18th Winter Deaflympics

Host city	Khanty-Mansiysk Magnitogorsk   Russia
Motto	Let’s give a voice to our sport success
Nations	27 countries
Athletes	336 athletes
Events	31 in 5 sports
Opening	28 March 2015
Closing	5 April 2015
Opened by	Vitaly Mutko
Winter
←  High Tatras 2011 Sondrio Province 2019 →
Summer
←  Sofia-Füssen 2013 Samsun 2017 →

The 2015 Winter Deaflympics ( Russian: Зимние Сурдлимпийские игры 2015 года), officially known as the 18th Winter Deaflympics ( Russian: 18-е зимние сурдлимпийские игры), is an international multi-sport event that took place in Khanty-Mansiysk and Magnitogorsk, Russia from 28 March to 5 April 2015. ^{[1] [2]}

Venues

Sport	Venue	Location
Alpine skiing (all except Slalom)	Alpine skiing Centre "Metallurg – Magnitogorsk"	Magnitogorsk
Cross-country skiing	Winter Sports Center n.a. A.V. Filipenko	Khanty-Mansiysk
Curling	Ice Palace	Khanty-Mansiysk
Ice Hockey	Arena Ugra	Khanty-Mansiysk
Alpine skiing (Slalom), Snowboarding	Alpine skiing Complex "Khvoyny Urman"	Khanty-Mansiysk

Logo

The games' logo is an abstract of a black grouse that symbolizes the wealth of khanti culture which resembles a hand of a man, the main device for communication of deaf and hard-of-hearing athletes and a bird. It consists of 4 colors which are red and orange that mean motion and energy and blue and violet that mean firmness and endurance. The ethnical ornament of khanti “hare’s ears” which is used in household items and clothes of khanti and mansi in the middle of the logo symbolizes motion. Overall, the logo represents host city, Khanty-Mansiysk as a confluence of two great rivers – Ob and Irtysh. ^[3]

Mascot

The games' mascot is a baby mammoth, a symbol of Russian north that represents beauty and strength of Siberia and is described to have kind eyes crystal clear like rivers and lakes of Ugra and open as Russian soul. ^[4] The name of the mascot was chosen as "Spartak" from an online voting process. ^{[5] [6]}

Participating nations

Schedule

OC

Opening ceremony

●

Event competitions

1

Gold medal events

CC

Closing ceremony

March/April	28th Sat	29th Sun	30th Mon	31st Tue	1st Wed	2nd Thu	3rd Fri	4th Sat	5th Sun	Events
Ceremonies	OC								CC	—
Alpine skiing					2		4	2	2	10
Cross-country skiing		2	1		2	1		2		8
Curling		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	2	2
Ice hockey		●	●		●	●		●	1	1
Snowboarding		2	2		2		2		2	10
Daily medal events		4	3	0	6	1	6	4	7	31
Cumulative total		4	7	7	13	14	20	24	31	31
March/April	28th Sat	29th Sun	30th Mon	31st Tue	1st Wed	2nd Thu	3rd Fri	4th Sat	5th Sun	Events

Medal table

  *   Host nation ( Russia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)*	12	6	12	30
2	Czech Republic (CZE)	6	1	0	7
3	United States (USA)	3	3	2	8
4	Italy (ITA)	3	2	0	5
5	Japan (JPN)	3	1	1	5
6	Switzerland (SUI)	1	3	0	4
7	France (FRA)	1	1	3	5
8	China (CHN)	1	1	2	4
9	Finland (FIN)	1	1	0	2
10	Ukraine (UKR)	0	5	3	8
11	Austria (AUT)	0	4	5	9
12	Canada (CAN)	0	2	1	3
13	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
14	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		31	31	31	93

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Results

Alpine skiing

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Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men Downhill	Philipp Steiner   Switzerland	Giacomo Pierbon   Italy	Philipp Eisenmann   Germany
Women Downhill	Tereza Kmochová   Czech Republic	Veronika Grygarová   Czech Republic	Anja Drev   Slovenia
Men Super Combined	Giacomo Pierbon   Italy	Philipp Steiner   Switzerland	Thomas Luxcey   France
Women Super Combined	Tereza Kmochová   Czech Republic	Melissa Kock   Austria	Beatrice Brunnbauer   Austria
Men Super-G	Giacomo Pierbon   Italy	Philipp Steiner   Switzerland	Nicolas Sarremejane   France
Women Super-G	Tereza Kmochová   Czech Republic	Melissa Kock   Austria	Beatrice Brunnbauer   Austria
Men Giant Slalom	Nicolas Sarremejane   France	Giacomo Pierbon   Italy	Christoph Lebelhuber   Austria
Women Giant Slalom	Tereza Kmochová   Czech Republic	Melissa Kock   Austria	Beatrice Brunnbauer   Austria
Men Slalom	Giacomo Pierbon   Italy	Thomas Luxcey   France	David Pelletier   France
Women Slalom	Tereza Kmochová   Czech Republic	Melissa Kock   Austria	Kristina Kock   Austria

Cross Country skiing

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Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men 10 km + 10 km Skiathlon	Vladimir Mayorov   Russia	Andriy Andriyishyn   Ukraine	Pavlo Mandziuk   Ukraine
Women 10 km Mass Start	Anna Fedulova   Russia	Lyubov Misharina   Russia	Raisa Golovina   Russia
Women 5 km + 5 km Skiathlon	Anna Fedulova   Russia	Lyubov Misharina   Russia	Raisa Golovina   Russia
Men Sprint Free	Alexey Groshev   Russia	Pavlo Mandziuk   Ukraine	Volodymyr Pyshniak   Ukraine
Women Sprint Free	Anna Fedulova   Russia	Lyubov Misharina   Russia	Alisa Pyshniak   Ukraine
Men 15 km Mass Start	Vladimir Mayorov   Russia	Andriy Andriyishyn   Ukraine	Sergey Ermilov   Russia
Men 3x10km Relay	Russia (RUS) Sergey Ermilov, Alexey Groshev, Vladimir Mayorov	Ukraine (UKR) Andriy Andriyishyn, Pavlo Mandziuk, Volodymyr Pyshniak	China (CHN) Ren Jianchao, Wang Liguo, Zhang Xiaokun
Men team sprint classic	Russia (RUS) Sergey Ermilov, Vladimir Mayorov	Ukraine (UKR) Andriy Andriyishyn, Volodymyr Pyshniak	China (CHN) Ren Jianchao, Zhang Xiaokun

Curling

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Men

Round-robin

Key
	Teams to playoffs
	Teams to tiebreaker

Country	W	L
China	8	0
Canada	6	2
Switzerland	6	2
Russia	4	4
Japan	4	4
Ukraine	3	5
South Korea	2	6
United States	2	6
Hungary	1	7

Tiebreaker

  Russia 7 : 6   Japan

Playoff

	Semifinals				Gold medal
	4 April
	China	5
					5 April
	Russia	4
					China	7
	4 April
					Canada	6
	Canada	8
	Switzerland	4
					Bronze medal
					5 April
					Russia	11
					Switzerland	3

Women

Round-robin

Key
	Teams to playoffs

Country	W	L
Canada	6	1
Croatia	5	2
Russia	5	2
China	5	2
Hungary	4	3
South Korea	2	5
Ukraine	1	6
Slovakia	0	7

Playoff

	Semifinals				Gold medal
	4 April
	China	9
					5 April
	Canada	4
					China	5
	4 April
					Russia	9
	Croatia	2
	Russia	8
					Bronze medal
					5 April
					Canada	10
					Croatia	5

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	China (CHN) Ge Shun Hai, Guan Jiquan, Li Haidong, Yang Li Guo, Yang Yan Chao	Canada (CAN) Joseph Comte, Marc Comte, Shawn Demianyk, John Gessner, David Morton	Russia (RUS) Oleg Darchiev, Denis Draga, Yury Makeev, Alexander Pyatkov
Women's team	Russia (RUS) Tatiana Karpushenkova, Elena Shagieva, Yulia Tretiakova, Svetlana Tsedik, Olga Yaroslavtsena	China (CHN) Li Hong, Wang Ming Ming, Yang Xue, Yin Yu, Zhao Lingyan	Canada (CAN) Brenda Davidson, Sally Korol, Donna Mcleod, Sarah Rabu, Sylvia Sigurdson

Ice hockey

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Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	Russia (RUS) Dmitry Arsenyev Sergey Berlizov Roman Chernov Oleg Danilenko Dmitrii Dernov Pavel Evtushenko Rustam Gafurbaev Konstantin Gamayurov Stanislav Ilichev Yuriy Izmaylov Vyacheslav Kazantsev Orkhan Kazimov Stanislav Khakimov Sergey Kikin Alexey Kulikovskiy Roman Lukianov Vladimir Mashkov Vadim Mazurskii Vitalii Mokhov Andrey Prudnikov Ilya Shevtsov Artur Shimarov Viacheslav Sidorov Dmitrii Yadryshnikov Sergey Yushkin	Canada (CAN) Ryan Chramtchenko Steven Devine Patrick Escalambre Christopher Garbacz Ryan Howich Andrew Hughes Owen Hunter John Kyte Thomas Kyte Cole Laing Graeme Lauersen Jonathan Lobodzinski Jesse Mcintyre Scott Nelson Tyler Plett Matthew Sheffield Dimitrios Theofilaktidis	United States (USA) Troy Benson Joseph Bingham Christian Buczek Jameson Crane III Tyler Devore Max Finley Garrett Gintoli Peter Gintoli Samuel Holzrichter Grant Isenbarger Joseph Lingle Tomas Oricchto Robert Ruef Derek Struwing

Snowboarding

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Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men Parallel Slalom	Noboru Harada   Japan	Roman Khamitsevich   Russia	Igor Ishatenko   Russia
Men Half-pipe	Blair Tucker Esson   United States	Sean Esson   United States	Yasutomo Tsukui   Japan
Men Giant Slalom	Noboru Harada   Japan	Alexey Ignatenko   Russia	Roman Khamitsevich   Russia
Men Snowboard Cross	Tomáš Pazdera   Czech Republic	Blair Tucker Esson   United States	Alexey Ignatenko   Russia
Men Snowboard Slopestyle	Blair Tucker Esson   United States	Jonas Jenzer   Switzerland	Sean Esson   United States
Women Half-pipe	Ryoko Hanashima   Japan	Mayako Okawa   Japan	Svetlana Anisimova   Russia
Women Snowboard Cross	Ella Shevlyakova   Russia	Lauren Weibert   United States	Svetlana Anisimova   Russia
Women Snowboard Slopestyle	Lauren Weibert   United States	Petrine Olgeirdottir   Norway	Svetlana Anisimova   Russia
Women Giant Slalom	Maria Kapustkina   Russia	Cecilia Hanhikoski   Finland	Anna Surmilina   Russia
Women Parallel Slalom	Cecilia Hanhikoski   Finland	Maria Kapustkina   Russia	Anna Surmilina   Russia

References

Preceded by 2011 XVII Vysoké Tatry, Slovakia

2015 Winter Deaflympics XVIII Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian Federation

Succeeded by 2019 XIX Sondrio Province