Jacob Adicoff (born May 16, 1995) is an American visually impaired cross-country skier and

biathlete The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skiing and shooting sports, rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into sh ...

. He competed at the

Winter Paralympics The Winter Paralympic Games is an international multi-sport event where athletes with physical disabilities compete in snow and ice sports. The event includes athletes with mobility impairments, amputations, blindness, and cerebral palsy. Th ...

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and

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Career

Jake Adicoff claimed his first Paralympic medal after clinching a silver medal in the men's 10km visually impaired cross-country skiing event 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 ...

. Notably, he dedicated the silver medal to Mugsy, his dog. He won the gold medal in the men's 12.5km visually impaired cross-country skiing event at the

2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships The 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships was an international disability sport competition held in Lillehammer, Norway from 8 to 23 January 2022. It was the inaugural edition of the World Para Snow Sports Championships with para-alpine skiin ...

held in Lillehammer, Norway. He also won the bronze medal in the men's long-distance visually impaired cross-country skiing event.

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* * 1995 births Living people American male cross-country skiers American male biathletes Cross-country skiers at the 2014 Winter Paralympics Cross-country skiers at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Cross-country skiers at the 2022 Winter Paralympics Biathletes at the 2014 Winter Paralympics Paralympic cross-country skiers for the United States Paralympic biathletes for the United States Paralympic gold medalists for the United States Paralympic silver medalists for the United States Medalists at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2022 Winter Paralympics American blind people Visually impaired category Paralympic competitors Sportspeople from San Jose, California Paralympic medalists in cross-country skiing 21st-century American sportsmen {{Nordic-skiing-bio-stub