Thursday 22 March 2018

Pyeongchang Paralympics Days Two and Three

Day two opened with double joy for ParalympicsGB as Mille Knight (Guide-Brett Wild) and Menna Fitzpatrick (Guide- Jen Kehoe) claimed silver and bronze in the Women's Super-G Visually Impaired with Henrieta Farkasova (SVK) (Guide- Natalia Subrtova) taking the gold. 

The Men's event saw gold also taken by Slovakia with Jakub Krako (Guide- Branislav Brozman) winning while Giacomo Bertagnolli (ITA) (Guide- Fabrizio Casal) collected silver and Miroslav Haraus (SVK) (Guide- Maros Hudik) claiming bronze. 

In the Women's Super-G Standing, Marie Bochet (FRA) won gold ahead of Andrea Rothfuss (GER) who collected silver and Alana Ramsay (CAN) who earned bronze. The Men's event saw gold claimed by Theo Gmur (SUI) while Arthur Bauchet (FRA) secured silver and Markus Salcher (AUT) battled for bronze.

Gold for Germany's Anna Schaffelhuber in the Women's Super-G Sitting as she won ahead of Claudia Loesch (AUT) who took silver while Momoka Muraoka (JPN) collected bronze. The Men's event saw gold won by Canadian skier Kurt Oatway ahead of Andrew Kurka (USA) who collected silver and Frederic Francois (FRA) earning bronze.

Over in Cross Country Skiing, Gold for Ukraine's Maksym Yarovyi in the Men's 15km-Sitting with Daniel Cnossen (USA) securing silver and Sin Eui Hyun (KOR) earning bronze. The Women's 12km- Sitting saw double joy for the USA with Kendall Gretsch taking gold and Oksana Masters the bronze sandwiching the silver won by Andrea Eskau (GER).



Day Three

Day three's medals began with a 1-2 for USA in the Women's Snowboard Cross SB-LL1 with Brenna Huckaby winning gold and Amy Purdy securing silver while Cecile Hernandez (FRA) took bronze. The SB LL2 event saw a 1-2 for Netherlands as Bibian Mentel-Spee won gold ahead of Lisa Bunschoten while Astrid Fina Paredes (ESP) collected bronze.

Gold for Simon Patmore (AUS) in the Men's Snowboard Cross SB-UL as he finished ahead of Manuel Pozzerle (ITA) who took silver and Mike Minor (USA) who claimed bronze. The SB LL1 event saw a 1/3 for USA with Mike Schultz winning gold and Noah Elliot the bronze while Chris Vos (NED) secured silver. Gold for Finland's Matti Suur-Hamari in the SB-LL2 event ahead of Keith Gabel (USA) who collected silver and Gurimu Narita (JPN) who earned bronze.

Over in Cross Country Skiing, gold for Ihor Reptyukh (UKR) in the Men's 20km Free - Standing ahead of Benjamin Daviet (FRA) who secured silver and Hakon Olsrud (NOR) who earned bronze. A 1-2 for Neutral Paralympic Athletes in the Women's 15km Free- Standing as Ekaterina Rumyantseva won gold and Anna Milenina took silver ahead of Liudmyia Liashenko (UKR) who collected bronze. 

The Men's 20km Free- Visually Impaired saw Brian McKeever (CAN) win gold ahead of Yury Holub and guide Dzmitry Budzilovich (BLR) who secured silver and Thomas Clarion (Guide- Antoine Bollet) (FRA) who collected bronze. The Women's 15km Free- Visually Impaired saw gold won by Sviatlana Sakhanenka (Guide- Raman Yashchanka) (BLR) ahead of Oksana Shyshkova (Guide- Vitaly Kazakov) (UKR) who secured silver and Mikhalina Lysova (Guide- Alexey Ivanov) (NPA) who earned bronze.




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