Germany’s Anna-Lena Forster produced a blistering slalom run to win the women’s super combined sitting event here at Pyeongchang 2018 and deny team-mate Anna Schaffelhuber an eighth consecutive Paralympic Games gold medal.
The United States collected six medals on a frantic day here in the snowboard cross competition at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre.
Brian McKeever became Canada's most decorated Winter Paralympian of all time today after securing his 14th medal with victory in the men’s 20 kilometres visually impaired cross-country event at Pyeongchang 2018.
Arturs Klots successfully defended his International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation Para-Sport World Championships in Lillehammer.
Germany’s Anna Schaffelhuber continued her quest to defend all five of the Alpine skiing titles she won at Sochi 2014 as she claimed her second gold medal by winning today’s women’s sitting super-G race at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre here.
Ukrainian cross-country skier Maksym Yarovyi won gold in the men’s 15 kilometres sitting race on day two of the Winter Paralympic Games here as Sin Eui Hyun secured hosts South Korea’s first medal of the Games.
Arturs Klots is halfway towards a successful title defence at the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation Para-Sport World Championships in Lillehammer.
United States competitors both the men’s and women’s sprint sitting races on the first day of action of the Winter Paralympic Games here.
Slovakian Alpine skier Henrieta Farkašová claimed the first gold medal of the 2018 Winter Paralympic Games today as she secured the defence of her women's downhill visually impaired title here.
Athletes from 12 nations are due to participate at the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation Para-Sport World Championships starting in Lillehammer tomorrow.
Alpine skier Mac Marcoux has been named as the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) Allianz Athlete of the Month for February.
France, Japan and Russia were the strongest-performing nations at the 2018 International Federation for Athletes with Intellectual Impairments (INAS) World Alpine and Nordic Skiing Championships in Zakopane, winning the majority of the medals during the four days of competition.
The Suche ski resort near Zakopane is set to host the International Federation for Athletes with Intellectual Impairments (INAS) World Alpine and Nordic Skiing Championships from tomorrow.
The Czech Republic have unveiled their Para-ice hockey squad for next month's Paralympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang.
Hockey Canada and the Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) have named 17 players on the ice hockey team for next month's Winter Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang as the team go in search of their first gold medal since Turin 2006.
The first Winter Paralympic Games were held in Örnsköldsvik in Sweden in 1976. The disabilities included were blindness and amputees. A total of 16 countries took part with 53 athletes. Events were held in Alpine and Nordic skiing for amputee and visually impaired athletes and a demonstration event in ice sledge racing. West Germany finished top of the overall medals. They won a total of 28 medals, including 10 gold. The event was originally known as the 1st Winter Olympic Games for the Disabled.
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