Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Paralympics

Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Paralympics consisted of 32 events, 20 for men and 12 for women.

Paralympic symbol
(1996-2004)

Medal table

Rank	Nation				Total
1	Norway (NOR)	9	1	5	15
2	Russia (RUS)	7	8	3	18
3	Germany (GER)	6	1	8	15
4	Finland (FIN)	4	1	3	8
5	Canada (CAN)	2	1	0	3
5	Italy (ITA)	2	0	0	2
7	Belarus (BLR)	1	1	0	2
8	Poland (POL)	1	0	1	2
9	Ukraine (UKR)	0	5	5	10
10	United States (USA)	0	5	0	5
11	France (FRA)	0	3	2	5
12	Netherlands (NED)	0	3	0	3
13	Austria (AUT)	0	1	1	2
13	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	1	2
14	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	0	1
15	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	2	2
16	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
Total		32	32	32	96

Medal summary

The competition events were:

2.5 km: - women
5 km: men - women
10 km: men - women
15 km: men - women
20 km: men
1x2.5/2x5 km relay: men - women
3x25 km relay: - women

Each event had separate standing, sitting, or visually impaired classifications:

LW2 - standing: single leg amputation above the knee
LW3 - standing: double leg amputation below the knee, mild cerebral palsy, or equivalent impairment
LW4 - standing: single leg amputation below the knee
LW5/7 - standing: double arm amputation
LW6/8 - standing: single arm amputation
LW9 - standing: amputation or equivalent impairment of one arm and one leg
LW 10 - sitting: paraplegia with no or some upper abdominal function and no functional sitting balance
LW 11 - sitting: paraplegia with fair functional sitting balance
LW 12 - sitting: double leg amputation above the knees, or paraplegia with some leg function and good sitting balance
B1 - visually impaired: no functional vision
B2 - visually impaired: up to ca 3-5% functional vision
B3 - visually impaired: under 10% functional vision

Men's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km classical technique	B1	Helge Flo guide: Paal Sneve Norway	Oleh Munts guide: Volodymyr Storozhok Ukraine	Valeri Kouptchinski guide: Russia
	B2	Frank Hoefle guide: Ulrich Zipfel Germany	Nikolai Ilioutchenko guide: Andrey Gladshev Russia	Emil Östberg guide: Peter Rune Sweden
	B3	Brian McKeever guide: Robin McKeever Canada	Irek Mannanov guide: Salavat Gumerov Russia	Vitaliy Lukyanenko guide: Volodymyr Ivanov Ukraine
	LW2-4	Kjartan Haugen Norway	Steven Cook United States	Roland Gaess Germany
	LW5-9	Andreas Hustveit Norway	Axel Hecker Germany	Yoshihiro Nitta Japan
5 km sitski	LW10	Sergej Shilov Russia	Mikhail Terentiev Russia	Klaus Kleiser Germany
	LW11	Roland Ruepp Italy	Oliver Anthofer Austria	Alain Marguerettaz France
	LW12	Taras Kryjanovski Russia	Vladimir Gajdiciar Slovakia	Wieslaw Fiedor Poland
10 km free technique	B1	Valeri Kouptchinski guide: Viatcheslav Doubov Russia	Oleh Munts guide: Volodymyr Storozhok Ukraine	Wilhelm Brem guide: Olaf Gruhn Germany
	B2	Frank Hoefle guide: Ulrich Zipfel Germany	Emil Östberg guide: Peter Rune Sweden	Nikolai Ilioutchenko guide: Andrey Gladyshev Russia
	B3	Brian McKeever guide: Robin McKeever Canada	Irek Mannanov guide: Salavat Gumerov Russia	Alexander Schwarz guide: Ralf Rombach Germany
	LW2-4	Nils Erik Ulset Norway	Steven Cook United States	Harald Thauer Germany
	LW5-9	Axel Hecker Germany	Andreas Hustveit Norway	Josef Giesen Germany
10 km sitski	LW10	Mikhail Terentiev Russia	Sergej Shilov Russia	Hanspeter Weber Switzerland
	LW11	Roland Ruepp Italy	Alain Marguerettaz France	Ruedi Weber Switzerland
	LW12	Wieslaw Fiedor Poland	Robert Balk United States	Mykola Ovcharenko Ukraine
15 km sitski	LW10-12	Sergej Shilov Russia	Mikhail Terentiev Russia	Oliver Anthofer Austria
20 km free technique	standing	Nils Erik Ulset Norway	Steven Cook United States	Josef Giesen Germany
20 km free technique	visually impaired	Valeri Kouptchinski guide: Viatcheslav Doubov Russia	Brian McKeever guide: Robin McKeever Canada	Frank Hoefle guide: Ulrich Zipfel Germany
1x2.5/2x5 km relay	open	Russia (RUS) Irek Mannanov guide: Roman Ivanov Nikolai Ilioutchenko guide: Andrey Gladysev Sergej Shilov	United States (USA) Robert Balk Steven Cook William Stewart	Norway (NOR) Kjartan Haugen Karl Einar Henriksen Andreas Hustveit

Women's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2.5 km sitski		Ragnhild Myklebust Norway	Svitlana Tryfonova Ukraine	Olena Iurkovska Ukraine
5 km classical technique	B1	Verena Bentele guide: Ralph Schmidt Germany	Fabienne Kaci guide: Gerard Blanc France	Merja Hannele Hanski guide: Kirsi Vaisanen Finland
	B2-3	Yadviha Skorabahataya guide: Vasili Haurukovich Belarus	Jaana Argillander guide: Arto Kaukonen Finland	Tone Gravvold guide: Kristian Soerensen Norway
	standing	Tanja Kari Finland	Majorie van de Bunt Netherlands	Siw Vestengen Norway
5 km sitski		Ragnhild Myklebust Norway	Svitlana Tryfonova Ukraine	Olena Iurkovska Ukraine
10 km free technique	B1-2	Verena Bentele guide: Ralph Schmidt Germany	Emilie Tabouret guide: Lionel Bayon France	Fabienne Kaci guide: Gerard Blanc France
	B3	Jaana Argillander guide: Arto Kaukonen Finland	Yadviha Skarabahataya guide: Vasili Haurukovich Belarus	Tatiana Ilioutchenko guide: Roman Ivanov Russia
	standing	Tanja Kari Finland	Majorie van de Bunt Netherlands	Siw Vestengen Norway
10 km sitski		Ragnhild Myklebust Norway	Svitlana Tryfonova Ukraine	Olena Iurkovska Ukraine
15 km free technique	standing	Tanja Kari Finland	Majorie van de Bunt Netherlands	Siw Vestengen Norway
15 km free technique	visually impaired	Verena Bentele guide: Ralph Schmidt Germany	Tatiana Ilioutchenko guide: Andrey Gladyshev Russia	Jaana Argillander guide: Arto Kaukonen Finland
3x2.5 km relay	open	Norway (NOR) Tone Gravvold guide: Kristian Soersensen Ragnhild Myklebust Siw Vestengen	Russia (RUS) Elvira Ibraginova guide: Salavat Gumerov Tatiana Ilioutchenko guide: Andrey Gladyshev Irina Polyakova	Finland (FIN) Jaana Argillander guide: Arto Kaukonen Merja Hannele Hanski guide: Kirsi Vaisanen Tanja Kari

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References

Medal Standings - Salt Lake City 2002 Paralympic Winter Games - Cross Country Skiing, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)

"IPC Historical Results Database". International Paralympic Committee. 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-20.

"Salt Lake City 2002". paralympia.de. 2010. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-11-20.
Historical Medallists : Vancouver 2010 Winter Paralympics, Official website of the 2010 Winter Paralympics
Winter Sport Classification, Canadian Paralympic Committee
Paralympics - Cross country: Men's relay results, Deseret News, March 14, 2002
Paralympics - Cross country: Short distance results, Deseret News, March 11, 2002
Paralympics - Cross country - Middle-distance events, Deseret News, March 13, 2002
Paralympic cross country times - Saturday's long-distance events at Soldier Hollow, Deseret News, March 13, 2002

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[1] Medal Standings - Salt Lake City 2002 Paralympic Winter Games - Cross Country Skiing, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)