TURIN, Italy, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) — Para athletes made their debuts within the cross-country snowboarding competitors of the thirty second FISU World Winter University Games on Wednesday, marking the primary time on the Winter Universiade that para sports activities occasions had been scheduled concurrently with non-disabled athletes.
This milestone underscores the Games’ rising inclusivity.
Germany’s Marco Maier, who gained silver on the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics, claimed gold within the males’s 10km para-standing cross-country snowboarding in 22 minutes and 37.3 seconds.
Fellow German Leonie Maria Walter triumphed within the girls’s visually impaired 10km race with a time of 25:37.9, whereas Finland’s Inkki Inola took the lads’s visually impaired 10km title in 22:51.4.
Turin 2025 launched para sports activities for the primary time, that includes alpine and cross-country snowboarding occasions.
Norway’s Olaf Martin Aaserud Talmo and Izabela Marcisz of Poland gained gold within the males’s and ladies’s 10km cross-country snowboarding occasions, respectively.
In alpine snowboarding, Emy Charbonnier of France emerged victorious within the girls’s alpine mixed.
The two gold medals awarded in freestyle snowboarding twin moguls went to Japan and Kazakhstan.
Meanwhile, China narrowly misplaced 7-6 to Italy in a males’s curling round-robin match.