USA wins Alpine Skiing World Cup

Russia's Valery Redkozubov and guide Viachesla Molodtsov came 4th and 5th in the men's Super-G Visually Impaired at the IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup in Winter Park, USA. © • Michael Knaus France's Marie Bochet won gold in the Super Combined at the IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup Finals in Panorama, Canada. © • Malcolm Carmichael / Alpine Canada

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USA won the team title at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Alpine Skiing World Cup finals in Panorama, Canada, with 4,657 points on Friday (16 March). France pushed its way into second place during the final races with 4,151 points, and Russia came third with 4,087 points.

Though USA won overall, it only claimed two individual race trophies.

French and Russian athletes scored the overall women’s and men’s titles, respectively. Standing skier Marie Bochet was the highest-ranked woman with 1,340 points, ahead of Slovakia’s Visually Impaired skier, Henrieta Farkasova, who ended on 1,280 points.

Russia’s Valery Redkozubov scored the highest points in the men’s category (1,155) followed by fellow Visually Impaired skier, Yon Santacana Maiztegui (1,010) of Spain.

There were also trophies for the best skier within the three classification groups:

Women’s Visually Impaired: Henrieta Farkasova (Slovakia)

Women’s Standing: Marie Bochet (France)

Women’s Sitting: Anna Schaffelhuber (Germany)

Men’s Visually Impaired: Valery Redkozubov (Russia)

Men’s Standing: Vincent Gauthier-Manuel (France)

Men’s Sitting: Taiki Morii (Japan)

On the final day of racing, skiers competed in the Slalom.

Farkasova won gold in the women’s Visually Impaired to take the women’s Slalom title.

Bochet won gold in the women’s Slalom Standing, followed by Germany’s Andrea Rothfuss and Slovakia’s Petra Smarzova. Bochet won the women’s Slalom Standing trophy by an impressive 205-point lead.

USA’s Alana Nichols won gold in the women’s Slalom Sitting, followed by Germany’s Anna Schaffelhuber and Japan’s Tatsuko Aoki. But Schaffelhuber had already built up a strong lead earlier in the season and took the women’s Slalom Sitting World Cup trophy.

Slovakia’s Miroslav Haraus won gold in the men’s Slalom Visually Impaired. But Friday’s silver medallist, Redkozubov, took the world cup title for the event.

New Zealand’s Adam Hall proved himself yet again in the men’s Slalom Standing to win gold. Gauthier-Manuel took silver and Switzerland’s Thomas Pfyl won bronze. Russia’s Alexandr Alyabyev, who came sixth on Friday, won the overall men’s Slalom Standing title, having dominated the event earlier in the season.

In the men’s Slalom Sitting, Germany’s Thomas Nolte won gold, just 0.37 seconds ahead of Japan’s Takeshi Suzuki. Taiki Morii won bronze. Austria’s Philip Bonadimann, who did not finish the first run on Friday, won the overall title.

World Cup trophies for the Giant Slalom were also presented on Friday to Russia’s Alexandra Frantseva (women’s Visually Impaired), Germany’s Andrea Rothfuss (women’s Standing), USA’s Laurie Stephens (women’s Sitting), Russia's Valery Redkozubov (men's Visually Impaired), France’s Vincent Gauthier-Manuel (men’s Standing) and Switzerland’s Christoph Kunz (men’s Sitting).