Liudmyla Liashenko (born 17 May 1993) is a Ukrainian

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

Paralympics The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaired ...

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and

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Career

Liudmyla Liashenko claimed her first Paralympic medal, bronze, in the women's 6km standing biathlon event, which was ultimately the first medal received by

Ukraine at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Ukraine competed at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang County, Gangwon Province, South Korea, from 9 to 18 March 2018. The country was represented by 22 athletes, and 9 assistants for athletes with visual impairments. Of the six paralym ...

. She won the bronze medal in the women's 10km standing 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. She also won the gold medal in the women's long-distance standing cross-country skiing event. In biathlon, she won the silver medal in the women's 6km standing event. She also won the gold medal in the women's 10km standing biathlon event.

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* 1993 births Living people Ukrainian female cross-country skiers Biathletes at the 2014 Winter Paralympics Cross-country skiers at the 2014 Winter Paralympics 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 silver medalists for Ukraine Paralympic bronze medalists for Ukraine Medalists at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2022 Winter Paralympics Paralympic medalists in biathlon Paralympic medalists in cross-country skiing 21st-century Ukrainian women {{Nordic-skiing-bio-stub