The 2010 Paralympic Winter Games (officially named the X Paralympic Winter Games ) were held in Vancouver and Whistler , British Columbia , Canada from March 12 to March 21, 2010 . The opening ceremony was held at the BBC Place Stadium in Vancouver.
| X Winter Paralympic Games | |
|---|---|
 "Man becomes Mountain", X Paralympic Winter Logo | |
| Host city | Vancouver Canada |
| Member countries | 44 |
| Number of Athletes | 515 |
| Medals being played | 64 in 5 sports |
| The opening ceremony | March 12, 2010 |
| Opened | Michael Jean |
| Closing ceremony | March 21, 2010 |
| Olympic flame | Zach Beaumont |
| Olympic vow | Herve Lord Linda Kirton |
| Stadium | BBC Place |
| Site | |
Canada hosted the Paralympic Games for the second time in history; Canada hosted the 1976 Summer Paralympic Games in Toronto for the first time.
Content
Member Countries
National Paralympic Committees of 44 countries sent their athletes to the 2010 Winter Paralympic Games. This is 5 more countries than at the 2006 Winter Paralympic Games , where 39 countries were represented.
| A country | Qty athletes | A country | Qty athletes | A country | Qty athletes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andorra | 2 | Argentina | 2 | Armenia | 2 |
| Australia | eleven | Austria | nineteen | Belarus | 9 |
| Belgium | one | Bosnia and Herzegovina | one | Bulgaria | 3 |
| Canada | 55 | Chile | 2 | China | 7 |
| Croatia | four | Czech | nineteen | Denmark | 2 |
| Finland | five | France | 21 | Germany | 20 |
| Great Britain | 12 | Greece | 2 | Hungary | 2 |
| Iceland | one | Iran | one | Italy | 35 |
| Japan | 42 | Kazakhstan | one | Mexico | 2 |
| Mongolia | 2 | Netherlands | one | New Zealand | 2 |
| Norway | 27 | Poland | 12 | Romania | one |
| Russia | 31 | Serbia | one | Slovakia | 13 |
| Slovenia | one | Spain | five | South Africa | one |
| The Republic of Korea | 25 | Sweden | 26 | Switzerland | 15 |
| Ukraine | nineteen | USA | 50 |
A total of 515 athletes [1] participated in the Games. This is more than participated in the 2006 Winter Paralympic Games , then only 476 athletes participated.
Argentina , Romania , Bosnia and Herzegovina participated in the Paralympic Winter Games for the first time, although they already took part in the Paralympic Summer Games. Serbia made its debut at these Winter Paralympic Games as an independent national paralympic committee, after a split with Montenegro .
Despite an increase in the number of athletes, Latvia, which participated in the 2006 Paralympic Winter Games in Turin , did not send its athletes to Vancouver.
Sports
At the Olympics, medals were played in 5 sports:
- Skiing
- Biathlon
- Ski race
- Wheelchair Curling
- Sleigh hockey
Event Calendar
The blue block means that on this day only qualification-type competitions were held - medals are not played. The yellow block means that on this day competitions were held in which gold medals were played. [2]
| ● | The opening ceremony | Qualification days | ● | Days with Finals | ● | Closing ceremony |
| March 2010 | 12 PT | 13 Sat | 14 Sun | 15 Mon | sixteen VT | 17 SR | 18 Thurs | nineteen PT | 20 Sat | 21 Sun | Gold medals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skiing | ●● ●● | ●● | ●● ●● | ●● | ●● ●● ●● | ●● ●● ●● | ●● ●● ●● | thirty | |||
| Biathlon | ●● ●● ●● | ●● ●● ●● | 12 | ||||||||
| Ski race | ●● | ●● ●● | ●● ●● ●● | ●● | ●● ●● ●● | 20 | |||||
| Sledge Hockey | ● | one | |||||||||
| Wheelchair Curling | ● | one | |||||||||
| Number of gold medals | 6 | 6 | 6 | four | eight | 12 | 6 | ten | 6 | 64 | |
| Ceremonies | ● | ● |
Medal standings
| A place | A country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| one | Germany | 13 | five | 6 | 24 |
| 2 | Russia | 12 | sixteen | ten | 38 |
| 3 | Canada | ten | five | four | nineteen |
| four | Slovakia | 6 | 2 | 3 | eleven |
| five | Ukraine | five | eight | 6 | nineteen |
| 6 | USA | four | five | four | 13 |
| 7 | Austria | 3 | four | four | eleven |
| eight | Japan | 3 | 3 | five | eleven |
| 9 | Belarus | 2 | 0 | 7 | 9 |
| ten | France | one | four | one | 6 |
| eleven | Italy | one | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| 12 | Norway | one | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 13 | Spain | one | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 13 | Switzerland | one | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 15 | New Zealand | one | 0 | 0 | one |
| sixteen | Australia | 0 | one | 3 | four |
| 17 | Finland | 0 | one | one | 2 |
| 18 | The Republic of Korea | 0 | one | 0 | one |
| nineteen | Sweden | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 20 | Czech | 0 | 0 | one | one |
| 20 | Poland | 0 | 0 | one | one |
| Total | 64 | 65 | 63 | 192 | |
Competition Winners
| No. | date | View | Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| one | March 13, 2010 | Biathlon | 3 km ind. persecution F (visually impaired) | V. Bentele | L. Vasilieva | M. Lisova |
| 2 | March 13, 2010 | Biathlon | 3 km ind. persecution M (visually impaired) | V. Lukyanenko | N. Polukhin | V. Shapteboy |
| 3 | March 13, 2010 | Biathlon | 3 km ind. persecution F (with physical features) | A. Burmistrova | M. Loytoynya | A. Gorbunova |
| four | March 13, 2010 | Biathlon | 3 km ind. persecution M (with physical features) | K. Mikhailov | N. - E. Ulset | G. Vovchinsky |
| five | March 13, 2010 | Biathlon | 2, 4 km ind. persecution F (with damage to the musculoskeletal system) | A. Yurkovskaya | M. Iovleva | L. Pavlenko |
| 6 | March 13, 2010 | Biathlon | 2, 4 km ind. persecution M (with damage to the musculoskeletal system) | I. Zaripov | Yu. Kostyuk | E. Sule |
| 7 | March 14, 2010 | Ski race | 10 km F (with damage to the musculoskeletal system) | L. Volchok | C. Bourjonier | A. Yurkovskaya |
| eight | March 14, 2010 | Ski race | 15 km M (with damage to the musculoskeletal system) | I. Zaripov | R. Petushkov | E. Masiella |
| 9 | March 14, 2010 | Skiing | Slalom. F (visually impaired) | S. Gashteger | V. Forest | D. Gallagher |
| ten | March 14, 2010 | Skiing | Slalom. M (visually impaired) | J. Kracko | D. Santacana Maiztegu | D. del Maistro |
| eleven | March 14, 2010 | Skiing | Slalom. F (with damage to the musculoskeletal system) | C. Lesch | S. Victor | K. Obinata |
| 12 | March 14, 2010 | Skiing | Slalom. M (with damage to the musculoskeletal system) | M. Braxenthaler | D. Duke | F. Bonadimann |
| 13 | March 15, 2010 | Ski race | 20 km of freedom M (with physical features) | K. Mikhailov | N. - E. Ulset | V. Kononov |
| 14 | March 15, 2010 | Ski race | 20 km of freedom M (visually impaired) | B. McKeever | N. Polukhin | V. Shapteboy |
| 15 | March 15, 2010 | Ski race | 15 km free F (with physical features) | A. Burmistrova | Y. Batenkova | K. Rogovets |
| sixteen | March 15, 2010 | Ski race | 15 km free F (visually impaired) | V. Bentele | L. Vasilieva | I. Skorobogataya |
| 17 | March 15, 2010 | Skiing | Slalom. F (with physical features) | L. Woolstencroft | A. Rothfus | K. Wisniewska |
| 18 | March 15, 2010 | Skiing | Slalom. M (with physical features) | A. Hall | G. Schonfelder | K. Rahle-Rahbula |
Presidential Decrees of March 26, 2010 N 373 and N 379
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed Decree N 373 “On awarding state awards to Russian athletes - champions and prize-winners of the X Paralympic Winter Games 2010 in Vancouver”, according to which:
- The Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree, was awarded to Honored Masters of Sports of Russia Irek Zaripov , Kirill Mikhailov .
- The Order of Honor was awarded to Honored Masters of Sports of Russia Anna Burmistrova , Lyubov Vasilyeva , Maria Iovleva , Sergey Shilov .
- The Order of Friendship was awarded to Honored Masters of Sports of Russia Mikhalin Lysova , Nikolai Polukhin .
- The medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" of I degree was awarded to Honored Master of Sports of Russia Tatyana Ilyuchenko .
- The medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" of the II degree was awarded to Honored Masters of Sports of Russia Alyona Gorbunova , Vladimir Kiselev , Vladimir Kononov , Roman Petushkov [3] .
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed Decree N 379 “On awarding coaches for training athletes,” according to which:
- The Order of Honor was awarded to Honored Coach of Russia Vyacheslav Goldinov ( Tyumen Region ), Honored Coach of Russia Amira Gumerova ( Republic of Bashkortostan ), athlete-instructor of the Rodnik Sports Club Alexei Ivanov ( Yekaterinburg ), athlete-instructor of the state institution of the Sports Training Center Andrei Tokarev ( Tyumen ) .
- The Order of Friendship was awarded to Honored Coach of Russia Irina Gromova (Moscow), Honored Coach of Russia Valeria Ogorodnikova (Sverdlovsk Region), Chairman of the Executive Committee - First Vice President, Head of Staff of the Paralympic Committee of Russia Pavel Rozhkov , sports instructor of the Sports Training Center Natalya Yakimova (Tyumen).
- Honored Master of Sports of Russia Valery Koshkin ( Altai Territory ) was awarded the medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” of the 1st degree [4] .
See also
- 2010 Winter Olympics
Notes
- ↑ Athletes: Vancouver 2010 Winter Paralympics
- ↑ Schedule & Results: Vancouver 2010 Winter Paralympics
- ↑ Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of March 26, 2010 N 373 “ON REWARDING STATE AWARDS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION” (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of March 26, 2010 N 379 “ON REWARDING THE STATE AWARDS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION” (inaccessible link)