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.

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

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

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

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

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 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
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

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

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