Skier Ihor Reptyukh brought the national team of our country the third gold of the Paralympic Games in South Korean Pyeongchang.
He won the race for 20 km with a free style among athletes with locomotor disabilities.
The Ukrainian covered a distance in 44 minutes 52.4 seconds. The second place was taken by the Frenchman Benjamin Dover, and the bronze medal was won by the Norwegian Hakon Olsrud.
For Reptyukh this is the second medal in Pyeongchang. Earlier, the Ukrainian athlete became a bronze medalist in the biathlon race at 7.5 km.
We recall that the awards of the highest dignity were also won by two more representatives of our country, Maxim Yarovy and Vitaliy Lukyanenko.