Ukraine at the 2026 Winter Paralympics
Sporting event delegation
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Ukraine competed at the 2026 Winter Paralympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, from 4 to 15 March 2026. It is the eighth consecutive appearance at the Winter Paralympic Games as an independent nation since 1998.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
| Ukraine at the 2026 Winter Paralympics | |
|---|---|
| IPC code | UKR |
| NPC | National Sports Committee for the Disabled of Ukraine |
| Website | www |
| in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy 6 March 2026 – 15 March 2026 | |
| Competitors | 25 (and 9 sighted guides) (17 men and 8 women) in 4 sports |
| Medals Ranked 7th |
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| Winter Paralympics appearances (overview) | |
| Other related appearances | |
By the end of the first competition day, Ukraine ranked 1st at the medal table, winning 3 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals.[8] Ukraine managed to clench a podium sweep at para biathlon with Oleksandr Kazik and Serhii Kucheriavyi winning gold, Iaroslav Reshetynskyi and Dmytro Drahun winning silver, and Anatolii Kovalevskyi and Oleksandr Mukshyn winning bronze at the same event.[9]
Medalists
The following Ukrainian competitors won medals at the games. In the discipline sections below, the medalists' names are bold.[10]
| Medals by sport | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sport | Total | |||
| Para biathlon | 3 | 6 | 7 | 16 |
| Para cross-country skiing | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Total | 3 | 8 | 8 | 19 |
| Medals by date | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day | Date | Total | |||
| 1 | March 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 2 | March 8 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 3-6 | March 9-12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | March 13 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 8 | March 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | March 15 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Total | 3 | 8 | 8 | 19 | |
| Medals by gender | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | Total | |||
| Male | 2 | 6 | 4 | 12 |
| Female | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| Mixed | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 3 | 8 | 8 | 19 |
| Multiple medalists | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Sport | Total | ||||
| Taras Rad | Para biathlon / Para cross-country skiing | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |
| Oleksandr Kazik Guide: Serhii Kucheriavyi |
Para biathlon / Para cross-country skiing | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
| Oleksandra Kononova | Para biathlon / Para cross-country skiing | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |
| Liudmyla Liashenko | Para biathlon / Para cross-country skiing | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Anatolii Kovalevskyi Guide: Oleksandr Mukshyn |
Para biathlon | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline. Notably, 20 athletes participate in both para biathlon and para cross-country skiing.[1]
| Sport | Men | Women | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Para alpine skiing | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Para biathlon | 15 | 8 | 23 |
| Para cross-country skiing | 14 | 6 | 20 |
| Para snowboard | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 17 | 8 | 25 |
Para alpine skiing
Ukraine competed in para alpine skiing with one athlete.[1]
| Athlete | Event | Classification | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | Ref | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||||
| Maksym Heliuta | Men's giant slalom, standing | LW6/8-1 | 1:28.30 | 29 | 1:25.17 | 27 | 2:53.47 | 27 | [11] |
| Men's slalom, standing | DNF | [12] | |||||||
Para biathlon
Ukraine competed in para biathlon with 23 athletes.[1] Ukraine won 16 medals in total in this sport, seven of them in men's visually impaired competitions, five in women's standing competitions, three in men's sitting competitions, and one in men's standing competition.[10]
The results below are divided into sub-categories by gender: men and women, and further divided by type of para biathlon runs: individual, sprint and pursuit.
Men
- Individual
| Athlete | Event | Classification | Factor | Time | Misses | Factored time | Rank | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oleksandr Kazik Guide: Serhii Kucheriavyi |
Visually impaired | NS1 | 88% | 39:37.1 | 4 (2+0+1+1) | 34:51.8 | 5 | [13] |
| Anatolii Kovalevskyi Guide: Oleksandr Mukshyn |
NS3 | 100% | 35:38.0 | 2 (1+1+0+0) | N/a | 6 | ||
| Maksym Murashkovskyi Guide: Vitaliy Trush |
33:41.1 | 0 (0+0+0+0) | ||||||
| Iaroslav Reshetynskyi Guide: Dmytro Drahun |
34:18.9 | 0 (0+0+0+0) | 4 | |||||
| Dmytro Suiarko Guide: Oleksandr Nikonovych |
33:51.1 | 1 (1+0+0+0) | ||||||
| Serafym Drahun | Standing | LW8 | 96% | 33:51.3 | 3 (0+1+2+0) | 32:30.0 | 7 | [14] |
| Serhii Romaniuk | 32:49.9 | 1 (1+0+0+0) | 31:31.1 | 5 | ||||
| Dmytro Sereda | 41:17.9 | 7 (3+1+2+1) | 39:38.8 | 17 | ||||
| Grygorii Vovchynskyi | 34:46.7 | 3 (1+1+0+1) | 33:23.2 | 10 | ||||
| Oleksandr Aleksyk | Sitting | LW12 | 100% | 38:23.6 | 2 (0+0+1+1) | N/a | 9 | [15] |
| Taras Rad | 35:57.1 | 1 (0+1+0+0) | ||||||
| Pavlo Bal | LW11.5 | 96% | 43:39.7 | 6 (2+2+2+0) | 41:54.9 | 15 | ||
| Vasyl Kravchuk | LW11 | 93% | 41:32.7 | 4 (2+1+0+1) | 38:38.2 | 10 | ||
| Hryhorii Shymko | LW10.5 | 87% | 44:54.6 | 3 (0+1+2+0) | 39:04.3 | 11 |
- Sprint
| Athlete | Event | Classification | Factor | Time | Misses | Factored time | Rank | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oleksandr Kazik Guide: Serhii Kucheriavyi |
Visually impaired | NS1 | 88% | 20:01.9 | 0 (0+0) | 17:37.7 | [16] | |
| Anatolii Kovalevskyi Guide: Oleksandr Mukshyn |
NS3 | 100% | 18:43.8 | 0 (0+0) | N/a | |||
| Maksym Murashkovskyi Guide: Vitaliy Trush |
20:17.9 | 2 (1+1) | 7 | |||||
| Iaroslav Reshetynskyi Guide: Dmytro Drahun |
18:40.1 | 0 (0+0) | ||||||
| Dmytro Suiarko Guide: Oleksandr Nikonovych |
18:53.7 | 1 (0+1) | 5 | |||||
| Serafym Drahun | Standing | LW8 | 96% | 20:47.5 | 4 (1+3) | 19:57.6 | 14 | [17] |
| Serhii Romaniuk | 18:41.8 | 0 (0+0) | 17:56.9 | 6 | ||||
| Dmytro Sereda | DNS | |||||||
| Grygorii Vovchynskyi | 18:26.9 | 0 (0+0) | 17:42.6 | 4 | ||||
| Oleksandr Aleksyk | Sitting | LW12 | 100% | 20:55.8 | 0 (0+0) | N/a | 9 | [18] |
| Taras Rad | 19:55.5 | 0 (0+0) | ||||||
| Pavlo Bal | LW11.5 | 96% | 22:22.1 | 2 (1+1) | 21:28.4 | 12 | ||
| Vasyl Kravchuk | LW11 | 93% | 21:59.4 | 0 (0+0) | 20:27.0 | 4 | ||
| Hryhorii Shymko | LW10.5 | 87% | 25:56.0 | 3 (1+2) | 22:33.7 | 15 | ||
- Sprint pursuit
Start time for finals includes both gap to the leader in qualification, and also compensation for handicaps.[19]
| Athlete | Event | Classification | Factor | Qualification | Final | Ref | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Misses | Factored time | Rank | Start behind | Total time | Misses | Rank | |||||
| Oleksandr Kazik Guide: Serhii Kucheriavyi |
Visually impaired | NS1 | 88% | 11:37.8 | 1 (1+0) | 10:14.1 | 1 Q | N/a | 11:53.0 | 1 (0+1) | [20] | |
| Anatolii Kovalevskyi Guide: Oleksandr Mukshyn |
NS3 | 100% | 10:26.7 | 0 (0+0) | N/a | 2 Q | 1:34 | 12:13.7 | 0 (0+0) | |||
| Ihor Kravchuk Guide: Andriy Dotsenko |
10:53.4 | 0 (0+0) | 5 Q | 2:01 | 13:12.7 | 2 (2+0) | 6 | |||||
| Iaroslav Reshetynskyi Guide: Dmytro Drahun |
10:44.5 | 0 (0+0) | 4 Q | 1:52 | 13:07.0 | 1 (1+0) | 5 | |||||
| Dmytro Suiarko Guide: Oleksandr Nikonovych |
11:36.7 | 2 (1+1) | 8 Q | DNS | ||||||||
| Serafym Drahun | Standing | LW8 | 96% | 10:53.0 | 2 (0+2) | 10:26.9 | 7 Q | 0:57 | 12:02.9 | 4 (1+3) | 5 | [21] |
| Serhii Romaniuk | 11:12.5 | 1 (0+1) | 10:45.6 | 10 Q | DNS | |||||||
| Dmytro Sereda | 11:52.6 | 4 (1+3) | 11:24.1 | 14 Q | 1:55 | 12:45.2 | 0 (0+0) | 10 | ||||
| Grygorii Vovchynskyi | 10:26.6 | 2 (2+0) | 10:01.5 | 3 Q | 0:32 | 10:33.6 | 0 (0+0) | |||||
| Oleksandr Aleksyk | Sitting | LW12 | 100% | 9:23:8 | 1 (1+0) | N/a | 12 Q | 1:34 | 11:59.6 | 3 (3+0) | 13 | [22] |
| Taras Rad | 8:39.7 | 0 (0+0) | 3 Q | 0:50 | 10:00.5 | 1 (1+0) | ||||||
| Pavlo Bal | LW11.5 | 96% | 9:25.5 | 0 (0+0) | 9:02.9 | 8 Q | 0:52 | 11:57.5 | 3 (1+2) | 12 | ||
| Vasyl Kravchuk | LW11 | 93% | 9:30.4 | 0 (0+0) | 8:50.5 | 4 Q | 0:22 | 10:55.3 | 2 (1+1) | 8 | ||
| Hryhorii Shymko | LW10.5 | 87% | 10:27.2 | 2 (2+0) | 9:05.7 | 10 Q | N/a | 10:58.8 | 1 (0+1) | 9 | ||
Women
- Individual
| Athlete | Event | Classification | Factor | Time | Misses | Factored time | Rank | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oleksandra Danylenko Guide: Mykyta Stakhurskyi |
Visually impaired | NS1 | 88% | 43:46.1 | 0 (0+0+0+0) | 38:31.0 | 4 | [23] |
| Romana Lobasheva Guide: Anastasiia Shabaldina |
NS3 | 100% | 44:31.9 | 4 (1+1+1+1) | N/a | 12 | ||
| Oksana Shyshkova Guide: Artem Kazarian |
42:57.3 | 4 (1+2+1+0) | 9 | |||||
| Ilona Varkovets Guide: Daryna Kovalova |
42:32.9 | 3 (2+0+0+1) | 8 | |||||
| Iryna Bui | Standing | LW8 | 96% | 38:00.0 | 3 (0+1+0+2) | 36:28.8 | 7 | [24] |
| Bohdana Konashuk | 40:35.5 | 4 (0+2+1+1) | 38:58.1 | 9 | ||||
| Oleksandra Kononova | 35:02.0 | 1 (1+0+0+0) | 33:37.9 | |||||
| Liudmyla Liashenko | 36:05.6 | 2 (0+1+0+1) | 34:39.0 | 4 |
- Sprint
| Athlete | Event | Classification | Factor | Time | Misses | Factored time | Rank | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oleksandra Danylenko Guide: Mykyta Stakhurskyi |
Visually impaired | NS1 | 88% | 28:18.3 | 4 (1+3) | 24:54.5 | 11 | [25] |
| Romana Lobasheva Guide: Anastasiia Shabaldina |
NS3 | 100% | 25:29.0 | 4 (4+0) | N/a | 12 | ||
| Oksana Shyshkova Guide: Artem Kazarian |
22:07.5 | 0 (0+0) | 6 | |||||
| Ilona Varkovets Guide: Daryna Kovalova |
23:26.9 | 1 (0+1) | 9 | |||||
| Iryna Bui | Standing | LW8 | 96% | 20:19.8 | 0 (0+0) | 19:31.0 | 5 | [26] |
| Bohdana Konashuk | 21:32.7 | 2 (0+2) | 20:41.0 | 9 | ||||
| Oleksandra Kononova | 19:28.2 | 0 (0+0) | 18:41.5 | |||||
| Liudmyla Liashenko | 20:02.0 | 1 (0+1) | 19:13.9 |
- Sprint pursuit
Start time for finals includes both gap to the leader in qualification, and also compensation for handicaps.[19]
| Athlete | Event | Classification | Factor | Qualification | Final | Ref | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Misses | Factored time | Rank | Start behind | Total time | Misses | Rank | |||||
| Oleksandra Danylenko Guide: Mykyta Stakhurskyi |
Visually impaired | NS1 | 88% | 14:47.5 | 1 (1+0) | 13:01.0 | 7 Q | 0:44 | 16:13.5 | 0 (0+0) | 10 | [27] |
| Romana Lobasheva Guide: Anastasiia Shabaldina |
NS3 | 100% | 13:56.0 | 3 (2+1) | N/a | 11 Q | 3:14 | 18:19.6 | 4 (3+1) | 11 | ||
| Oksana Shyshkova Guide: Artem Kazarian |
13:15.6 | 1 (1+0) | 9 Q | 2:33 | 15:26.9 | 0 (0+0) | 7 | |||||
| Ilona Varkovets Guide: Daryna Kovalova |
13:14.4 | 2 (1+1) | 8 Q | 2:32 | 15:56.3 | 1 (0+1) | 9 | |||||
| Iryna Bui | Standing | LW8 | 96% | 11:16.8 | 0 (0+0) | 210:49.7 | 2 Q | 0:50 | 12:35.7 | 1 (1+0) | [28] | |
| Bohdana Konashuk | 11:42.3 | 1 (0+1) | 11:14.2 | 6 Q | 1:15 | 13:38.2 | 2 (1+1) | 7 | ||||
| Oleksandra Kononova | 11:39.7 | 2 (1+1) | 11:11.7 | 5 Q | 1:12 | 12:49.0 | 2 (1+1) | |||||
| Liudmyla Liashenko | 12:17.0 | 5 (2+3) | 11:47.5 | 9 Q | 1:48 | 13:36.5 | 2 (1+1) | 6 | ||||
Para cross-country skiing
Ukraine competed in para cross-country skiing with 20 athletes.[1] Ukraine won three medals in total in this sport.[10]
The results below are divided into sub-categories by gender: men, women and mixed, and further divided by type of para cross-country skiing runs: 20km freestyle, 10km classical, sprints and relays.
Men
- 20 kilometre freestyle
| Athlete | Event | Classification | Factor | Time | Factored time | Rank | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oleksandr Kazik Guide: Serhii Kucheriavyi |
Visually impaired | NS1 | 88% | 48:11.6 | 42:24.6 | [29] | |
| Ihor Kravchuk Guide: Andriy Dotsenko |
NS3 | 100% | 48:11.1 | N/a | 13 | ||
| Maksym Murashkovskyi Guide: Vitaliy Trush |
47:31.9 | 10 | |||||
| Dmytro Suiarko Guide: Oleksandr Nikonovych |
44:45.9 | 7 | |||||
| Serafym Drahun | Standing | LW8 | 96% | 45:52.1 | 44:02.0 | 5 | [30] |
| Serhii Romaniuk | DNS | ||||||
| Dmytro Sereda | 49:29.9 | 47:31.1 | 15 | ||||
| Oleksandr Aleksyk | Sitting | LW12 | 100% | 55:54.1 | N/a | 12 | [31] |
| Pavlo Bal | LW11.5 | 96% | 55:42.3 | 53:28.6 | 4 | ||
| Vasyl Kravchuk | LW11 | 93% | DNS | ||||
| Hryhorii Shymko | LW10.5 | 87% | 1:02:27.6 | 54:20.4 | 9 | ||
- 10 kilometre classical
| Athlete | Event | Classification | Factor | Time | Factored time | Rank | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ihor Kravchuk Guide: Andriy Dotsenko |
Visually impaired | NS3 | 100% | 32:32.2 | N/a | 9 | [32] |
| Dmytro Suiarko Guide: Oleksandr Nikonovych |
30:17.7 | 5 |
- Sprint
| Athlete | Event | Classification | Factor | Qualification | Semifinal | Final | Ref | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Factored time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||||
| Ihor Kravchuk Guide: Andriy Dotsenko |
Visually impaired | NS3 | 100% | 2:45.87 | N/a | 10 | Did not advance | 10 | [33][34] | ||
| Dmytro Suiarko Guide: Oleksandr Nikonovych |
2:35.03 | 6 Q | 2:57.4 | 3 | Did not advance | 6 | |||||
| Serafym Drahun | Standing | LW8 | 92% | 2:47.01 | 2:33.65 | 8 Q | 3:03.7 | 6 | Did not advance | 11 | [35][36] |
| Grygorii Vovchynskyi | 3:01.23 | 2:46.73 | 18 | Did not advance | 18 | ||||||
| Oleksandr Aleksyk | Sitting | LW12 | 100% | 2:15.92 | N/a | 8 Q | 2:30.7 | 3 Q | 2:31.2 | 4 | [37][38] |
| Taras Rad | 2:15.98 | 9 Q | 2:30.8 | 4 | Did not advance | 7 | |||||
| Pavlo Bal | LW11.5 | 96% | 2:16.77 | 2:11.30 | 3 Q | 2:40.5 | 2 Q | 2:32.3 | 5 | ||
| Vasyl Kravchuk | LW11 | 93% | 2:27.72 | 2:17.38 | 12 Q | 2:37.5 | 6 | Did not advance | 12 | ||
| Hryhorii Shymko | LW10.5 | 87% | 2:37.72 | 2:17.22 | 11 Q | 2:51.3 | 5 | Did not advance | 8 | ||
Women
- 20 kilometre freestyle
| Athlete | Event | Classification | Factor | Time | Factored time | Rank | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Romana Lobasheva | Visually impaired | NS3 | 100% | 55:43.8 | N/a | 7 | [39] |
| Oksana Shyshkova | 54:22.3 | 6 | |||||
| Iryna Bui | Standing | LW8 | 96% | 52:18.2 | 50:12.7 | 5 | [40] |
| Bohdana Konashuk | 54:47.9 | 52:36.4 | 9 | ||||
| Oleksandra Kononova | 50:45.2 | 48:43.4 | |||||
| Liudmyla Liashenko | 51:20.3 | 49:17.1 | 4 |
- 10 kilometre classical
| Athlete | Event | Classification | Factor | Time | Factored time | Rank | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Romana Lobasheva Guide: Anastasiia Shabaldina |
Visually impaired | NS3 | 100% | 41:07.2 | N/a | 9 | [41] |
- Sprint
| Athlete | Event | Classification | Factor | Qualification | Semifinal | Final | Ref | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Factored time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||||
| Romana Lobasheva Guide: Anastasiia Shabaldina |
Visually impaired | NS3 | 100% | 3:23.96 | N/a | 9 | Did not advance | 9 | [42][43] | ||
| Oksana Shyshkova Guide: Artem Kazarian |
3:19.69 | 8 Q | 3:37.7 | 4 | Did not advance | 8 | |||||
| Iryna Bui | Standing | LW8 | 92% | 3:33.57 | 3:16.48 | 12 Q | 3:58.8 | 5 | Did not advance | 10 | [44][45] |
| Oleksandra Kononova | 3:24.96 | 3:08.56 | 8 Q | DNS | 12 | ||||||
| Liudmyla Liashenko | 3:17.51 | 3:01.71 | 5 Q | 3:47.3 | 4 | 7 | |||||
Relay
Results are for each leg, while results in bold are the total results of the teams.
| Athlete | Event | Classification | Total factor | Time | Rank | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pavlo Bal Taras Rad Oleksandra Kononova Liudmyla Liashenko |
Mixed 4 × 2.5 km relay | LW11.5 LW12 LW8 LW8 |
84% 88% 81% 81% 334% |
5:48.5 5:47.2 5:58.3 6:02.7 23:36.7 |
3 1 3 5 |
[46] |
| Dmytro Suiarko Guide: Oleksandr Nikonovych Vasyl Kravchuk Grygorii Vovchynskyi Serafym Drahun |
Open 4 × 2.5 km relay | NS3 LW11 LW8 LW8 |
100% 81% 96% 96% 373% |
5:22.3 6:24.3 5:31.4 5:10.8 22:28.8 |
1 7 1 3 4 |
[47] |
Para snowboard
Ukraine competed in para snowboard with one athlete.[1]
- Slalom
| Athlete | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Best | Rank | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vladyslav Khilchenko | Men's banked slalom, SB-UL | 1:13.32 | 1:12.24 | 1:12.24 | 21 | [48] |
- Snowboard cross
| Athlete | Event | Seeding | Pre-heats | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final | Ref | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Run 1 | Run 2 | Best | Rank | Position | Position | Position | Position | Rank | |||
| Vladyslav Khilchenko | Men's snowboard cross, SB-UL | 1:11:91 | 1:06.87 | 1:06.87 | 20 | 4 | Did not advance | 20 | [49][50][51] | ||