Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Paralympics was held at the Alpensia Biathlon Centre, South Korea. The twenty events were held from 11 to 18 March 2018.^[1] Canadian Brian McKeever won three individual gold and a team relay bronze, his third triple gold medal performance, for a career total of 13 gold medals and 17 medals in all, making him the most decorated Paralympic cross-country skier ever.^[2]

Cross-country skiing at the XII Paralympic Winter Games
Venue	Alpensia Biathlon Centre, South Korea
Dates	11–18 March
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Events

The program includes 20 events. The events are mostly divided into three classifications (sitting, standing and visually impaired). For each of these classifications, there are three men's events and three women's events. There are also two relay events which combine classifications. Standing skiers are those that have a locomotive disability but are able to use the same equipment as able-bodied skiers, whereas sitting competitors use a sitski. Skiers with a visual impairment compete with the help of a sighted guide. The skier with the visual impairment and the guide are considered a team, and dual medals are awarded.

Men's events

• 1.1 km / 1.5 km sprint (all three classifications)
• 7.5 km (sitting) / 10 km (standing and visually impaired)
• 15 km (sitting) / 20 km (standing and visually impaired)

Women's events

• 1.1 km / 1.5 km sprint (all three classifications)
• 5 km (sitting) / 7.5 km (standing and visually impaired)
• 12 km (sitting) / 15 km (standing and visually impaired)

Relay events

• 4 x 2.5 km mixed relay (combined)
• 4 x 2.5 km open relay (combined)

Competition schedule

The following is the competition schedule for all twenty events.^[1]

All times are local (UTC+9).

Date	Time	Event
11 March	10:00	Men's 15 km sitting
	11:15	Women's 12 km sitting
12 March	10:00	Men's 20 km freestyle standing
	10:25	Men's 20 km freestyle visually impaired
	12:00	Women's 15 km freestyle visually impaired
	12:15	Women's 15 km freestyle standing
14 March	10:00	Men's 1.1 km sprint, sitting qualification
	10:17	Women's 1.1 km sprint, sitting qualification
	10:35	Men's 1.5 km sprint classical, standing qualification
	10:50	Women's 1.5 km sprint classical, standing qualification
	11:10	Men's 1.5 km sprint classical, visually impaired qualification
	11:25	Women's 1.5 km sprint classical, visually impaired qualification
	12:00	Men's 1.1 km sprint, sitting semifinals
	12:10	Women's 1.1 km sprint, sitting semifinals
	12:21	Men's 1.5 km sprint classical, standing semifinals
	12:31	Women's 1.5 km sprint classical, standing semifinals
	12:42	Men's 1.5 km sprint classical, visually impaired semifinals
	12:52	Women's 1.5 km sprint classical, visually impaired semifinals
	13:06	Men's 1.1 km sprint, sitting final
	13:20	Women's 1.1 km sprint, sitting final
	13:34	Men's 1.5 km sprint classical, standing final
	13:48	Women's 1.5 km sprint classical, standing final
	14:02	Men's 1.5 km sprint classical, visually impaired final
	14:16	Women's 1.5 km sprint classical, visually impaired final
17 March	10:00	Men's 10 km classical visually impaired
	10:15	Men's 10 km classical standing
	11:45	Women's 7.5 km classical standing
	11:55	Women's 7.5 km classical visually impaired
	12:40	Men's 7.5 km sitting
	12:55	Women's 5 km sitting
18 March	10:00	4x2.5 km Mixed Relay
	11:00	4x2.5 km Open Relay

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	4	3	2	9
2	Canada (CAN)	4	1	5	10
3	Ukraine (UKR)	3	2	3	8
4	Belarus (BLR)	3	2	1	6
5	Neutral Paralympic Athletes (NPA)	2	4	3	9
6	France (FRA)	1	1	1	3
7	Japan (JPN)	1	1	0	2
8	South Korea (KOR)*	1	0	1	2
9	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	0	0	1
10	Germany (GER)	0	3	1	4
11	Norway (NOR)	0	2	2	4
12	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
13	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		20	20	21	61

Women's events

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Sprint details	Visually impaired	Sviatlana Sakhanenka Guide: Raman Yashchanka  Belarus	4:29.9	Mikhalina Lysova Guide: Alexey Ivanov  Neutral Paralympic Athletes	4:44.0	Oksana Shyshkova Guide: Vitaliy Kazakov  Ukraine	4:45.6
	Sitting	Oksana Masters  United States	4:06.7	Andrea Eskau  Germany	4:08.8	Marta Zaynullina  Neutral Paralympic Athletes	4:10.4
	Standing	Anna Milenina  Neutral Paralympic Athletes	5:11.1	Vilde Nilsen  Norway	5:14.2	Natalie Wilkie  Canada	5:14.3
5 kilometres details	Sitting	Oksana Masters  United States	16:42.0	Andrea Eskau  Germany	16:53.5	Marta Zaynullina  Neutral Paralympic Athletes	17:25.4
7.5 kilometres details	Visually impaired	Sviatlana Sakhanenka Guide: Raman Yashchanka  Belarus	22:19.3	Mikhalina Lysova Guide: Alexey Ivanov  Neutral Paralympic Athletes	22:55.6	Carina Edlinger Guide: Julian Edlinger  Austria	23:22.9
	Standing	Natalie Wilkie  Canada	22:12.2	Ekaterina Rumyantseva  Neutral Paralympic Athletes	22:13.8	Emily Young  Canada	22:13.9
12 kilometres details	Sitting	Kendall Gretsch  United States	38:15.9	Andrea Eskau  Germany	38:48.3	Oksana Masters  United States	39:04.9
15 kilometres freestyle details	Visually impaired	Sviatlana Sakhanenka Guide: Raman Yashchanka  Belarus	49:11.7	Oksana Shyshkova Guide: Vitaliy Kazakov  Ukraine	49:19.5	Mikhalina Lysova Guide: Alexey Ivanov  Neutral Paralympic Athletes	52:29.2
	Standing	Ekaterina Rumyantseva  Neutral Paralympic Athletes	49:37.6	Anna Milenina  Neutral Paralympic Athletes	50:55.6	Liudmyla Liashenko  Ukraine	51:06.6

Men's events

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Sprint details	Visually impaired	Brian McKeever Guide: Russell Kennedy  Canada	4:03.2	Zebastian Modin Guide: Robin Bryntesson  Sweden	4:05.7	Eirik Bye Guide: Arvid Nelson  Norway	4:32.7
	Sitting	Andrew Soule  United States	3:31.4	Dzmitry Loban  Belarus	3:31.4	Daniel Cnossen  United States	3:31.8
	Standing	Alexandr Kolyadin  Kazakhstan	4:19.7	Yoshihiro Nitta  Japan	4:20.5	Mark Arendz  Canada	4:21.7
						Ilkka Tuomisto  Finland
7.5 kilometres details	Sitting	Sin Eui-hyun  South Korea	22:28.4	Daniel Cnossen  United States	22:33.7	Maksym Yarovyi  Ukraine	22:39.9
10 kilometres details	Visually impaired	Brian McKeever Guide: Graham Nishikawa  Canada	23:17.8	Jake Adicoff Guide: Sawyer Kesselheim  United States	24:31.3	Yury Holub Guide: Dzmitry Budzilovich  Belarus	24:37.1
	Standing	Yoshihiro Nitta  Japan	24:06.8	Grygorii Vovchynskyi  Ukraine	24:15.5	Mark Arendz  Canada	24:27.1
15 kilometres details	Sitting	Maksym Yarovyi  Ukraine	41:37.0	Daniel Cnossen  United States	42:20.7	Sin Eui-hyun  South Korea	42:28.9
20 kilometres freestyle details	Visually impaired	Brian McKeever Guide: Graham Nishikawa  Canada	46:02.4	Yury Holub Guide: Dzmitry Budzilovich  Belarus	47:07.5	Thomas Clarion Guide: Antoine Bollet  France	47:24.4
	Standing	Ihor Reptyukh  Ukraine	44:52.4	Benjamin Daviet  France	46:48.9	Håkon Olsrud  Norway	47:10.6

Relay events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4 x 2.5 km Mixed Relay details	Ukraine (UKR) Iurii Utkin Guide: Ruslan Perekhoda Liudmyla Liashenko Iuliia Batenkova-Bauman Oksana Shyshkova Guide: Vitaliy Kazakov	24:31.9	Canada (CAN) Natalie Wilkie Emily Young Chris Klebl Mark Arendz	25:21.9	Germany (GER) Andrea Eskau Steffen Lehmker Alexander Ehler	25:25.3
4 x 2.5 km Open Relay details	France (FRA) Benjamin Daviet Anthony Chalencon Guide: Simon Valverde Thomas Clarion Guide: Antoine Bollet	22:46.6	Norway (NOR) Nils-Erik Ulset Håkon Olsrud Eirik Bye Guide: Arvid Nelson	23:09.1	Canada (CAN) Collin Cameron Brian McKeever Guide: Graham Nishikawa	23:52.4

See also

• Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics
• Multi-Medallists - cross-country IPC – Official website