In March 1994, two years after his accident, he w on the gold medal in the downhill at the Paralympic Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway. He won the world championships in the downhill and the super-G in 1996 at the World Championships in Lech, Austria, and won three silver medals at the 1998 Paralympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan. Kohut will not be alone. He will be one of 1,100 disabled athletes, or Paralympians, from 35 nations competing in 25 medal events, which also include Nordic skiing and ice sledge hockey, in which players propel themselves over the ice on small sleds with two runners. Different events are conducted according to the competitors' disabilities.
Blind athletes use guides.
Single-leg amputees use a single ski, ski crutches or orthopedic aids. Arm amputees ski without poles. In some events, competitors are rated and given time handicaps. At the Nagano Paralympic Winter Games in 1998, for example, Kohut had the fastest raw time in two events but had to settle for silver medals because of a newly revised handicapping system. The tinkering with the rules caused a minor controversy in the Canadian press, but Kohut manages to find a silver lining.