Canada at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

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
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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.
Men
Women
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.
Men
Women
Cross country skiing
Distance
Men
Women
Sprint
Men
Women
Para-snowboarding
Snowboarders
On February 21, 2018, Canada Snowboard announced the nominations of 7 athletes (five men and two women) to Team Canada.
Results
Men
Women
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.
Preliminary round
Wheelchair curling
Wheelchair curling starts on 10 March. Canada plays against Sweden on 11 March.