New Zealand's delegation consisted of three competitors in alpine skiing, one of whom, Corey Peters, won a silver medal in the giant slalom.

[5] Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; or Les autres.

Les autres includes+ any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis.

[8] Adam Hall was born with spina bifida; he said he considers himself "lucky" because he is able to stand with this condition, when most people that have it are confined to a wheelchair.

[10] In the Slalom, he was inside the top 10 for both heats, finishing with a combined time of one minute and 44 seconds, good enough for 7th place.

[10][11] In the Super combined he finished 4th, his time was a mere 24 hundredths of a second out of bronze medal position.

[14][16][17] For the 2014 Winter Paralympics, snowboard cross was considered a discipline of Alpine skiing, rather than a separate sport.