Great Britain at the 2022 Winter Paralympics

Great Britain at the 2022 Winter Paralympics
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IPC code	GBR
NPC	British Paralympic Association
Website	www.paralympics.org.uk
in Beijing, China 4 March 2022 (2022-03-04) – 13 March 2022 (2022-03-13)
Competitors	24 (18 men and 6 women) in 5[3] sports
Flag bearers (opening)	Meggan Dawson-Farrell Gregor Ewan[2]
Flag bearers (closing)	Andrew Simpson Neil Simpson[1]
Medals Ranked 14th	Gold 1 Silver 1 Bronze 4 Total 6
Winter Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Great Britain competed at the 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing, China which took place between 4–13 March 2022.

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Alpine skiing	1	1	3	5
Snowboarding	0	0	1	1
Total	1	1	4	6

Medals by date
Day	Date				Total
Day 1	5 March	0	0	1	1
Day 2	6 March	1	1	0	2
Day 3	7 March	0	0	2	2
Day 4	8 March	0	0	0	0
Day 5	9 March	0	0	0	0
Day 6	10 March	0	0	0	0
Day 7	11 March	0	0	1	1
Total		1	1	4	6

Medals by gender
Gender				Total
Male	1	0	2	3
Female	0	1	2	3
Mixed	0	0	0	0
Total	1	1	4	6

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Neil Simpson Guide: Andrew Simpson	Alpine skiing	Men's Super-G, vision impaired	6 March
Silver	Menna Fitzpatrick Guide: Gary Smith	Alpine skiing	Women's Super-G, vision impaired	6 March
Bronze	Millie Knight Guide: Brett Wild	Alpine skiing	Women's downhill, vision impaired	5 March
Bronze	Menna Fitzpatrick Guide: Gary Smith	Alpine skiing	Women's super combined, vision impaired	7 March
Bronze	Neil Simpson Guide: Andrew Simpson	Alpine skiing	Men's super combined, vision impaired	7 March
Bronze	Ollie Hill	Snowboarding	Men's banked slalom SB-LL2	11 March

After Pyeongchang 2018, Menna Fitzpatrick was Great Britain's most successful Winter Paralympian with four medals, all won at the 2018 Games. She added to that total at these Games.

Name	Medal	Sport	Event
Neil Simpson Guide: Andrew Simpson	Gold  Bronze	Alpine skiing	Men's Super-G, vision impaired Men's super combined, vision impaired
Menna Fitzpatrick Guide: Gary Smith	Silver  Bronze	Alpine skiing	Women's Super-G, vision impaired Women's super combined, vision impaired

On 13 January 2022, UK Sport confirmed a target of 5–9 medals for the Games.^[4]

Team GB medal target

Event	Medal target	2014 medals	2018 medals	Medals won	Target met
Overall	5–9	6	7	6	Y

• Steve Arnold, Callum Deboys and Scott Meenagh were selected to compete in both the biathlon and cross-country events.

On 22 February 2022, ParalympicsGB named a team of eleven athletes (including four guides of visually impaired athletes) to compete in the alpine skiing events in Beijing.^[5] Menna Fitzpatrick is Britain's most successful Winter Paralympian having won four medals including a gold at Pyeongchang in 2018. Teammate Millie Knight also won three medals at the same Games. On the eve of the Games visually impaired guide skier Katie Guest was forced to withdraw after testing positive for Covid-19. Gary Smith had already been selected as a reserve guide and will take Guest's place alongside Menna Fitzpatrick.^[6]

Women

Athlete	Classification	Event	Run 1			Run 2			Final/Total
			Time	Diff	Rank	Time	Diff	Rank	Time	Diff	Rank
Menna Fitzpatrick Guide: Gary Smith	Visually impaired	Downhill	—						1:30.49	+10.99	5
		Giant slalom	1:02.78	+8.70	7	1:04.89	+6.43	7	2:07.67	+15.13	7
		Slalom	47.25	+3.13	5	49.51	+2.10	3	1:36.76	+5.23	4
		Super-G	—						1:18.79	+1.78
		Super combined	1:22.25	+5.60	5	43.73	-	1	2:05.98	+2.59
Millie Knight Guide: Brett Wild	Visually impaired	Downhill	—						1:23.20	+3.70
		Giant slalom	1:03.35	+9.27	9	1:07.98	+9.52	9	2:11.33	+18.79	9
		Slalom	50.35	+6.23	9	51.12	+3.71	8	1:41.47	+9.94	8
		Super-G	—						1:19.39	+2.38	4
		Super combined	1:21.49	+4.84	4	46.40	+2.67	3	2:07.89	+4.50	4
Shona Brownlee	Sitting
		Giant slalom	1:14.20	+12.44	9	1:17.88	+17.37	9	2:32.08	+29.81	9
		Slalom	2:05.52	+1:17.02	9	1:18.03	+28.96	9	3:23.55	+1:45.69	9
		Super-G	—						1:48.23	+24.50	6
		Super combined	1:46.91	+26.54	6	DNF			did not finish

Men

Athlete	Classification	Event	Run 1			Run 2			Final/Total
			Time	Diff	Rank	Time	Diff	Rank	Time	Diff	Rank
Neil Simpson Guide: Andrew Simpson	Visually impaired	Downhill	—						1:17.13	+3.68	7
		Giant slalom	1:00.81	+5.93	6	58.64	+5.21	5	1:59.45	+10.11	5
		Slalom	1:01.75	+22.13	11	51.40	+4.52	3	1:53.15	+26.33	9
		Super-G	—						1:08.91	-
		Super combined	1:10.87	+1.75	5	41.94	+2.85	3	1:52.81	+3.01
Dan Sheen	Sitting	Giant slalom	1:15.28	+17.37	32	DNF			Did not finish
		Slalom	1:04.90	+23.71	25	DNF			Did not finish
Alex Slegg	Sitting	Giant slalom	1:12.52	+14.61	30	1:08.38	+12.09	24	2:20.90	+26.70	26
		Slalom	54.88	+13.69	18	DSQ
James Whitley	Standing	Downhill	—						1:19.05	+4.13	9
		Giant slalom	1:01.08	+3.48	12	57.30	+0.60	2	1:58.38	+2.98	6
		Slalom	48.32	+7.84	18	54.27	+5.26	7	1:42.59	+12.98	8
		Super-G	—						1:14.88	+5.77	19
		Super combined	DSQ			Did not advance

On 22 February 2022, ParalympicsGB announced the selection of the three members of the cross-country team who will also compete in the biathlon.^[7] Scott Meenagh will be attending his second Games having also competed in both biathlon and cross-country skiing in 2018. On the eve of the Games Steve Arnold tested positive for Covid-19 and missed the first two biathlon events in which he was due to compete. However, he later recovered and was able to join the British team with a view to competing in the final event.^[8] Unfortunately, on his arrival in Beijing he again tested positive for Covid-19 and was forced to withdraw from the event.^[9]

Men

On 22 February 2022, ParalympicsGB revealed the nordic skiing team which had been selected for Beijing.^[10] Steve Thomas will be making his sixth Paralympics appearance having competed in ice sledge hockey in 2006 and in sailing at four successive Summer Paralympics between 2004-16. Hope Gordon will be the first British woman to compete in a nordic skiing event at the Games.^[11] On the eve of the Games Steve Arnold tested positive for Covid-19 and missed the first cross-country event in which he was due to compete. However, he later recovered and was able to join the British team for the final events.^[12] Unfortunately, on his arrival in Beijing he again tested positive for Covid-19 but recovered in time to compete in his final two scheduled events.^[13][14]

Women

Men

Relay

On 22 February 2022, ParalympicsGB announced the names of the four snowboarders who have been selected to represent their country in Beijing.^[15] James Barnes-Miller and Owen Pick will compete at their second Games having taken part when snowboarding made its inaugural Winter Paralympic appearance in 2018.

Men

Banked slalom

Athlete	Event	Run 1	Run 2	Best	Rank
Ollie Hill	Banked slalom, SB-LL2	1:10.45	1:10.51	1:10.45
Andy MacLeod		1:18.52	1:16.55	1:16.55	20
Owen Pick		1:10.64	1:11.91	1:10.64	4
James Barnes-Miller	Banked slalom, SB-UL	1:12.39	1:13.12	1:12.39	9

Snowboard cross

Qualification legend: FA – Qualify to medal round; FB – Qualify to consolation round

Great Britain has qualified to compete in wheelchair curling.^[16][17] On 4 January 2022, Paralympics GB announced the selection of the team to represent Great Britain in Beijing.^[18] On 2 February 2022, it was announced that Charlotte McKenna had withdrawn from the team due to injury. Her replacement will be Gary Smith.^[19]

Summary

Team	Event	Group stage											Semifinal	Final / BM
		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	Rank
Gregor Ewan Hugh Nibloe David Melrose Meggan Dawson-Farrell Gary Smith	Mixed	NOR L 5–7	USA W 10–6	SUI W 15–1	SVK L 3–7	EST W 10–5	SWE L 4–6	CAN L 3–6	KOR L 6–8	CHN L 3–6	LAT W 8–4	8	Did not advance

Round robin Final round-robin standings

Country	Skip	W	L	W–L	PF	PA	EW	EL	BE	SE	S%	DSC
China	Wang Haitao	8	2	–	68	39	36	28	2	13	71%	122.32
Slovakia	Radoslav Ďuriš	7	3	2–0	65	57	40	33	1	16	65%	95.19
Sweden	Viljo Petersson-Dahl	7	3	1–1	66	52	37	35	3	18	68%	91.08
Canada	Mark Ideson	7	3	0–2	69	50	36	33	2	11	71%	95.29
United States	Matthew Thums	5	5	1–0	60	75	32	39	2	6	60%	70.98
South Korea	Go Seung-nam	5	5	0–1	64	59	35	37	0	11	64%	103.20
Norway	Jostein Stordahl	4	6	2–0	60	64	37	38	2	13	64%	107.82
Great Britain	Hugh Nibloe	4	6	1–1	67	56	37	36	0	16	62%	134.75
Latvia	Poļina Rožkova	4	6	0–2	61	71	40	32	0	18	63%	100.43
Estonia	Andrei Koitmäe	3	7	–	51	69	32	41	2	13	61%	106.21
Switzerland	Laurent Kneubühl	1	9	–	48	87	32	42	0	8	56%	109.27

Wheelchair curling round robin summary table

Pos.	Country												Record
4	Canada	—	7–3	9–3	6–3	10–3	7–6	8–9	4–9	3–6	8–4	7–4	7–3
1	China	3–7	—	9–3	6–3	9–2	7–4	7–5	9–4	1–5	7–4	10–2	8–2
10	Estonia	3–9	3–9	—	5–10	6–5	8–3	6–7	2–5	4–6	8–6	6–9	3–7
8	Great Britain	3–6	3–6	10–5	—	8–4	5–7	3–7	6–8	4–6	15–1	10–6	4–6
9	Latvia	3–10	2–9	5–6	4–8	—	6–8	8–4	8–4	9–7	9–7	7–8	4–6
7	Norway	6–7	4–7	3–8	7–5	8–6	—	9–3	4–9	6–8	8–5	5–6	4–6
2	Slovakia	9–8	5–7	7–6	7–3	4–8	3–9	—	7–2	6–5	8–6	9–3	7–3
6	South Korea	9–4	4–9	5–2	8–6	4–8	9–4	2–7	—	10–4	7–8	6–7	5–5
3	Sweden	6–3	5–1	6–4	6–4	7–9	8–6	5–6	4–10	—	9–2	10–7	7–3
11	Switzerland	4–8	4–7	6–8	1–15	7–9	5–8	6–8	8–7	2–9	—	5–8	1–9
5	United States	4–7	2–10	9–6	6–10	8–7	6–5	3–9	7–6	7–10	8–5	—	5–5

Draw 1 Saturday, March 5, 14:35 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Norway (Stordahl) 0 2 2 0 0 1 2 0 7  Great Britain (Nibloe) 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 5 Draw 2 Saturday, March 5, 19:35 Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  United States (Thums) 2 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 6  Great Britain (Nibloe) 0 0 3 0 2 0 2 3 10 Draw 6 Monday, March 7, 9:35 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Switzerland (Kneubühl) 0 0 0 0 1 0 X X 1  Great Britain (Nibloe) 4 1 5 1 0 4 X X 15 Draw 8 Monday, March 7, 19:35 Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Great Britain (Nibloe) 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 3  Slovakia (Ďuriš) 1 0 2 2 0 1 0 1 7 Draw 9 Tuesday, March 8, 9:35 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Great Britain (Nibloe) 0 3 2 0 4 1 0 X 10  Estonia (Koitmäe) 1 0 0 3 0 0 1 X 5

Draw 11 Tuesday, March 8, 19:35 Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Great Britain (Nibloe) 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 4  Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 6 Draw 13 Wednesday, March 9, 14:35 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Canada (Ideson) 0 0 1 1 0 2 2 X 6  Great Britain (Nibloe) 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 X 3 Draw 14 Wednesday, March 9, 19:35 Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  South Korea (Jang) 3 0 2 0 0 2 0 1 8  Great Britain (Nibloe) 0 1 0 2 1 0 2 0 6 Draw 15 Thursday, March 10, 9:35 Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  China (Wang) 1 0 1 0 2 1 1 X 6  Great Britain (Nibloe) 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 X 3 Draw 16 Thursday, March 10, 14:35 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final  Great Britain (Nibloe) 1 3 0 3 1 0 0 X 8  Latvia (Briedis) 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 X 4

• Great Britain at the Paralympics
• Great Britain at the 2022 Winter Olympics