Five Alpine Skiing Events of the Paralympic Winter Games

The five events of alpine skiing in the Winter Paralympic Games are downhill, super giant slalom, giant slalom, slalom and all-around.

Alpine skiing is a sport widely carried out in the world. Athletes need to master speed and agility at the same time to complete the competition, and the speed can reach about 100 km/h when going downhill.

Alpine skiing in the Winter Paralympic Games has five events, namely downhill, super giant slalom, giant slalom, slalom and all-around. Each subject is divided into three categories: standing posture, sitting posture and visual impairment. Men's and women's events are the same, with 30 sub-events.

Hardware facilities requirements for alpine skiing in winter paralympic games

The equipment of each group in alpine skiing competition of Paralympic Games is different. One-legged athletes use snowboarding with gliding AIDS or snowboarding with artificial limbs.

Athletes who have been amputated or paraplegic due to spinal injury use sitting skiers with gliding AIDS, and a single snowboard is usually installed under the sitting skiers; The competition of visually impaired athletes is guided and coordinated by leading skaters using walkie-talkies or speakers, while completely blind athletes need to wear all-black lens ski goggles.

The above contents refer to alpine skiing of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics Organizing Committee-Paralympics.