Gold and two silver for Ukraine were won the day before by the Ukrainian Paralympians in Pyeongchang for 30 minutes. Biathletes with a visual impairment distinguished themselves at the competitions, the TSN. 19:30.

The success of the athletes contributed to the weather - after warming and rain returned to the winter with snow, so that the conditions were almost ideal. "Yes, I'm very comfortable running away. Well, being on the street is not exactly. And to run - yes, "said champion Vitaly Lukyanenko, who won the second gold at this Paralympic Games and now has only one dream: to return home as soon as possible, where his wife and three children miss him. "Especially the younger. Yesterday he called - he cries, "the sportsman confessed.

The second in the race was another Ukrainian - Alexander Kazik. For the family of a blind athlete, his success is a great joy. "No one could think, everyone was just shocked. Drank at home all the valerian, "- says the silver medalist of the competition, who also has two medals of the same value. Kazik admits that only a week to believe in such a success could not have been. "How would react? Would you say - are you a little laughing with me? I myself did not expect that it will be so," he says..

Silver medalist of this day Oksana Shishkova is pleased not only with another medal, but with skis that are in the team of Ukrainians. Some remained from the Olympians. "We have skis Elena Pidgrushnoy, Valentina and Vita Semerenko," - she says, but does not disclose which ones she reached before the award. At the end of the competition, she, just like teammates, already thinks more about home and native people. Moreover, the return from the previous Paralympic Games in Sochi for the Kharkiv woman was marked by the appearance of suitcases in the corridor - her father decided to volunteer to go to war to protect Ukraine. "I did not know, they were hiding from me.

I come - bags are collected. Papa says: what if they go to Kharkov? I have to protect you! So that you can continue to practice and protect the honor of Ukraine, "- recalls the athlete.

Raised by such a father, Shishkova really defends the honor of Ukraine at the highest level - she has already won five medals of the Korean Paralympic Games and the status of the most successful athlete in the national team.

TSN correspondent Svyatoslav Grinchuk.