Canada at the 2018 Winter Paralympics facts for kids

Canada sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. They are competing in para-Nordic skiing, sledge hockey and wheelchair curling. 10 men and 4 women are participating in para-Nordic skiing. The team has 10 skiers, and 2 guide skiers. Canada, Norway, Italy and Sweden are in Group A for the sledge hockey competition.

Team

The country has the second largest team among all nations. It has 55 people. The team also includes 16 coaches and 26 support staff. James Anseeuw is the oldest member of the team. He was 58 years old. James Dunn is the youngest member of the team. He was 27 years old.

The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Canada") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.

Canada had several people going to the Games as part of their team. These were coaches, referees and sports officials. Ken Babey went to the Games as the coach of the sledge hockey team.

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date 1 Gold Marcoux, MacMac Marcoux Guide: Jack Leitch Alpine skiing Men's downhill, visually impaired March 10 1 Gold Oatway, KurtKurt Oatway Alpine skiing Men's Super-G, sitting March 11 2 Silver Arendz, MarkMark Arendz Biathlon Men's 7.5km, standing March 10 3 Bronze Jepsen, MollieMollie Jepsen Alpine skiing Women's downhill, standing March 10 3 Bronze Cameron, CollinCollin Cameron Biathlon Men's 7.5 km, sitting March 10 3 Bronze Ramsay, AlanaAlana Ramsay Alpine skiing Women's Super-G, standing March 11

Medals by sport Sport Total Alpine skiing 2 0 2 4 Biathlon 0 1 1 2 Cross-country skiing 0 0 0 0 Para ice hockey 0 0 0 0 Snowboarding 0 0 0 0 Wheelchair curling 0 0 0 0 Total 2 1 3 6 Medals by date Day Date Total Day 1 March 10 1 1 2 4 Day 2 March 11 1 0 1 2 Day 3 March 12 0 0 0 0 Day 4 March 13 0 0 0 0 Day 5 March 14 0 0 0 0 Day 6 March 15 0 0 0 0 Day 7 March 16 0 0 0 0 Day 8 March 17 0 0 0 0 Day 9 March 18 0 0 0 0 Total 2 1 3 6 Medals by gender Gender Total Male 2 1 1 4 Female 0 0 2 2 Mixed 0 0 0 0 Total 2 1 3 6

Para-alpine skiing

Schedule and training

Skiers had training runs for the downhill race on 7 March. Their practice runs in the downhill on 8 and 9 March were cancelled.

The first event on the para-alpine program was the downhill. It started on 10 March, running from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM. The second event on the program was Super-G. All skiers will raced between 9:30 AM and 1:00 PM on 11 March. The super combined takes place on 13 March. The Super-G part of the event is in the morning. The slalom part is in the afternoon. The slalom event gets underway on 14 March and conclude on 15 March. Women and men both race during the same sessions in the morning. The afternoon sessions start with the women doing their second run. Then the men go.The last para-alpine skiing race of the 2018 Games is the giant slalom. It takes place on 17 - 18 March.  Men and women both race at the same time in the morning sessions.  Women race first in the afternoon sessions, with the men racing a half hour after they end.

Results

Marie Bochet from France won gold in the women's downhill standing.  Andrea Rothfuss from Germany won silver.  Mollie Jepsen from Canada won bronze. Mac Marcoux won gold in the men's visually impaired downhill race.  Jakub Krako of Slovakia won silver.  Giacomo Bertagnolli of Italy won bronze. In the women's Super-G standing race, Marie Bochet of France won gold, Andrea Rothfuss of Germany won silver, and Alana Ramsay of Canada won bronze. In the men's Super-G sitting race, Kurt Oatway of Canada won gold, Andrew Kurka of the United States won silver, and Frederic Francois of France won bronze.

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Alex Cairns	Giant slalom, sitting
	Slalom, sitting
Alexis Guimond	Combined, standing
	Downhill, standing|colspan=4 style="background: #ececec; color: grey; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-na" | N/A	1:27.09	4
	Giant slalom, standing
	Slalom, standing
	Super-G, standing|colspan=4 style="background: #ececec; color: grey; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-na" | N/A	1:28.01	4
Braydon Luscombe	Combined, standing
	Downhill, standing|colspan=4 style="background: #ececec; color: grey; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-na" | N/A	DNF
	Giant slalom, standing
	Slalom, standing
	Super-G, standing|colspan=4 style="background: #ececec; color: grey; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-na" | N/A	1:29.39	8
Mac MarcouxGuide: Jack Leitch	Combined, visually impaired
	Downhill, visually impaired|colspan=4 style="background: #ececec; color: grey; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-na" | N/A	1:23.93
	Giant slalom, visually impaired
	Slalom, visually impaired
	Super-G, visually impaired|colspan=4 style="background: #ececec; color: grey; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-na" | N/A	DNF
Kurt Oatway	Combined, sitting
	Downhill, sitting|colspan=4 style="background: #ececec; color: grey; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-na" | N/A	1:27.50	8
	Giant slalom, sitting
	Slalom, sitting
	Super-G, sitting|colspan=4 style="background: #ececec; color: grey; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-na" | N/A	1:25.83
Kirk Schornstein	Combined, standing
	Downhill, standing|colspan=4 style="background: #ececec; color: grey; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-na" | N/A	1:28.53	6
	Giant slalom, standing
	Slalom, standing
	Super-G, standing|colspan=4 style="background: #ececec; color: grey; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-na" | N/A	1:29.28	7

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Mollie Jepsen	Combined, standing
	Downhill, standing|colspan=4 style="background: #ececec; color: grey; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-na" | N/A	1:34.60
	Giant slalom, standing
	Slalom, standing
	Super-G, standing|colspan=4 style="background: #ececec; color: grey; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-na" | N/A	1:36.22	4
Erin Latimer	Combined, standing
	Downhill, standing|colspan=4 style="background: #ececec; color: grey; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-na" | N/A	1:38.87	6
	Giant slalom, standing
	Slalom, standing
	Super-G, standing|colspan=4 style="background: #ececec; color: grey; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-na" | N/A	1:43.13	9
Mel Pemble	Combined, standing
	Downhill, standing|colspan=4 style="background: #ececec; color: grey; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-na" | N/A	1:42.22	9
	Giant slalom, standing
	Slalom, standing
	Super-G, standing|colspan=4 style="background: #ececec; color: grey; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-na" | N/A	1:44.63	11
Alana Ramsay	Combined, standing
	Downhill, standing|colspan=4 style="background: #ececec; color: grey; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-na" | N/A	1:35.21	4
	Giant slalom, standing
	Slalom, standing
	Super-G, standing|colspan=4 style="background: #ececec; color: grey; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-na" | N/A	1:35.20
Frédérique Turgeon	Combined, standing
	Downhill, standing|colspan=4 style="background: #ececec; color: grey; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-na" | N/A	DNF
	Giant slalom, standing
	Slalom, standing
	Super-G, standing|colspan=4 style="background: #ececec; color: grey; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="table-na" | N/A	DNF

Para-Nordic skiing

10 men and 4 women are part of Team Canada at the 2018 Winter Paralympics. The team has 10 skiers, and 2 guide skiers.

Skiers

Brian McKeever is part of the team, along with his guide skiers Graham Nishikawa and Russell Kennedy. Kennedy competed in Nordic skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Mark Arendz will be 27 years old in Pyeongchang. He competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics, and he won a silver medal in the men´s sprint and a bronze medal in the men's middle distance standing. Chris Klebl was at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, where he won a gold medal the men’s 10-kilometre sit ski race. Cindy Ouellet has been part of Team Canada at the Summer Paralympics, where she played wheelchair basketball. She started going to ski races a year before the 2018 Winter Games. When she was a 12-year-old, Ouellet got bone cancer. She has a disability because of the bone cancer. Before she got bone cancer, Ouellet was an alpine skier. She had dreams of going to the Winter Olympics.

The 2018 Games were the first Games for Collin Cameron and Emily Young. Young was a wrestler before doing para-Nordic skiing.

Schedule and results

On 12 March, the 15 km race takes place, with standing and vision impaired women starting at 10:00 PM. Thee sprint classic qualification takes place on 14 March from 10:00 AM - 11:25 AM for both men and women in all classes. It is followed in the afternoon by the semifinals and finals.  The classic race takes place on 17 March. The standing and visually impaired women's race takes place from 10:00 AM - 12:30.

Biathlon

In the men's 7.5 km sitting event, Daniel Cnossen of the United States won gold, Dzmitry Loban of Belarus won silver and Collin Cameron of Canada won bronze. In the men's 7.5 km standing race,  Benjamin Daviet of France won gold, Mark Arendz won silver and Ihor Reptyukh of Ukraine won bronze.

Athlete	Events	Final
		Real Time	Calculated Time	Missed Shots	Result	Rank
Mark Arendz	7.5 km, standing	19:24.1	18:25.9	0+0	18:25.9
	12.5 km, standing
	15 km, standing
Collin Cameron	7.5 km, sitting	24:59.0	23:59.0	0+1	23:59.0
	12.5 km, sitting
	15 km, sitting
Sébastien Fortier	12.5 km, sitting
	15 km, sitting
Derek Zaplotinsky	7.5 km, sitting	28:06.4	25:17.8	0+1	25:17.8	9
	12.5 km, sitting
	15 km, sitting

Cross country skiing

Para-snowboarding

Snowboarders

On February 21, 2018, Canada Snowboard announced the nominations of 7 athletes (five men and two women) to Team Canada.

Results

Sledge hockey

History

Canada finished in the first four at the 2017 Sledge Hockey World Championships.  This was why they could compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics. Canada played in the 2017 World Sledge Hockey Challenge in December in Charlottetown, Canada.

The sledge hockey team went to South Korea after winning bronze at the 2014 Winter Paralympics. Canada went to Pyeongchang wanting to win a gold medal. Their biggest competitor was thought to be the United States. The United States was going to the 2018 Winter Paralympics looking to win their third consecutive Paralympic gold, having claimed gold at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Paralympics. In comparison, Canada had won three consecutive gold medals at the World Championships, with their most recent gold at the 2017 World Championships A-Pool.

Roster

The coach for the 2018 Games is Ken Babey. He said choosing the 17 players for the team was very hard.

Schedule and results

Canada, Norway, Italy and Sweden were in Group A for the sledge hockey competition. Canada plays against Sweden on 10 March. They play against Italy on 11 March. They play against Norway on 12 March.

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Canada	1	1	0	0	0	17	0	+17	3
Italy
Norway
Sweden

March 10, 2018 19:00 KST

Canada

19:00 KST

Sweden

Gangneung Hockey Centre

March 11, 2018 19:00 KST

Canada

19:00 KST

Italy

Gangneung Hockey Centre

March 12, 2018 15:30 MSK

Canada

15:30 MSK

Norway

Gangneung Hockey Centre

Wheelchair curling

Wheelchair curling starts on 10 March. Canada plays against Sweden on 11 March.

Team	Group stage												Tiebreaker	Semifinal	Final / BM
	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Mark Ideson Ina Forrest Dennis Thiessen Marie Wright James Anseeuw	SUI W 8–0	NOR W 10–1	SWE W 8–4	KOR	GBR	CHN	USA	NPA	SVK	GER	FIN

See also

In Spanish: Canadá en los Juegos Paralímpicos de Pyeongchang 2018 para niños