Alexander Komarov and Iryna Poyda won medals in swimming.
Ukraine won its third and fourth medals at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris.
Swimmer Alexander Komarov won bronze in the 200-meter freestyle (class S5), and swimmer Iryna Poyda won a silver medal in the 200-meter freestyle (class S5).
For Komarov, this is the first medal at the Paralympics in eight years. In Rio de Janeiro 2016, he won gold and bronze medals. For Poyda, this is the first medal in her career at the Paralympic Games.
Thus, Ukraine already has four medals at the Paralympic Games in Paris: two silver and two bronze.
Earlier, swimmer Anton Kol won “silver” in the 100-meter backstroke, and Anna Gontar won “bronze” in the 50-meter freestyle.
The Paralympic Games in Paris will last from August 28 to September 8. Ukraine will be represented by 140 athletes who will compete in 17 sports. This is a record number of sports in the Paralympic history of Ukraine.
Recall that at the previous Summer Paralympic Games, which took place in 2021 in Tokyo, Ukrainian athletes won 98 awards: 24 gold, 47 silver and 27 bronze. With this result, Ukraine took sixth place in the medal count and became fifth in the number of awards.
