Ukraine enjoyed a clean sweep of the podium in the biathlon relay standing team sprint at the World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup in Altenberg and Dresden.
Home athletes Martin Fleig and Anja Wicker won the respective men's and women's sitting events, on day two of sprint biathlon competition at the World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup in Altenberg and Dresden in Germany.
Russia won three gold medals in the sprint biathlon events held today at the World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup in Altenberg and Dresden.
Russia won three of the six short-distance cross-country events, as action continued today at the World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup in Altenberg and Dresden.
Russia took home two gold medals on day three of cross-country at the Para Nordic Skiing World Cup in Altenberg and Dresden.
American Paralympic champion Oksana Masters triumphed in the women's sitting sprint event at the World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup in Altenberg and Dresden.
Oksana Masters and Kendall Gretsch of the United States both qualified for the cross-country sprint final at the World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup in Altenberg and Dresden.
Norway’s Birgit Skarstein will be looking to capitalise on the absence of American duo Oksana Masters and Kendall Gretsch at the second World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup of the 2019-2020 season in Altenberg and Dresden, starting tomorrow.
Kendall Gretsch of the United States earned her second biathlon gold medal of the World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup in Lillehammer.
Russia won three gold medals as biathlon action began at the opening World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup of the season in Lillehammer.
Eighteen-year-old Norwegian Vilde Nilsen shone on home snow with a hat-trick of cross-country victories at the opening World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup of the season in Lillehammer.
Russian Georgy Kadykov has been announced as race director for World Para Nordic Skiing for the 2019-2020 season.
Altenberg and Dresden in Germany will host the first joint World Cup event between the International Ski Federation (FIS) and World Para Nordic Skiing in January next year.
Russian cross-country skier Nadezhda Fedorova, a member of the neutral team at last year's Winter Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang, has been given a four-year doping ban.
US Paralympics has announced the five Para-Nordic skiers named to the national team and two skiers named to the development team for the 2019-2020 season.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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