Ukraine wins its first gold at 2026 Paralympics
Ukraine has won its first gold medal of the 2026 Paralympic Games after Taras Rad took victory in the men's 7.5km sprint sitting in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo.
Source: Champion, a sports news platform within Ukrainska Pravda's holding company
Details: Rad, 26, shot clean at both shooting stages and set the fastest time on the course to win the sitting class for para-athletes with impairments in the musculoskeletal system.
He beat two Chinese athletes, Mengtao Liu and Zixu Liu, who also shot clean.
Another Ukrainian, Vasyl Kravchuk, finished fourth. Oleksandr Aleksyk also made the top 10.
2026 Paralympic Games. Sprint, men, sitting class
- 1. 🥇 Taras Rad (Ukraine, LW12, 0+0) 19:55,5
- 2. 🥈 Mengtao Liu (China, LW12, 0+0) +9,3
- 3. 🥉 Zixu Liu (China, LW12, 0+0) +17,6
- 4. Vasyl Kravchuk (Ukraine, LW11, 0+0) +31,5
- 9. Oleksandr Aleksyk (Ukraine, LW12, 0+0) +1:00,3
- 12. Pavlo Bal (Ukraine, LW11.5, 1+1) +1:32,9
- 15. Hryhorii Shymko (Ukraine, LW10.5, 1+2) +2:38,2
This is Ukraine's first medal at the 2026 Paralympics and Rad's second Paralympic gold. Four years ago at Beijing 2022, he won the 12.5km race.
Background: Earlier at the 2026 Paralympics, Ukrainian-American Oksana Masters won gold in the women's sprint.
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