# 2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships

The 2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships was an international disability sport alpine skiing event held in Panorama Mountain Village, British Columbia, Canada from March 2 to 10, 2015. The Championship is held biannually by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and is the largest event of its type outside the Winter Paralympics.
Skiers competed in sitting, standing or visually impaired classification categories in downhill, giant slalom, slalom, super-G, super combined and team events.
Over 130 skiers competed, with Russia finishing the championship on top of the medal table in both gold medals won and total medals.
This proved to be the last event under the title of "IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships". On 30 November 2016, the IPC, which serves as the international governing body for 10 disability sports, including Alpine skiing, adopted the "World Para" branding for all of those sports. The world championships in said sports were immediately rebranded as "World Para" events. Accordingly, from 2017 forward, the event will be known as the "World Para Alpine Skiing Championships".

## Opening ceremony

On March 2, the opening ceremony was held.

## Events
### Men

| Event | Date | Class | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| Downhill | Mar 4 | Visually impaired | Mac Marcoux Guide: B.J. Marcoux Canada | 1:29.68 | Mark Bathum Guide: Cade Yamamoto United States | 1:31.89 | Miroslav Haraus Guide: Maris Hudik Slovakia | 1:32.12 |
| Downhill | Mar 4 | Standing | Alexey Bugaev Russia | 1:27.60 | Matthias Lanzinger Austria | 1:29.71 | Alexander Vetrov Russia | 1:31.25 |
| Downhill | Mar 4 | Sitting | Corey Peters New Zealand | 1:28.06 | Roman Rabl Austria | 1:28.80 | Taiki Morii Japan | 1:29.26 |
| Super-G | Mar 5 | Visually impaired | Ivan Frantsev Guide: German Agranovskii Russia | 1:23.63 | Mac Marcoux Guide: B.J. Marcoux Canada | 1:24.04 | Miroslav Haraus Guide: Maris Hudik Slovakia | 1:24.81 |
| Super-G | Mar 5 | Standing | Alexey Bugaev Russia | 1:19.88 | Matthias Lanzinger Austria | 1:21.55 | Thomas Pfyl Switzerland | 1:21.91 |
| Super-G | Mar 5 | Sitting | Corey Peters New Zealand | 1:20.41 | Frederic Francois France | 1:21.20 | Andrew Earl Kurka United States | 1:21.32 |
| Super combined | Mar 7 | Visually impaired | Miroslav Haraus Guide: Maris Hudik Slovakia | 1:59.81 | Ivan Frantsev Guide: German Agranovskii Russia | 2:01.35 | Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces Spain | 2:03.32 |
| Super combined | Mar 7 | Standing | Alexey Bugaev Russia | 1:54.46 | Markus Salcher Switzerland | 1:56.94 | Matthias Lanzinger Austria | 1:56.96 |
| Super combined | Mar 7 | Sitting | Georg Kreiter Germany | 1:56.84 | Roman Rabl Austria | 1.57.70 | Frederic Francois France | 1:58.39 |
| Giant slalom | Mar 8 | Visually impaired | Valerii Redkozubov Guide: Evgeny Geroev Russia | 2:09.28 | Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces Spain | 2:09.88 | Patrik Hetmer Guide: Miroslav Macala Czech Republic | 2:11.71 |
| Giant slalom | Mar 8 | Standing | Alexey Bugaev Russia | 2:01.19 | Markus Salcher Switzerland | 2:02.16 | Matthias Lanzinger Austria | 2:04.27 |
| Giant slalom | Mar 8 | Sitting | Georg Kreiter Germany | 2:03.49 | Corey Peters New Zealand | 2:03.89 | Taiki Morii Japan | 2:04.71 |
| Slalom | Mar 10 | Visually impaired | Valerii Redkozubov Guide: Evgeny Geroev Russia | 1:47.71 | Miroslav Haraus Guide: Maris Hudik Slovakia | 1:48.90 | Yon Santacana Maiztegui Guide: Miguel Galindo Garces Spain | 1:53.05 |
| Slalom | Mar 10 | Standing | Alexey Bugaev Russia | 1:39.05 | Alexander Alyabyev Russia | 1:46.15 | Matt Hallat Canada | 1:47.86 |
| Slalom | Mar 10 | Sitting | Takeshi Suzuki Japan | 1:47.93 | Taiki Morii Japan | 1:53.67 | Thomas Nolte Germany | 1:55.38 |

### Women

| Event | Date | Class | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| Downhill | Mar 4 | Visually impaired | Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor Australia | 1:45.80 | Danelle Umstead Guide: Robert Umstead United States | 1:46.32 | Aleksandra Frantceva Guide: Semen Pliaskin Russia | 1:51.57 |
| Downhill | Mar 4 | Standing | Marie Bochet France | 1:32.81 | Andrea Rothfuss Germany | 1:36.83 | Mariia Papulova Russia | 1:42.12 |
| Downhill | Mar 4 | Sitting | Claudia Loesch Austria | 1:33.29 | Momoka Muraoka Japan | 1:35.95 | Anna Schaffelhuber Germany | 1:38.06 |
| Super-G | Mar 5 | Visually impaired | Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor Australia | 1:33.52 | Danelle Umstead Guide: Robert Umstead United States | 1:37.55 | Aleksandra Frantceva Guide: Semen Pliaskin Russia | 1:40.55 |
| Super-G | Mar 5 | Standing | Marie Bochet France | 1:24.77 | Andrea Rothfuss Germany | 1:28.83 | Mariia Papulova Russia | 1:33.60 |
| Super-G | Mar 5 | Sitting | Anna Schaffelhuber Germany | 1:27.65 | — | | — | |
| Super combined | Mar 7 | Visually impaired | Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor Australia | 2:14.18 | Aleksandra Frantceva Guide: Semen Pliaskin Russia | 2:16.95 | Danelle Umstead Guide: Robert Umstead United States | 2:22.20 |
| Super combined | Mar 7 | Standing | Marie Bochet France | 2:03.17 | Andrea Rothfuss Germany | 2:09.58 | Anna Jochemsen Netherlands | 2:12.52 |
| Super combined | Mar 7 | Sitting | Claudia Loesch Austria | 2:04.79 | Anna Schaffelhuber Germany | 2:06.10 | Laurie Stephens United States | 2:17.78 |
| Giant slalom | Mar 8 | Visually impaired | Aleksandra Frantceva Guide: Semen Pliaskin Russia | 2:24.05 | Millie Knight Guide: Jen Kehoe Great Britain | 2:24.39 | Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor Australia | 2:25.41 |
| Giant slalom | Mar 8 | Standing | Marie Bochet France | 2:11.63 | Andrea Rothfuss Germany | 2:14.04 | Stephanie Jallen United States | 2:20.49 |
| Giant slalom | Mar 8 | Sitting | Anna Schaffelhuber Germany | 1:09.50 | Claudia Loesch Austria | 1:11.38 | Momoka Muraoka Japan | 1:15.44 |
| Slalom | Mar 10 | Visually impaired | Aleksandra Frantceva Guide: Semen Pliaskin Russia | 2:03.31 | Melissa Perrine Guide: Andrew Bor Australia | 2:04.50 | Millie Knight Guide: Jen Kehoe Great Britain | 2:13.81 |
| Slalom | Mar 10 | Standing | Marie Bochet France | 1:58.67 | Mariia Papulova Russia | 2:04.22 | Laura Valeanu Romania | 2:09.55 |
| Slalom | Mar 10 | Sitting | Claudia Loesch Austria | 2:03.28 | Anna Schaffelhuber Germany | 2:03.38 | Anna-Lena Forster Germany | 2:04.31 |

## Medals table
### Key

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Russia (RUS) | 10 | 4 | 5 | 19 |
| 2 | France (FRA) | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 3 | Germany (GER) | 4 | 6 | 3 | 13 |
| 4 | Austria (AUT) | 3 | 7 | 2 | 12 |
| 5 | Australia (AUS) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 6 | New Zealand (NZL) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | Japan (JPN) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 8 | Slovakia (SVK) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 9 | Canada (CAN)* | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | United States (USA) | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 11 | Spain (ESP) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 12 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (16 entries) | Totals (16 entries) | 30 | 29 | 29 | 88 |

## Participating nations

Over 130 participants from 22 nations competed.
* Australia
* Austria
* Belgium
* Canada
* Croatia
* Czech Republic
* France
* Greece
* Germany
* Great Britain
* Italy
* Japan
* Netherlands
* New Zealand
* Poland
* Romania
* Russia
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* Spain
* Switzerland
* United States

## Classifications

Skiers compete in sitting, standing or visually impaired events, depending on their classification of disability.

### Standing

* LW2 – single leg amputation above the knee
* LW3 – double leg amputation below the knee, mild cerebral palsy, or equivalent impairment
* LW4 – single leg amputation below the knee
* LW5/7 – double arm amputation
* LW6/8 – single arm amputation
* LW9 – amputation or equivalent impairment of one arm and one leg

### Sitting

* LW 10 – paraplegia with no or some upper abdominal function and no functional sitting balance
* LW 11 – paraplegia with fair functional sitting balance
* LW 12 – double leg amputation above the knees, or paraplegia with some leg function and good sitting balance

### Visually impaired

* B1 – no functional vision
* B2 – up to ca 3–5% functional vision
* B3 – under 10% functional vision