Taras Rad (born 20 November 1999) is a Ukrainian amputated male

cross-country skier Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreation ...

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 time ...

. He made his Paralympic debut at the age of 18 for

Ukraine at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Ukraine competed at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang County, Gangwon Province, South Korea, from 9 to 18 March 2018. The country was represented by 22 athletes, and 9 assistants for athletes with visual impairments. Of the six paralym ...

competing in

Cross-country skiing Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreatio ...

and

Biathlon 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 ...

events. He also went onto claim his first Paralympic medal during the

2018 Winter Paralympics ) , nations = 49 , athletes = 569 , events = 80 in 6 sports , opening = 9 March , closing = 18 March , opened_by = President Moon Jae-in , cauldron = Kim Eun-jungSeo Soon-seok , stadium = Pyeongchang Olymp ...

after clinching the gold medal in the men's 12.5km sitting biathlon event.

Career

Taras Rad sustained a leg injury at the age of 14 but was not treated properly by the doctors after receiving the treatment. He was later forced to amputate his leg in order to survive. Taras Rad took the sport of

Paralympic Nordic skiing Paralympic Nordic skiing is a Winter Paralympics sport consisting of biathlon and cross-country skiing. The sport is governed by the International Paralympic Committee, with its subcommittee for Nordic skiing known as World Para Nordic Skiing. Pa ...

at the age of 14. He won the bronze medal in the men's 6kilometres sitting biathlon event at the

2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships The 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships was an international disability sport competition held in Lillehammer, Norway from 8 to 23 January 2022. It was the inaugural edition of the World Para Snow Sports Championships with para-alpine skii ...

held in Lillehammer, Norway. He also won the silver medal in the men's 10kilometres sitting biathlon event. In biathlon, he won the silver medal in the men's 6 kilometres sitting event and the bronze medal in the men's 10 kilometres sitting event at the

2022 Winter Paralympics The 2022 Winter Paralympics (), commonly known as Beijing 2022 (), was an international winter multi-sport parasports event held in Beijing, China from 4 to 13 March 2022. This was the 13th Winter Paralympic Games, as administered by the Int ...

held in Beijing, China.

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* 1999 births Living people Ukrainian male biathletes Ukrainian male cross-country skiers Cross-country skiers at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Biathletes at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Biathletes at the 2022 Winter Paralympics Paralympic biathletes of Ukraine Paralympic cross-country skiers of Ukraine Paralympic gold medalists for Ukraine Paralympic silver medalists for Ukraine Paralympic bronze medalists for Ukraine Medalists at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2022 Winter Paralympics Ukrainian amputees Paralympic medalists in biathlon Cross-country skiers at the 2022 Winter Paralympics 20th-century Ukrainian people 21st-century Ukrainian people {{Ukraine-crosscountry-skiing-bio-stub