics
  The 2010 Winter Paralympics, officially the X Paralympic Winter Games, or the 10th Winter Paralympics, were held in Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia, Canada from March 12 to 21, 2010. The Opening Ceremony took place in BC Place Stadium in Vancouver and the Closing Ceremony in Whistler...
  
  in Vancouver