Already on the first day of the competition the Ukrainian Paralympic athletes won five medals. In the asset of the team has already recorded gold, silver and three bronzes, says the story TSN. 19:30.
In the biathlon sprint among athletes with shortcomings of sight to gold Vitaliy Lukyanenko came running, and Anatoly Kovalevsky got bronze in this discipline.
Silver medal to Ukraine was brought by Oksana Shishkova in the race for 6 kilometers among athletes with visual impairments. In the race among the athletes standing - also a medal, bronze, in Lyudmila Lyashenko. Among the men in the race for 7.5 kilometers standing third was Igor Reptukha.
For such a first achievement the Ukrainian Paralympic athletes took less than 5 hours. After one gold, which Alexander Abramenko received at the Olympics, in Phenchkhan for the second time the Ukrainian Hymn sounded, and there is every reason to hope that it was not the last time.