Italy at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

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Italy at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

IPC code	ITA
NPC	Comitato Italiano Paralimpico
Website	www.comitatoparalimpico.it (in Italian)
in Pyeongchang
Competitors	25 in 4 sports
Flag bearer	Florian Planker (ice sledge hockey)
Medals Ranked 12th	Gold 2 Silver 2 Bronze 1 Total 5
Winter Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Italy competed at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea The delegation was composed by 25 competitors,^[1] and won 5 medals (two gold), after the "zero" in Sochi 2014.

Participants

25 in 4 sports, all the athletes are men.^[2]

Sport	Men	Total
Alpine skiing (30) (details)	3	3
Cross-country skiing (20) (details)	1	1
Para ice hockey (1) (details)	17	17
Snowboarding (10) (details)	4	4
Total	25	25

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Giacomo Bertagnolli Guide: Fabrizio Casal	Alpine skiing	Men's giant slalom, visually impaired	March 14
Gold	Giacomo Bertagnolli Guide: Fabrizio Casal	Alpine skiing	Men's slalom, visually impaired	March 17
Silver	Giacomo Bertagnolli Guide: Fabrizio Casal	Alpine skiing	Men's Super-g, visually impaired	March 11
Silver	Manuel Pozzerle	Snowboarding	Men's Snowboard cross SB-LL2	March 12
Bronze	Giacomo Bertagnolli Guide: Fabrizio Casal	Alpine skiing	Men's downhill, visually impaired	March 10

Para ice hockey

Italy finished 4th.

Semifinals		Gold medal game

15 March

Canada	7
		18 March
South Korea	0
		Canada	1
15 March
		United States	2
United States	10

Italy	1
		Bronze medal game

		17 March

		South Korea	1

		Italy	0

Summary

Key:

OT – Overtime
GWS – Match decided by penalty-shootout

Team	Group stage				Semifinal / Pl.	Final / BM / Pl.
Team	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Italy men's	Norway W 3–2 GWS	Canada L 0–10	Sweden W 2–0	2 QS	United States

Preliminary round

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Canada	3	3	0	0	0	35	0	+35	9	Semifinals
2	Italy	3	1	1	0	1	5	12	−7	5	Semifinals
3	Norway	3	1	0	1	1	5	12	−7	4	5–8th place semifinals
4	Sweden	3	0	0	0	3	1	22	−21	0	5–8th place semifinals

Source: PyeongChang 2018

10 March 2018
12:00

Norway

2–3 GWS
(0–0, 1–1, 1–1)
(OT 0–0)
(SO: 0–1)

Italy

Gangneung Hockey Centre
Attendance: 5,543

Game reference

Kjell Christian Hamar

Goalies

Gabriele Araudo

Referee:

Kevin Webinger
Linesmen:

Chae Young-jin

David Nothegger

	0–1	16:02 – Kalegaris (Leperdi)
Værnes (Nordstoga, Hamre) (PP) – 26:32	1–1
	1–2	33:19 – Rosa (Larch)
Bakke (Nordstoga, Pedersen) – 42:25	2–2

Solberg

Vatne

Pedersen

Shootout

Larch

Rosa

6 min

Penalties

4 min

Shots

11 March 2018
19:00

Canada

10–0
(3–0, 4–0, 3–0)

Italy

Gangneung Hockey Centre
Attendance: 4,795

Game reference

Corbin Watson

Goalies

Santino Stillitano

Referee:

Sotaro Yamaguchi
Linesmen:

David Nothegger

Leon Wesley

McGregor (Dixon, Westlake) (PP) – 03:59	1–0
Dixon (Sholomicki) – 09:21	2–0
Delaney (Cozzolino, Armstrong) – 11:36	3–0
Hickey (Bridges, Delaney) – 17:03	4–0
Hickey – 19:11	5–0
Delaney (Sholomicki) (SH) – 20:20	6–0
Delaney (Sholomicki) (SH) – 25:34	7–0
Cozzolino (Bridges) – 33:06	8–0
Dunn (SH) – 36:27	9–0
Dunn – 41:23	10–0

24 min

Penalties

6 min

Shots

12 March 2018
19:00

Italy

2–0
(1–0, 0–0, 1–0)

Sweden

Gangneung Hockey Centre
Attendance: 4,322

Game reference

Gabriele Araudo

Goalies

Ulf Nilsson

Referee:

Sotaro Yamaguchi
Linesmen:

Jan Vaněk

Leon Wesley

Kalegaris (Planker, Rosa) (PP) – 13:16	1–0
Rosa – 39:36	2–0

10 min

Penalties

8 min

Shots

Semifinal

15 March 2018
20:00

United States

10–1
(5–0, 3–0, 2–1)

Italy

Gangneung Hockey Centre
Attendance: 4,889

Game reference

Steve Cash
Jen Lee

Goalies

Gabriele Araudo
Santino Stillitano

Referee:

Kevin Webinger
Linesmen:

Chae Young-jin

Matt Clark

Grove (Landeros) – 03:23	1–0
Misiewicz (Pauls, Roybal) – 03:58	2–0
Roybal (Pauls, Misiewicz) – 04:09	3–0
Landeros (PP) – 13:50	4–0
McDermott (Grove) – 14:56	5–0
Roybal (Misiewicz) (PP) – 22:52	6–0
Landeros (Carron, Farmer) – 23:35	7–0
Farmer (Page, Pauls) – 27:44	8–0
McKee (Grove, Page) – 33:32	9–0
	9–1	38:30 – Corvino (Depaoli) (PP)
Landeros (Roybal, Hanning) (PP) – 42:03	10–1

16 min

Penalties

14 min

Shots

References

^ "NPC Entries - Italy". pyeongchang2018.com. Archived from the original on 8 March 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
^ "Italy - Participants". Archived from the original on 8 March 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2018.

v t e Nations at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea
America	Argentina Brazil Canada Chile Mexico United States
Asia	China Iran Japan Kazakhstan Mongolia North Korea South Korea Tajikistan Uzbekistan
Europe	Andorra Armenia Austria Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Georgia Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Italy Netherlands Norway Poland Romania Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
Oceania	Australia New Zealand
Others	Neutral Paralympic Athletes

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References