Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Paralympics

Cross-country skiing at the VIII Paralympic Winter Games
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Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Paralympics consisted of 32 events, 20 for men and 12 for women.

Contents 1 Medal table 2 Medal summary 2.1 Men's events 2.2 Women's events 3 See also 4 References

Medal table

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Rank	Nation				Total
1	Norway (NOR)	9	1	5	15
2	Russia (RUS)	7	8	3	18
3	Germany (GER)	6	1	8	15
4	Finland (FIN)	4	1	3	8
5	Canada (CAN)	2	1	0	3
5	Italy (ITA)	2	0	0	2
7	Belarus (BLR)	1	1	0	2
8	Poland (POL)	1	0	1	2
9	Ukraine (UKR)	0	5	5	10
10	United States (USA)	0	5	0	5
11	France (FRA)	0	3	2	5
12	Netherlands (NED)	0	3	0	3
13	Austria (AUT)	0	1	1	2
13	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	1	2
14	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	0	1
15	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	2	2
16	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
Total		32	32	32	96

Medal summary

The competition events were:

• 2.5 km: - women
• 5 km: men - women
• 10 km: men - women
• 15 km: men - women
• 20 km: men
• 1x2.5/2x5 km relay: men - women
• 3x25 km relay: - women

Each event had separate standing, sitting, or visually impaired classifications:

• LW2 - standing: single leg amputation above the knee
• LW3 - standing: double leg amputation below the knee, mild cerebral palsy, or equivalent impairment
• LW4 - standing: single leg amputation below the knee
• LW5/7 - standing: double arm amputation
• LW6/8 - standing: single arm amputation
• LW9 - standing: amputation or equivalent impairment of one arm and one leg

• LW 10 - sitting: paraplegia with no or some upper abdominal function and no functional sitting balance
• LW 11 - sitting: paraplegia with fair functional sitting balance
• LW 12 - sitting: double leg amputation above the knees, or paraplegia with some leg function and good sitting balance

• B1 - visually impaired: no functional vision
• B2 - visually impaired: up to ca 3-5% functional vision
• B3 - visually impaired: under 10% functional vision

Men's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km classical technique	B1 details	Helge Flo guide: Paal Sneve Norway (NOR)	Oleh Munts guide: Volodymyr Storozhok Ukraine (UKR)	Valeri Kouptchinski guide: Russia (RUS)
	B2 details	Frank Hoefle guide: Ulrich Zipfel Germany (GER)	Nikolai Ilioutchenko guide: Andrey Gladshev Russia (RUS)	Emil Oestberg guide: Peter Rune Sweden (SWE)
	B3 details	Brian McKeever guide: Robin McKeever Canada (CAN)	Irek Mannanov guide: Salavat Gumerov Russia (RUS)	Vitaliy Lukyanenko guide: Volodymyr Ivanov Ukraine (UKR)
	LW2-4 details	Kjartan Haugen Norway (NOR)	Steven Cook United States (USA)	Roland Gaess Germany (GER)
	LW5-9 details	Andreas Hustveit Norway (NOR)	Axel Hecker Germany (GER)	Yoshihiro Nitta Japan (JPN)
5 km sitski	LW10 details	Sergej Shilov Russia (RUS)	Mikhail Terentiev Russia (RUS)	Klaus Kleiser Germany (GER)
	LW11 details	Roland Ruepp Italy (ITA)	Oliver Anthofer Austria (AUT)	Alain Marguerettaz France (FRA)
	LW12 details	Taras Kryjanovski Russia (RUS)	Vladimir Gajdiciar Slovakia (SVK)	Wieslaw Fiedor Poland (POL)
10 km free technique	B1 details	Valeri Kouptchinski guide: Viatcheslav Doubov Russia (RUS)	Oleh Munts guide: Volodymyr Storozhok Ukraine (UKR)	Wilhelm Brem guide: Olaf Gruhn Germany (GER)
	B2 details	Frank Hoefle guide: Ulrich Zipfel Germany (GER)	Emil Oestberg guide: Peter Rune Sweden (SWE)	Nikolai Ilioutchenko guide: Andrey Gladyshev Russia (RUS)
	B3 details	Brian McKeever guide: Robin McKeever Canada (CAN)	Irek Mannanov guide: Salavat Gumerov Russia (RUS)	Alexander Schwarz guide: Ralf Rombach Germany (GER)
	LW2-4 details	Nils Erik Ulset Norway (NOR)	Steven Cook United States (USA)	Harald Thauer Germany (GER)
	LW5-9 details	Axel Hecker Germany (GER)	Andreas Hustveit Norway (NOR)	Josef Giesen Germany (GER)
10 km sitski	LW10 details	Mikhail Terentiev Russia (RUS)	Sergej Shilov Russia (RUS)	Hanspeter Weber Switzerland (SUI)
	LW11 details	Roland Ruepp Italy (ITA)	Alain Marguerettaz France (FRA)	Ruedi Weber Switzerland (SUI)
	LW12 details	Wieslaw Fiedor Poland (POL)	Robert Balk United States (USA)	Mykola Ovcharenko Ukraine (UKR)
15 km sitski	LW10-12 details	Sergej Shilov Russia (RUS)	Mikhail Terentiev Russia (RUS)	Oliver Anthofer Austria (AUT)
20 km free technique	standing details	Nils Erik Ulset Norway (NOR)	Steven Cook United States (USA)	Josef Giesen Germany (GER)
	visually impaired details	Valeri Kouptchinski guide: Viatcheslav Doubov Russia (RUS)	Brian McKeever guide: Robin McKeever Canada (CAN)	Frank Hoefle guide: Ulrich Zipfel Germany (GER)
1x2.5/2x5 km relay	open details	Russia (RUS) Irek Mannanov guide: Roman Ivanov Nikolai Ilioutchenko guide: Andrey Gladysev Sergej Shilov	United States (USA) Robert Balk Steven Cook William Stewart	Norway (NOR) Kjartan Haugen Karl Einar Henriksen Andreas Hustveit

Women's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2.5 km sitski	details	Ragnhild Myklebust Norway (NOR)	Svitlana Tryfonova Ukraine (UKR)	Olena Iurkovska Ukraine (UKR)
5 km classical technique	B1 details	Verena Bentele guide: Ralph Schmidt Germany (GER)	Fabienne Kaci guide: Gerard Blanc France (FRA)	Merja Hannele Hanski guide: Kirsi Vaisanen Finland (FIN)
	B2-3 details	Yadviha Skarabahataya guide: Vasili Haurukovich Belarus (BLR)	Jaana Argillander guide: Arto Kaukonen Finland (FIN)	Tone Gravvold guide: Kristian Soerensen Norway (NOR)
	standing details	Tanja Kari Finland (FIN)	Majorie van de Bunt Netherlands (NED)	Siw Vestengen Norway (NOR)
5 km sitski	details	Ragnhild Myklebust Norway (NOR)	Svitlana Tryfonova Ukraine (UKR)	Olena Iurkovska Ukraine (UKR)
10 km free technique	B1-2 details	Verena Bentele guide: Ralph Schmidt Germany (GER)	Emilie Tabouret guide: Lionel Bayon France (FRA)	Fabienne Kaci guide: Gerard Blanc France (FRA)
	B3 details	Jaana Argillander guide: Arto Kaukonen Finland (FIN)	Yadviha Skarabahataya guide: Vasili Haurukovich Belarus (BLR)	Tatiana Ilioutchenko guide: Roman Ivanov Russia (RUS)
	standing details	Tanja Kari Finland (FIN)	Majorie van de Bunt Netherlands (NED)	Siw Vestengen Norway (NOR)
10 km sitski	details	Ragnhild Myklebust Norway (NOR)	Svitlana Tryfonova Ukraine (UKR)	Olena Iurkovska Ukraine (UKR)
15 km free technique	standing details	Tanja Kari Finland (FIN)	Majorie van de Bunt Netherlands (NED)	Siw Vestengen Norway (NOR)
	visually impaired details	Verena Bentele guide: Ralph Schmidt Germany (GER)	Tatiana Ilioutchenko guide: Andrey Gladyshev Russia (RUS)	Jaana Argillander guide: Arto Kaukonen Finland (FIN)
3x2.5 km relay	open details	Norway (NOR) Tone Gravvold guide: Kristian Soersensen Ragnhild Myklebust Siw Vestengen	Russia (RUS) Elvira Ibraginova guide: Salavat Gumerov Tatiana Ilioutchenko guide: Andrey Gladyshev Irina Polyakova	Finland (FIN) Jaana Argillander guide: Arto Kaukonen Merja Hannele Hanski guide: Kirsi Vaisanen Tanja Kari

See also

• Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics

References

• "IPC Historical Results Database". International Paralympic Committee. 2010. http://www.paralympic.org/Sport/Results/index.html?sport=31&games=2002PWG&ct=PG&ordered=1#general. Retrieved 2010-11-20. 

• "Salt Lake City 2002". paralympia.de. 2010. http://www.paralympia.de/pg_en/winter/saltlakecity2002/saltlakecity2002.php. Retrieved 2010-11-20. 

• Historical Medallists : Vancouver 2010 Winter Paralympics, Official website of the 2010 Winter Paralympics

• Winter Sport Classification, Canadian Paralympic Committee

• Paralympics - Cross country: Men's relay results, Deseret News, March 14, 2002
• Paralympics - Cross country: Short distance results, Deseret News, March 11, 2002
• Paralympics - Cross country - Middle-distance events, Deseret News, March 13, 2002
• Paralympic cross country times - Saturday's long-distance events at Soldier Hollow, Deseret News, March 13, 2002

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