{"id":1366658,"date":"2026-03-07T12:44:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T10:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/taras-rad-won-ukraines-first-gold-medal-at-the-2026-paralympics\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T13:00:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:00:49","slug":"taras-rad-won-ukraines-first-gold-medal-at-the-2026-paralympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/taras-rad-won-ukraines-first-gold-medal-at-the-2026-paralympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Taras Rad won Ukraine&#8217;s first gold medal at the 2026 Paralympics."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"72\" data-end=\"297\"><strong>Ukrainian para-athlete <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Taras Rad<\/span><\/span> won a gold medal in the sitting class parabiathlon at <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games<\/span><\/span> . This is Ukraine&#8217;s first medal at the Games and also its first gold medal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"299\" data-end=\"355\">This was reported by <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Public Sport<\/span><\/span> .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"357\" data-end=\"479\">In the race, Rad overtook two representatives <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">from China<\/span><\/span> and climbed to the top step of the podium.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"481\" data-end=\"707\">This is the Ukrainian&#8217;s second Paralympic gold medal. At the previous Games, <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">the 2022 Winter Paralympics<\/span><\/span> in <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Beijing<\/span><\/span> , he won the 12.5km cross-country skiing championship.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"709\" data-end=\"834\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">A total of five Ukrainian athletes participated in this race. <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Vasily Kravchuk<\/span><\/span> took fourth place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian para-athlete Taras Rad won a gold medal in the sitting class parabiathlon at the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games . This is Ukraine&#8217;s first medal at the Games and also its first gold medal. &nbsp; This was reported by Public Sport . &nbsp; In the race, Rad overtook two representatives from China and climbed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1366651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76895],"class_list":["post-1366658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366659,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366658\/revisions\/1366659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1366651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}