Ukraine: 7 facts on the Sochi Paralympics

• At the Paralympic Winter Games, Ukraine has won a total of 65 medals, 15 gold, 25 silver and 25 bronze

• At the 2010 Vancouver Paralympics, Ukraine won 19 medals in total, five gold, eight silver and six bronze to finish in fifth place on the medals table

• Ukraine has won its 15 winter gold medals in just two sports, cross-country skiing and biathlon

• The country’s most successful winter Paralympian is Olena Iurkovska, who has won five gold, five silver and five bronze medals in cross-country skiing and biathlon. Sochi will be her fourth Games

• Iurkovska won one gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Paralympics, where Ukraine were spearheaded by the three gold medals by Oleksandra Kononova

• Ukraine's most successful Winter Paralympic campaign was Torino 2006, in which athletes collected seven gold medals to place the country third in the final medals table

• You can follow Ukraine on Twitter @ukrparalympic

Athletes:

Alpine skiing:

Dmytro KUZMIN

Para-snowboard:

Ivan OSHAROV

Nordic skiing:

Yuliia BATENKOVA-BAUMAN, Facebook

Iryna BUI, Facebook

Olena IURKOVSKA

Oleksandra KONONOVA

Oleksandr KORNIIKO

Anatolii KOVALEVSKYI

Liudmyla LIASHENKO

Vitaliy LUKYANENKO

Vladyslav MAISTRENKO

Kateryna PAVLENKO

Lyudmyla PAVLENKO

OLGA PRYLUTSKA

Ihor REPTYUKH

Iaroslav RESHETYNSKYI

Dmytro SHULGA

Oksana SHYSHKOVA

Vitalii SYTNYK

Mykhailo TKACHENKO

Iurii UTKIN

Grygorii VOVCHYNSKYI

Maksym YAROVYI

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