The Ukrainian national team continues to replenish its piggy bank with medals at the 2022 Paralympic Games in Beijing.

So, during the fifth day of the competition, the " Note that they were won in different classes of freestyle sprint skiing..

Oksana Shishkova, who competes among athletes with visual impairments (guide Andrey Marchenko), has already won her second " A complete set of medals has already been collected in Beijing-2022 by Grigory Volchinsky (standing class). To "

In total, Ukraine has 19 medals after five competitive days - six " With this result, the Ukrainians are in third place in the medal standings.. Canada overtook Ukrainian Paralympic athletes. At the same time, Ukraine remains second in the standings in terms of the number of medals received at the 2022 Paralympics.. Only China is ahead of the Ukrainians - the leader of the medal standings of the Games in Beijing.

We add that Ukrainians won the largest number of awards per day on Tuesday, March 8 - nine medals through the efforts of parabiathletes.

In total, 19 countries have already won medals at the 2022 Paralympics, of which 15 managed to win gold;

Ukraine at the Paralympic Games-2022 is represented only in two sports - parabiathlon and cross-country skiing;

In total, 20 Ukrainian paraathletes should perform at the 2022 Paralympics.

Recall that the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) suspended the national teams of Russia and Belarus from participating in the Winter Paralympic Games in Beijing due to the invasion of Ukraine.