The Ukrainian national team has completed its final entry for the 2026 Paralympic Games, having secured 25 licenses, a record-breaking result. Thirty-five athletes will compete in four sports, including nine debutants.
The Ukrainian national team has completed its final entry for the 2026 Paralympic Games in Milan-Cortina. This was announced by the National Paralympic Committee of Ukraine, according to UNN. PromPolitInform reports.
“The Ukrainian national team has completed its final entry for the 2026 Paralympic Games in Milan-Cortina. The “blue-and-yellows” have secured a total of 25 licenses for the 2026 Paralympic Games. Ukraine will be represented by 35 athletes – 25 Paralympic athletes and 10 guide athletes,” the statement reads.
It is reported that Ukrainians will compete in four sports: parabiathlon, para-skiing, para-alpine skiing, and para-snowboarding.
The committee also noted that 25 licenses is the best result in Ukraine’s history at the Paralympic Games level.
“Until now, the national team had its largest representation at the 2014 Paralympics, when the country was represented by 23 athletes in three sports. Ukraine will be represented in alpine skiing for the first time since 2014, and in snowboarding for the first time since 2018. Two debutants will compete for the Paralympic podium: blogger and author of the YouTube channel “One Right” Vladislav Khilchenko in snowboarding and alpine skier Maksym Gelyuta,” the committee stated.
In total, Ukraine has nine debutants at the 2026 Paralympic Games. In addition to Gelyuta and Khilchenko, there are seven skiers and biathletes: Dmytro Sereda, Grigoriy Shymko, Romana Lobasheva, Ilona Kazik, Oleksandra Danilenko, Maksym Murashkovskyi, and Igor Kravchuk. Lobasheva, in particular, made her international debut only in 2025 and also competed in track and field.
The most experienced Paralympians on the Ukrainian team are Oleksandra Kononova, Grigoriy Vovchynskyi, and Oksana Shishkova, who competed back in Vancouver 2010.
The “blue and yellow” Winter Paralympic team also includes Pavlo Bal, a medalist at the Paris 2024 Summer Games, who won a historic medal for Ukraine in the handbike road race. Bal made his Winter Paralympic debut in Beijing 2022, where his best result was sixth place in the middle-distance biathlon (10 km).
The national Paralympic team’s roster also includes one participant in the 2026 Winter Olympics: guide Dmytro Dragun.
The Ukrainian national team for the 2026 Winter Paralympics is as follows:
cross-country skiing and biathlon (with musculoskeletal disabilities) – Hryhoriy Vovchynskyi, Dmytro Sereda, Serhiy Romanyuk, Serafim Dragun, Oleksandr Aleksyk, Pavlo Bal, Vasyl Kravchuk, Taras Rad, Hryhoriy Shymko, Iryna Bui, Lyudmila Lyashenko, Oleksandra Kononova, Bohdana Konashuk;
Cross-country skiing and biathlon pair (visually impaired) – Alexander Kazik, Anatoly Kovalevsky, Yaroslav Reshetinsky, Dmitry Suyarko, Maksym Murashkovsky, Igor Kravchuk; Romana Lyubasheva, Ilona Kazik, Oksana Shishkova, Alexandra Danilenko;
Leading athletes: Sergey Kucheryavy, Dmitry Dragun, Artem Kazaryan, Alexander Mukshin, Alexander Nikonovich, Andrey Dotsenko, Vitaliy Trush, Nikita Stakhursky, Daria Kovaleva, Anastasia Shabaldina;
Alpine skiing pair: Maksym Gelyuta;
Snowboarding pair: Vladislav Khilchenko;
As a reminder, Ukraine will not boycott the 2026 Paralympics; Ukrainian Paralympians will compete. The decision on participation in the opening ceremony will be announced later.
