Monday 12 March 2018

Pyeongchang Paralympics Day One

A delayed review of the opening day begins with early joy for ParalympicsGB with as Millie Knight and her guide Brett Wild claimed silver in the Women's Downhill - Visually Impaired with Henrieta Farkasova and her guide Natalia Surbotova (SVK) taking the gold and Eleonor Sana and her guide Chloe Sana (BEL) collecting bronze. The Men's event saw Mac Marcoux and his guide Jack Leitch (CAN) winning gold ahead of Jakub Krako and his guide Branislav Brozman (SVK) who took silver and Giacomo Bertagnolli and his guide Fabrizio Casal (ITA) who collected bronze.

Continuing on Alpine Skiing, the Women's Downhill-Standing saw gold won by Marie Bochet (FRA) with Andrea Rothfuss (GER) securing silver and Mollie Jepsen (CAN) earning bronze. The Men's event saw gold for Theo Gmur (SUI) ahead of Arthur Bauchet (FRA) who collected silver and Marcus Salcher (AUT) who took bronze.

Gold for Germany's Anna Schaffelhuber in the Women's Downhill - Sitting with Momoka Muraoka (JPN) taking silver and Laurie Stephens (USA) collecting bronze. The Men's event saw gold won by Andrew Kurka (USA) with Taiki Morii (JPN) taking silver and Corey Peters (NZL) collecting bronze.

Moving onto Biathlon, the Women's 6km Sitting saw a 1-2 for USA as Kendall Gretsch took gold and Oksana Masters collecting silver while Lidziya Hrafeyeva (BLR) claimed bronze. In the Men's 7.5km - Standing, gold went to Benjamin Daviet (FRA) ahead of Mark Arendz (CAN) who secured silver and Ihor Reptyukh (UKR) who took bronze.

The Women's 6km- Visually Impaired saw gold won by Mikhalina Lysova and her guide Alexey Ivanov (NPA), Oksana Shyshkova and her guide Vitaly Kazakov (UKR) claimed silver while Sviatlana Sakahanenka and her guide Raman Yashchanka (BLR) earned bronze. The Men's 7.5km- Visually Impaired saw a 1st and 3rd for Ukraine as Vitaly Luk'Yanenko and his guide Ivan Marchyshak winning gold with Anatolii Kovalevskyi  and his guide Oleksandr Mukshyn claiming bronze while Yury Holub and his guide Dzmitry Budzilovich (BLR) collected silver.




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