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Nationality | French | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Villeurbanne, France | 25 June 1989||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Paralympic athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | T12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Middle distance Sprint | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Lyon Athletisme | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Arthamon Germinale Gregory Duvalle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Hyacinthe Deleplace (born 25 June 1989) is a visually impaired Paralympian athlete from France competing mainly in category T12 middle-distance and sprint events. [1] He also won several medals in para-alpine skiing at the 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships held in Lillehammer, Norway. [2] [3] [4] Valentin Giraud Moine and Maxime Jourdan have competed as his sighted guide.
He won the bronze medal in the men's downhill visually impaired event at the 2022 Winter Paralympics held in Beijing, China. [5] [6] He also competed in each of the other visually impaired alpine skiing events at the 2022 Winter Paralympics.
Oleg Ponomarev is a Russian Paralympic Nordic skier who competed in cross-country skiing and biathlon at the 2014 Winter Paralympics, in Sochi. He won a bronze medal in the 1 km sprint for visually impaired athletes.
Millicent Genevieve Knight is a British skier and student who competes at international level for ParalympicsGB in alpine skiing in the slalom, giant slalom Super-G, super combined and Downhill events with a sighted guide, Brett Wild. When Knight was one year old, she contracted an illness, diagnosed at age three, which resulted in the loss of most of her vision by the age of six. She joined the Great Britain Paralympic skiing team in 2012, and progressed to compete at international-level events. Knight was the British flagbearer at Sochi in 2014 – her debut Paralympics - where, at the age of 15, she was the youngest person ever to compete for ParalympicsGB at the Winter Games. In the same year Knight also became an Honorary Doctor of the University of Kent.
Menna Fitzpatrick MBE is a British alpine skier. She is visually impaired having only 5% vision and formerly skied with guide Jennifer Kehoe until 2021. They competed at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang in March 2018 where they took four medals, including a gold in the slalom, making Fitzpatrick Team GB's most decorated Winter Paralympian.
Stanislav Chokhlaev is a Russian male visually impaired cross-country skier and biathlete. He represented Russia at the 2014 Winter Paralympics and was successful in his first Paralympic competition, claiming three medals including 2 silver medals in the cross-country skiing event. In 2017, he was awarded the Return to Life Prize by the Russian Paralympic Committee.
Sviatlana Sakhanenka is a Belarusian visually impaired cross-country skier and biathlete. She made her Paralympic debut during the 2018 Winter Paralympics and she competed in the biathlon and cross-country skiing events.
Giacomo Bertagnolli is a male Italian paralympic alpine skier, and is a four-time Paralympic Games gold medal winner.
Yury Holub is a Belarusian male visually impaired cross-country skier and biathlete. He made his Paralympic debut during the 2018 Winter Paralympics and went onto claim 3 medals so far in his first Paralympic appearance including a gold medal. He claimed his first Paralympic gold medal after winning the men's 12.5km visually impaired biathlon event during the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
Oleksandr Kazik is a Ukrainian male visually impaired cross-country skier and biathlete.
Jacob Adicoff is an American visually impaired cross-country skier and biathlete. He competed at the Winter Paralympics in 2014 and 2018.
Jesper Saltvik Pedersen is a para-alpine skier. He is a six-time medalist, including four gold medals, at the Winter Paralympics.
Arthur Bauchet is a French para-alpine skier.
Igor Sikorski is a German-born Polish male paralympic alpine skier. He made his Paralympic debut during the 2018 Winter Paralympics and claimed Poland's only medal at the 2018 Winter Paralympics after clinching a bronze medal in the men's giant slalom event.
Niels de Langen is a Dutch para-alpine skier. He won two medals in alpine skiing at the 2022 Winter Paralympics.
Johannes Aigner is an Austrian visually impaired para alpine skier. He won five medals, including two gold medals, at the 2022 Winter Paralympics.
Neil Douglas Hamilton Simpson is a British visually impaired para alpine skier who competed at the 2022 Winter Paralympics.
Barbara Aigner is an Austrian visually impaired para alpine skier who competed at the 2022 Winter Paralympics.
Katie Combaluzier is a Canadian para alpine skier who competed at the 2022 Winter Paralympics.
Michaela Gosselin is a Canadian para alpine skier who competed at the 2022 Winter Paralympics. Michaela is a current member of the Canadian Para Alpine Ski Team.
Elina Stary is an Austrian visually impaired para alpine skier.
Sara Choi is a South Korean para-alpine skier. She competes in the B2 category, which is for visually impaired athletes.