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
IPC codeGBR
NPCBritish Paralympic Association
Websitewww.paralympics.org.uk
in Pyeongchang, South Korea
9-18 March 2018
Competitors17 in 5 sports
Medals
Ranked 13th
Gold
1
Silver
4
Bronze
2
Total
7
Winter Paralympics appearances (overview)

Medallists

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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

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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".[1]

Competitors

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Great Britain sent a total of 17 athletes to the games. This was the most sent by the British team since 2006.[2]

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Summary
Team Event Group stage Tiebreaker Semifinal Final / BM
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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

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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%
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

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References

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  1. ^ "UK Sport targets best ever Winter Games in PyeongChang". UK Sport. 9 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Great Britain's Winter Paralympics team". BBC Sport.
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