Russia: 11 facts on the Sochi Paralympics

- The USSR made its winter debut in 1988, whilst a Unified Team took part in 1992. The nation has competed as Russia since 1994

- Since competing as Russia has won 153 medals, the second most total medals behind Germany (183)

- Russia has won 112 medals in cross-country skiing, including 40 gold medals. Only Finland (161) and Norway (155) have won more medals in cross-country skiing. Russia's other medals have been won in biathlon (36) and alpine skiing (5)

- Cross-country skier Valery Kupchinskiy has won 11 medals, most of all Russian athletes at the Paralympic Games and Paralympic Winter Games combined

- Kupchinskiy has won six gold medals at the Paralympic Winter Games, equal most with Sergey Shilov (cross-country skiing) and Alexandre Nassarouline (cross-country skiing, biathlon)

- Russia won 22 of the 60 medals in cross-country at the Paralympic Winter Games in 2010. No other NPC reached double figures in cross-country skiing in Vancouver

- Russia has won four of the last five relay events in cross-country skiing, including the last three in 2006 and 2010

- Russia won 38 medals at the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Games, its best result at a single edition

- Russia need to win 71 medals in Sochi to break Austria's record of 70 medals won in 1984 in Innsbruck as the most successful hosts

- In biathlon and cross-country skiing, Russia is by far the world’s most dominant nation at the moment winning 21 out of 27 possible titles at last year’s World Championships. They also secured almost 50 per cent of all podium positions

- This year Russian athletes won 11 out of 12 IPC Nordic Skiing World Cup titles and claimed 29 out of a possible 36 podium positions.

 

Athletes:

Alpine skiing

German AGRANOVSKIY (guide)

Aleksandr AKHMADULIN

Alexander ALYABYEV

Alexey BUGAEV

Alexander FEDORUK

Aleksandra FRANTSEVA

Ivan FRANTSEV

Anastasia KHOROSHEVA

Inga MEDVEDEVA

Alexander NAZAROV (guide)

Mariia PAPULOVA

Valerii REDKOZUBOV

Nikolai SHUVALOV

Alexander VETROV

Pavel ZABOTIN (guide)

Artyom ZAGORODSKIKH (guide)

Snowboard

Kirill FINKELMAN

Aleksandr ILINOV

Igor IVANOV

Nordic skiing

Akzhana ABDIKARIMOVA

Nadezda ANDREEVA

Ruslan V. BOGACHEV

Natalia BRATIUK

Iuliia BUDALEEVA

Alexey BYCHENOK

Stanislav CHOKHLAEV

Aleksandr DAVIDOVICH

Irina GROMOV (guide)

Amir Abubakirovich GUMEROV (guide)

Aleksandr IAREMCHUK

Maria IOVLEVA

Alex S. IVANOV

Azat KARACHURIN

Alena KAUFMAN

Natalia KOCHEROVA

Ivan KODLOZEROV

Vladimir KONONOV

Svetlana KONOVALOVA

Alexey KOPYTIN (guide)

Sergey LAPKIN

Vladislav LEKOMTCEV

Mikhailina LYSOVA

Tatiana MALTSEV (guide)

Kirill MIKHAYLOV

Anna MILENINA

Rushan MINNEGULOV

Gregory MURYGIN

Roman PETUSHKOV

Maxim Andreyevich PIROGOV (guide)

Nikolay POLUKHIN

Oleg PONOMAREV

Aleksandr PRONKOV

Elena REMIZOVA

Andrei ROMANOV (guide)

Andrey TOKAREV (guide)

Vladimir UDALTCOV

Ilia VOLKOV

Natalia YAKIMOVA (guide)

Irek ZARIPOV

Marta ZAYNULLINA

Ice sledge hockey

Alexey AMOSOV

Maxim ANDRIYANOV

Andrey DVINYANINOV

Mikhail IVANOV

Vladimir KAMANTCEV

Ivan KUZNETSOV

Dmitry LISOV, Twitter: @Lisov08, Facebook

Vladimir LITVINENKO

Aleksei LYSOV

Evgeny PETROV

Ilia POPOV

Vadim SELYUKIN, Facebook

Konstantin SHIKHOV

Nikolay TERENTYEV

Ruslan TUCHIN, Twitter: @RuslanTuchin

Vasilii VARLAKOV

Ilia Volkov

Wheelchair curling

Svetlana PAKHOMOVA

Marat ROMANOV

Alexander SHEVCHENKO

Oksana SLESARENKO

Andrei SMIRNOV