Lidziya Hrafeyeva (born 14 December 1985) is a Belarusian cross-country skier and

biathlete The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not ti ...

. She has competed at the

Winter Paralympics The Winter Paralympic Games is an international multi-sport event where athletes with physical disabilities compete in snow and ice sports. The event includes athletes with mobility impairments, amputations, blindness, and cerebral palsy. The ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

and

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

Career

She claimed her first Paralympic medal after clinching a bronze medal in the women's 6km sitting biathlon event during the

2018 Winter Paralympics The 2018 Winter Paralympics (), the 12th Paralympic Winter Games, and also more generally known as the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games, were an international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the Internation ...

. After claiming the bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Paralympics, she hinted about her plans to step into participate at the

Summer Paralympics The Summer Paralympics, also known as the Games of the Paralympiad, are an international multi-sport event where athletes with physical disabilities compete. This includes athletes with mobility disabilities, amputations, blindness, and cerebr ...

and hinted about to choose the sport of shooting following her success at the biathlon event which also comprises shooting. Coincidentally both Lidziya and her husband, Dzmitry Loban went onto represent Belarus at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.

Biography

Lidziya Hrafeyeva was affected in a car accident at the age of 27, which led to the amputations of her legs. Following the accident, she decided to take the sport of Paralympic Nordic skiing in 2014 before being selected to represent Belarus at the 2014 Winter Paralympics. She married fellow Belarusian Paralympic Nordic skier, Dzmitry Loban who has represented

Belarus at the Paralympics Belarus made its Paralympic Games début at the 1994 Winter Paralympics in Lillehammer. It has participated in every subsequent edition of both the Summer Paralympics, Summer and Winter Paralympics. Belarusian athletes have won a total of 98 Paral ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

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. Lidziya Hrafeyeva was also encouraged to take the sport of cross-country skiing by her husband.

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* 1985 births Belarusian female biathletes Belarusian female cross-country skiers Biathletes at the 2014 Winter Paralympics Biathletes at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Cross-country skiers at the 2014 Winter Paralympics Paralympic cross-country skiers for Belarus Paralympic biathletes for Belarus Paralympic bronze medalists for Belarus Medalists at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Living people Paralympic medalists in biathlon {{Belarus-biathlon-bio-stub