Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Paralympics

Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Paralympics consisted of 32 events, 20 for men and 12 for women.

Cross-country skiing at the VIII Paralympic Winter Games
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Medal table

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Rank	Nation				Total
1	Norway (NOR)	9	1	5	15
2	Russia (RUS)	7	8	3	18
3	Germany (GER)	6	1	8	15
4	Finland (FIN)	4	1	3	8
5	Canada (CAN)	2	1	0	3
6	Italy (ITA)	2	0	0	2
7	Belarus (BLR)	1	1	0	2
8	Poland (POL)	1	0	1	2
9	Ukraine (UKR)	0	5	5	10
10	United States (USA)	0	5	0	5
11	France (FRA)	0	3	2	5
12	Netherlands (NED)	0	3	0	3
13	Austria (AUT)	0	1	1	2
13	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	1	2
14	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	0	1
15	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	2	2
16	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
Total		32	32	32	96

Medal summary

The competition events were:

• 2.5 km: - women
• 5 km: men - women
• 10 km: men - women
• 15 km: men - women
• 20 km: men
• 1x2.5/2x5 km relay: men - women
• 3x2.5 km relay: - women

Each event had separate standing, sitting, or visually impaired classifications:

• LW2 - standing: single leg amputation above the knee
• LW3 - standing: double leg amputation below the knee, mild cerebral palsy, or equivalent impairment
• LW4 - standing: single leg amputation below the knee
• LW5/7 - standing: double arm amputation
• LW6/8 - standing: single arm amputation
• LW9 - standing: amputation or equivalent impairment of one arm and one leg
• LW 10 - sitting: paraplegia with no or some upper abdominal function and no functional sitting balance
• LW 11 - sitting: paraplegia with fair functional sitting balance
• LW 12 - sitting: double leg amputation above the knees, or paraplegia with some leg function and good sitting balance
• B1 - visually impaired: no functional vision
• B2 - visually impaired: up to ca 3-5% functional vision
• B3 - visually impaired: under 10% functional vision

Men's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km classical technique	B1 details	Helge Flo guide: Paal Sneve  Norway	Oleh Munts guide: Volodymyr Storozhok  Ukraine	Valeri Kouptchinski guide:  Russia
	B2 details	Frank Hoefle guide: Ulrich Zipfel  Germany	Nikolai Ilioutchenko guide: Andrey Gladshev  Russia	Emil Östberg guide: Peter Rune  Sweden
	B3 details	Brian McKeever guide: Robin McKeever  Canada	Irek Mannanov guide: Salavat Gumerov  Russia	Vitaliy Lukyanenko guide: Volodymyr Ivanov  Ukraine
	LW2-4 details	Kjartan Haugen  Norway	Steven Cook  United States	Roland Gaess  Germany
	LW5-9 details	Andreas Hustveit  Norway	Axel Hecker  Germany	Yoshihiro Nitta  Japan
5 km sitski	LW10 details	Sergej Shilov  Russia	Mikhail Terentiev  Russia	Klaus Kleiser  Germany
	LW11 details	Roland Ruepp  Italy	Oliver Anthofer  Austria	Alain Marguerettaz  France
	LW12 details	Taras Kryjanovski  Russia	Vladimir Gajdiciar  Slovakia	Wieslaw Fiedor  Poland
10 km free technique	B1 details	Valeri Kouptchinski guide: Viatcheslav Doubov  Russia	Oleh Munts guide: Volodymyr Storozhok  Ukraine	Wilhelm Brem guide: Olaf Gruhn  Germany
	B2 details	Frank Hoefle guide: Ulrich Zipfel  Germany	Emil Östberg guide: Peter Rune  Sweden	Nikolai Ilioutchenko guide: Andrey Gladyshev  Russia
	B3 details	Brian McKeever guide: Robin McKeever  Canada	Irek Mannanov guide: Salavat Gumerov  Russia	Alexander Schwarz guide: Ralf Rombach  Germany
	LW2-4 details	Nils Erik Ulset  Norway	Steven Cook  United States	Harald Thauer  Germany
	LW5-9 details	Axel Hecker  Germany	Andreas Hustveit  Norway	Josef Giesen  Germany
10 km sitski	LW10 details	Mikhail Terentiev  Russia	Sergej Shilov  Russia	Hanspeter Weber  Switzerland
	LW11 details	Roland Ruepp  Italy	Alain Marguerettaz  France	Ruedi Weber  Switzerland
	LW12 details	Wieslaw Fiedor  Poland	Robert Balk  United States	Mykola Ovcharenko  Ukraine
15 km sitski	LW10-12 details	Sergej Shilov  Russia	Mikhail Terentiev  Russia	Oliver Anthofer  Austria
20 km free technique	standing details	Nils Erik Ulset  Norway	Steven Cook  United States	Josef Giesen  Germany
	visually impaired details	Valeri Kouptchinski guide: Viatcheslav Doubov  Russia	Brian McKeever guide: Robin McKeever  Canada	Frank Hoefle guide: Ulrich Zipfel  Germany
1x2.5/2x5 km relay	open details	Russia (RUS) Irek Mannanov guide: Roman Ivanov Nikolai Ilioutchenko guide: Andrey Gladysev Sergej Shilov	United States (USA) Robert Balk Steven Cook William Stewart	Norway (NOR) Kjartan Haugen Karl Einar Henriksen Andreas Hustveit

Women's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2.5 km sitski	details	Ragnhild Myklebust  Norway	Svitlana Tryfonova  Ukraine	Olena Iurkovska  Ukraine
5 km classical technique	B1 details	Verena Bentele guide: Ralph Schmidt  Germany	Fabienne Kaci guide: Gerard Blanc  France	Merja Hannele Hanski guide: Kirsi Vaisanen  Finland
	B2-3 details	Yadviha Skorabahataya guide: Vasili Haurukovich  Belarus	Jaana Argillander guide: Arto Kaukonen  Finland	Tone Gravvold guide: Kristian Soerensen  Norway
	standing details	Tanja Kari  Finland	Marjorie van de Bunt  Netherlands	Siw Vestengen  Norway
5 km sitski	details	Ragnhild Myklebust  Norway	Svitlana Tryfonova  Ukraine	Olena Iurkovska  Ukraine
10 km free technique	B1-2 details	Verena Bentele guide: Ralph Schmidt  Germany	Emilie Tabouret guide: Lionel Bayon  France	Fabienne Kaci guide: Gerard Blanc  France
	B3 details	Jaana Argillander guide: Arto Kaukonen  Finland	Yadviha Skarabahataya guide: Vasili Haurukovich  Belarus	Tatiana Ilioutchenko guide: Roman Ivanov  Russia
	standing details	Tanja Kari  Finland	Marjorie van de Bunt  Netherlands	Siw Vestengen  Norway
10 km sitski	details	Ragnhild Myklebust  Norway	Svitlana Tryfonova  Ukraine	Olena Iurkovska  Ukraine
15 km free technique	standing details	Tanja Kari  Finland	Marjorie van de Bunt  Netherlands	Siw Vestengen  Norway
	visually impaired details	Verena Bentele guide: Ralph Schmidt  Germany	Tatiana Ilioutchenko guide: Andrey Gladyshev  Russia	Jaana Argillander guide: Arto Kaukonen  Finland
3x2.5 km relay	open details	Norway (NOR) Tone Gravvold guide: Kristian Soersensen Ragnhild Myklebust Siw Vestengen	Russia (RUS) Elvira Ibraginova guide: Salavat Gumerov Tatiana Ilioutchenko guide: Andrey Gladyshev Irina Polyakova	Finland (FIN) Jaana Argillander guide: Arto Kaukonen Merja Hannele Hanski guide: Kirsi Vaisanen Tanja Kari

See also

• Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics

References

1. Medal Standings - Salt Lake City 2002 Paralympic Winter Games - Cross Country Skiing, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)

• "IPC Historical Results Database". International Paralympic Committee. 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-20.

• "Salt Lake City 2002". paralympia.de. 2010. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-11-20.
• Historical Medallists : Vancouver 2010 Winter Paralympics^{[permanent dead link‍]}, Official website of the 2010 Winter Paralympics
• Winter Sport Classification, Canadian Paralympic Committee
• Paralympics - Cross country: Men's relay results, Deseret News, March 14, 2002
• Paralympics - Cross country: Short distance results, Deseret News, March 11, 2002
• Paralympics - Cross country - Middle-distance events, Deseret News, March 13, 2002
• Paralympic cross country times - Saturday's long-distance events at Soldier Hollow, Deseret News, March 13, 2002