The Ukrainian Paralympic team won five awards on the first day of the competition at the Paralympic Games-2018, which takes place in Pyeongchang.

It should be noted that the Ukrainian team was represented only in biathlon. Skiing took place without the participation of our athletes.

Vitaliy Lukyanenko scored "Gold" at a distance of 7.5 kilometers with a visual impairment, which, thanks to this award, has already become a five-time champion of games. "Bronze" in the same race was won by Anatoly Kovalevsky. "Silver" went to Belarusian athlete Yuri Golub.

In addition, in the top 10 were four more Ukrainians - Yaroslav Reshetinsky, Yuri Utkin, Dmitry Suyarko and Alexander Kazik.

Vitaly Lukyanenko (0 + 0) - 19: 51.0 2. Yuri Golub (Belarus) - (0 + 1) - +14.1 3. Anatoly Kovalevsky (0 + 1) - +39.5 In competitions for 6 kilometers in women (visual impairment) "silver" was won by Oksana Shishkova. Note that for her this award was the first in her career. Before that, she received only "bronze" medals.

Michalina Lysova (NPA *) - (0 + 0) - 18: 59.7 2. Oksana Shishkova (0 + 0) - +38.5 3. Sviatlana Sahanenka (Belarus) - (1 + 2) - +1: 40.9 4. Olga Prilutskaya One more bronze award was won by Igor Reptyukh in competitions for 7.5 kilometers (standing). For him, this medal was the second at the Paralympic Games. The fourth place went to Grigory Vovchinsky.

Benjamin Davier (France) - (0 + 0) - 19: 43.1 2. Mark Arends (Canada) - (0 + 0) - +30.8 3. Igor Repyukh - (0 + 1) - +46.1 4. Grigory Vovchinsky - (1 + 0) - +1: 06.2 "Bronze" award for women in the race for 6 kilometers (standing) with partial or complete loss of one limb was won by Lyudmila Lyashenko, who is twice world champion in biathlon.

Ekaterina Rumyantseva (NPA *) - (0 + 1) - 19: 26.0 2. Anna Milenina (NPA *) - (0 + 0) - +16: 3 3. Lyudmila Lyashenko - (1 + 0) - +39.8 In addition to Lyashenko, in the top 10 also managed to break through three more Ukrainians: Julia Batenkova-Bauman, Irina Bui and Bogdana Kanashuk.

* NPA - independent paralympic athletes Thus, after the first competitive day of the Paralympic Games in 2018, the Ukrainian team with 5 awards takes the medal title of the 4th line.