Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Paralympics – Men's 20 km Free
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The Men's 20 km Free competition of the Vancouver 2010 Paralympics
Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Paralympics
The cross-country skiing competition of the Vancouver 2010 Paralympics were held at Whistler, British Columbia. The events were held between 14 March and 21 March 2010.-Medal table:-Events:...

 is held at Whistler Olympic Park
Whistler Olympic Park
The Whistler Olympic Park is the location of the Nordic events facilities for the 2010 Winter Olympics and is located in the Madeley Creek basin in the Callaghan Valley, west of Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. The facility hosted the biathlon, cross-country skiing, nordic combined, and ski...

 in Whistler, British Columbia
Whistler, British Columbia
Whistler is a Canadian resort town in the southern Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in the province of British Columbia, Canada, approximately north of Vancouver...

. The competition is scheduled for Sunday, March 14 and Monday, March 15.

Medal table

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4 0 0 1 1
4 0 0 1 1

Medalists

20 km Free - Visually Impaired
Brian McKeever
Brian McKeever
Brian McKeever is a Canadian cross-country skier and biathlete. He began skiing at the age of three and started competing at thirteen. At 19 he began losing his vision due to Stargardt's disease. At the 2002 and 2006 Winter Paralympics he competed in both cross-country skiing and biathlon...


Guide
Sighted guide
A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment....

: Robin McKeever
Robin McKeever
Robin McKeever is a Canadian cross country skier, sighted guide, Paralympian and Olympian.He participated in cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano....


Nikolay Polukhin
Nikolay Polukhin
Nikolay Polukhin is a Russian cross country skier, biathlete and Paralympic Champion.One of his most notable achievements is winning the most medals at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Paralympics, with six medals, including one gold...


Guide
Sighted guide
A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment....

: Andrey Tokarev
Andrey Tokarev
Andrey Tokarev is a Russian cross country skier, biathlete, sighted guide and Paralympic Champion.He was awarded the Order of Honour by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in 2010....


Vasili Shaptsiaboi
Guide
Sighted guide
A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment....

: Mikalai Shablouski
15 km - Sitting
Irek Zaripov
Irek Zaripov
Irek Zaripov is a Russian biathlete and cross-country skier.He lost his legs in a car accident in 2000. He started to practice skiing in 2005....


Roman Petushkov
Roman Petushkov
Roman Petushkov is a Russian cross-country skier, biathlete and Paralympian. He compete in classification category sitting events....


Enzo Masiello
20 km Free - Standing
Kirill Mikhaylov
Kirill Mikhaylov
Kirill Mikhaylov is a Russian cross-country skier, biathlete and four time Paralympic Champion. He compete in classification category standing events....


Nils-Erik Ulset

Vladimir Kononov
Vladimir Kononov
Vladimir Kononov is a Russian cross-country skier and Paralympian. He compete in classification category standing events, and is classified LW5/7 ....


Visually Impaired

In the cross-country skiing 20 km Free visually impaired, the athlete with a visual impairement has a sighted guide
Sighted guide
A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment....

. The two skiers are considered a team, and dual medals are awarded.
Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference
7 Brian McKeever
Brian McKeever
Brian McKeever is a Canadian cross-country skier and biathlete. He began skiing at the age of three and started competing at thirteen. At 19 he began losing his vision due to Stargardt's disease. At the 2002 and 2006 Winter Paralympics he competed in both cross-country skiing and biathlon...


Guide
Sighted guide
A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment....

: Robin McKeever
Robin McKeever
Robin McKeever is a Canadian cross country skier, sighted guide, Paralympian and Olympian.He participated in cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano....

51:14.7
11 Nikolay Polukhin
Nikolay Polukhin
Nikolay Polukhin is a Russian cross country skier, biathlete and Paralympic Champion.One of his most notable achievements is winning the most medals at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Paralympics, with six medals, including one gold...


Guide
Sighted guide
A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment....

: Andrey Tokarev
Andrey Tokarev
Andrey Tokarev is a Russian cross country skier, biathlete, sighted guide and Paralympic Champion.He was awarded the Order of Honour by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in 2010....

51:55.6 +40.9
14 Vasili Shaptsiaboi
Guide
Sighted guide
A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment....

: Mikalai Shablouski
52:22.5 +1:07.8
4 Wilhelm Brem
Wilhelm Brem
Wilhelm Brem is a Paralympic biathlete and cross-country skier competing for Germany at the 2010 Winter Paralympics.- References :...


Guide
Sighted guide
A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment....

: Florian Grimm
52:28.9 +1:14.2
12 Frank Höfle
Frank Höfle
Frank Höfle is a disabled German biathlete and cross-country skier. He first participated in the Winter Paralympic Games in 1984 and won his first medal, a gold, in 1988. He has competed in every Winter Paralympics since then and has won a total of 21 medals, 13 of them gold...


Guide
Sighted guide
A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment....

: Johannes Wachlin
52:38.8 +1:24.1
5 Thomas Clarion
Guide
Sighted guide
A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment....

: Stephane Passeron
52:39.8 +1:25.1
9 Oleg Munts
Guide
Sighted guide
A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment....

: Borys Babar
53:03.8 +1:49.1
6 Helge Flo
Helge Flo
Helge Flo is a visually impaired Norwegian cross-country skier competing at the 2010 Winter Paralympics.- References :...


Guide
Sighted guide
A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment....

: Thomas Losnegard
54:22.7 +3:08.0
10 Hak-Su Im
Guide
Sighted guide
A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment....

: Yoon-Bae Park
55:53.6 +4:28.9
10 13 Valery Kupchinskiy
Guide
Sighted guide
A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment....

: Viacheslav Dubov
57:03.8 +5:49.1
11 8 Zebastian Modin
Zebastian Modin
Zebastian Modin is a Swedish cross-country skier, biathlete and Paralympian. He compete in classification B1 events....


Guide
Sighted guide
A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment....

: Albin Ackerot
58:30.8 +7:16.1
12 1 Rudolf Klemetti
Guide
Sighted guide
A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment....

: Lasse Torpo
1:02:35.6 +11:20.9
13 3 Alexei Novikov
Guide
Sighted guide
A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment....

: Jamie Stirling
1:08:47.6 +17:32.9
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Sitting (15 km)

Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference
22 Irek Zaripov
Irek Zaripov
Irek Zaripov is a Russian biathlete and cross-country skier.He lost his legs in a car accident in 2000. He started to practice skiing in 2005....

 
41:01.1
25 Roman Petushkov
Roman Petushkov
Roman Petushkov is a Russian cross-country skier, biathlete and Paralympian. He compete in classification category sitting events....

 
41:11.1 +10.0
24 Enzo Masiello  41:54.9 +43.8
21 Trygve Toskedal Larsen  42:17.3 +1:16.2
23 Iurii Kostiuk
Iurii Kostiuk
Iurii Kostiuk is a Ukrainian biathlete, cross-country skier and Paralympic Champion.He competed in biathlon and cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Paralympics in Turin, Italy. In cross-country skiing he took the gold medal in the men's 15 km, silver in the 5 km and bronze in the 10 km, sitski...

 
42:17.7 +1:16.6
26 Aliaksandr Davidovich  42:43.1 +1:42.0
19 Kozo Kubo  42:55.5 +1:54.4
20 Chris Klebl  43:13.7 +2:12.6
28 Sean Halsted  43:25.6 +2:24.5
10 27 Andy Soule  43:32.8 +2:31.7
11 30 Dzmitry Loban  43:53.5 +2:52.4
12 29 Romain Rosique  43:56.6 +2:55.5
13 3 Sergey Shilov
Sergey Shilov
Sergey Shilov is a Russian cross-country skier, biathlete and six time Paralympic Champion.Shilov has competed at nine Paralympic Games , in cross-country skiing, biathlon and in athletics...

 
44:15.5 +3:14.4
14 18 Fu Chunshan  44:19.1 +3:18.0
15 7 Yauheni Lukyanenka  44:22.0 +3:20.9
16 1 Vladimir Gajdiciar  44:39.0 +3:37.9
17 17 Dominic Monypenny  44:55.7
3:54.6
18 13 Alain Marguerettaz
Alain Marguerettaz
Alain Marguerettaz is a French Paralympian who started in alpine skiing. His first Paralympics was in 1992 and he received a bronze medal in giant slalom LWXII at the 1994 Paralympics. He would later switch to Nordic events and received a bronze in the 2006 Winter Paralympics for cross-country...

 
44:55.8 +3:54.7
19 2 Ivan Goncharov
Ivan Goncharov
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov was a Russian novelist best known as the author of Oblomov .- Biography :Ivan Goncharov was born in Simbirsk ; his father was a wealthy grain merchant and respected official who was elected mayor of Simbirsk several times...

 
45:19.2 +4:18.1
20 31 Kamil Rosiek  45:21.2 +4:20.1
21 10 Robert Wator  45:25.9 +4:24.8
22 4 Barys Pronka  45:57.7 +4:56.6
23 15 Roland Rüpp  46:08.7 +5:07.6
24 11 Georges Bettega  46:16.7 +5:15.6
25 14 Per Fagerhoi  46:23.0 +5:21.9
26 12 Greg Mallory  46:30.6 +5:29.5
27 8 Lou Gibson  47:53.8 +6:52.7
28 5 Fabrizio Bove  49:15.2 +8:14.1
29 16 Sebastien Fortier  51:33.6 +10:32.5
6 Manfred Lehner  DNF
9 Thierry Raoux  DNS

Standing

Rank Bib Name Country Time Difference
20 Kirill Mikhaylov
Kirill Mikhaylov
Kirill Mikhaylov is a Russian cross-country skier, biathlete and four time Paralympic Champion. He compete in classification category standing events....

 
52:07.7
7 Nils-Erik Ulset  53:34.1 +1:26.4
6 Vladimir Kononov
Vladimir Kononov
Vladimir Kononov is a Russian cross-country skier and Paralympian. He compete in classification category standing events, and is classified LW5/7 ....

 
53:53.4 +1:45.7
18 Siarhei Silchanka  54:51.6 +2:43.9
2 Rushan Minnegulov  54:59.8 +2:52.1
17 Michael Kurz  55:06.8 +2:59.1
5 Du Haitao
Du Haitao
Du Haitao is a host of "Happy camp" of HNTV in China. He hosts several entertainment programmes of HNTV. Because of participating in Talent Show, he joined HNTV and from then on took the acting road.-Films:-Television:-Music composition:...

 
55:29.9 +3:22.2
16 Vegard Dahle  55:42.9 +3:35.2
11 Yannick Bourseaux  55:55.7 +3:48.0
10 1 Thomas Oelsner  58:02.6 +5:54.9
11 19 Ilkka Tuomisto  58:29.6 +6:21.9
12 15 Tino Uhlig  59:00.8 +6:53.1
13 12 Zou Dexin  59:37.4 +7:29.7
14 10 Oleh Leshchyshyn  59:44.9 +7:37.2
15 21 Grygorii Vovchynskyi
Grygorii Vovchynskyi
Grygorii Vovchynskyi is a Ukrainian biathlete, cross-country skier and Paralympian. He is classified LW8 , and compete in classification category standing....

 
59:50.6 +7:42.9
16 8 Cheng Shishuai  59:52.1 +7:44.4
17 4 Keiichi Sato
Keiichi Sato
is a mecha and character designer born in the Kagawa Prefecture of Japan in 1965.In 1996, Sato met with Kazuyoshi Katayama to begin work on The Big O. Until then, Sato's work consisted mainly of designing characters and supervising animation for anime series. The Big O is the first based on a...

 
1:01:34.5 +9:26.8
18 9 James Millar  1:02:33.5 +10:25.8
19 22 Svein Lilleberg
Svein Lilleberg
Svein Lilleberg is a Norwegian cross-country skier.He contracted polio early, when he was only six months old. To begin with, he was totally paralysed, later regaining most movement, but he has never had use of one foot. He competes in the LW2.Svein has 3 sisters, and is married with 4 children....

 
1:06:33.0 +14:25.3
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External links

  • 2010 Winter Paralympics schedule and results, at the official website of the 2010 Winter Paralympics
    2010 Winter Paralympics
    The 2010 Winter Paralympics, officially the X Paralympic Winter Games, or the 10th Winter Paralympics, were held in Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia, Canada from March 12 to 21, 2010. The Opening Ceremony took place in BC Place Stadium in Vancouver and the Closing Ceremony in Whistler...

    in Vancouver
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