The Ukrainian team of veterans won 79 medals at the United States Air Force and Marine Corps Trials, which took place in Las Vegas (USA).

Suspilne Sport reports this..

Veterans, including those wounded during hostilities, competed in adaptive sports.

Ukraine was represented by 30 athletes in ten sports: swimming, cycling, wheelchair basketball, sitting volleyball, wheelchair rugby, archery, powerlifting, running, indoor rowing and shooting..

Ukrainians managed to win 79 medals:

44 gold, 21 silver and 14 bronze awards.

The most successful was swimming, which brought the Ukrainian team 27 medals. Ukrainians also won 21 medals in athletics..

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