Kazakhstan at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

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Kazakhstan at the
2018 Winter Paralympics
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IPC code KAZ
NPC National Paralympic Committee of Kazakhstan
in Pyeongchang
Competitors6 in 1 sport
Medals
Ranked 20th
Gold
1
Silver
0
Bronze
0
Total
1
Winter Paralympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
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Kazakhstan sent competitors to the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Six people and one guide skier from Kazakhstan will be going to Pyeongchang, South Korea for the 2018 Winter Paralympics. All are competing in para-Nordic skiing. There are six men and one woman. Three are going to their first Paralympic Games. They are coached by Vasily Kolomyjets (Kazakh : Василий Коломиец). The team spent two years preparing for the Winter Paralympics.

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Medalists

MedalNameSportEventDate
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Alexandr Kolyadin Cross-country skiing Men's sprint classical, standing 14 March

Team

Six people and one guide skier from Kazakhstan will be going to Pyeongchang, South Korea for the 2018 Winter Paralympics. All are competing in para-Nordic skiing. [1] [2] There are six men and one woman. [2] Three are going to their first Paralympic Games. They are coached by Vasily Kolomyjets (Kazakh : Василий Коломиец). [1]

The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Kazakhstan") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.

Team Kazakhstan
NameSportGenderClassificationEventsref
Zhanyl Baltabateva (Kazakh : Балтабаева Жаныл)para-Nordic skiingfemaleLW12 [1] [3] [2]
Alexandr Gerlits (Kazakh : Герлиц Александр)para-Nordic skiingmaleLW6 [1] [4]
Kairat Kanafin (Kazakh : Канафин Қайрат)para-Nordic skiingmaleB2 [1] [5]
Alexandr Kolyadin (Kazakh : Колядин Александр)para-Nordic skiingmaleLW4 [1] [6]
Denis Petrenko (Kazakh : Петренко Денис)para-Nordic skiingmaleLW11 [1] [7]
Sergey Ussoltsev (Kazakh : Усольцев Сергей)para-Nordic skiingmaleLW12 [1] [8]
Anton Zhdanovich (Kazakh : Жданович Антон)para-Nordic skiingmale sighted guide [1]

Russian doping scandal

15 National Paralympic Committees and the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation signed a letter expressing support for the National Paralympic Committee of Russia in August 2017. The countries included Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Laos, Moldova, Mongolia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Montenegro, and South Korea. They asked the IPC Governing Board to consider letting Russia compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics. The letter was signed weeks before the IPC Governing Board met in Abu Dhabi. [9] In September 2017, this decision was reviewed and upheld. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) still had concerns about doping in Russian sport. All the conditions the IPC required of the Russians were not met. [10]

Preparation

Kazakhstan is not competing in sledge hockey in 2018. The country is preparing for the future. They want to compete in sledge hockey in the future. Kazakhstan created a program in early 2018. [11] Toyota became a sponsor in October 2017. [12]

Para-Nordic skiing

Two years before the start of the Games, Kazakhstan decided they wanted to win medals in South Korea. [2] They started on two years of planning and training to accomplish this. [2] The team spent nearly a year training in Germany before the South Korean hosted Games. They used snow tunnels during the summer months. This allowed them to train in winter conditions all year. During the summer, they also trained using bicycles. [1] [13] Because of sponsorship, many team members got new prostheses while in Germany. [13] Kolyadin said of his new prosthetic, "They created a new prosthesis. When I got it, I tried it. Now I am accustomed to using it. I think I will win by using it in the race. It takes time to learn new technology. But there is 100% control - I like it." [13] The team went to Russia for World Cup events. They did more training in Russia. They also went to a competition in Finland. [1] The team returned to Almaty three weeks before the Games started. This was so they could do additional training. [2]

The national team had about fifteen people. Only seven are going to South Korea. [2] Their average age is from about 27 years old to 40 years old. [2]

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