Sviatlana Sakhanenka (born 26 October 1989) is a Belarusian visually impaired

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 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 made her Paralympic debut 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 ...

and she competed in the

biathlon 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 tim ...

and

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 ...

events. Sviatlana Sakhanenka clinched her maiden gold medal in her Paralympic career after clinching the medal in the 15km free visually impaired cross-country event during the

. and followed it up with another gold 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 ...

by claiming a gold medal in the women's 1.5km sprint classical cross-country skiing event. She also claimed a bronze medal in the women's 6km visually impaired biathlon event at the

. She won the gold medal in the women's 10km 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. She also won the gold medal in the women's long-distance visually impaired cross-country skiing event.

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* 1989 births Living people Belarusian female biathletes Biathletes at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Paralympic biathletes of Belarus Medalists at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for Belarus Paralympic bronze medalists for Belarus Cross-country skiers at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Paralympic cross-country skiers of Belarus Visually impaired category Paralympic competitors Paralympic medalists in cross-country skiing Paralympic medalists in biathlon 21st-century Belarusian women {{Belarus-biathlon-bio-stub