Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from 9 to 18 March 2018. They were known by the shortened name of Great Britain, for identification purposes.

Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
Flag of the United Kingdom
IPC code	GBR
NPC	British Paralympic Association
Website	www.paralympics.org.uk
in Pyeongchang, South Korea 9-18 March 2018
Competitors	17 in 5 sports
Medals Ranked 13th	Gold 1 Silver 4 Bronze 2 Total 7
Winter Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Medallists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Menna Fitzpatrick Guide: Jennifer Kehoe	Alpine skiing	Women's slalom, vision impaired	17 March
Silver	Millie Knight Guide: Brett Wild	Alpine skiing	Women's downhill, vision impaired	10 March
Silver	Millie Knight Guide: Brett Wild	Alpine skiing	Women's super-G, vision impaired	11 March
Silver	Menna Fitzpatrick Guide: Jennifer Kehoe	Alpine skiing	Women's super combined, vision impaired	13 March
Silver	Menna Fitzpatrick Guide: Jennifer Kehoe	Alpine skiing	Women's giant slalom, vision impaired	14 March
Bronze	Menna Fitzpatrick Guide: Jennifer Kehoe	Alpine skiing	Women's super-G, vision impaired	11 March
Bronze	Millie Knight Guide: Brett Wild	Alpine skiing	Women's slalom, vision impaired	17 March

Medal and performance targets

UK Sport announced "an ambition of at least 7 medals which if achieved would mark the best performance in 30 years, and best since National Lottery funding came on stream in 1997".

Competitors

Great Britain sent a total of 17 athletes to the games. This was the most sent by the British team since 2006.

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Alpine skiing	4	4	8
Biathlon	1*	0	1*
Cross-country skiing	1*	0	1*
Snowboarding	3	0	3
Wheelchair curling	3	2	5
Total	11	6	17

• Scott Meenagh was selected to compete in both the biathlon and cross-country skiing competitions.

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

Women

Athlete	Classification	Event	Run 1			Run 2			Final/Total
			Time	Diff	Rank	Time	Diff	Rank	Time	Diff	Rank
Kelly Gallagher Guide: Gary Smith	Visually impaired	Giant slalom	1:17.33	+6.50	5	1:15.46	+3.29	4	2:32.79	+9.79	5
		Slalom	57.35	+3.77	6	1:01.22	+2.89	6	1:58.57	+6.77	6
		Super-G	—						1:39.75	+9.58	8
		Super combined	1:37.59	+7.75	7	1:00.49	+5.17	6	2:38.08	+10.36	7
Menna Fitzpatrick Guide: Jennifer Kehoe	Visually impaired	Downhill	—						DNF
		Giant slalom	1:14.45	+3.62	2	1:13.89	+1.72	3	2:28.34	+5.34
		Slalom	54.24	+0.66	2	57.56	-	1	1:51.80	-
		Super-G	—						1:34.54	+4.37
		Super combined	1:31.49	+1.65	2	57.51	2	+2.19	2:29.00	+1.28
Millie Knight Guide: Brett Wild	Visually impaired	Downhill	—						1:30.58	+0.86
		Giant slalom	1:17.97	+7.14	6	1:16.55	+4.38	7	2:34.52	+11.52	7
		Slalom	54.28	+0.70	3	59.11	+1.55	4	1:53.39	+1.59
		Super-G	—						1:33.76	+3.59
		Super combined	1:33.63	+3.79	3	58.10	+2.78	5	2:31.73	+4.01	4

Men

Athlete	Classification	Event	Run 1			Run 2			Final/Total
			Time	Diff	Rank	Time	Diff	Rank	Time	Diff	Rank
Chris Lloyd	Standing	Downhill	—						1:34.00	+8.55	20
		Super-G	—						1:34.43	+9.60	25
James Whitley	Standing	Downhill	—						1:29.85	+4.40	10
		Giant slalom	1:09.91	+4.11	=11	1:10.00	+4.56	12	2:19.81	+7.34	11
		Slalom	52.61	+4.10	11	51.80	+4.38	6	1:44.41	+8.30	10
		Super-G	—						1:32.96	+8.13	22
		Super combined	1:30.21	+5.31	13	50.07	+5.13	10	2:20.28	+9.72	11

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Classification	Event	Result	Rank
Scott Meenagh	Sitting	7.5 km	27:28.1	18
		12.5 km	54:52.9	13
		15 km	58:58.1	14

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Classification	Event	Qualification		Semifinal		Final
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Scott Meenagh	Sitting	1.1 km sprint	3:17.72	16	did not advance
		7.5 km	—				25:17.5	14
		15 km	—				46:07.4	17

Snowboarding

Main article: Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

Slalom

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Result
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Diff	Rank
James Barnes-Miller	Men's banked slalom SB-UL	58.23	9	57.00	10	1:08.17	20	57.00	+6.23	=10
Ben Moore		56.79	5	54.33	5	DSQ		54.33	+3.56	7
Owen Pick	Men's banked slalom SB-LL2	52.81	7	DSQ		53.26	9	52.81	+4.13	9

Snowboard cross

Athlete	Event	Qualification					1/8 finals	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Race 1		Race 2		Seed
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank		Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Opponent Result	Rank
James Barnes-Miller	Men's snowboard cross SB-UL	1:03.11	5	1:06.56	14	6	Jiang (CHN) W	Patmore (AUS) L	did not advance		7
Ben Moore		1:04.80	9	1:04.47	7	8	Priolo (ITA) L	did not advance			10
Owen Pick	Men's snowboard cross SB-LL2	1:00.11	6	59.32	2	5	Codina (ARG) L	did not advance			9

Wheelchair curling

Main article: Wheelchair curling at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

Summary

Team	Event	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
Aileen Neilson Hugh Nibloe Gregor Ewan Robert McPherson Angie Malone	Mixed	NOR W 5–2	SUI L 4–7	FIN W 9–2	SWE W 6–1	CAN W 8–1	SVK L 5–6	NPA L 2–8	GER W 8–3	USA L 3–9	KOR L 4–5	CHN L 3–9	7	did not advance

Round Robin

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	PCT	Ends Won	Ends Lost	Blank Ends	Stolen Ends	Shot %	Qualification
1	South Korea	11	9	2	65	51	14	0.818	38	36	9	11	66%	Advance to playoffs
2	Canada	11	9	2	74	45	29	0.818	47	28	6	27	62%
3	China	11	9	2	85	42	43	0.818	43	32	2	16	67%
4	Norway	11	7	4	55	57	−2	0.636	41	35	5	15	58%
5	Neutral Paralympic Athletes	11	5	6	61	63	−2	0.455	44	37	2	23	62%
6	Switzerland	11	5	6	56	63	−7	0.455	36	45	2	11	61%
7	Great Britain	11	5	6	57	53	4	0.455	41	41	6	20	62%
8	Germany	11	5	6	57	68	−11	0.455	37	39	5	16	54%
9	Slovakia	11	4	7	62	72	−10	0.364	39	46	1	11	57%
10	Sweden	11	4	7	47	66	−19	0.364	29	45	8	8	57%
11	Finland	11	2	9	53	87	−34	0.182	35	46	1	11	51%
12	United States	11	2	9	58	63	−5	0.182	37	45	3	12	60%

Source: Paralympic.org

Results

Great Britain had a bye in draws 2, 4, 6, 9, 14 and 16.

Draw 1

Saturday, 10 March, 14:35

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Norway (Lorentsen)	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2
Great Britain (Neilson)	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	1	5

Draw 3

Sunday, 11 March, 9:35

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Switzerland (Wagner)	0	0	3	0	1	2	0	1	7
Great Britain (Neilson)	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	4

Draw 5

Sunday, 11 March, 19:35

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Great Britain (Neilson)	2	0	0	1	2	2	2	X	9
Finland (S. Karjalainen)	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	X	2

Draw 7

Monday, 12 March, 14:35

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Sweden (Petersson Dahl)	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	X	1
Great Britain (Neilson)	2	1	1	1	1	0	0	X	6

Draw 8

Monday, 12 March, 19:35

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Great Britain (Neilson)	0	1	1	1	2	0	3	X	8
Canada (Ideson)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	X	1

Draw 10

Tuesday, 13 March, 14:35

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Great Britain (Neilson)	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	5
Slovakia (Ďuriš)	1	0	3	0	2	0	0	0	6

Draw 11

Tuesday, 13 March, 19:35

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Neutral Paralympic Athletes (Kurokhtin)	1	1	0	1	2	2	1	X	8
Great Britain (Neilson)	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	X	2

Draw 12

Wednesday, 14 March, 9:35

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Germany (Putzich)	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	X	3
Great Britain (Neilson)	0	1	0	2	0	3	2	X	8

Draw 13

Wednesday, 14 March, 14:35

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Great Britain (Neilson)	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	X	3
United States (Black)	1	0	3	2	0	3	0	X	9

Draw 15

Thursday, 15 March, 9:35

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Great Britain (Neilson)	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	4
South Korea (Seo)	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	1	5

Draw 17

Thursday, 15 March, 19:35

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
China (Wang)	0	2	0	2	0	5	X	X	9
Great Britain (Neilson)	1	0	0	0	2	0	X	X	3

See also

• Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Olympics

External links

• International Paralympic Committee official website
• Paralympics GB website