Photo courtesy of the National Olympic Committee
MINSK, 10 March (BelTA) – Belarusian skiers will hold their first races today at the XIV Paralympic Winter Games in Italy, BelTA has learned.
The competition program in Tesero will open with sprint races. The first to take to the distance will be the women competing in the sitting event. The qualification starts at 11:45 Minsk time, with our Valiantsina Biryla and Lidziya Loban among the participants. Standing athletes with limb impairments will begin their qualification at 12:30. Among the women, Belarusian Darya Fedzkovich is entered; among the men, Raman Svirydzenka, who won the sprint at a World Cup stage in Germany in January.
