Saturday 24 March 2018

Pyeongchang Paralympics Days Eight and Nine

Day Eight saw a huge amount of medal events and the review will start with Alpine Skiing, the Men's Slalom - Visually Impaired saw Italian duo Giacomo Bertagnolli and his guide Fabrizio Casal finish ahead of Jakub Krako and his guide Branislav Brozman (SVK) who secured silver and Valeri Redkozubov and his guide Evgeny Geroev (NPA) who collected bronze.  The Men's Slalom- Standing saw gold won by New Zealand's Adam Hall as he took the title ahead of Arthur Bauchet (FRA) who collected silver and Jamie Stanton (USA) who claimed bronze. The Men's Slalom - Sitting was won by Dino Sokolovic as he took the gold ahead of Tyler Walker (USA) and Frederic Francois (FRA) who collected silver and bronze. 

Over in Cross-Country Skiing, the Men's 10km Classic, Visually Impaired was won by Canadian's Brian McKeever and his guide Graham Nishikawa while Jake Adicoff and his guide Sawyer Kesselheim (USA) secured silver and Yury Holub and his guide Dzmitry Budzilovich (BLR) claimed bronze. The Women's 7.5km Classic - Visually Impaired saw gold won by Sviatlana Sakhanenka and her guide Raman Yashchanka (BLR) as they finished ahead of Mikhalina Lysova and her guide Alexey Ivanov (NPA) who secured silver while Carina Edlinger and her guide Julian Edlinger (AUT) earned bronze.

The Men's 10km Classic-Standing saw gold won by Yoshihiro Nitta (JPN) with Grygorii Vovchynskyi (UKR) sealing silver and Mark Arendz (CAN) taking bronze. A 1st/3rd for Canada in the Women's 7.5km Standing as Natalie Wilkie won gold and Emily Young battled for bronze behind Ekaterina Rumyantseva (NPA) who collected silver. Gold for host nation South Korea as Sin Eui Hyun won the Men's 7.5km - Sitting ahead of Daniel Cnossen (USA) who claimed silver and Maksym Yarovyi (UKR) who earned bronze. The Women's 5km - Sitting saw another gold of the games for Oksana Masters (USA) as she finished ahead of Andrea Eskau (GER) who sealed silver and Marta Zainullina (NPA) who collected bronze.

The first medal of the games in Para Hockey went to the hosts South Korea as they defeated Italy to claim the bronze medal while in Wheelchair Curling, South Korea missed out on a medal as they lost 5-3 to Canada who took the bronze. The gold medal match saw a closely run battle as China edged a 6-5 win over Norway who took the silver. 



Day Nine

An historic day for ParalympicsGB as the duo of Menna Fitzpatrick and guide Jen Kehoe became GB's most decorated Winter Paralympians as they took gold in the Women's Slalom - Visually Impaired, there was more joy as compatriots Millie Knight and guide Brett Wild claimed bronze while Henrieta Farkasova and guide Natalia Subrtova (SVK) collected silver. 

Gold for Marie Bochet (FRA) in the Women's Slalom - Standing as she finished ahead of Mollie Jepsen (CAN) who secured silver and Andrea Rothfuss (GER) who earned bronze. The Women's Slalom -Sitting saw gold for Anna-Lena Forster (GER) with Momoka Muroka (JPN) claiming silver and Heike Eder (AUT) collecting bronze. Over in Cross-Country Skiing, gold for Ukraine in the 4x2.5km Mixed Relay with Canada taking silver and Germany collecting bronze. The 4x2.5km Open Relay saw France take gold ahead of Norway and Canada who collected silver and bronze. 

A superb Para Hockey final saw a narrow 2-1 win for USA as they took gold leaving Canada to collect silver.


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