South Korea at the 2026 Winter Paralympics

South Korea at the
2026 Winter Paralympics
IPC codeKOR
NPCKorean Paralympic Committee
in Milan & Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
6 March 2026 (2026-03-06) – 15 March 2026 (2026-03-15)
Competitors20 (14 men and 6 women) in 5 sports
Medals
Ranked 13th
Gold
2
Silver
4
Bronze
1
Total
7
Winter Paralympics appearances (overview)

South Korea will compete at the 2026 Winter Paralympics in Milan & Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, which will take place between 6–15 March 2026.

Medallists

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.

Sport Men Women Total
Para alpine skiing 2 2 4
Para biathlon 4 2 6
Para cross-country skiing
Para snowboard 3 0 3
Wheelchair curling 5 2 7
Total 14 6 20

Para alpine skiing

Athlete Class Event Run 1 Run 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Hwang Min-gyu
Guide: Kim Jun-hyeong
AS3 Men's downhill, visually impaired N/a DNF
Men's super-G, visually impaired N/a 1:18.28 8
Men's giant slalom, visually impaired 1:08.94 6 1:11.22 6 2:20.16 6
Men's slalom, visually impaired 52.65 7 50.14 8 1:42.79 7
Men's super combined, visually impaired DNF
Lee Hwan-kyung LW12-2 Men's giant slalom, sitting DNF
Men's slalom, sitting DNF
Sara Choi
Guide: Eo Eun-mi
AS2 Women's downhill, visually impaired N/a 1:29.03 4
Women's super-G, visually impaired N/a 1:21.17 5
Women's giant slalom, visually impaired 1:19.10 9 1:19.68 7 2:38.78 7
Women's slalom, visually impaired 48.65 7 47.92 5 1:36.57 7
Women's super combined, visually impaired 1:22.89 5 50.97 7 2:13.86 6
Park Chae-yi LW11 Women's giant slalom, sitting 1:32.32 13 1:34.08 10 3:06.40 10
Women's slalom, sitting DNF

Para biathlon

Athlete Class Event Qualification Final
Missed shots Time Rank Missed shots Time Rank
Jeong Jae-seok LW10.5 Men's individual, sitting N/a 10 (1+3+3+3) 47:16.2 25
Men's sprint pursuit, sitting 3 (2+1) 10:28.1 21 Q 6 (4+2) 15:43.1 24
Kim Min-yeong
Guide: Byeon Ju-yeong
NS3 Sprint, visually impaired N/a 0 (0+0) 23:15.6 16
Sprint pursuit, visually impaired 3 (2+1) 13:06.3 13 Q 4 (3+1) 18:11.5 11
Sin Eui-hyun LW12 Men's individual, sitting N/a 2 (0+1+1+0) 39:13.3 12
Men's sprint, sitting N/a 0 (0+0) 21:08.4 10
Men's sprint pursuit, sitting 0 9:06.8 11 Q 2 (0+2) 11:16.9 10
Won Yoo-min LW11.5 Men's individual, sitting N/a 2 (0+2+0+0) 42:57.3 17
Men's sprint, sitting N/a 1 (0+1) 24:28.4 22
Men's sprint pursuit, sitting 3 (3+0) 10:37.0 23 Q 0 13:09.1 17
Han Seung-hee LW10 Women's sprint, sitting N/a 0 (0+0) 25:43.7 12
Women's sprint pursuit, sitting 2 (1+1) 11:33.7 10 Q 1 (0+1) 16:11.5 9
Kim Yun-ji LW10.5 Women's individual, sitting N/a 2 (0+2+0+0) 38:00.1
Women's sprint, sitting N/a 4 (4+0) 22:41.0 4
Women's sprint pursuit, sitting 1 (1+0) 9:29.8 2 Q 2 (0+2) 11:41.6

Para cross-country skiing

Athlete Class Event Qualification Semifinal Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Jeong Jae-seok LW10.5 Men's sprint, sitting 2:25.78 22 Did not advance
Men's 10 km, sitting N/a 26:31.8 13
Men's 20 km, sitting N/a 58:35.2 18
Kim Min-yeong
Guide: Byeon Ju-jeong
NS3 Men's sprint classical, visually impaired 3:03.04 11 Did not advance
Men's 10 km classical, visually impaired N/a 37:24.7 14
Sin Eui-hyun LW12 Men's sprint, sitting 2:25.04 21 Did not advance
Men's 10 km, sitting N/a 25:36.6 9
Men's 20 km, sitting N/a 55:45.0 11
Han Seung-hee LW10 Women's sprint, sitting 2:44.74 6 Q 3:26.1 6 Did not advance
Women's 10 km, sitting N/a DNS
Kim Yun-ji LW10.5 Women's sprint, sitting 2:35.19 2 Q 3:01.1 1 Q 3:10.1
Women's 10 km, sitting N/a 26:51.6
Women's 20 km, sitting N/a 58:23.3

Para snowboard

Banked slalom
Athlete Event Run 1 Run 2 Best Rank
Jeong Soo-min Men's banked slalom, SB-UL 1:07.76 1:05.20 1:05.20 16
Lee Chung-min Men's banked slalom, SB-UL 1:02.95 1:02.67 1:02.67 14
Lee Je-hyuk Men's banked slalom, SB-LL2 1:01.51 1:03.76 1:01.51 16
Snowboard cross
Athlete Event Seeding Pre-heats Quarterfinal Semifinal Final
Time Rank Position Position Position Position Rank
Jeong Soo-min Men's snowboard cross, SB-UL 56.33 16 2 Q 3 Did not advance
Lee Chung-min Men's snowboard cross, SB-UL 53.92 11 Bye RAL Did not advance
Lee Je-hyuk Men's snowboard cross, SB-LL2 51.74 6 N/a 1 Q 2 Q 3

Wheelchair curling

Summary
Team Event Group stage Semifinal Final / BM
Opposition
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Rank Opposition
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Rank
Yang Hui-tae
Lee Hyeon-chul
Nam Bong-kwang
Bang Min-ja
Cha Jin-ho
Mixed team  LAT
W 10–2
 SWE
L 6–8
 CHN
L 5–7
 GBR
W 7–6
 SVK
W 7–5
 NOR
W 9–0
 USA
L 2–9
 CAN
L 3–6
 ITA
W 6–5
4 Q  CAN
L 7–8
 SWE
L 7–4
4
Baek Hye-jin
Lee Yong-suk
Mixed doubles  ITA
L 5–7
 GBR
W 14–3
 JPN
W 9–0
 CHN
L 6–10
 USA
W 10–1
 LAT
L 4–5
 EST
W 10–0
N/a 3 Q  USA
W 6–3
 CHN
L 7–9

Mixed tournament

Final Round Robin Standings
Team Skip Pld W L W–L PF PA EW EL BE SE S% DSC Qualification
 Canada Mark Ideson 9 9 0 71 36 36 26 2 19 68.2% 84.488 Playoffs
 China Wang Haitao 9 8 1 76 42 38 26 1 15 68.3% 83.350
 Sweden Viljo Petersson-Dahl 9 5 4 1–0 47 48 31 31 6 13 62.8% 98.125
 South Korea Yang Hui-tae 9 5 4 0–1 55 48 36 32 1 17 64.6% 90.525
 Norway Jostein Stordahl 9 4 5 1–0 41 55 28 31 2 12 58.3% 130.863
 Italy Egidio Marchese 9 4 5 0–1 52 53 32 27 0 15 60.6% 107.831
 Latvia Ojārs Briedis 9 3 6 2–0 45 67 27 33 0 12 50.2% 113.381
 Slovakia Radoslav Ďuriš 9 3 6 1–1 42 56 26 37 1 13 51.9% 117.688
 United States Sean O'Neill 9 3 6 0–2 54 52 34 32 0 14 58.3% 72.156
 Great Britain Hugh Nibloe 9 1 8 40 66 26 39 0 7 55.7% 129.675

Round robin
South Korea had a bye in draws 3, 8 and 10.[1]

Draw 1
Saturday, March 7, 9:35

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 South Korea (Yang) 🔨 5 1 0 1 0 3 X X 10
 Latvia (Briedis) 0 0 1 0 1 0 X X 2

Draw 2
Saturday, March 7, 18:35

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 EE Final
 Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 🔨 0 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 2 8
 South Korea (Yang) 1 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 6

Draw 4
Sunday, March 8, 18:35

Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 China (Wang) 1 0 2 0 2 0 1 1 7
 South Korea (Yang) 🔨 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 5

Draw 5
Monday, March 9, 9:35

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 South Korea (Yang) 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 2 7
 Great Britain (Nibloe) 🔨 0 0 1 2 1 0 2 0 6

Draw 6
Monday, March 9, 18:35

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 South Korea (Yang) 🔨 0 2 1 1 0 1 2 0 7
 Slovakia (Ďuriš) 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 5

Draw 7
Tuesday, March 10, 9:35

Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 South Korea (Yang) 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 X 9
 Norway (Stordahl) 🔨 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 0

Draw 9
Wednesday, March 11, 9:05

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 United States (O'Neill) 🔨 0 3 1 3 0 1 1 X 9
 South Korea (Yang) 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 X 2

Draw 11
Thursday, March 12, 13:35

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Canada (Ideson) 1 1 0 2 0 0 1 1 6
 South Korea (Yang) 🔨 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 3

Draw 12
Thursday, March 12, 18:35

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 South Korea (Yang) 0 3 0 0 1 1 0 1 6
 Italy (Marchese) 🔨 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 5
Semifinal

Friday, March 13, 10:05

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Canada (Ideson) 🔨 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 8
 South Korea (Yang) 0 2 2 0 0 3 0 0 7
Bronze medal game

Friday, March 13, 18:35

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 South Korea (Yang) 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 4
 Sweden (Petersson-Dahl) 🔨 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 2 7

Mixed doubles

Final Round Robin Standings
Team Athletes Pld W L W–L PF PA EW EL BE SE S% DSC Qualification
 China Wang Meng / Yang Jinqiao 7 6 1 66 32 32 21 0 14 64.9% 106.033 Playoffs
 United States Laura Dwyer / Stephen Emt 7 4 3 1–1 43 43 25 27 0 9 53.4% 89.717
 South Korea Baek Hye-jin / Lee Yong-suk 7 4 3 1–1 58 26 30 19 0 17 59.9% 142.058
 Latvia Poļina Rožkova / Agris Lasmans 7 4 3 1–1 46 45 28 25 0 12 48.5% 150.675
 Great Britain Jo Butterfield / Jason Kean 7 3 4 1–0 47 56 25 29 0 8 51.5% 95.075
 Japan Aki Ogawa / Yoji Nakajima 7 3 4 0–1 30 53 19 30 0 8 49.0% 88.067
 Estonia Katlin Riidebach / Ain Villau 7 2 5 1–0 31 58 22 28 0 9 47.6% 98.233
 Italy Orietta Bertò / Paolo Ioriatti 7 2 5 0–1 43 51 28 30 0 11 55.6% 73.700

Round robin

Draw 1
Wednesday, March 4, 19:05

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Italy (Bertò / Ioriatti) 1 2 1 0 1 1 1 0 7
 South Korea (Baek / Lee) 🔨 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 1 5

Draw 2
Thursday, March 5, 10:05

Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Great Britain (Butterfield / Kean) 🔨 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 X 3
 South Korea (Baek / Lee) 0 3 0 5 2 0 4 X 14

Draw 3
Thursday, March 5, 19:05

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 South Korea (Baek / Lee) 1 1 2 2 2 1 X X 9
 Japan (Ogawa / Nakajima) 🔨 0 0 0 0 0 0 X X 0

Draw 4
Friday, March 6, 9:05

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 China (Wang / Yang) 🔨 1 0 2 1 0 2 0 4 10
 South Korea (Baek / Lee) 0 1 0 0 3 0 2 0 6

Draw 5
Saturday, March 7, 14:35

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 South Korea (Baek / Lee) 3 1 0 3 1 2 X X 10
 United States (Dwyer / Emt) 🔨 0 0 1 0 0 0 X X 1

Draw 6
Sunday, March 8, 14:35

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Latvia (Rožkova / Lasmans) 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 5
 South Korea (Baek / Lee) 🔨 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 4

Draw 7
Monday, March 9, 14:35

Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 South Korea (Baek / Lee) 🔨 3 1 1 1 3 1 X X 10
 Estonia (Riidebach / Villau) 0 0 0 0 0 0 X X 0
Semifinal

Tuesday, March 10, 14:35

Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 United States (Dwyer / Emt) 🔨 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 X 3
 South Korea (Baek / Lee) 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 X 6
Final

Wednesday, March 11, 14:35

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 EE Final
 China (Wang / Yang) 🔨 3 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 9
 South Korea (Baek / Lee) 0 1 0 1 1 0 3 1 0 7

See also

References

  1. ^ "Results". Paralympic.org. Retrieved 5 March 2026.