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Earlier, Russian paralympic athlete Mikhalina Lysova won biathlon gold in a 6km race for visually impaired female Paralympians.
The best Winter Paralympic result for Iran has been achieved by the former skier Sadegh Kalhor, who in 2014 Sochi Paralympic Games finished the men's slalom in 20th place and is leading this year's team in South Korea.
This year, Paralympic athletes from Russian Federation have to compete under the name "Neutral Paralympic Athletes" (NPA). There are 20 athletes in Ukraine's team this year, who are competing in biathlon, cross-country skiing and snowboarding.
In the men's 7.5km sitting biathlon another American came out on top, with Daniel Cnossen winning gold.
Laurie Stephens captured the bronze win women's sitting downhill skiing. France won a gold medal in the men's 7.5km standing, while Ukraine dominated the vision impaired biathlon event with a gold and a bronze in the men's 7.5km.
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Also like Saturday, fellow American Oksana Masters took the bronze.
Sergey Usoltzev, Kairat Kanafin, Aleksandr Gerlitz, Aleksandr Kolyadin and Denis Petrenko will all represent Kazakhstan and vie for medals in Biathlon and Cross-Country Skiing events.
The five athletes from Iran are hopefuls to break that country's medal drought in the XXIII Olympic Winter Games and bring home a medal from PyeongChang. It follows the doping scandal that broke out in 2016, when Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren claimed in his report that a total of 35 Russian Paralympic drug tests had "disappeared" over a four-year period.
Simon Patmore has won gold for Australia.
Switzerland's Theo Gmur took his first Paralympic gold in the men's standing skiing, and USA skier Andrew Kurka, the reigning downhill world champion, won the race in the men's sitting category. Hosts South Korea entertained the crowd in ice sledge hockey group match with a 4-1 victory over Japan.
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