{"id":1366676,"date":"2026-03-07T13:50:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraine-to-start-2026-paralympics-19-athletes-to-compete-on-first-day\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T13:50:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:50:38","slug":"ukraine-to-start-2026-paralympics-19-athletes-to-compete-on-first-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukraine-to-start-2026-paralympics-19-athletes-to-compete-on-first-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine to start 2026 Paralympics: 19 athletes to compete on first day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"83\" data-end=\"262\"><strong>The <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Ukrainian<\/span><\/span> national team is beginning its competition for <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games<\/span><\/span> . Nineteen Ukrainian athletes will compete on the first day of competition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"264\" data-end=\"448\"> Most of them \u2013 18 athletes \u2013 will compete in five biathlon races. Another Ukrainian para-athlete, <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Vladislav Khilchenko<\/span><\/span> , will compete in snowboard cross.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"450\" data-end=\"635\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> Live broadcasts of the competitions involving Ukrainians will be available on <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">the Public Sport<\/span><\/span> platform and on local <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Public<\/span><\/span> TV channels.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"450\" data-end=\"635\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/taras-rad-vyborov-pershe-zoloto-dlia-ukrainy-na-paralimpiadi-2026\/\">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> 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 Paralympics<\/span><\/span> . This is Ukraine&#8217;s first medal at the Games and also its first gold. <\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2118\" data-end=\"2375\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian national team is beginning its competition for the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games . Nineteen Ukrainian athletes will compete on the first day of competition. Most of them \u2013 18 athletes \u2013 will compete in five biathlon races. Another Ukrainian para-athlete, Vladislav Khilchenko , will compete in snowboard cross. Live broadcasts of the competitions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1364512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76895,77289],"class_list":["post-1366676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-sports","category-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366676","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=1366676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1364512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}