2009 New Zealand Winter Games
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The 2009 New Zealand Winter Games was a multi-sport event
that was held in the Otago Region of New Zealand
. It was held. It was the inaugal New Zealand Winter Games
and was organised by the Winter Games New Zealand Trust. Approximately 816 athletes from 41 nations participated in 51 event in seven disciplines.
Canada won the Team Trophy through points accumulated through the medals won during the games. The United States finished second and Japan third. The hosts, New Zealand finished in sixth place.
, Wanaka
and Naseby
. The Alpine skiing
events were situated at Coronet Peak
, which is just outside Queenstown. Outside Wanaka the cross-country skiing
events were held at the Snow Farm
ski area. The freestyle skiing
and snowboarding
events were split across three venues – The Remarkables, Cardrona Alpine Resort
and the Queenstown Resort College. The curling
events were held at the Maniototo Curling Rink in Naseby and both the figure skating
and ice hockey
was held at the Dunedin Ice Stadium
.
consisted of 16 events. The events include slalom
, giant slalom, super G, with both men and women's events. There are also International Paralympic Committee
(IPC) adaptive events for the giant slalom and slalom for men and women in the three categories of sitting, standing, and visually impared. The alpine skiing was originally meant to include an adaptive Super G category but it was cancelled due to weather.
The cross-country skiing
consisted of 15 events. The men's events included a 15km classic, a sprint freestyle and a 10km freestyle. The women's events inclued a 10km classic, a sprint freestyle and a 5km freestyle. The IPC events included a 10km event , a sprint event, a skate event, and a classic event for both men and women in the categories of sitting and standing. The freestyle skiing
consisted of five events including slopestyle
, halfpipe, with both men and women's events, and a men's big air event. The freestyle skiing was also meant to include ski cross but it was cancelled due to weather.
The snowboarding
consisted of five events including slopestyle, snowboard cross, halfpipe, with both men and women's events, and a men's big air event. A women's big air event was also meant to be included but was also cancelled due to weather. The curling
included two events, one for men and one for women, while the ice hockey
consisted of just one event with Australia competing against New Zealand. Figure skating
included six events for both men and women across the categories of junior, novice, and senior.
There were two demonstative sports at the 2009 New Zealand Winter Games. Winter triathlon
and an open men's and an open women's event, and the natural luge
consisted of a junior men's and a junior women's event.
Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events contested in each sport.
Key:
Multi-sport event
A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, featuring competition in many different sports between organized teams of athletes from nation-states. The first major, modern, multi-sport event of international significance was the modern Olympic Games.Many...
that was held in the Otago Region of New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
. It was held. It was the inaugal New Zealand Winter Games
New Zealand Winter Games
The New Zealand Winter Games is a multi-sport event held every two years for international athletes. The event is organised by the Winter Games New Zealand Trust.-Overview:...
and was organised by the Winter Games New Zealand Trust. Approximately 816 athletes from 41 nations participated in 51 event in seven disciplines.
Canada won the Team Trophy through points accumulated through the medals won during the games. The United States finished second and Japan third. The hosts, New Zealand finished in sixth place.
Venues
The venues for the 2009 New Zealand Winter Games were held around four locations in the Otago Region – QueenstownQueenstown, New Zealand
Queenstown is a resort town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island. It is built around an inlet called Queenstown Bay on Lake Wakatipu, a long thin Z-shaped lake formed by glacial processes, and has spectacular views of nearby mountains....
, Wanaka
Wanaka
Wanaka is a town in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand. It is situated at the southern end of Lake Wanaka, adjacent to the outflow of the lake to the Clutha River. It is the gateway to Mount Aspiring National Park. Wanaka is primarily a resort town but has both summer and winter...
and Naseby
Naseby, New Zealand
Naseby is a small town, formerly a borough, in the Maniototo area of Central Otago, New Zealand. It is named after a village in Northamptonshire, England....
. The Alpine skiing
Alpine skiing
Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four...
events were situated at Coronet Peak
Coronet Peak
Coronet Peak is a commercial skifield in Otago, New Zealand located 18 kilometres to the northeast of the town of Queenstown and seven kilometres west of Arrowtown, on the southern slopes of the 1,649 metre peak which shares its name...
, which is just outside Queenstown. Outside Wanaka the cross-country skiing
Cross-country skiing
Cross-country skiing is a winter sport in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles...
events were held at the Snow Farm
Snow Farm, New Zealand
Snow Farm is a ski area near Wanaka, New Zealand, dedicated to cross-country skiing. It features 55 km of trails, and the conference centre has accommodation for about 60 people. It is located on the Pisa range close to Cardrona, at an altitude of 1,515 m, 55 km from Queenstown and...
ski area. The freestyle skiing
Freestyle skiing
Freestyle skiing is form of skiing which used to encompass two disciplines: aerials, and moguls. Except the two disciplines mentioned earlier Freestyle Skiing now consists of Skicross, Half Pipe and Slope Style...
and snowboarding
Snowboarding
Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set onto mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing and skiing. It was developed in the U.S.A...
events were split across three venues – The Remarkables, Cardrona Alpine Resort
Cardrona Alpine Resort
Cardrona Alpine Resort is a ski resort in New Zealand's South Island. The skifield ranges from 1,260m to 1,894m. The distribution of slopes is 25% beginner, 50% intermediate and 25% advanced. There are 2 detachable quad chairlifts and 2 fixed-grip quad chairlift, 2 "magic carpet" learner lifts and...
and the Queenstown Resort College. The curling
Curling
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called "rocks", across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a...
events were held at the Maniototo Curling Rink in Naseby and both the figure skating
Figure skating
Figure skating is an Olympic sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice skates. Figure skaters compete at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level , and at local, national, and international competitions...
and ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
was held at the Dunedin Ice Stadium
Dunedin Ice Stadium
The Dunedin Ice Stadium is an ice rink in Saint Kilda, Dunedin, New Zealand.The rink was constructed in 2004 inside the structure of the former Dunedin Stadium, which had been used for netball and basketball but had been largely superseded by The Edgar Centre as a venue for these sports...
.
Participating nations
A total of 816 athletes and 295 management staff represented 41 countries at the 2009 New Zealand Winter Games.Sports Events
Seven winter sports events were included in the 2009 New Zealand Winter Games. The alpine skiingAlpine skiing
Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four...
consisted of 16 events. The events include slalom
Slalom skiing
Slalom is an alpine skiing discipline, involving skiing between poles spaced much closer together than in Giant Slalom, Super-G or Downhill, thereby causing quicker and shorter turns.- Origins :...
, giant slalom, super G, with both men and women's events. There are also International Paralympic Committee
International Paralympic Committee
The International Paralympic Committee is an international non-profit organisation and the global governing body for the Paralympic Movement. The IPC organizes the Paralympic Games and functions as the international federation for nine sports...
(IPC) adaptive events for the giant slalom and slalom for men and women in the three categories of sitting, standing, and visually impared. The alpine skiing was originally meant to include an adaptive Super G category but it was cancelled due to weather.
The cross-country skiing
Cross-country skiing
Cross-country skiing is a winter sport in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles...
consisted of 15 events. The men's events included a 15km classic, a sprint freestyle and a 10km freestyle. The women's events inclued a 10km classic, a sprint freestyle and a 5km freestyle. The IPC events included a 10km event , a sprint event, a skate event, and a classic event for both men and women in the categories of sitting and standing. The freestyle skiing
Freestyle skiing
Freestyle skiing is form of skiing which used to encompass two disciplines: aerials, and moguls. Except the two disciplines mentioned earlier Freestyle Skiing now consists of Skicross, Half Pipe and Slope Style...
consisted of five events including slopestyle
Slopestyle
Slopestyle is a popular type of competition for winter action sports; which originated as a snowboarding competition format. Today, there are many sports that are considered to have this style of competition, of which skiing and snowboarding are two of the most common...
, halfpipe, with both men and women's events, and a men's big air event. The freestyle skiing was also meant to include ski cross but it was cancelled due to weather.
The snowboarding
Snowboarding
Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set onto mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing and skiing. It was developed in the U.S.A...
consisted of five events including slopestyle, snowboard cross, halfpipe, with both men and women's events, and a men's big air event. A women's big air event was also meant to be included but was also cancelled due to weather. The curling
Curling
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called "rocks", across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a...
included two events, one for men and one for women, while the ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
consisted of just one event with Australia competing against New Zealand. Figure skating
Figure skating
Figure skating is an Olympic sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice skates. Figure skaters compete at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level , and at local, national, and international competitions...
included six events for both men and women across the categories of junior, novice, and senior.
There were two demonstative sports at the 2009 New Zealand Winter Games. Winter triathlon
Winter triathlon
Winter triathlon is a multisport event involving the continuous and sequential completion of running, mountain biking and cross-country skiing all on snow...
and an open men's and an open women's event, and the natural luge
Luge
A Luge is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine and feet-first. Steering is done by flexing the sled's runners with the calf of each leg or exerting opposite shoulder pressure to the seat. Racing sleds weigh 21-25 kilograms for singles and 25-30 kilograms for doubles. Luge...
consisted of a junior men's and a junior women's event.
Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events contested in each sport.
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Alpine skiing (16) -
Cross-country skiing (15) -
CurlingCurling at the 2009 New Zealand Winter GamesThe curling competition of the 2009 New Zealand Winter Games was held at the Maniototo Curling Rink in Naseby, New Zealand. Both the men's and women's competitions concluded on 29 August 2009...
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Figure skatingFigure skating at the 2009 New Zealand Winter GamesFigure skating was held as part of the 2009 New Zealand Winter Games. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's and ladies singles on the levels of Senior, Junior, and Novice. The competition was open to all ISU member nations...
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Freestyle skiing (5) -
Ice hockey (1) -
Snowboarding (5)
Medal table
Seventeen of the 41 countries that participated in the games won medals. Canada topped the medal table with ten golds, beating Japan only with the number of silver medals it attained. Canada also won the Team Trophy which is decided based points accumulated according to medals won. The United States and Japan finished second and third resprectively. The hosts finished sixth in both the medal table and the Team Trophy standings.Key:
| 1 | 10 | 14 | 9 | 33 | |
| 2 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 22 | |
| 3 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 20 | |
| 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 10 | |
| 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | |
| 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 14 | |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | |
| 8 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | |
| 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |
| 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
| 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 12 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |