The Ukrainian team continues to be seventh in the medal count and fifth in the number of awards.
Ukraine won nine medals on the eighth competition day of the 2024 Paralympic Games.
On Thursday, September 5, Ukrainian para-athletes won two gold, two silver and five bronze medals.
“Gold” was won by Maria Pomazan (athletics, shot put, class F35) and Natalia Nikolaychik(judo, up to 48 kg, class J1).
“Silver” was won by Oksana Boturchuk (athletics, 100 m run, class T12) and the goalball team, which included Rodion Zhigalin, Vasily Oleynik, Fedor Sidorenko, Anton Strelchik, Alexander Toporkov and Evgeny Tsyganenko.
The bronze medalists were Pavel Bal (cycling, group race, class H5), Angela Gavrysiuk (judo, up to 57 kg, class J1), Daniil Chufarov (swimming, 100 m, breaststroke, class SB11), David Khorava (judo, up to 60 kg, class J2) and Yaroslav Semenenko, Anna Gontar, Alexander Komarov, Irina Poyda, Denis Ostapchenko, Veronika Korzhova (swimming, relay 4×50 m, medley, 20 points).
Following eight days of competition, Ukrainian Paralympians have already won 61 medals at the 2024 Games: 15 gold, 20 silver and 26 bronze.
After the eighth day of the 2024 Paralympics, the Ukrainian team continues to occupy seventh place in the medal count and is fifth in the number of awards won.
China remains the undisputed leader in the medal count of the 2024 Paralympics (74 gold, 55 silver and 37 bronze medals). Great Britain is in second place (36+29+19). The top 3 is rounded out by the USA team (27+33+17).
The Paralympic Games in Paris will last until September 8. Ukraine is represented by 140 athletes competing 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.