The Men's 20 km Free competition of the Vancouver 2010 Paralympics

Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Paralympics

The cross-country skiing competition of the Vancouver 2010 Paralympics were held at Whistler, British Columbia. The events were held between 14 March and 21 March 2010.-Medal table:-Events:...

 is held at Whistler Olympic Park

Whistler Olympic Park

The Whistler Olympic Park is the location of the Nordic events facilities for the 2010 Winter Olympics and is located in the Madeley Creek basin in the Callaghan Valley, west of Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. The facility hosted the biathlon, cross-country skiing, nordic combined, and ski...

 in Whistler, British Columbia

Whistler, British Columbia

Whistler is a Canadian resort town in the southern Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in the province of British Columbia, Canada, approximately north of Vancouver...

. The competition is scheduled for Sunday, March 14 and Monday, March 15.

Medal table

1		2	2	1	5
2		1	0	0	1
3		0	1	0	1
4		0	0	1	1
4		0	0	1	1

Medalists

20 km Free - Visually Impaired	Brian McKeever Brian McKeever Brian McKeever is a Canadian cross-country skier and biathlete. He began skiing at the age of three and started competing at thirteen. At 19 he began losing his vision due to Stargardt's disease. At the 2002 and 2006 Winter Paralympics he competed in both cross-country skiing and biathlon... Guide Sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.... : Robin McKeever Robin McKeever Robin McKeever is a Canadian cross country skier, sighted guide, Paralympian and Olympian.He participated in cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano....	Nikolay Polukhin Nikolay Polukhin Nikolay Polukhin is a Russian cross country skier, biathlete and Paralympic Champion.One of his most notable achievements is winning the most medals at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Paralympics, with six medals, including one gold... Guide Sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.... : Andrey Tokarev Andrey Tokarev Andrey Tokarev is a Russian cross country skier, biathlete, sighted guide and Paralympic Champion.He was awarded the Order of Honour by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in 2010....	Vasili Shaptsiaboi Guide Sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.... : Mikalai Shablouski
15 km - Sitting	Irek Zaripov Irek Zaripov Irek Zaripov is a Russian biathlete and cross-country skier.He lost his legs in a car accident in 2000. He started to practice skiing in 2005....	Roman Petushkov Roman Petushkov Roman Petushkov is a Russian cross-country skier, biathlete and Paralympian. He compete in classification category sitting events....	Enzo Masiello
20 km Free - Standing	Kirill Mikhaylov Kirill Mikhaylov Kirill Mikhaylov is a Russian cross-country skier, biathlete and four time Paralympic Champion. He compete in classification category standing events....	Nils-Erik Ulset	Vladimir Kononov Vladimir Kononov Vladimir Kononov is a Russian cross-country skier and Paralympian. He compete in classification category standing events, and is classified LW5/7 ....

Visually Impaired

In the cross-country skiing 20 km Free visually impaired, the athlete with a visual impairement has a sighted guide

Sighted guide

A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment....

. The two skiers are considered a team, and dual medals are awarded.

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	7	Brian McKeever Brian McKeever Brian McKeever is a Canadian cross-country skier and biathlete. He began skiing at the age of three and started competing at thirteen. At 19 he began losing his vision due to Stargardt's disease. At the 2002 and 2006 Winter Paralympics he competed in both cross-country skiing and biathlon... Guide Sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.... : Robin McKeever Robin McKeever Robin McKeever is a Canadian cross country skier, sighted guide, Paralympian and Olympian.He participated in cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano....		51:14.7
	11	Nikolay Polukhin Nikolay Polukhin Nikolay Polukhin is a Russian cross country skier, biathlete and Paralympic Champion.One of his most notable achievements is winning the most medals at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Paralympics, with six medals, including one gold... Guide Sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.... : Andrey Tokarev Andrey Tokarev Andrey Tokarev is a Russian cross country skier, biathlete, sighted guide and Paralympic Champion.He was awarded the Order of Honour by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in 2010....		51:55.6	+40.9
	14	Vasili Shaptsiaboi Guide Sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.... : Mikalai Shablouski		52:22.5	+1:07.8
	4	Wilhelm Brem Wilhelm Brem Wilhelm Brem is a Paralympic biathlete and cross-country skier competing for Germany at the 2010 Winter Paralympics.- References :... Guide Sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.... : Florian Grimm		52:28.9	+1:14.2
	12	Frank Höfle Frank Höfle Frank Höfle is a disabled German biathlete and cross-country skier. He first participated in the Winter Paralympic Games in 1984 and won his first medal, a gold, in 1988. He has competed in every Winter Paralympics since then and has won a total of 21 medals, 13 of them gold... Guide Sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.... : Johannes Wachlin		52:38.8	+1:24.1
	5	Thomas Clarion Guide Sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.... : Stephane Passeron		52:39.8	+1:25.1
	9	Oleg Munts Guide Sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.... : Borys Babar		53:03.8	+1:49.1
	6	Helge Flo Helge Flo Helge Flo is a visually impaired Norwegian cross-country skier competing at the 2010 Winter Paralympics.- References :... Guide Sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.... : Thomas Losnegard		54:22.7	+3:08.0
	10	Hak-Su Im Guide Sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.... : Yoon-Bae Park		55:53.6	+4:28.9
10	13	Valery Kupchinskiy Guide Sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.... : Viacheslav Dubov		57:03.8	+5:49.1
11	8	Zebastian Modin Zebastian Modin Zebastian Modin is a Swedish cross-country skier, biathlete and Paralympian. He compete in classification B1 events.... Guide Sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.... : Albin Ackerot		58:30.8	+7:16.1
12	1	Rudolf Klemetti Guide Sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.... : Lasse Torpo		1:02:35.6	+11:20.9
13	3	Alexei Novikov Guide Sighted guide A sighted guide is a person who guides a person with blindness or vision impairment.-Paralympic Games:At the Paralympic Games there are various classifications of athletes with a visual impairment.... : Jamie Stirling		1:08:47.6	+17:32.9

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Sitting (15 km)

3:54.6

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	22	Irek Zaripov Irek Zaripov Irek Zaripov is a Russian biathlete and cross-country skier.He lost his legs in a car accident in 2000. He started to practice skiing in 2005....		41:01.1
	25	Roman Petushkov Roman Petushkov Roman Petushkov is a Russian cross-country skier, biathlete and Paralympian. He compete in classification category sitting events....		41:11.1	+10.0
	24	Enzo Masiello		41:54.9	+43.8
	21	Trygve Toskedal Larsen		42:17.3	+1:16.2
	23	Iurii Kostiuk Iurii Kostiuk Iurii Kostiuk is a Ukrainian biathlete, cross-country skier and Paralympic Champion.He competed in biathlon and cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Paralympics in Turin, Italy. In cross-country skiing he took the gold medal in the men's 15 km, silver in the 5 km and bronze in the 10 km, sitski...		42:17.7	+1:16.6
	26	Aliaksandr Davidovich		42:43.1	+1:42.0
	19	Kozo Kubo		42:55.5	+1:54.4
	20	Chris Klebl		43:13.7	+2:12.6
	28	Sean Halsted		43:25.6	+2:24.5
10	27	Andy Soule		43:32.8	+2:31.7
11	30	Dzmitry Loban		43:53.5	+2:52.4
12	29	Romain Rosique		43:56.6	+2:55.5
13	3	Sergey Shilov Sergey Shilov Sergey Shilov is a Russian cross-country skier, biathlete and six time Paralympic Champion.Shilov has competed at nine Paralympic Games , in cross-country skiing, biathlon and in athletics...		44:15.5	+3:14.4
14	18	Fu Chunshan		44:19.1	+3:18.0
15	7	Yauheni Lukyanenka		44:22.0	+3:20.9
16	1	Vladimir Gajdiciar		44:39.0	+3:37.9
17	17	Dominic Monypenny		44:55.7
18	13	Alain Marguerettaz Alain Marguerettaz Alain Marguerettaz is a French Paralympian who started in alpine skiing. His first Paralympics was in 1992 and he received a bronze medal in giant slalom LWXII at the 1994 Paralympics. He would later switch to Nordic events and received a bronze in the 2006 Winter Paralympics for cross-country...		44:55.8	+3:54.7
19	2	Ivan Goncharov Ivan Goncharov Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov was a Russian novelist best known as the author of Oblomov .- Biography :Ivan Goncharov was born in Simbirsk ; his father was a wealthy grain merchant and respected official who was elected mayor of Simbirsk several times...		45:19.2	+4:18.1
20	31	Kamil Rosiek		45:21.2	+4:20.1
21	10	Robert Wator		45:25.9	+4:24.8
22	4	Barys Pronka		45:57.7	+4:56.6
23	15	Roland Rüpp		46:08.7	+5:07.6
24	11	Georges Bettega		46:16.7	+5:15.6
25	14	Per Fagerhoi		46:23.0	+5:21.9
26	12	Greg Mallory		46:30.6	+5:29.5
27	8	Lou Gibson		47:53.8	+6:52.7
28	5	Fabrizio Bove		49:15.2	+8:14.1
29	16	Sebastien Fortier		51:33.6	+10:32.5
	6	Manfred Lehner		DNF
	9	Thierry Raoux		DNS

Standing

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	20	Kirill Mikhaylov Kirill Mikhaylov Kirill Mikhaylov is a Russian cross-country skier, biathlete and four time Paralympic Champion. He compete in classification category standing events....		52:07.7
	7	Nils-Erik Ulset		53:34.1	+1:26.4
	6	Vladimir Kononov Vladimir Kononov Vladimir Kononov is a Russian cross-country skier and Paralympian. He compete in classification category standing events, and is classified LW5/7 ....		53:53.4	+1:45.7
	18	Siarhei Silchanka		54:51.6	+2:43.9
	2	Rushan Minnegulov		54:59.8	+2:52.1
	17	Michael Kurz		55:06.8	+2:59.1
	5	Du Haitao Du Haitao Du Haitao is a host of "Happy camp" of HNTV in China. He hosts several entertainment programmes of HNTV. Because of participating in Talent Show, he joined HNTV and from then on took the acting road.-Films:-Television:-Music composition:...		55:29.9	+3:22.2
	16	Vegard Dahle		55:42.9	+3:35.2
	11	Yannick Bourseaux		55:55.7	+3:48.0
10	1	Thomas Oelsner		58:02.6	+5:54.9
11	19	Ilkka Tuomisto		58:29.6	+6:21.9
12	15	Tino Uhlig		59:00.8	+6:53.1
13	12	Zou Dexin		59:37.4	+7:29.7
14	10	Oleh Leshchyshyn		59:44.9	+7:37.2
15	21	Grygorii Vovchynskyi Grygorii Vovchynskyi Grygorii Vovchynskyi is a Ukrainian biathlete, cross-country skier and Paralympian. He is classified LW8 , and compete in classification category standing....		59:50.6	+7:42.9
16	8	Cheng Shishuai		59:52.1	+7:44.4
17	4	Keiichi Sato Keiichi Sato is a mecha and character designer born in the Kagawa Prefecture of Japan in 1965.In 1996, Sato met with Kazuyoshi Katayama to begin work on The Big O. Until then, Sato's work consisted mainly of designing characters and supervising animation for anime series. The Big O is the first based on a...		1:01:34.5	+9:26.8
18	9	James Millar		1:02:33.5	+10:25.8
19	22	Svein Lilleberg Svein Lilleberg Svein Lilleberg is a Norwegian cross-country skier.He contracted polio early, when he was only six months old. To begin with, he was totally paralysed, later regaining most movement, but he has never had use of one foot. He competes in the LW2.Svein has 3 sisters, and is married with 4 children....		1:06:33.0	+14:25.3

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External links

• 2010 Winter Paralympics schedule and results, at the official website of the 2010 Winter Paralympics
  2010 Winter Paralympics
  The 2010 Winter Paralympics, officially the X Paralympic Winter Games, or the 10th Winter Paralympics, were held in Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia, Canada from March 12 to 21, 2010. The Opening Ceremony took place in BC Place Stadium in Vancouver and the Closing Ceremony in Whistler...
  
  in Vancouver