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. ^[1]

Alpine skiing

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

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

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

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

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Russia (H)	3	2	0	1	0	11	4	+7	7	Semifinals
2	United States	3	2	0	0	1	9	3	+6	6
3	Italy	3	1	0	0	2	3	13	−10	3	5–8th place semifinals
4	South Korea	3	0	1	0	2	4	7	−3	2

8 March 2014 16:30

United States

5–1 (1–0, 1–0, 3–1)

Italy

Shayba Arena Attendance: 3,617

Game reference
	Steve Cash Jen Lee	Goalies	Santino Stillitano	Referee: Paul Boese Linesmen: Matthew Clark Dmitriy Klochkov
	Farmer ( Landeros, Chace) (PP) – 13:45 1–0 Roybal (Farmer) – 26:12 2–0 Sweeney – 33:04 3–0 Roybal ( Pauls, Landeros) – 40:18 4–0 4–1 43:34 – Planker ( Cavaliere) Schaus (Landeros) – 44:55 5–1
	8 min	Penalties	10 min
	19	Shots	12

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9 March 2014 20:00

Russia

7–0 (1–0, 4–0, 2–0)

Italy

Shayba Arena Attendance: 5,638

Game reference
	Vladimir Kamantsev	Goalies	Santino Stillitano Gabriele Araudo	Referee: Johnathan Morrison Linesmen: Louis Beelen Tomasz Heltman
	Popov ( Selyukin) – 12:04 1–0 Amosov ( Petrov) – 18:30 2–0 Dvinyaninov (Popov, Varlakov) – 22:01 3–0 Dvinyaninov (Popov, Varlakov) – 26:25 4–0 Litvinenko (Petrov, Lysov) – 28:49 5–0 Dvinyaninov (Petrov) (PP) – 31:20 6–0 Volkov (Dvinyaninov, Litvinenko) (PP) – 38:38 7–0
	2 min	Penalties	4 min
	10	Shots	13

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11 March 2014 09:30

South Korea

1–2 (0–1, 0–0, 1–1)

Italy

Shayba Arena Attendance: 3,889

Game reference
	Yu Man-gyun	Goalies	Gabriele Araudo	Referee: Paul Boese Linesmen: Dmitriy Klochkov Espen Nyberget
	0–1 09:55 – Macri ( Leperdi) Jung – 35:06 1–1 1–2 35:53 – Planker ( Chiarotti)
	2 min	Penalties	4 min
	10	Shots	13

5–8 Classification Play-offs

12 March 2014 16:00

Italy

3–2 OT (0–1, 0–1, 2–0) ( OT: 1–0)

Sweden

Shayba Arena Attendance: 4,720

Game reference
	Santino Stillitano Gabriele Araudo	Goalies	Ulf Nilsson	Referee: Derek Berkebile Linesmen: Tomasz Heltman Leon Wesley
	0–1 13:58 – Kasperi ( From) 0–2 29:00 – Kasperi ( Ingvarsson, Holm) (PP2) Rosa ( Planker) – 33:00 1–2 Leperdi ( Cavaliere, Rosa) (EA) – 42:45 2–2 Cavaliere (Planker) – 50:28 3–2
	4 min	Penalties	4 min
	34	Shots	11

5th Place Game

14 March 2014 20:00

Czech Republic

3–0 (0–0, 0–0, 3–0)

Italy

Shayba Arena Attendance: 5,398

Game reference
	Michal Vápenka	Goalies	Gabriele Araudo	Referee: Petter Hegle Linesmen: Chae Young-jin Dmitriy Klochkov
	Šafránek ( Kubeš, Motyčka) (PP) – 31:34 1–0 Geier – 43:04 2–0 Geier (Kubeš) (ENG) – 44:48 3–0
	4 min	Penalties	2 min
	11	Shots	18

See also

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

References