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The Ukrainian team is winning medals at the 2026 Winter Paralympics in Italy. The Games opened on March 6 in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo. Ukraine boycotted the opening ceremony due to the participation of Russia and Belarus but is competing in the events.
A total of 79 medal events are being held, and Ukraine is represented by 25 athletes—a record for the country at the Winter Paralympics—along with 10 guides.
Ukraine’s medals at the 2026 Paralympics
(updated as of March 8)
Gold
Taras Rad – Biathlon, men’s sprint 7.5 km, sitting class
Oleksandra Kononova – Biathlon, women’s sprint, standing class
Oleksandr Kazik – Biathlon, men’s sprint, visually impaired
Silver
Yaroslav Reshetynskyi – Biathlon, men’s sprint, visually impaired
Oleksandra Kononova – Biathlon, women’s individual race, standing class
Maksym Murashkovskyi – Biathlon, men’s individual race, visually impaired
Bronze
Liudmyla Liashenko – Biathlon, women’s sprint, standing class
Anatolii Kovalevskyi – Biathlon, men’s sprint, visually impaired
Taras Rad – Biathlon, men’s individual race, sitting class
Dmytro Suiarko – Biathlon, men’s individual race, visually impaired
At the previous 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing, Ukraine finished second in the medal table, winning 29 medals: 11 gold, 10 silver, and 8 bronze.
