Italy at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

Italy at the 2014 Winter Paralympics
IPC code	ITA
NPC	Comitato Italiano Paralimpico
Website	www.comitatoparalimpico.it (in Italian)
in Sochi
Competitors	34 in 4 sports
Flag bearer	Andrea Chiarotti (ice sledge hockey)
Medals	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 0
Winter Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Italy competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia, held between 7–16 March 2014.

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Run 1			Run 2			Final/Total
		Time	Diff	Rank	Time	Diff	Rank	Time	Diff	Rank
Ugo Bregant	Slalom, standing	57.94	+10.25	26	DNF
Alessandro Daldoss Guide: Luca Negrini	Downhill, visually impaired	—						1:23.97	+2.21	6
	Super-G, visually impaired	—						DNF
	Combined, visually impaired	DNF
	Giant slalom, visually impaired	1:21.43	+5.41	6	DNF
Christian Lanthaler	Downhill, standing	—						1:27.99	+3.64	8
	Super-G, standing	—						DNS
	Giant slalom, standing	1:24.85	+10.13	21	1:18.97	+7.82	15	2:43.82	+17.95	15
Hansjoerg Lantschner	Super-G, standing	—						1:28.68	+7.76	14
	Combined, standing	1:05.88	+15.58	18	1:24.78	+6.39	12	2:30.66	+20.94	16
	Slalom, standing	DNF
	Giant slalom, standing	1:27.58	+12.86	26	DNF
Nicolo Maria Orsini	Giant slalom, standing	DSQ
Andrea Valenti	Slalom, standing	1:07.05	+19.36	38	1:10.05	+18.77	30	2:17.10	+38.13	31
	Giant slalom, standing	DNF
Marco Zanotti	Slalom, standing	1:01.74	+14.05	32	1:08.31	+17.03	28	2:10.05	+31.08	27
	Giant slalom, standing	1:26.21	+11.49	22	1:19.28	+8.13	16	2:45.49	+19.62	17

Women

Athlete	Event	Run 1			Run 2			Final/Total
		Time	Diff	Rank	Time	Diff	Rank	Time	Diff	Rank
Melania Corradini	Downhill, standing	—						DNF
	Super-G, standing	—						1:38.57	+14.37	8
	Combined, standing	DNS
	Giant slalom, standing	DNF

Snowboarding

Para-snowboarding is making its debut at the Winter Paralympics and it will be placed under the Alpine skiing program during the 2014 Games.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Race 3		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Giuseppe Comunale	Snowboard cross	1:09.54	20	1:19.23	26	1:13.67	22	2:23.21	23
Fabio Piscitello		1:24.34	27	1:15.90	25	1:10.28	20	2:26.18	25
Luca Righetti		1:14.75	22	1:15.09	23	1:17.33	24	2:29.84	26

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Race 3		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Veronica Yoko Plebani	Snowboard cross	1:54.06	11	1:52.98	8	1:49.36	9	3:42.34	11

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Events	Final
		Real Time	Calculated Time	Missed Shots	Result	Rank
Enzo Masiello	12.5km, sitting	43:02.4	40:27.5	1+1+1+2	40:27.5	14
	15km, sitting	50:39.4	55:37.0	2+3+1+2	55:37.0	20

Women

Athlete	Events	Final
		Real Time	Calculated Time	Missed Shots	Result	Rank
Pamela Novaglio	6km, standing	22:38.3	21:44.0	0+0	21:44.0	10
	10km, standing	36:24.6	34:57.2	0+0+0+1	34:57.2	10
	12.5km, standing	46:59.1	46:06.3	0+0+1+0	46:06.3	10

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Semifinal		Final
		Real Time	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Real Time	Result	Rank
Enzo Masiello	10km free, sitting	—					34:25.7	32:21.8	6
	15km, sitting	—					46:48.0	43:59.5	7
Roland Ruepp	10km free, sitting	—					DNF
	15km, sitting	—					51:45.2	50:12.0	16
Giordano Tomasoni	10km free, sitting	—					41:01.6	39:47.8	25
	15km, sitting	—					58:36.3	56:50.8	21

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Semifinal		Final
		Real Time	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Real Time	Result	Rank
Francesca Porcellato	1km sprint classic, sitting	3:09.02	2:42.56	8Q	3:09.4	6	Did not advance
	5km, sitting	—					20:42.1	17:48.2	10
	12km, sitting	—					49:50.0	42:51.4	10

Ice sledge hockey

Main article: Ice sledge hockey at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

Team

• Gabriele Araudo
• Bruno Balossetti
• Gianluca Cavaliere
• Andrea Chiarotti
• Giuseppe Candello
• Valerio Corvino
• Christoph Depaoli
• Rupert Kanestrin
• Nils Larch
• Gregory Brian Alexis Leperdi
• Andrea Macri
• Florian Planker
• Roberto Radice
• Gianluigi Rosa
• Igor Stella
• Santino Stillitano
• Werner Winkler

Preliminaries

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Russia (RUS)	3	2	0	0	0	8	1	+7	7
United States (USA)	3	1	0	1	0	9	3	+6	6
Italy (ITA)	3	1	0	0	2	3	13	−10	3
South Korea (KOR)	3	0	1	0	2	4	7	−2	2

March 8, 2014 16:30 MSK

United States

5–1 (1–0, 1–0, 3–1)

Italy

Shayba Arena

				Referee: Paul Boese
	D. Farmer (13:45) 1–0 B. Roybal (26:12) 2–0 J. Sweeney (33:04) 3–0 B. Roybal (40:18) 4–0 4–1 F. Planker (43:34) P. Schaus (44:55) 5–1

March 9, 2014 20:00 MSK

Russia

7–0 (1–0, 4–0, 2–0)

Italy

Shayba Arena

				Referee: Johnathan Morrison
	I. Popov (12:04) 1–0 A. Amosov (18:30) 2–0 A. Dvinyaninov (22:01) 3–0 A. Dvinyaninov (26:25) 4–0 V. Litvinenko (28:49) 5–0 A. Dvinyaninov (31:20) 6–0 I. Volkov (38:38) 7–0

March 11, 2014 9:30 MSK

South Korea

1–2 (0–1, 0–0, 1–1)

Italy

Shayba Arena

				Referee: Paul Boese
	0–1 A. Macri Jung S.-H. (35:06) 1–1 1–2 F. Planker (35:53)

5–8 Classification Play-offs

March 12, 2014 16:00 MSK

Italy

3–2 (OT) (0-1,0-1,2-0,1-0)

Sweden

Shayba Arena

				Referee: Derek Berkebile
	0-1 P. Kasperi (13:58) 0-2 P. Kasperi (29:00) G. Rosa (33:00) 1-2 G. Leperdi (42:45) 2-2 G. Cavaliere (50:28) 3-2

5th Place Game

March 14, 2014 20:00 MSK

Czech Republic

3 - 0 (0-0), (0-0), (3-0)

Italy

Shayba Arena

	Safranek (31:34) Geier (43:04), (44:48) Goals

See also

• Italy at the Paralympics
• Italy at the 2014 Winter Olympics