::HOPAU:: Australia at the 2014 Winter Paralympics
Greg Blood
Dear All
With the Sochi Games over I have finished updating - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_at_the_2014_Winter_Paralympics
Australia won two bronze medals and finished 19th on the Medal table. It was a difficult Games for the Australian team and I hope this was reflected in the article.
I have updated all athlete and guide Wikipedia profiles as well as Australia at the Winter Paralympics (30 medals now won) and Australia at the Paralympics.
Let me know if you see any errors and if there are any other comments to add to the article.
Well done to all our Winter Paralympians. Alpine skiing this is the most difficult Paralympic sport – skiing down a mountain at 80km an hour with a disability.
Cheers
Greg
Tony Naar
Thanks Greg!
In the next week I will try to get hold of some photos from Sochi that Elizabeth might like to upload (just to keep in practice) into Wikimedia Commons for use in the article and also for use in the athletes’ articles.
By my calculations, Ben Tudhope was 14 years and 84 days old on the day of the opening ceremony of the Sochi Games.
That seems to make him the youngest ever Australian winter athlete, and also the second youngest ever Australian Paralympic athlete.
I have just re-checked an email trail from 2012, which also involved Anne Brunnell (Anne Currie) and Elizabeth Mills (Edmondson) and it seems that we have the following as the youngest Paralympians, all of whom were 14 or younger at their first Games:
Youngest ever Australian Paralympian and youngest gold medallist (relay) – Maddison Elliott (13 years and 300 days at the opening ceremony) London 2012
Second youngest Australian Paralympian and youngest winter Paralympian – Ben Tudhope (14 years and 84 days at the opening ceremony) Sochi 2014
Youngest ever Australian Paralympic medal winner in an individual event – Anne Brunnell (Currie) (13 years and 340 days at the opening ceremony) New York 1984. Bronze in the 100m A1 freestyle.
Youngest ever Australian Paralympic gold medal winner in an individual event – Elizabeth Mills (Edmondson) (14 years and 124 days at the opening ceremony) Tokyo 1964. Gold in the 50m Class 5 Breaststroke, Gold in the 50m Class 5 Backstroke, Gold in the 50m Class 5 Freestyle.
There’s a list just waiting to be made here!
Regards,
TN
Tony Naar | General Manager, Knowledge Services
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On Monday, 17 March 2014, Tony Naar <Tony...@paralympic.org.au> wrote:
Thanks Greg! And thanks Tony - for working out youngest Paralympians - I am the oldest youngest!
Greg Blood
Hi Tony
Photos will greatly enhance the article.
The information is very useful but will need to be added to the APC website to include it in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_at_the_Paralympics
Cheers
Greg
Tony Naar
Elizabeth,
Would love to do a list of Australian world record holders full stop! However, I fear that it would be next to impossible already, to go back any further than the mid-90s due to the lack of records.
I would love to be proved wrong!
Regards,
TN
Tony Naar | General Manager, Knowledge Services
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Elizabeth Mills
Cheers Elizabeth
Elizabeth,
Would love to do a list of Australian world record holders full stop! However, I fear that it would be next to impossible already, to go back any further than the mid-90s due to the lack of records.
I would love to be proved wrong!
Regards,
TN
Tony Naar | General Manager, Knowledge Services
Australian Paralympic Committee | PO Box 596 Sydney Markets NSW 2129
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Tony Naar
Thanks Greg!
Total is 16,469 pageviews of articles about Australian athletes and the Australian Team and 176,913 when the main Games article is added to the total. It would be interesting to know the totals when classification and the various discipline articles are added as well.
Ross (Hawkeye7) used to be very good at assembling this data!
In any case, it is much less than the summer Games, where pageviews of all articles created through the Wikipedia Paralympic history project were viewed almost 2 million times in the period of the London Games!
Regards,
TN
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Tony Naar
Our stats guru at the APC, Kieran Courtney, has provided the following data on the Sochi Games which may be of interest:
Who participated: (Note: athletes figures exclude VI Guides):
· There were 547 athletes competing (418 males - 76.4% - and 129 females - 23.6%). This was 63.2% of Village accreditations.
· There were 45 countries competing, the most ever at a winter Games.
· There were be 318 full accredited team staff - 36.8% of Village accreditations.
· Total 865 athletes and team staff.
· Russia had largest team size with 111 - 12.8% of the total (69 athletes & 42 team staff), however USA had most number of athletes with 74 (13.5% of all athletes) & 28 staff for a total of 102
· Andorra the Islamic Republic of Iran were the smallest teams with 1 athlete each & no team staff.
· Australia was the 20th largest team size of 13 (1.5%), but 19th on athletes numbers alone with 9 (1.6%) athletes.
· Australia’s female contingent of 4 was =11th largest of female athletes (there were 25 nations out of the 45 with female representation). 44% of Australia’s athletes were female (excluding the guides), which is about the same as the 2012 summer team.
· Australia’s male contingent of 5 was =20th largest of male athletes (Romania was the only country without a male competitor).
· USA had the largest male (54) & female (20) contingents (Total 74 athletes).
· Alpine skiing/snowboarding was the largest discipline in the Games with 219 (40.0%) athletes. It also had the largest female contingent with 56 (43.4%) females out of 129. So Australia’s female ratio was pretty much in line with the overall alpine skiing female ratio.
· Ice Sledge Hockey was the only discipline that did not have female athletes competing.
· Wheelchair Curling was smallest discipline with only 50 (9.1%) athletes (10 team competition).
· Alpine Skiing/snowboarding had the largest number of NPCs, with 40 countries vying for medals.
· Ice Sledge Hockey had the smallest number of NPCs with the competition limited to 8 nations.
· Europe was the continent with the largest representation at the Games - 338 (61.79%) athletes out of 547 athletes.
· Africa was not represented at the Games in any discipline.
· Oceania was the continent with the smallest representation - 12 (2.19%) athletes (9 AUS & 3 NZL) all 12 competed in Alpine Skiing/Snowboarding.
· Of the 219 Alpine Skiing/Snowboard athletes Europe was the continent with the largest number of athletes with 131 (59.8%) athletes.
· Europe had largest number of team staff with 196 (61.6%) out of 318 across all nations.
· Oceania had the smallest number of team sport staff with 8 (2.5%) (4 AUS & 4 NZL).
· In all there were 1598 sport entries
o Alpine Skiing/Snowboard had the largest with 670 (41.9%) sport entries
o Biathlon had 277 (17.3%)
o Cross Country had 472 (29.5%)
o Ice Hockey 129 athletes
o Wheelchair Curling 50 athletes
· 72 medal events:
o 32 Alpine Skiing/snowboard (44.4%)
o 18 Biathlon (25.0%)
o 20 Cross Country Skiing (27.7%)
o 1 Ice Sledge Hockey
o 1 Wheelchair Curing
Summary of Medallists / Medal Table Data from the Sochi Games:
Of the 547 athletes entered in the Games 167 (30.53%) achieved a medal. This includes the athletes in team sports (sledge hockey and curling).
Of the 45 countries entered in the Games 19 (42.22%) achieved a medal.
Of this 167 medallists 66 (39.52%) achieved a gold medal.
Of the 19 countries which achieved a medal 15 (78.95%) achieved a gold medal.
Of the 167 medallists 59 (35.33%) won multiple medals.
Of the 59 multi medallists 20 (33.90%) achieved multi gold medals.
The leading medallist of the Games was Roman PETUSHKOV (RUS) who achieved 6 gold medals in disciplines of Biathlon & Cross Country in Category of Men’s Sitting. Next best was Anna SCHAFFELHUBER (GER) who clean sweeped the Women’s Alpine Skiing Sitting Category with 5 gold medals & third was Marie BOCHET with 4 gold in Women’s Alpine Skiing Standing Category.
In total medals both Roman PETUSHKOV (RUS) as above & Mikhalina LYSOVA (RUS) in Women’s BT & CC Visually Impaired Category each achieved 6 medals.
Final Medal Table:
|
Rank |
Nation |
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
Total |
Rank by
|
|
1 |
Russia |
30 |
28 |
22 |
80 |
1 |
|
2 |
Germany |
9 |
5 |
1 |
15 |
5 |
|
3 |
Canada |
7 |
2 |
7 |
16 |
4 |
|
4 |
Ukraine |
5 |
9 |
11 |
25 |
2 |
|
5 |
France |
5 |
3 |
4 |
12 |
6 |
|
6 |
Slovakia |
3 |
2 |
2 |
7 |
8 |
|
7 |
Japan |
3 |
1 |
2 |
6 |
9 |
|
8 |
United States |
2 |
7 |
9 |
18 |
3 |
|
9 |
Austria |
2 |
5 |
4 |
11 |
7 |
|
10 |
Great Britain |
1 |
3 |
2 |
6 |
9 |
|
11 |
Norway |
1 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
11 |
|
11 |
Sweden |
1 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
11 |
|
13 |
Spain |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
13 |
|
14 |
Netherlands |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
16 |
|
14 |
Switzerland |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
16 |
|
16 |
Finland |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
16 |
|
16 |
New Zealand |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
16 |
|
18 |
Belarus |
0 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
13 |
|
19 |
Australia |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
15 |
|
Total |
|
72 |
72 |
72 |
216 |
|
Regards,
TN
Tony Naar | General Manager, Knowledge Services
Australian Paralympic Committee | PO Box 596 Sydney Markets NSW 2129
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