{"id":1369834,"date":"2026-03-15T21:17:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T19:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-2026-paralympics-have-ended-ukraine-took-seventh-place-overall-and-won-19-medals\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T21:17:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T19:17:32","slug":"the-2026-paralympics-have-ended-ukraine-took-seventh-place-overall-and-won-19-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-2026-paralympics-have-ended-ukraine-took-seventh-place-overall-and-won-19-medals\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2026 Paralympics have ended: Ukraine took seventh place overall and won 19 medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Sunday, March 15, 2026, the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games concluded in the Italian cities of Milan and Cortina d&#8217;Ampezzo. The Ukrainian national team finished the competition in 7th place in the final medal standings, winning 19 awards.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paralympic.org\/milano-cortina-2026\/results#\/medals\/standings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was reported by<\/a> the International Paralympic Committee.<\/p>\n<p> The final performance for Ukraine at these Games was <strong>a silver medal<\/strong> in cross-country skiing. In the individual 20 km freestyle race, the silver medal was won by Oleksandr Kazik and his guide Serhiy Kucheryavy, representing Vinnytsia region. The athletes competed in the visually impaired athletes class.<\/p>\n<p> This is the third award for this tandem at the 2026 Paralympics. They have one gold and two silver medals to their name at the Games in Milan and Cortina d&#8217;Ampezzo.<\/p>\n<p> In total, the Ukrainian team finished the Paralympics with <strong>19 medals<\/strong> : <strong>3 gold, 8 silver, and 8 bronze<\/strong> . Almost all of the awards were won by Ukrainian athletes in parabiathlon, while several more medals were won in cross-country skiing.<\/p>\n<p> A separate achievement for the team was the silver medal in the mixed cross-country ski relay. The silver medalists in the 4\u00d72.5 km discipline were Pavlo Bal, Taras Rad, Oleksandra Kononova, and Lyudmila Lyashenko.<\/p>\n<p> The largest number of awards among Ukrainian athletes at these Games was won by <strong>Oleksandra Kononova<\/strong> . She has 5 medals of various categories.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Gold medals<\/strong> for Ukraine at the 2026 Paralympics were won by:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li> Taras Rad \u2014 parabiathlon, sprint (sitting class);<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Alexandra Kononova \u2014 parabiathlon, sprint (standing class);<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Oleksandr Kazik, together with guide Serhiy Kucheryavy, is a parabiathlon, sprint (class for athletes with visual impairment).<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p> <strong>Silver medals<\/strong> were won by:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li> Oleksandr Kazik and Serhiy Kucheryavyi \u2014 parabiathlon, pursuit race; cross-country skiing, 20 km (visual impairment);<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Yaroslav Reshetynskyi together with guide Dmytro Dragun \u2014 parabiathlon, sprint (visual impairment);<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Maksym Murashkovskyi together with guide Vitaly Trush \u2014 parabiathlon, individual race (visual impairment);<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Taras Rad \u2014 parabiathlon, pursuit race (sitting class);<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Iryna Bui \u2014 parabiathlon, pursuit race (standing class);<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Hryhoriy Vovchynskyi \u2014 parabiathlon, pursuit race (standing class);<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Pavlo Bal, Taras Rad, Oleksandra Kononova and Lyudmila Lyashenko \u2014 cross-country skiing, mixed relay 4\u00d72.5 km.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p> <strong>Bronze awards<\/strong> were won by:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li> Oleksandra Kononova \u2014 parabiathlon, individual race; parabiathlon, pursuit race; cross-country skiing, 20 km (standing class);<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Anatoliy Kovalevskyi together with guide Oleksandr Mukshin \u2014 parabiathlon, sprint and pursuit race (visual impairment);<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Lyudmila Lyashenko \u2014 parabiathlon, sprint (standing class);<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Taras Rad \u2014 parabiathlon, individual race (sitting class);<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Dmytro Suyarko, together with guide Oleksandr Nikonovich, parabiathlon, individual race (visual impairment).<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p> In the overall medal standings, <strong>the Chinese team won<\/strong> <strong>44 medals<\/strong> : 15 gold, 13 silver, and 16 bronze. <strong>The US<\/strong> team took second place with <strong>24 awards<\/strong> . Ukraine finished the Games in 7th place.<\/p>\n<p> Final medal standings (top 10):<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li> China \u2014 15 gold, 13 silver, 16 bronze \u2014 44 medals;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> USA \u2014 13, 5, 6 \u2014 24;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Russia \u2014 8, 1, 3 \u2014 12;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Italy \u2014 7, 7, 2 \u2014 16;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Austria \u2014 7, 2, 4 \u2014 13;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> France \u2014 4, 4, 4 \u2014 12;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Ukraine \u2014 3, 8, 8 \u2014 19;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Canada \u2014 3, 4, 8 \u2014 15;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Sweden \u2014 3, 0, 4 \u2014 7;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Germany \u2014 2, 6, 9 \u2014 17. <\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1369827 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/chrome-capture-2026-03-15-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1297\" height=\"731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/chrome-capture-2026-03-15-1.png 1297w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/chrome-capture-2026-03-15-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/chrome-capture-2026-03-15-1-1024x577.png 1024w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/chrome-capture-2026-03-15-1-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/chrome-capture-2026-03-15-1-650x366.png 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1297px) 100vw, 1297px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> The result of the Ukrainian national team at the Games in Italy was <strong>the worst in the last 20 years<\/strong> . The last time the team demonstrated a similar result was at the 2006 Paralympics in Turin. Ukrainian athletes won fewer awards only at the first two Winter Paralympics with the participation of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Ukraine&#8217;s results at the Winter Paralympic Games<\/strong> :<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li> Nagano 1998 \u2014 0 gold, 2 silver, 7 bronze \u2014 9 medals (14th place);<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Salt Lake City 2002 \u2014 0, 6, 6 \u2014 12 (18th place);<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Turin-2006 \u2014 7, 9, 9 \u2014 25 (3rd place);<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Vancouver 2010 \u2014 5, 8, 6 \u2014 19 (4th place);<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Sochi 2014 \u2014 5, 9, 11 \u2014 25 (4th place);<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Pyeongchang-2018 \u2014 7, 7, 8 \u2014 22 (6th place);<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Beijing 2022 \u2014 11, 10, 8 \u2014 29 (2nd place);<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Milan-2026 \u2014 3, 8, 8 \u2014 19 (7th place).<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p> The next Winter Paralympic Games are scheduled for 2030 in the French Alps.<\/p>\n<p> It was reported the day before that Ukrainian athlete Oleksandra <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraina-zdobula-bronzu-na-paralimpiadi-2026-u-lyzhniy-hontsi-na-20-kilometriv\/\">Kononova won a bronze medal in the women&#8217;s 20 km standing cross-country skiing event<\/a> at the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games in Italy. This award became Ukraine&#8217;s 18th medal at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/vzhe-17-medaley-ukraina-zdobula-sriblo-u-lyzhniy-estafeti-na-paralimpiadi-2026\/\">the Ukrainian national team won a silver medal in the mixed relay in para-skiing at the 2026 Paralympic Games<\/a> in Milan-Cortina. This award became the 17th medal of the Ukrainian team at the current Paralympics.<\/p>\n<p> Recall that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/paralimpiada-2026-ukrainski-parabiatlonisty-zdobuly-try-medali\/\">Ukrainian athletes won three awards in the parabiathlon sprint pursuit at the 2026 Paralympic Games<\/a> . The team&#8217;s assets were added to two silver and one bronze medals.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, March 15, 2026, the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games concluded in the Italian cities of Milan and Cortina d&#8217;Ampezzo. The Ukrainian national team finished the competition in 7th place in the final medal standings, winning 19 awards. This was reported by the International Paralympic Committee. The final performance for Ukraine at these Games was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1359517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76875,76895,76871],"class_list":["post-1369834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-sports","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369834","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\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1359517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}