Cross-country skiing
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at the
1994 Winter Paralympics
The 1994 Winter Paralympics (; ), the sixth Paralympic Winter Games, were held in Lillehammer, Norway, from 10 to 19 March 1994.The Lillehammer Paralympics were the second time that the Games were held in Norway, after the 1980 Winter Paralym ...
consisted of 48 events, 29 for men and 19 for women.
Medal table
Medal Standings - Lillehammer 1994 Paralympic Winter Games - Cross Country Skiing
International Paralympic Committee
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The IPC organizes the Paralympic Games and functions as the international federation for nin ...
(IPC)
Medal summary
The competition events were:
*2.5 km: - women
*5 km: men - women
*10 km: men - women
*15 km: men
*20 km: men
*3x2.5 km relay: men - women
*4x5 km relay: men
Each event had separate standing, sitting, or visually impaired classifications:
*LW2 - standing: single leg amputation
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above the knee
*LW3 - standing: double leg amputation below the knee, mild cerebral palsy
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, or equivalent impairment
*LW4 - standing: single leg amputation below the knee
*LW5/7 - standing: double arm amputation
*LW6/8 - standing: single arm amputation
*LW9 - standing: amputation or equivalent impairment of one arm and one leg
*LW 10 - sitting: paraplegia
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"half-stricken". It is usually caused by spinal cord injury or a congenital condition that affects the neura ...
with no or some upper abdominal function and no functional sitting balance
*LW 11 - sitting: paraplegia with fair functional sitting balance
*B1 - visually impaired: no functional vision
*B2 - visually impaired: up to ca 3-5% functional vision
*B3 - visually impaired: under 10% functional vision
Men's events
Women's events
See also
*Cross-country skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics
The 1994 Winter Olympic Games cross-country skiing results.
Medal summary Medal table
Men's events
The winning Italian team was among the last carriers of the Olympic torch in the stadium during the 2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in ...
References
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Winter Sport Classification
Canadian Paralympic Committee
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* https://web.archive.org/web/20070821111659/http://saltlake2002.paralympic.org/historical_results/cc/results_by_event/pwg94_md.html
{{Paralympic Games Cross-country skiing
Events at the 1994 Winter Paralympics
1994
The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations.
In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...
Paralympics
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Kore ...