Italy at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

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.

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
1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018

Participants

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

Sport	Women	Men	Total
Alpine skiing (30) ()	0	3	3
Cross-country skiing (20) ()	0	1	1
Para ice hockey (1) ()	0	17	17
Snowboarding (10) ()	0	4	4
Total	0	25	25

Medalists

Main article: 2018 Winter Paralympics medal table

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

Main article: Para ice hockey at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

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.
	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	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
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

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
	12	Shots	18

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
	16	Shots	4

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
	20	Shots	2

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
	33	Shots	4

See also

• Italy at the Paralympics
• Italy at the 2018 Winter Olympics

References

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