Russian athletes at the Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang continue to earn gold medals for the national team. Biathlete Anna Milenina climbed to the highest step of the pedestal in the race for 12.5 km in the category "standing". Its success was supported also by our other sportswoman Ekaterina Rumyantseva. She came to the finish second, with a lag of 4 seconds. The third was the Canadian Brittany Hudak. Milenina became a seven-time Paralympic champion. She admitted that she had already exceeded her plan for medals. "To be honest, I thought that if there were four medals in Phenchkhan, it would be good.

And this is the fifth medal of this Paralympic Games, and my statistics flew into the tartarey "- quoted by RIA Novosti,. The sportswoman claims that she was worried about her compatriot Rumyantsev and very glad that she managed to win silver. Athletes compete in a heavily truncated squad due to the removal of the Russian Paralympic Committee. They are also prohibited from using national attributes. In total, 30 sportsmen went to Pyeongchang. The Paralympic Games will end on March 18.