TESERO /Italy/, March 10. /TASS/. Russian cross-country skier Anastasia Bagiyan has won gold at the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games in Italy in women’s sprint race in the NS1 category (vision impaired).
The Russian Paralympian with her guide Sergey Sinyakin raced the distance in 3 minutes 16.1 seconds to win the gold. Germany’s Maria Leonie Walter took silver (+8.6 seconds) and her compatriot Linn Kazmaier won the bronze (+9.2 seconds).
This is Russia’s second gold medal at the 2026 Winter Paralympics in addition to two previously won bronze medals.
Russian female alpine country skier Varvara Voronchikhina previously won one gold and one bronze in women’s super giant and downhill events respectively and alpine skier Alexey Bugayev took the bronze in men’s downhill.
The Russian team is currently 10th place in the overall medals standings with two gold and two bronze medals. The top three are currently China (nine gold, six silver and eight bronze), followed in the 2nd place by Austria (4-1-3) and the United States rounding up the trio (3-5-2).
