Lidziya Hrafeyeva (born 14 December 1985) is a Belarusian

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. She has 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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Career

She claimed her first Paralympic medal after clinching a bronze medal in the women's 6km sitting biathlon 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 ...

. After claiming the bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Paralympics, she hinted about her plans to step into participate at the

Summer Paralympics The Summer Paralympics also known as the Games of the Paralympiad, are an international multi-sport event where athletes with physical disabilities compete. This includes athletes with mobility disabilities, amputations, blindness, and cerebral ...

and hinted about to choose the sport of shooting following her success at the biathlon event which also comprises shooting. Coincidentally both Lidziya and her husband, Dzmitry Loban went onto represent

Belarus at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Belarus sent competitors the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. People are competing in para-Nordic skiing. The team includes one woman and one man. Both had gone to the Winter Paralympics before. The country has a history of ...

Biography

Lidziya Hrafeyeva was affected in a car accident at the age of 27, which led to the amputations of her legs. Following the accident, she decided to take the sport of Paralympic Nordic skiing in 2014 before being selected to represent Belarus at the 2014 Winter Paralympics. She married fellow Belarusian Paralympic Nordic skier, Dzmitry Loban who has represented

Belarus at the Paralympics Belarus made its Paralympic Games début at the 1994 Winter Paralympics in Lillehammer. It has participated in every subsequent edition of both the Summer and Winter Paralympics. Belarusian athletes have won a total of 98 Paralympic medals, of ...

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. Lidziya Hrafeyeva was also encouraged to take the sport of cross-country skiing by her husband.

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* 1985 births Belarusian female biathletes Belarusian female cross-country skiers Biathletes at the 2014 Winter Paralympics Biathletes at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Cross-country skiers at the 2014 Winter Paralympics Paralympic cross-country skiers for Belarus Paralympic biathletes for Belarus Paralympic bronze medalists for Belarus Medalists at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Living people Paralympic medalists in biathlon {{Belarus-biathlon-bio-stub