Iurii Utkin (born 3 August 1990) is a Ukrainian visually impaired cross-country skier and

biathlete The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not time ...

. He represented Ukraine at the Paralympics in 2010,

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and

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Career

Iurii made his Paralympic debut during the 2010 Winter Paralympics and went medalless at the event. He clinched his first Paralympic medal, a silver medal in the 4 x 2.5 km relay open event at the

2014 Winter Paralympics The 2014 Winter Paralympics (russian: Зимние Паралимпийские игры 2014, Zimniye Paralimpiyskiye igry 2014), the 11th Paralympic Winter Games, and also more generally known as the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, were a ...

. Paralympic Champion (Korea 2018) He also claimed a bronze medal in the men's 12.5km visually impaired biathlon event as a part of 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 Olymp ...

with the assistance of his

sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment. Sports Paralympic Games At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment. Rules are according to the Internationa ...

, Ruslan Perekhoda.

References

1990 births Living people Ukrainian male cross-country skiers Cross-country skiers at the 2010 Winter Paralympics Cross-country skiers at the 2014 Winter Paralympics Cross-country skiers at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Biathletes at the 2010 Winter Paralympics Biathletes at the 2014 Winter Paralympics Biathletes at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Paralympic cross-country skiers for Ukraine Paralympic biathletes for Ukraine Paralympic silver medalists for Ukraine Paralympic bronze medalists for Ukraine Medalists at the 2014 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Ukrainian blind people Visually impaired category Paralympic competitors Sportspeople from Kharkiv Paralympic medalists in cross-country skiing Paralympic medalists in biathlon {{Ukraine-crosscountry-skiing-bio-stub