The National Paralympic Committee of Ukraine has approved the composition of the national team for the 2026 Winter Paralympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, which will take place after the Olympic Games from March 6 to 15. We would like to remind you that our delegation decided to boycott the opening ceremony in Verona due to the participation of Russians and Belarusians in the Paralympic Games under their flags.
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A record number of athletes will compete under the yellow-blue flag in Italy – 35 (25 Paralympic athletes and 10 guide athletes), who will compete for medals in four sports – cross-country skiing, biathlon (athletes with musculoskeletal injuries and visual impairments), alpine skiing, and snowboarding.
In general, the composition of the Ukrainian national team for the 2026 Paralympics is as follows:
Paralympic races and parabiathlon (with musculoskeletal injuries) — Hryhoriy Vovchynskyi, Dmytro Sereda, Serhiy Romanyuk, Serafym Dragun, Oleksandr Aleksyk, Pavlo Bal, Vasyl Kravchuk, Taras Rad, Hryhoriy Shymko, Iryna Bui, Lyudmila Lyashenko, Oleksandra Kononova, Bohdana Konashuk;
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Paralympic races and parabiathlon (with hearing impairments) — Oleksandr Kazyk, Anatoliy Kovalevskyi, Yaroslav Reshetynskyi, Dmytro Suyarko, Maksym Murashkovskyi, Ihor Kravchuk; Romana Lyubasheva, Ilona Kazyk, Oksana Shyshkova, Oleksandra Danylenko; leading athletes — Serhiy Kucheryavyi, Dmytro Dragun, Artem Kazaryan, Oleksandr Mukshin, Oleksandr Nikonovych, Andriy Dotsenko, Vitaliy Trush, Mykyta Stakhurskyi, Daryna Kovaleva, Anastasia Shabaldina;
para-mountain skiing — Maksym Gelyuta;
parasnowboarding — Vladyslav Khilchenko.
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We would like to add that 79 sets of medals will be played at the 2026 Paralympic Games in six sports (our paraathletes will not be represented only in wheelchair hockey and curling).
Recall that at the 2022 Paralympic Games, 29 Ukrainian athletes and guides competed in cross-country skiing and biathlon. With 29 medals (11 gold, 10 silver, 8 bronze), Ukraine took second place in the overall team standings, behind China.
Previously, “FACTS” reported that Russia and Belarus were removed from the 2022 Paralympic Games in Beijing.
Photo National Paralympic Committee of Ukraine
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