Valentina Grigoryeva is a former

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

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 ...

. Grigoryeva represented the Soviet Union at the

1988 Winter Paralympics The 1988 Winter Paralympic Games (german: Paralympische Winterspiele 1988) were the fourth Winter Paralympics, held again in Innsbruck, Austria. These were the last Winter Paralympics to be held in a separate location from the Winter Olympics ...

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, and won two bronze medals, in the five kilometre and ten kilometre events. She was the only Soviet athlete to win a medal at the Innsbruck Games, and, since this was the USSR's first and last appearance at the

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, she is the only Soviet athlete to win a Winter Paralympic medal. Grigoryeva did not compete again at the Paralympic Games.

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* Paralympic cross-country skiers for the Soviet Union Cross-country skiers at the 1988 Winter Paralympics Paralympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Soviet female cross-country skiers Living people Medalists at the 1988 Winter Paralympics Year of birth missing (living people) Paralympic medalists in cross-country skiing {{Paralympic-medalist-stub