Dmytro Suiarko is a Ukrainian visually impaired

cross-country skier Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreation ...

and biathlete.

Career

He made his Paralympic debut for Ukraine during the

2018 Winter Paralympics ) , nations = 49 , athletes = 569 , events = 80 in 6 sports , opening = 9 March , closing = 18 March , opened_by = President Moon Jae-in , cauldron = Kim Eun-jung Seo Soon-seok , stadium = Pyeongchang Olympic ...

. He again represented Ukraine at the

2022 Winter Paralympics The 2022 Winter Paralympics (), commonly known as Beijing 2022 (), was an international winter multi-sport parasports event held in Beijing, China from 4 to 13 March 2022. This was the 13th Winter Paralympic Games, as administered by the Inte ...

and won a gold medal in the 4 × 2.5 kilometre open relay and three bronze medals in the men's 6 kilometres and

10 kilometres 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit (measurement), unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment ...

biathlon events and the 12.5 kilometres cross-country skiing event.

Personal life

On 7 March 2022, Suiarko's house was bombed and destroyed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

References

Living people Ukrainian male cross-country skiers Biathletes at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Biathletes at the 2022 Winter Paralympics Cross-country skiers at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Paralympic biathletes for Ukraine Paralympic cross-country skiers for Ukraine Paralympic gold medalists for Ukraine Paralympic bronze medalists for Ukraine Medalists at the 2022 Winter Paralympics Visually impaired category Paralympic competitors Paralympic medalists in biathlon Paralympic medalists in cross-country skiing Cross-country skiers at the 2022 Winter Paralympics Year of birth missing (living people) {{Ukraine-wintersport-bio-stub