Chronological summary of the 2026 Winter Paralympics

This is a chronological summary of the major events of the 2026 Winter Paralympics held in Milan, Cortina d'Ampezzo, and other areas in Lombardy and Northeast Italy. Competition began on 4 March with the first matches in the round robin stages of the wheelchair curling event. The opening ceremony was held two days later on 6 March. The last day of competition and the closing ceremony were held on 15 March. The games featured 79 medal events in six disciplines.

Calendar

Competition began two days before the opening ceremony on 4 March, and ended on 15 March 2026.^[1]

OC	Opening ceremony	●	Event competitions	1	Event finals	CC	Closing ceremony

March 2026	04 Wed	05 Thu	06 Fri	07 Sat	08 Sun	09 Mon	10 Tue	11 Wed	12 Thu	13 Fri	14 Sat	15 Sun	Events
Ceremonies			OC									CC	N/a
Para alpine skiing				6		6	6		3	3	3	3	30
Para biathlon				6	6					6			18
Para cross-country skiing							6	6			2	6	20
Para ice hockey				●		●	●		●	●	●	1	1
Para snowboard				●	4					4			8
Wheelchair curling	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	1	●	●	1		2
Daily medal events	0	0	0	12	10	6	12	7	3	13	6	10	79
Cumulative total	0	0	0	12	22	28	40	47	50	63	69	79	79
March 2026	04 Wed	05 Thu	06 Fri	07 Sat	08 Sun	09 Mon	10 Tue	11 Wed	12 Thu	13 Fri	14 Sat	15 Sun	Total events

Medal table

* Host nation (Italy)

2026 Winter Paralympics medal table
Rank	NPC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	15	13	16	44
2	United States	13	5	6	24
3	Russia	8	1	3	12
4	Italy*	7	7	2	16
5	Austria	7	2	4	13
6	France	4	4	4	12
7	Ukraine	3	8	8	19
8	Canada	3	4	8	15
9	Netherlands	3	3	1	7
10	Sweden	3	0	4	7
11–27	Remaining NPCs	13	32	24	69
Totals (27 entries)		79	79	80	238

Day-by-day summaries

4 March

Wheelchair curling

The first matches in the round-robin stage of the mixed doubles tournament.^[2]

5 March

Wheelchair curling

The second day in the round-robin stage of the mixed doubles tournament.^[3]

6 March

Wheelchair curling

The third day in the round-robin stage of the mixed doubles tournament.^[4]

Opening ceremony

The opening ceremony was held at Verona Arena.^[5]

Day 1 — Saturday 7 March

Para alpine skiing

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Women's downhill	Visually impaired	Veronika Aigner Guide: Lilly Sammer Austria	1:22.55	Chiara Mazzel Guide: Nicola Cotti Cottini Italy	1:23.03	Alexandra Rexová Guide: Sophia Polak Slovakia	1:27.45
	Sitting	Anna-Lena Forster Germany	1:25.79	Audrey Pascual Spain	1:25.84	Liu Sitong China	1:31.27
	Standing	Ebba Årsjö Sweden	1:22.00	Aurélie Richard France	1:23.71	Varvara Voronchikhina Russia	1:24.47
Men's downhill	Visually impaired	Johannes Aigner Guide: Nico Haberl Austria	1:16.08	Kalle Ericsson Guide: Sierra Smith Canada	1:18.33	Giacomo Bertagnolli Guide: Andrea Ravelli Italy	1:18.64
	Sitting	Jesper Pedersen Norway	1:18.14	Niels de Langen Netherlands	1:19.24	Kurt Oatway Canada	1:19.42
	Standing	Robin Cuche Switzerland	1:17.79	Arthur Bauchet France	1:18.40	Alexey Bugaev Russia	1:18.94

Para biathlon

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Women's sprint	Visually impaired	Wang Yue Guide: Chen Guoming China	19:52.5	Carina Edlingerová Guide: Alexandr Patava Czech Republic	20:20.5	Leonie Walter Guide: Christian Krasman Germany	20:32.2
	Sitting	Oksana Masters United States	21:21.3	Kendall Gretsch United States	21:37.3	Anja Wicker Germany	22:32.4
	Standing	Oleksandra Kononova Ukraine	18:41.5	Natalie Wilkie Canada	18:46.4	Liudmyla Liashenko Ukraine	19:13.9
Men's sprint	Visually impaired	Oleksandr Kazik Guide: Serhii Kucheriavyi Ukraine	17:37.7	Iaroslav Reshetynskyi Guide: Dmytro Drahun Ukraine	18:40.1	Anatolii Kovalevskyi Guide: Oleksandr Mukshyn Ukraine	18:43.8
	Sitting	Taras Rad Ukraine	19:55.5	Liu Mengtao China	20:04.8	Liu Zixu China	20:13.1
	Standing	Cai Jiayun China	17:13.6	Liu Xiaobin China	17:35.4	Marco Maier Germany	17:42.4

Day 2 — Sunday 8 March

Para biathlon

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Women's Individual	Visually impaired	Wang Yue Guide: Chen Guoming China	35:04.7	Simona Bubeníčková Guide: David Srutek Czech Republic	36:43.9	Johanna Recktenwald Guide: Emily Rose Weiss Germany	37:05.2
	Sitting	Kim Yun-ji South Korea	38:00.1	Anja Wicker Germany	38:12.9	Kendall Gretsch United States	38:36.1
	Standing	Natalie Wilkie Canada	33:01.8	Zhao Zhiqing China	33:33.5	Oleksandra Kononova Ukraine	33:37.9
Men's Individual	Visually impaired	Dang Hesong Guide: Lu Hongda China	31:31.9	Maksym Murashkovskyi Guide: Vitaliy Trush Ukraine	33:41.1	Dmytro Suiarko Guide: Oleksandr Nikonovych Ukraine	33:51.1
	Sitting	Liu Zixu China	34:38.1	Mao Zhongwu China	35:06.5	Taras Rad Ukraine	35:57.1
	Standing	Cai Jiayun China	30:24.1	Mark Arendz Canada	30:52.5	Marco Maier Germany	31:07.3

Para snowboard

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Women's snowboard cross	SB-LL2	Cécile Hernandez France	Kate Delson United States	Wang Xinyu China
Men's snowboard cross	SB-UL	Ji Lijia China	Zhu Yonggang China	Aron Fahrni Switzerland
	SB-LL1	Wu Zhongwei China	Noah Elliott United States	Tyler Turner Canada
	SB-LL2	Emanuel Perathoner Italy	Ben Tudhope Australia	Lee Je-hyuk South Korea

Day 3 — Monday 9 March

Para alpine skiing

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Women's super-G	Visually impaired	Chiara Mazzel Guide: Nicola Cottini Cottini Italy	1:14.84	Veronika Aigner Guide: Lilly Sammer Austria	1:15.44	Alexandra Rexová Guide: Sophia Polak Slovakia	1:19.69
	Sitting	Audrey Pascual Spain	1:17.82	Momoka Muraoka Japan	1:24.14	Liu Sitong China	1:24.91
	Standing	Varvara Voronchikhina Russia	1:15.60	Aurélie Richard France	1:17.56	Ebba Årsjö Sweden	1:17.64
Men's super-G	Visually impaired	Johannes Aigner Guide: Nico Haberl Austria	1:11.99	Giacomo Bertagnolli Guide: Andrea Ravelli Italy	1:12.15	Kalle Ericsson Guide: Sierra Smith Canada	1:13.29
	Sitting	Jeroen Kampschreur Netherlands	1:13.08	Jesper Pedersen Norway	1:13.80	Andrew Kurka United States	1:13.95
	Standing	Robin Cuche Switzerland	1:12.12	Patrick Halgren United States	1:13.10	Jules Segers France	1:13.59

Day 4 — Tuesday 10 March

Para alpine skiing

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Women's super combined	Visually impaired	Veronika Aigner Guide: Lilly Sammer Austria	2:01.75	Chiara Mazzel Guide: Nicola Cotti Cottini Italy	2:04.81	Elina Stary Guide: Stefan Winter Austria	2:05.65
	Sitting	Audrey Pascual Spain	2:11.22	Anna-Lena Forster Germany	2:11.68	Liu Sitong China	2:14.53
	Standing	Ebba Årsjö Sweden	2:00.15	Aurélie Richard France	2:07.18	Zhu Wenjing China	2:10.69
Men's super combined	Visually impaired	Giacomo Bertagnolli Guide: Andrea Ravelli Italy	1:56.42	Neil Simpson Guide: Rob Poth Great Britain	1:57.07	Johannes Aigner Guide: Nico Haberl Austria	1:57.46
	Sitting	Jeroen Kampschreur Netherlands	1:56.33	René De Silvestro Italy	1:56.44	Niels de Langen Netherlands	1:57.59
	Standing	Arthur Bauchet France	1:58.17	Federico Pelizzari Italy	1:59.37	Thomas Grochar Austria	1:59.99

Para cross-country skiing

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Women's sprint classical	Visually impaired	Anastasiia Bagiian Guide: Sergei Siniakin Russia	3:16.1	Linn Kazmaier Guide: Florian Baumann Germany	3:25.3	Cong Jihong Guide: Liu Jiaxuan China	3:30.2
	Sitting	Oksana Masters United States	3:07.1	Kim Yun-ji South Korea	3:10.1	Wang Shiyu China	3:17.9
	Standing	Vilde Nilsen Norway	3:31.3	Sydney Peterson United States	3:35.5	Natalie Wilkie Canada	3:40.2
Men's sprint classical	Visually impaired	Jake Adicoff Guide: Peter Wolter United States	2:44.7	Yu Shuang Guide: Shang Jincai China	2:46.2	Zebastian Modin Guide: Emil Talsi Sweden	2:50.9
	Sitting	Liu Zixu China	2:28.9	Cristian Ribera Brazil	2:29.6	Yerbol Khamitov Kazakhstan	2:29.9
	Standing	Raman Svirydzenka Belarus	2:35.4	Sebastian Marburger Germany	2:38.1	Benjamin Daviet France	2:42.2

Day 5 — Wednesday 11 March

Para cross-country skiing

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Women's 10 kilometre classical	Visually impaired	Anastasiia Bagiian Guide: Sergei Siniakin Russia	29:39.7	Simona Bubeníčková Guide: David Srutek Czech Republic	31:59.1	Leonie Walter Guide: Christian Krasman Germany	35:30.8
	Sitting	Oksana Masters United States	26:31.6	Kim Yun-ji South Korea	26:51.6	Kendall Gretsch United States	27:27.6
	Standing	Sydney Peterson United States	29:49.2	Vilde Nilsen Norway	29:51.8	Brittany Hudak Canada	32:01.0
Men's 10 kilometre classical	Visually impaired	Jake Adicoff Guide: Reid Goble United States	28:03.6	Inkki Inola Guide: Reetu Inkila Finland	29:52.3	Zebastian Modin Guide: Emil Talsi Sweden	30:07.9
	Sitting	Ivan Golubkov Russia	24:05.8	Mao Zhongwu China	24:22.1	Zheng Peng China	24:24.5
	Standing	Karl Tabouret France	27:10.7	Raman Svirydzenka Belarus	27:38.4	Mark Arendz Canada	27:59.3

Wheelchair curling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mixed doubles	Wang Meng Yang Jinqiao China	Baek Hye-jin Lee Yong-suk South Korea	Poļina Rožkova Agris Lasmans Latvia

Day 6 — Thursday 12 March

Para alpine skiing

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Women's giant slalom	Visually impaired	Veronika Aigner Guide: Eric Digruber Austria	2:18.63	Chiara Mazzel Guide: Nicola Cotti Cottini Italy	2:21.19	Elina Stary Guide: Stefan Winter Austria	2:25.30
	Sitting	Anna-Lena Forster Germany	2:30.64	Momoka Muraoka Japan	2:31.92	Liu Sitong China	2:34.79
	Standing	Ebba Årsjö Sweden	2:22.42	Varvara Voronchikhina Russia	2:25.26	Aurélie Richard France	2:27.04

Day 7 — Friday 13 March

Para alpine skiing

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's giant slalom	Visually impaired	Johannes Aigner Guide: Nico Haberl Austria	2:07.83	Giacomo Bertagnolli Guide: Andrea Ravelli Italy	2:08.17	Michał Gołaś Guide: Kacper Walas Poland	2:09.91
	Sitting	René De Silvestro Italy	2:10.44	Niels de Langen Netherlands	2:11.01	Jesper Pedersen Norway	2:14.59
	Standing	Arthur Bauchet France	2:07.76	Robin Cuche Switzerland	2:09.72	Alexey Bugaev Russia	2:11.14

Para biathlon

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Women's sprint pursuit	Visually impaired	Carina Edlingerová Guide: Alexandr Patava Czech Republic	13:38.1	Wang Yue Guide: Chen Guoming China	13:48.0	Simona Bubeníčková Guide: David Srutek Czech Republic	13:59.2
	Visually impaired	Carina Edlingerová Guide: Alexandr Patava Czech Republic	13:38.1	Wang Yue Guide: Chen Guoming China	13:48.0	Leonie Walter Guide: Christian Krasman Germany	13:59.2
	Sitting	Kendall Gretsch United States	11:33.1	Kim Yun-ji South Korea	11:41.6	Anja Wicker Germany	12:39.1
	Standing	Natalie Wilkie Canada	12:18.0	Iryna Buy Ukraine	12:35.7	Oleksandra Kononova Ukraine	12:49.0
Men's sprint pursuit	Visually impaired	Yu Shuang Guide: Shang Jincai China	11:39.2	Oleksandr Kazik Guide: Serhii Kucheriavyi Ukraine	11:53.0	Anatolii Kovalevskyi Guide: Oleksandr Mukshyn Ukraine	12:13.7
	Sitting	Yerbol Khamitov Kazakhstan	9:39.0	Taras Rad Ukraine	10:00.5	Liu Zixu China	10:11.5
	Standing	Cai Jiayun China	10:33.4	Grygorii Vovchynskyi Ukraine	10:33.6	Marco Maier Germany	11:08.5

Para snowboard

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Women's banked slalom	SB-LL2	Kate Delson United States	1:02.99	Lisa Bunschoten Netherlands	1:03.53	Brenna Huckaby United States	1:03.98
Men's banked slalom	SB-UL	Jacopo Luchini Italy	56.28	Wang Pengyao China	56.62	Jiang Zihao China	57.03
	SB-LL1	Noah Elliott United States	58.94	Daichi Oguri Japan	59.02	Mike Schultz United States	1:00.05
	SB-LL2	Emanuel Perathoner Italy	54.28	Fabrice von Grünigen Switzerland	56.29	Ben Tudhope Australia	57.33

Day 8 — Saturday 14 March

Para alpine skiing

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Women's slalom	Visually impaired	Veronika Aigner Guide: Lilly Sammer Austria	1:22.73	Elina Stary Guide: Stefan Winter Austria	1:26.77	Alexandra Rexová Guide: Sophia Polak Slovakia	1:31.97
	Sitting	Zhang Wenjing China	1:27.69	Nette Kiviranta Finland	1:27.96	Audrey Pascual Spain	1:28.04
	Standing	Varvara Voronchikhina Russia	1:26.95	Zhu Wenjing China	1:28.44	Michaela Gosselin Canada	1:29.19

Para cross-country skiing

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Mixed 4 × 2.5 kilometre relay	Joshua Sweeney Oksana Masters Sydney Peterson Jake Adicoff Guide: Reid Goble United States	23:24.2	Pavlo Bal Taras Rad Oleksandra Kononova Liudmyla Liashenko Ukraine	23:36.7	Mao Zhongwu Zheng Peng Huang Lingxin Wang Yue Guide: Chen Guoming China	23:56.5
Open 4 × 2.5 kilometre relay	Wang Tao Wang Chenyang Dang Hesong Guide: Lu Hongda Yu Shuang Guide: Shang Jincai China	21:54.4	Sebastian Marburger Marco Maier Theo Bold Guide: Jakob Bold Linn Kazmaier Guide: Florian Baumann Germany	21:59.8	Kjartan Haugen Vilde Nilsen Thomas Oxaal Guide: Geir Lervik Norway	22:28.6

Wheelchair curling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mixed team	Mark Ideson Jon Thurston Ina Forrest Collinda Joseph Gil Dash Canada	Wang Haitao Chen Jianxin Zhang Mingliang Li Nana Zhang Qiang China	Viljo Petersson-Dahl Ronny Persson Sabina Johansson Kristina Ulander Marcus Holm Sweden^[A]

Day 9 — Sunday 15 March

Para alpine skiing

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's slalom	Visually impaired	Giacomo Bertagnolli Guide: Andrea Ravelli Italy	1:29.29	Michał Gołaś Guide: Kacper Walas Poland	1:29.56	Kalle Ericsson Guide: Sierra Smith Canada	1:31.26
	Sitting	Jeroen Kampschreur Netherlands	1:29.72	Jesper Pedersen Norway	1:31.11	Takeshi Suzuki Japan	1:31.30
	Standing	Alexey Bugaev Russia	1:28.55	Adam Hall New Zealand	1:31.38	Robin Cuche Switzerland	1:31.73

Para cross-country skiing

Event	Class	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Women's 20 kilometre freestyle	Visually impaired	Anastasiia Bagiian Guide: Sergei Siniakin Russia	43:59.1	Simona Bubeníčková Guide: David Srutek Czech Republic	47:27.2	Wang Yue Guide: Chen Guoming China	48:58.7
	Sitting	Kim Yun-ji South Korea	58:23.3	Anja Wicker Germany	59:17.4	Oksana Masters United States	59:34.5
	Standing	Sydney Peterson United States	47:25.8	Vilde Nilsen Norway	48:39.7	Oleksandra Kononova Ukraine	48:43.4
Men's 20 kilometre freestyle	Visually impaired	Jake Adicoff Guide: Peter Wolter United States	42:17.4	Oleksandr Kazik Guide: Serhii Kucheriavyi Ukraine	42:24.6	Anthony Chalençon Guide: Florian Michelon France	43:21.9
	Sitting	Ivan Golubkov Russia	51:55.0	Mao Zhongwu China	52:45.8	Giuseppe Romele Italy	53:17.1
	Standing	Wang Chenyang China	41:15.2	Huang Lingxin China	42:28.4	Liu Xiaobin China	43:01.9

Para ice hockey

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mixed tournament	Kayden Beasley Brett Bolton Liam Cunningham Travis Dodson David Eustace Declan Farmer Griffin LaMarre Noah Grove Malik Jones Jen Lee Kevin McKee Josh Misiewicz Evan Nichols Josh Pauls Brody Roybal Landon Uthke Jack Wallace United States	Rob Armstrong Vincent Boily Shawn Burnett Dominic Cozzolino Adam Dixon James Dunn Auren Halbert Tyrone Henry Liam Hickey Anton Jacobs-Webb Adam Kingsmill Micah Kovacevich Zach Lavin Mathieu Lelièvre Tyler McGregor Corbin Watson Greg Westlake Canada	Wang Wei Lyu Zhi Wang Zhidong Che Hang Song Xiaodong Shen Yifeng Wang Jujiang Zhang Zheng Ji Yanzhao Cui Yutao Zhu Zhanfu Tian Jintao Qiu Dianpeng Li Hongguan Chen Hongyu He Haoran Liu Wenxu China

Ceremonies

The closing ceremony was held at the Cortina Olympic Ice Stadium.^[6]

Notes

^ Bronze medalist(s) determined on the previous day.

References

^ "Milano Cortina 2026 competition schedules revealed". Fondazione Milano Cortina 2026. 9 December 2024. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
^ "Olympic Schedule - 4 Mar". Olympics.com. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 1 March 2026.
^ "Olympic Schedule - 5 Mar". Olympics.com. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 1 March 2026.
^ "Olympic Schedule - 6 Mar". Olympics.com. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 1 March 2026.
^ "Paralympic Opening Ceremony". International Paralympic Committee.
^ "Paralympic Closing Ceremony". International Paralympic Committee.

External links

Official Homepage

[Bronze_previous_day-6] Bronze medalist(s) determined on the previous day.

[1] "Milano Cortina 2026 competition schedules revealed". Fondazione Milano Cortina 2026. 9 December 2024. Retrieved 10 December 2024.

[d-2-2] "Olympic Schedule - 4 Mar". Olympics.com. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 1 March 2026.

[d-1-3] "Olympic Schedule - 5 Mar". Olympics.com. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 1 March 2026.

[d0-4] "Olympic Schedule - 6 Mar". Olympics.com. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 1 March 2026.

[5] "Paralympic Opening Ceremony". International Paralympic Committee.

[7] "Paralympic Closing Ceremony". International Paralympic Committee.

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