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Wheelchair curling

Before the Games 
In November 2017, Finland played in a tournament in Estonia.  They finished third.  Estonia was first, and Latvia was second.  Neither Estonia nor Latvia are going to the 2018 Winter Paralympics.

Roster 
Sari Karjalainen competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics. Vesa Leppänen is going to his first Games in South Korea. Markku Karjalainen went to the 2014 Winter Paralympics.  He also competed in the 1992 Summer Paralympics. Riitta Särösalo is competing in her first Games in 2018. Yrjö Jääskeläinen is also competing at this first Paralympics in South Korea. Skip Sari Karjalainen is married to fourth player Markku Karjalainen.

Schedule and results 
Wheelchair curling competition starts on 10 March. On 14 March, Finland plays against Sweden.

References 

Sport in Finland
Nations at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
Denmark sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. There will be at least one person competing in para-snowboarding.

Team 

The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Denmark") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.
Background 
In autumn of 2017, responsibility for sending a team to the Paralympics was changed from Parasport Denmark, the National Paralympic Committee of Denmark, to  National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark (DIF).  The decision was made because people wanted to make Olympic and Paralympic sport more equal. Niels Christiansen, secretary general of Parasport Denmark, said, "We are very happy with the move, and we look forward to working together with DIF. The Paralympics and the development and preparation of world class Para-athletes is still very much a focal point of our work in Parasport Denmark, but allowing DIF to take the reigns sends an important message and hopefully it will lead to even more Paralympic success for Denmark." Despite this change, Parasport Denmark was still in charge of preparing to send a team to the Winter Paralympic Games.
History 
Denmark first went to the Winter Paralympics in 1980 in Geilo.  Before South Korea, they had won a total of two gold medals, one silver medal and three bronze medals at the Winter Games. Both of their gold medals and all of their bronze medals were won by para-Nordic blind skier Anne-Mette Bredahl. Her gold medals were in the  biathlon 7.5 kilometres free technique B 1-3 race. The last time the country won a medal at the 1994 Winter Paralympics. Denmark sends few people to the Winter Paralympics.  They sent six people to the 2006 Winter Paralympics, and two people to the 2010 and 2014 Games.

Para-snowboarding

Snowboarders 
Daniel Wagner is a two sport competitor.  He was part of the Denmark team at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, where he won a gold medal.  Wagner was the world champion in the long jump.
Schedule and results 
The snowboard cross event starts on 12 March.  It starts at 10:30 AM and goes to 5:00 PM for all classes for both men and women. The slalom race is scheduled to take place on 16 March.  It goes from 10:30 AM – 4:55 PM.  Men and women in all classes are racing at that time.

References 

2018
Nations at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
Czech Republic sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. People are competing two sports: para-alpine skiing and sledge hockey. There were 24 sportspeople, 16 support people and 4 administrators.  First allocated four sports in para-alpine skiing, the country won two more spots and are sending six skiers.  The sledge hockey team goes to South Korea after qualifying at a tournament in Sweden.  They had financial difficulties before the Winter Paralympics because of corruption in sports funding.  This made it more difficult to train and compete for the 2018 Games.

Team
In June 2017, the Executive Committee of the Czech Paralympic Committee (ČPV) was told by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) they had been given four spots to send people to the 2018 Winter Paralympics to compete in para-alpine skiing.  Three of these spots were for men, and one was for a woman.  Patrik Hetmer was the first skier to be nominated for inclusion on the 2018 team going to Pyeongchang.  In September 2017,  Pavel Bambousek, Miroslav Lidinský and Anna Pešková seemed to be the most likely skiers to be named to the team in para-alpine skiing.  The full team was named by the ČPV on 6 February 2018.  It included people in two sports: para-alpine skiing and sledge hockey. There were 24 sportspeople, 16 support people and 4 administrators. Anička Pešková was the only woman representing the Czech Republic in Pyeongchang.  The team included 6 alpine-skiers and their 2 guides. Tomáš Vaverka, who competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in snowboarding, was selected to compete in para-alpine skiing.
The group was scheduled to fly to South Korea on 3 March 2018.

The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Czech Republic") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.

Para-alpine skiing

Qualification 
In June 2017, the Executive Committee of the Czech Paralympic Committee (ČPV) was told by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) they had been given four spots to send people to the 2018 Winter Paralympics to compete in para-alpine skiing.  Three of these spots were for men, and one was for a woman. In September 2017,  Pavel Bambousek, Miroslav Lidinský and Anna Pešková seemed to be the most likely skiers to be named to the team in para-alpine skiing.

The team had a training camp in early autumn 2017 on the glaciers in the Czech Republic.  This was to prepare for their first races, which took place in November in Landgraaf, Netherlands.  After that, the team went Pitztal to race.
Support 
Health Care in the Hradec Králové supported Czech para-alpine skiers before Winter Games.  This program was supervised by  Deputy Governor for Health Care Ing. Aleš Cabicar. Shesaid, "The project of the handicapped skiers center is known, especially their teaching program, which they realize in the Krkonoše Mountains. I am very glad that successful athletes are being prepared in our region to achieve great results. When the representatives of the Center approached me with the request for support and support, I did not hesitate and I am glad that the Hradec Králové Region is one of the partners of the Czech representatives."
Skiers 
Patrik Hetmer was the first skier to be nominated for inclusion on the 2018 team going to Pyeongchang.  He competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.  Hetmer has a vision impairment. The blind skier races with guide skier Miroslav Máčka. Anička Pešková was the only woman representing the Czech Republic in Pyeongchang.  The blind skier is accompanied by her guide skier, Michaela Hubačová. Pešková won a medal at the 2010 Winter Paralympics.  She returned to alpine-skiing in 2017 after taking maternity leave. Benjamínek Tadeáš Kříž is racing in South Korea with guide skier Radim Nevrlý. Tomáš Vaverka, who competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in snowboarding, was selected to compete in para-alpine skiing.
Schedule and results 
The first event on the para-alpine program is the downhill. It starts on 10 March, running from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM. The second event on the program is Super-G. All skiers will race between 9:30 AM and 1:00 PM on 11 March.  The super combined takes place on 13 March. The Super-G part of the event is in the morning. The slalom part is in the afternoon. The slalom event gets underway on 14 March and conclude on 15 March. Women and men both race during the same sessions in the morning. The afternoon sessions start with the women doing their second run. Then the men go.The last para-alpine skiing race of the 2018 Games is the giant slalom. It takes place on 17 - 18 March.  Men and women both race at the same time in the morning sessions.  Women race first in the afternoon sessions, with the men racing a half hour after they end.
Sledge hockey 
The team had a goal of winning a bronze at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.  They thought their biggest competition would be the United States and Canada.  It was the third time the Czech Republic had gone to the Winter Paralympics. Their first appearance at the Winter Games was in 2010.  They went again in 2014.

Roster 
Defensemen Pavel Doležal and Karel Wagner are going to their first games.  The other defensemen were all part of the team that went to Sochi. Michal Geier, Zdeněk Hábl, Zdeněk Krupička, Zdeněk Šafránek, David Palat, David Motyčka, Zdeněk Klíma and Martin Novák are the centers and wingers, playing in the attacking positions.  The team is coached by Jiří Bříza.  He has been leading the team since 2013. Jan Katauer is an assistance coach, and Jakub Novotny is the goaltender coach.
In the two years before the start of the Winter Games, the sledge hockey team dealt with financial difficulties.  Corruption in the Czech Republic involving subsidies for sport resulted in the national team getting less money to support their training and ability to compete in tournaments. FAČR Chairman Miroslav Pelta was arrested as part of the corruption issues.  About the corruption, team captain Zdeněk Šafránek said, "The subsidy scandal has radically reduced the amount we receive. For the sake of illustration, the Czech Paralympic Committee has now gotten less money than last year's sledge hockey players, and it has to be divided into a lot of sports."  The team could not buy time to use ice at skating rinks to train much before their final qualifying competition in Sweden. They also could not buy new equipment like sledges, hockey sticks or hockey gloves
. To make sure they were ready to qualify, the captain thought the team needed around 1 million Czech Koruna () to pay for all the costs of training and traveling.  Because they could not get funding from the government, players had to ask individuals to support them financially.
The team went to Nagano to compete in a tournament in February 2018 to prepare for the Games.

Qualification 
Japan, Sweden and the Czech Republic were the last 3 teams that were able to go to the 2018 Games. They could go because of how they finished at the Qualification Tournament in October in Ostersund, Sweden in October 2017.  Teams participating in the tournament included Sweden, Germany, Slovakia, Japan and Great Britain.

Schedule and results 
The United States, South Korea, the Czech Republic and Japan were in Group B for the sledge hockey competition. They play South Korea on 11 March. They play the United States on 12 March. The Czech Republic plays Japan on 13 March.
 Preliminary round

Media coverage 
Some of the Paralympics would be broad on television by ČT TV and ČT Sport.  Live streaming of the Winter Games was also made available free on ČT Sport's website.

References 

Nations at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
Sport in the Czech Republic
Croatia sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. One person representing Croatia is para-alpine skier Dino Sokolovič.  He stopped skiing in 2016 for 20 months because of an injury.

Team 

The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Croatia") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.

Para-alpine skiing

Skiers 
Dino Sokolovič is a standing skier.  He was injured in 2016.  Because of the injury, he did not ski for 20 months.

Before the Games 
Dino Sokolovič  went to Slovenia in January 2018.  He competed in the World Cup in Kranjska Gora.  After 20 months away from skiing because of an injury, he won his first race at Kranjska Gora.
Schedule and results 
The first event on the para-alpine program is the downhill. It starts on 10 March, running from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM. The second event on the program is Super-G. All skiers will race between 9:30 AM and 1:00 PM on 11 March.  The super combined takes place on 13 March. The Super-G part of the event is in the morning. The slalom part is in the afternoon. The slalom event gets underway on 14 March and conclude on 15 March. Women and men both race during the same sessions in the morning. The afternoon sessions start with the women doing their second run. Then the men go.The last para-alpine skiing race of the 2018 Games is the giant slalom. It takes place on 17 - 18 March.  Men and women both race at the same time in the morning sessions.  Women race first in the afternoon sessions, with the men racing a half hour after they end.

References 

Nations at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
Sport in Croatia
China sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. China had never won a medal at the Winter Paralympics prior to the start of the 2018 Winter Games.  They have a team competing in wheelchair curling.

History 
China had never won a medal at the Winter Paralympics prior to the start of the 2018 Winter Games. The best finish they had was fourth at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.  Their wheelchair curling team finished fourth.  China's best individual finish was also in 2014. Peng Yuanyuan finished fifth in the  women's cross-country skiing 5 km classic style standing.
Russian doping scandal 
15 National Paralympic Committees and the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation signed a letter expressing support for the National Paralympic Committee of Russia in August 2017.  The countries included Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Laos, Moldova, Mongolia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Montenegro, and South Korea.  They asked the IPC Governing Board to consider letting Russia compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.  The letter was signed weeks before the IPC Governing Board met in Abu Dhabi. In September 2017, this decision was reviewed and upheld.  The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) still had concerns about doping in Russian sport.  All the conditions the IPC required of the Russians were not met.

Wheelchair curling 
The team starts playing on 10 March when they go against Sweden.

References 

Nations at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
2010s in Chinese sport
Chile sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. There were 4 people in para-alpine skiing. The skiers went to races to be allowed to go to South Korea.  Starting in November 2017, they went to 15 races in Europe, the United States and Canada to get ready. Santiago Vega went to the 2014 Winter Paralympics.  Nicolás Bisquert, Diego Seguel and Julio Soto were going to their first Paralympic Games.

Team 
Chile had 4 people at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.  In the past, Diego Seguel was part of Team Chile at competitions around the world in another sport: para-athletics. All four had 220 points by February 2018.  They needed to have 220 total points or more in the time between when the 2014 Winter Paralympics ended and February 2018.  Vega competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics for Chile.  He was the only member of the team to do that.  The 2018 Games will be the first for Bisquert, Seguel and Soto.
The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Chile") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.

Para-alpine skiing

Preparation for the Paralympics 
The skiers go to Pyeongchang wanting to do better than they did in the past.  Chile competed in para-alpine skiing at the 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014 Winter Paralympics.  The best finish they had was in 2010 when Patricio Morande finished fourteenth in the giant slalom. The coach is Carlos Torres.  The team practiced for South Korea at the La Parva Ski Center in Chile. When at La Parva, they lived at the Ski Chile Hotel in Farellones. They worked together for over 170 days before leaving for the Winter Paralympics. From November 2017 to February 2018, they went to 15 races in Europe, the United States and Canada . They also had national team training camps.

The skiers
The skiers

Julio Soto 
Soto went to competition in North America in January 2018. In the Giant Slalom race, he had a time of 1 minute and 31 seconds and finished sixth. Because of his finish, Soto went to South Korea and was able to compete in the Giant Slalom race. At the same competition in Winter Park, Bisquertt finished first in the Giant Slalom race.  He beat world champion Corey Peters in the race. Soto was able to compete in the Slalom because of a race in 2017 where he was fifth.  He was the first person from Chile who could go to the South Korea. Soto said he wanted to finish in the top 20 in the Slalom race in Pyeongchang.
When he was 9-years-old, Soto went to school.  He had pain in his legs. He was later told by doctors he had osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer.  To fix it, doctors needed to amputate one of his legs.  He played sports as part of his rehabilitation.  After he finished university, he became a Level 1 Ski Instructor class at the National Ski School.  In 2015, he became of part of Team Chile and represented his country in ski races around the world.

Nicolás Bisquert 
Bisquertt went to a ski race in Winter Park in January 2018 with other people from Chile.  Because of past races, he could go to South Korea in two events.  After his races in Winter Park, he could go to Pyeongchang for the Super G. In January 2018, Bisquertt said he wanted to win a medal at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.

Bisquertt had a motorcycle accident when he was a 14-year-old.  The accident fractured his spine.
Diego Seguel 
Before the 2018 Winter Paralympics, Diego Seguel went to a ski race in January 2018 in Winter Park.  He finished third in the Giant Slalom. It was the first time he finished in the top three places at an international ski race. Because of his finishes in Winter Park, he could go to the South Korea in the slalom and giant slalom races.

In 2002, Diego Seguel had a snowboarding accident. He was 17-years-old. He got a disability because the accident hurt his spine.  One year after the accident, he started doing para-alpine skiing using a mono-ski. He has competed for Chile every year since 2011.

Results

References 

Sport in Chile
Nations at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
The United States sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.  The team is competing in para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing, para-snowboarding, sledge hockey and wheelchair curling.  It has 63 people.

The World Para Alpine Skiing World Cup Finals took place in Kimberly, British Columbia in February 2018. The event was the last one used to decide who would represent the United States at the 2018 Games. The team to go was announced on 20 February 2018. In the men's downhill sitting race, Andrew Kurka of the United States won gold.  He also won a silver in the men's Super-G sitting race.
The last date that countries could nominate people for their para-Nordic skiing teams at the 2018 Games was 23 February 2018. Kendall Gretsch won two gold medals in the first two days of competition.  One was in biathlon's women's 6 km race.  The other was in cross country skiing's women's 12 km sitting race. Daniel Cnossen won two medals in the first two days of competition.  His first was a gold in the men's 7.5 km sitting biathlon race.  His second was a silver in cross country skiing's men's 15 km sitting race.

The World Para Snowboard World Cup Finals in Big White, British Columbia took place in February 2018.  The event was the final one used to decide who would represent the United States at the 2018 Games.  On February 20, the names of the U.S. Paralympic Snowboarding Team were made public.
The USA finished in the first four at the 2017 Sledge Hockey World Championships.  This was why they could compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics. The United States, South Korea, the Czech Republic and Japan were in Group B for the sledge hockey competition.

Before the Games started, American wheelchair curlers had a few important dates in preparation for the Games.  These included the U.S. Open in Utica, New York  in December 2017, the Kisakallio Cup in Kisakallio, Finland in January 2018, and Sochi Open in January 2018.  They started play on 10 March.

Team 
The country has the largest team among all nations.  It has 63 people. New Zealand, Sweden and the United States were the first countries to name people to their teams. The people won their places by November 2017.

The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team USA") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.

Medalists 

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Para-alpine skiing
Para-alpine skiing

Going to the Games 
The World Para Alpine Skiing World Cup Finals took place in Kimberly, British Columbia in February 2018. The event was the last one used to decide who would represent the United States at the 2018 Games. 19 February 2018 was the deadline for American alpine skiers to get 2017-18 season race points in at least one race to be eligible to represent the United States at the Paralympic Games.  The team to go was announced on 20 February 2018.

Schedule and training 
Skiers had training runs for the downhill race on 7 March.  Their practice runs in the downhill on 8 and 9 March were cancelled.
Results
Anna Schaffelhuber of Germany won gold in the women's downhill sitting race.  Momoka Muraoka of Japan won silver.  Laurie Stephens of the United States won bronze.  In the men's downhill sitting race, Andrew Kurka of the United States won gold, Taiki Morri of Japan won silver and Corey Peters of New Zealand won bronze. In the men's Super-G sitting race, Kurt Oatway of Canada won gold, Andrew Kurka of the United States won silver, and Frederic Francois of France won bronze.

 Men

 Women

Para-Nordic skiing

Qualification 
In December 2017, the World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup took place in Canmore, Alberta.  The World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup in Oberried, Germany took place in January 2018. The last date that countries could nominate people for their teams at the 2018 Games was 23 February 2018.
Skiers 
Blind skier Danelle Umstead is married to her guide skier, Rob Umstead.  The two call themselves "Vision4Gold". Umstead is one of the few mothers competing in South Korea. Oksana Masters was born in 1989 in the Ukraine, near the Chernobyl site.  Her disability was because of the radiation from the accident in 1986.  When she was 7-years-old, she was adopted by a woman from the United States who said she should play sports.  Masters tried very hard, and later went to the 2012 Summer Paralympics where she competed in adapted rowing.  After the 2012 Games, she had pain in her back and changed to para-Nordic skiing.
Schedule 
Cross country skiing events take place on 10, 11, 14, 17 and 18 of March.  Biathlon events take place on 10, 13 and 16 of March. On 12 March, the 15 km race takes place, with standing and vision impaired women starting at 10:00 PM.  Thee sprint classic qualification takes place on 14 March from 10:00 AM – 11:25 AM for both men and women in all classes. It is followed in the afternoon by the semifinals and finals.  The classic race takes place on 17 March. The standing and visually impaired women's race takes place from 10:00 AM - 12:30.

Results

Biathlon 
Dan Cnossen won the first gold medal for the United States in biathlon.  He won gold in the men's 7.5 km sitting race.
 Men

 Women
In the women's 6 km biathlon sitting race,  Kendall Gretsch of the United States won gold, Oksana Masters won silver and Lidziya Hrafeyeva of Belarus won bronze.
Cross country skiing 
 Men
In cross country skiing's men's 15 km sitting race, Maksym Yarovyi of Ukraine won gold, Daniel Cnossen of the United States won silver, and Sin Eui Hyun won bronze.

 Women
In cross country skiing's women's 12 km sitting race, Kendall Gretsch of the United States won gold, Andrea Eskau of Germany won silver, and Oksana Masters of the United States won bronze.

Para-snowboarding

Going to the Games 
The World Para Snowboard World Cup Finals in Big White, British Columbia took place in February 2018.  The event was the final one used to decide who would represent the United States at the 2018 Games. To be eligible to represent the United States at the Paralympic Games, American snowboarders had to get season race points in at least one race in the 2017-18 season. The deadline to get the points was 19 February 2018.  On February 20, the names of the U.S. Paralympic Snowboarding Team were made public.
Schedule and results 
The snowboard cross event starts on 12 March, running from 10:30 AM to 5:00 PM for all classes for both men and women. The slalom race is scheduled to take place on 16 March, going from 10:30 AM – 4:55 PM for men and women in all classes.

Sledge hockey

Qualifying 
The USA finished in the first four at the 2017 Sledge Hockey World Championships.  This was why they could compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.  They went to South Korea after winning a gold medal in sledge hockey at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.

Before the Games 
The United States went to the 2018 Winter Paralympics looking to win their third consecutive Paralympic gold, having claimed gold at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Paralympics. Canada was thought to be their biggest competitor.  They had won three consecutive gold medals at the World Championships, with their most recent gold at the 2017 World Championships A-Pool.
The United States national sledge hockey team played in several tournaments and friendly games to get ready for the Winter Paralympics. The team played in the December 2017 World Sled Hockey Challenge in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. They played in the Para Ice Hockey International Tournament in Turin, Italy in January 2018. They also played in the 2018 Border Series in Buffalo, New York and Pt. Colborne, Ontario in February 2018.

Roster 
19-year-old Brody Roybal is from Chicago. He was part of the United States national sledge hockey team at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.  He won a gold medal at those games.  He started playing sledge hockey in 2006. He was born with a congenital, bilateral amputation.
Joe Misiewicz will be competing at his first Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang as a 29-year-old. When he was with the 1st Battalion 5th Marines in Afghanistan, he was injured.  This happened during a patrol, when his vehicle hit an improvised explosive devise. Because of injury, he is a double above-knee amputee.

Chicagoan Kevin McKee also was part of the United States national sledge hockey team at the 2014 Winter Paralympics.  Competing with the team, he won a gold medal in Sochi.  in 2018, he was ranked third on the national team. This was based on his performance at the World Sled Hockey Challenge in December 2017.  McKee has sacral agenesis.  He was born with this disorder.

Schedule and results 
The United States, South Korea, the Czech Republic and Japan were in Group B for the sledge hockey competition. They played against Japan on 10 March.  They play against the Czech Republic on 11 March.  They play against South Korea on 12 March.
 Preliminary round
Wheelchair curling 
The national team first decided who might be part of the national team in September 2017 in Incheon, South Korea. The second time when the national team said some people may not be able to go was at an event in Green Bay, Wisconsin in October 2017. The final choice of who would be on Team USA for the 2018 Games was made at USA National Team event in Wausau, Wisconsin in early November 2017.

Before the Games started, American wheelchair curlers had a few important dates in preparation for the Games.  These included the U.S. Open in Utica, New York  in December 2017, the Kisakallio Cup in Kisakallio, Finland in January 2018, and Sochi Open in January 2018.

They started playing on 10 March. They played against Sweden on 11 March.

References 

Sports in the United States
Nations at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
Uzbekistan sent people  to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Only one skier from Uzbekistan was selected to go.  Yokutkhon Kholbekova () is going to compete in para-Nordic skiing. Saodat Numanova was selected to referee para-alpine skiing events. 2018 is the second time for Uzbekistan going to the Winter Paralympics.

Team 
Skiers from Uzbekistan were invited to the 2018 Winter Paralympics. Yokutkhon Kholbekova () was the only skier selected.  She competed in para-Nordic skiing. Saodat Numanova was selected to referee para-alpine skiing events.

The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Uzbekistan") in the 2018 games.

History 
Uzbekistan first went to the Winter Paralympic Games in 2014. They sent 2 sportspeople. Ramil Gayazov was the only one who competed. They did not win any medals.

Para-Nordic skiing
Para-Nordic skiing

Skiers 
Yokutkhon Kholbekova went to a World Cup event in January 2018.  She also competes in para-athletics events, participating in national championships in Uzbekistan.

Schedule 
On 12 March, the 15 km race takes place. Standing and vision impaired women race started at 10:00 PM.  The sprint classic qualification took place on 14 March from 10:00 AM – 11:25 AM for both men and women in all classes. It was followed in the afternoon by the semifinals and finals.  The classic race took place on 17 March. The standing and visually impaired women's race took place from 10:00 AM - 12:30.

References 

Sport in Uzbekistan
Nations at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
Ukraine sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. People from Ukraine competed in para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing and para-snowboarding. The National Paralympic Committee of Ukraine, Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine and Lifecell helped the team go to the Winter Paralympics.  They gave the team money, clothes and mobile phones.  They also gave money to pay for people to practice for their races.

On the first day of competition, Anatolii Kovalevskyi, Liudmyla Liashenko, Vitaliy Luk'yanenko, Ihor Reptyukh and Oksana Shyshkova all won medals in the biathlon.  The Government of Ukraine gives monetary awards to Paralympic Games medalists.  For the 2018 Winter Paralympics,  dold medalists get USD$125,000, silver medalists get USD$80,000 and bronze medalists get USD$55,000.
Team 
The first time Ukraine sent people to the Winter Paralympics was in 1998. At the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Ukraine was the fourth country by total medals won.  People from Ukraine went to Pyeongchang to compete in  para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing and para-snowboarding.

The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Ukraine") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.

Help for the team 
Help for the team was given by the National Paralympic Committee of Ukraine, Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine and a mobile phone company named Lifecell.

The government of the Ukraine gave money to the national team for the 2018 Winter Paralympics. The money was for clothes, footwear and accessories for competition, and the opening and closing of the 2018 Paralympics. The government gave people UAH 20.2 million in 2017 to practice for the Winter Paralympics.  In 2018, the government gave people UAH 10.27 million.
Lifecell gave mobile phones to members of the team.  The phones could be used in Pyeongchang by people from the Ukraine for free.

Para-Nordic skiing 
People from Ukraine thought the best luck to win a medal was in the biathlon.

Schedule 
On 12 March, the 15 km race takes place, with standing and vision impaired women starting at 10:00 PM.  Thee sprint classic qualification takes place on 14 March from 10:00 AM – 11:25 AM for both men and women in all classes. It is followed in the afternoon by the semifinals and finals.  The classic race takes place on 17 March. The standing and visually impaired women's race takes place from 10:00 AM - 12:30.

Results
Results

Biathlon 
In the men's 7.5 km standing race,  Benjamin Daviet of France won gold, Mark Arendz won silver and Ihor Reptyukh of Ukraine won bronze. In the men's 7.5 km visually impaired race,  Vitaliy Luk'yanenko of Ukraine won gold, Yury Holub of Belarus won silver and Anatolii Kovalevskyi of Ukraine won bronze. In the women's 6 km biathlon standing race,  Ekaterina Rumyantseva won gold, Anna Milenina won silver, and Liudmyla Liashenko of Ukraine won bronze. In the women's 6 km biathlon visually impaired race,  Mikhalina Lysova won gold,  Oksana Shyshkova of Ukraine won silver and Sviatlana Sakhanenka of Belarus won bronze.

Cross country skiing 
In cross country skiing's men's 15 km sitting race, Maksym Yarovyi of Ukraine won gold, Daniel Cnossen of the United States won silver, and Sin Eui Hyun won bronze.
Medalists 
Ukrainian sportspeople who win a Paralympic medal get money from the government as part of an work of the government to bring dignity and make life better for Paralympians compared to Ukrainian Olympians.  Gold medalists get USD$125,000.  Silver medalists get USD$80,000.  Bronze medalists get USD$55,000.

References 

Sport in Ukraine
Nations at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
Turkey sent people  to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The country sent one person, alpine skier Mehmet Çekiç. Turkey tried to qualify in other sports, like wheelchair curling.  They just were unable to win spots to the Games. Turkey only made its first Winter Paralympics appearance at the 2014 Games.
Team 
In December 2017, the National Paralympic Committee of Turkey said one person would go to Pyeongchang.  Alpine skier Mehmet Çekiç was the person selected.  The National Paralympic Committee provided Çekiç with all the resources he needed. This was done with assistance from Turkey's national ski federation. The country wanted to send more people to South Korea for the Games.  People had problems with qualifications for the Games.  The President of the National Paralympic Committee of Turkey said they wanted to send more people to the 2022 Winter Paralympics.  They would work hard to make that happen. Financial problems and being responsibility for 18 sports made securing more positions for Pyeongchang difficult.

The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Turkey") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.
Turkey tried to go to the 2018 Winter Paralympics in wheelchair curling.  Turkey Physically Disabled Sports Federation Wheelchair Curling was created a year before the ability to get the right to go by winning the Wheelchair Curling World Championships B Tournament.  The team had many problems, and did not do well.  They did not the earn the right to compete.  The team was coached by Gökçe Ulugay.  It included wheelchair curlers Züleyha Bingöl, Kenan Coşkun, Serpil Arslan , Mesut Güle and Turan Akalın.  The competition was the first international tournament Turkey participated in.

Skiers from Turkey also tried to get the right to go to  Pyeongchang.  Like wheelchair curlers in Turkey, the skiers had many challenges.  They were not able to get the right to compete.

Para-alpine skiing
Para-alpine skiing

Schedule and results 
The first event on the para-alpine program is the downhill. It starts on 10 March, running from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM. The second event on the program is Super-G. All skiers will race between 9:30 AM and 1:00 PM on 11 March.  The super combined takes place on 13 March. The Super-G part of the event is in the morning. The slalom part is in the afternoon. The slalom event gets underway on 14 March and conclude on 15 March. Women and men both race during the same sessions in the morning. The afternoon sessions start with the women doing their second run. Then the men go.The last para-alpine skiing race of the 2018 Games is the giant slalom. It takes place on 17 - 18 March.  Men and women both race at the same time in the morning sessions.  Women race first in the afternoon sessions, with the men racing a half hour after they end.
History 
Turkey went to the 2014 Winter Paralympics. It was the first time Turkey competed at the Winter Paralympics. The Winter Sports division of the National Paralympic Committee was created in 2012.  This was two years before the start of the 2014 Winter Paralympics. Esat Hilmi Bayindir earned the right to go. Because of a process to help countries that are underrepresented at the Paralympics, Mehmet Çekiç was invited to participate.  This process is called Bipartite Invitation. Esat Hilmi Bayindir was in a traffic accident.  Because of this, he has a disability.  At the time of the 2014 Winter Paralympics, the skier was living in the United States.  He started skiing in 1982. Mehmet Çekiç started skiing in France in 2011.  In 2013, Çekiç went to alpine skiing competition in France and Italy.  Because of a traffic accident in 2009, he has a disability.  After the 2014 Winter Paralympics, Turkey hoped they could go to the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
Tickets 
The only authorized ticket seller in Turkey for the Paralympic Games was Setur.

References 

Sport in Turkey
Nations at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
Switzerland sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Switzerland has a team of 31 people. Only 13 are sportspeople. They are competing in three sports: para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing and wheelchair curling.

Team 
The team has 13 people. They are competing in three sports: para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing and wheelchair curling. 18 other people are part of the team. They include coaches, administrators and sport officials. The flag bearer for the Opening Ceremonies is Felix Wagner. Luana Bergamin is the Chef-de-Mission. Bergamin said he wants Switzerland to win 3 medals at the 2018 Games.

The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Switzerland") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.

Switzerland and Germany share a meeting place during the Winter Paralympics. It is called "Maison des Alpes". Fans, sportspeople, journalists and other people can go there and talk. The place includes a Swiss restaurant.

Para-alpine skiing
Para-alpine skiing

Skiers 
Christoph Kunz went to Pyeongchang with 2 gold medals. He won them at earlier Winter Paralympic Games.

Schedule and training 
Skiers had training runs for the downhill race on 7 March. Their practice runs in the downhill on 8 and 9 March were cancelled.
Results 
Theo Gmur won a gold medal in the men's downhill standing race.  Arthur Bauchet of France won silver.  Markus Salcher of Austria won bronze. In the men's Super-G standing race, Theo Gmur of Switzerland won gold, Arthur Bauchet of France won silver, and Markus Salcher of Austria won bronze.
 Men

 Women

Para-Nordic skiing

Results 
 Men's distance

Wheelchair curling 
The Switzerland national wheelchair curling team members are Felix Wagner, Claudia Hüttenmoser-Pfister, Marcel Bodenmann, Beatrix Blauel, and Hans Burgener. Wagner is the skip. They won the 2016 Wheelchair Curling World Championships. This won them the right to go to the 2018 Winter Paralympics. To get ready for the Games, the team played in 5 international tournaments. They took place in Copenhagen, Wetzikon, Stirling in Scotland, Richmond in British Columbia, and Ottawa. B. Braun Medical SA is the team's sponsor.

Wheelchair curling competition started on 10 March. Switzerland plays against Sweden on 15 March.

References
References 

Sport in Switzerland
Nations at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
Sweden sent people  to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.  The team has 22 people.  They are competing in  para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing, sledge hockey and wheelchair curling. The Games are being shown on television on SVT.

Team 
22 people from Sweden competed in the 2018 Winter Paralympics.  People are competing in para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing, sledge hockey and wheelchair curling. New Zealand, Sweden and the United States were the first countries to name people to their teams after sportspeople won spots by November 2017.  The first person named to the team was para-Nordic skier Zebastian Modin.

The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Sweden") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.

History 
People from Sweden went to the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia. Of the 22 total people, 18 were men and 4 were women. They won 1 gold medal, 2 silver medals and 1 bronze medal.
Doping 
People from Sweden were critical of anti-doping work planned for the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.  They did not like the fact that anti-doping officials were not being paid.

Para-alpine skiing

Skiers 
Aaron Lindström made the team for the 2018 Games when he was a 17-year-old. He was the first alpine skier to be named to the team for Sweden.  He competes in the slalom, giant slalom and Super G races.
Schedule and results 
The first event on the para-alpine program is the downhill. It starts on 10 March, running from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM. The second event on the program is Super-G. All skiers will race between 9:30 AM and 1:00 PM on 11 March.  The super combined takes place on 13 March. The Super-G part of the event is in the morning. The slalom part is in the afternoon. The slalom event gets underway on 14 March and conclude on 15 March. Women and men both race during the same sessions in the morning. The afternoon sessions start with the women doing their second run. Then the men go.The last para-alpine skiing race of the 2018 Games is the giant slalom. It takes place on 17 - 18 March.  Men and women both race at the same time in the morning sessions.  Women race first in the afternoon sessions, with the men racing a half hour after they end.

Para-Nordic skiing
Para-Nordic skiing

Skiers 
Zebastian Modin has problems seeing, and uses a guide skier.  Before South Korea, he competed at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver and the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi.  He won a bronze medal in 2010, and  two silver medals and a bronze medal in 2014.

Schedule and results 
On 12 March, the 15 km race takes place, with standing and vision impaired women starting at 10:00 PM.  Thee sprint classic qualification takes place on 14 March from 10:00 AM – 11:25 AM for both men and women in all classes. It is followed in the afternoon by the semifinals and finals.  The classic race takes place on 17 March. The standing and visually impaired women's race takes place from 10:00 AM - 12:30.

Sledge hockey

To the Games 
Japan, Sweden and the Czech Republic were the last 3 teams that were able to go to the 2018 Games. They could go because of how they finished at the Qualification Tournament in October in Ostersund, Sweden in October 2017.

Roster
Roster

Schedule and results 
Canada, Norway, Italy and Sweden were in Group A for the sledge hockey competition. Sweden's first game is on 10 March against Canada.  They play against Italy on 12 March. They play against Norway on 13 March.
 Preliminary round

Wheelchair curling 
The Swedish national wheelchair curling team includes Viljo Petersson Dahl, Kristina Ulander, Ronny Persson, Zandra Reppe and Mats-Ola Engborg. The team starts playing on 10 March when they compete against China. They play the United States on 11 March. They play Slovakia on 12 March. They play Great Britain on 12 March.  They play Norway and Germany on 13 March. On 14 March, they play against Finland and South Korea.

Media coverage 
The Games are being shown on television on SVT.

References 

Sport in Sweden
Nations at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
Spain sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The team from Spain had 4 people.  They included 2 snowboarders and 2 skiers. Blind skier Jon Santacana and guide skier Miguel Galindo Garces competed at the Paralympics before in  2002, 2006, 2010 and the 2014. Astrid Fina Paredes went to the 2014 Winter Paralympics. Snowboarder Víctor González will be going to his first Paralympic Games.

Team 
Spain sent 4 people to the 2018 Winter Paralympics.  They were  snowboards and alpine skiers.  The team went to an event in Madrid on 26 February 2018 in Madrid.  After the event, they went to South Korea.

The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Spain") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.
Traditionally, the United States, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden have been the best countries at the Winter Paralympics. Spain has not sent many people, and has not won many medals. One of the reasons is that there are not many places to ski, and it is very expensive.  This discourages people from trying winter sports.  Paralympic sports are also treated the same as women's sports in Spain.  They are hidden away, and the media gives little coverage to the sporting accomplishments of its elite Paralympic sportspeople.  While Olympic people have guaranteed money because of Plan ADO, Paralympic people get much less money from Plan ADOP.  The money they get is also much less secure, changing from year to year.  This makes it difficult for Spanish Paralympic people to plan in advance their practice and competition calendar.  Olympic people get money for the year.  Paralympic people only get money for a month.  The next month, they may not get any money from Plan ADOP
.  While Spain has a lot of people with disabilities, only 0.5% have a sports license.
There were some issues related to clothing making Joma sponsoring the Winter Paralympic team.  The company already sponsored the 2018 Spanish Winter Olympic team.  This started during preparations for the 2016 Summer Paralympics.  Joma wanted to provide clothing for only some members of the Spanish team going to Rio de Janeiro.  They did not want to provide clothes for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Summer Paralympics.  The company cited a lack of commercial visibility for the Paralympic Games as the reason they wanted to do this.  While Joma was not providing clothing for all team members for all parts of the Summer Paralympics, the company created advertising saying they were official sponsors of the team.  The Spanish Paralympic Committee did not consider them to be sponsors as they were not providing everyone with clothing.  They asked Joma to stop what they thought was deceptive advertising.  The Spanish Paralympic Committee also considered taking legal action against Joma
.  The Summer Paralympics became the first Paralympic Games in 20 years where the Spanish Olympic and Paralympic teams did not have the same clothing sponsor.  This situation continued with the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
Para-alpine skiing

Skiers 
Jon Santacana competed at the 2002, 2006, 2010 and the 2014 Winter Paralympics with his guide, Miguel Galindo Garces. He won eight medals between 2002 and 2014 at the Paralympics. Three were gold. Three were silver. Two were bronze.
Para-snowboarding

Snowboarders 
Spain sent two snowboarders to the Paralympic Games in South Korea.  They were Astrid Fina Paredes and Víctor González.  They are members of Federación Española de Deportes de Personas con Discapacidad Física, a sport organization for people with physical disabilities.

Astrid Fina Paredes 
Astrid Fina Paredes went to the IPC World Cup 2017 in La Molina, Spain.  She won two silver medals.  The World Cup was part of her training for the 2018 Winter Paralympics.  In February 2017, she went to the IPC Para-Snowboarding World Championships in Big White, Canada. She finished fourth in the snowboard slalom race and fifth in the snowboard cross race. In 2017, she wanted to go to the 2018 Paralympic Games and win a medal.  Her fear was she would get hurt.  This would make it difficult to race and get a medal.  She leaves for South Korea on 2 March 2018, with her first race on 12 March and her second one 15 March.
Astrid Fina Paredes was at the 2014 Winter Paralympics, with the 2018 Games being her second Games.  At Sochi 2014, she finished sixth in snowboard cross. From Barcelona, Fina Paredes has a physical disability because of a traffic accident in 2009.  In 2013, her leg was amputated.  She started para-snowboarding that year.  It was one year from when she start that she went to Sochi.  Participating in snowboarding costs a lot of money.  To continue to practice and compete in the southern hemisphere during 2016, she needed to rent out her apartment in Spain. Team Spain had no money to help her.

Víctor González 
Víctor González was a snowboarder.  He had an accident. Because of the accident, he got a disability in his legs.  After the accident, he switched to para-snowboarding.