Oksana Shyshkova (born 10 June 1991) is a Ukrainian 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 ...

. 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 ...

thrice in

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and

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. Oksana Shyshkova claimed 6 medals at the 2017 IPC World Championships, which is her notable achievement in the sport of Nordic skiing. She competed at the 2022 Winter Paralympics, winning a gold medal, in Women's 6 kilometres. She claimed her maiden Paralympic gold medal after clinching a gold medal in the women's 10km 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 Olympic ...

Career

Oksana made her Paralympic debut during the

2010 Winter Paralympics ) , nations = 44 , athletes = 506 , events = 64 in 5 sports , opening = 12 March , closing = 21 March , opened_by = Governor General Michaëlle Jean , cauldron = Zach Beaumont , stadium = BC Place , winter_pr ...

representing

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and went medalless at the event. She then went onto compete 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 an ...

and claimed 4 bronze medals in the Winter Paralympic event including 3 in the biathlon events and a solitary medal in the

cross-country skiing 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 ...

event with the assistance of her

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 International ...

Lada Nesterenko Lada Stanislavivna Nesterenko ( uk, Лада Станіславівна Нестеренко; born August 3, 1976) is a Ukrainian cross-country skier who competed between 1995 and 2017. At the 2010 Winter Olympics, she finished 44th in the 30&nbs ...

. Oksana Shyshkova claimed a silver medal in the women's 6km visually impaired biathlon event during the

, which is also her first Paralympic silver medal and also her fifth medal in her Paralympic career.

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