List of Sports at the 2018 Winter Paralympic Games
The 2018 Paralympic Winter Games was held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. There was no change in the sports of the Winter Paralympics compared to 2014, though snowboarding has been expanded into a separate discipline for 2018, with 10 medal events (in 2014, two medal events in snowboarding were held within the alpine skiing program).
There were six sports on the program, and 80 events overall. Here is a list of the sports.
2018 Paralympic Sports List
- Para alpine skiing - Para alpine skiers with physical, vision or intellectual impairments compete in downhill, slalom, giant slalom, super-G and combined events, racing individually against the clock.
- Para biathlon - Athletes with physical or vision impairments compete in cross-country skiing races that include rifle shooting, with penalties added for missed targets.
- Para cross-country skiing - Athletes with physical or vision impairments race over long distances using standing, sitting or visually guided classifications.
- Para ice hockey - Athletes with lower-body impairments compete on sledges, propelling themselves with two sticks.
- Para Snowboard - Athletes with physical disabilities compete on a snowboard in events such as snowboard cross and banked slalom.
- Wheelchair curling - Athletes with lower-body impairments compete from wheelchairs, delivering curling stones toward the target without the sweeping used in Olympic curling.
Winter Paralympics Games
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