Italy at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

**Italy** sent people to compete at the **2018 Winter Paralympics** in Pyeongchang, South Korea.  They are competing in para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing, para-snowboarding and sledge hockey. Italy finished in the first four at the 2017 Sledge Hockey World Championships.  This was why they could compete in sledge hockey at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

## Team

The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Italy") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.
|Name|Sport|Gender|Classification|Events|ref|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Alessandro Andreoni|sledge hockey|male||||
|Eusebiu Antochi|sledge hockey|male||||
|Gabriele Araudo|sledge hockey|male||||
|Bruno Balossetti|sledge hockey|male||||
|Davide Bendotti|para-alpine skiing|male||||
|Giacomo Bertagnolli|para-alpine skiing|male||||
|Fabrizio Casal|para-alpine skiing|male||||
|Gianluca Cavaliere|sledge hockey|male||||
|Roberto Cavicchi|para-snowboarding|male||||
|Valerio Corvino|sledge hockey|male||||
|Renè De Silvestro|para-alpine skiing|male||||
|Cristoph Depaoli|sledge hockey|male||||
|Stephan Kafmann|sledge hockey|male||||
|Sandro Kalegaris|sledge hockey|male||||
|Nils Larch|sledge hockey|male||||
|Gregory Leperdi|sledge hockey|male||||
|Jacopo Luchini|para-snowboarding|male||||
|Andrea Macrì|sledge hockey|male||||
|Florian Planker|sledge hockey|male||||
|Manuel Pozzerle|para-snowboarding|male||||
|Paolo Priolo|para-snowboarding|male||||
|Roberto Radice|sledge hockey|male||||
|Gigi Rosa|sledge hockey|male||||
|Santino Stillitano|sledge hockey|male||||
|Cristian Toninelli|para-Nordic skiing|male||||
|Werner Winkler|sledge hockey|male||||

### Skiers

Giacomo Bertagnolli is blind.

### Before the Games

17-year-old Giacomo Bertagnolli went to Slovenia in January 2018.  She competed in the World Cup in Kranjska Gora. Giacomo won the 2017 Para Alpine World Championships in the super combined race.

### 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 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

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 men's Super-G visually impaired race, Jakub Krako of Slovakia won gold, Giacomo Bertagnolli of Italy won silver, and Miroslav Haraus of Slovakia won bronze.

### Going to the Games

Italy finished in the first four at the 2017 Sledge Hockey World Championships.  This was why they could compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics. Italy played in the 2017 World Sledge Hockey Challenge in December in Charlottetown, Canada. Norway lost to Italy 4 - 3 in overtime at a tournament in Turin in January 2018.

### Schedule and results

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