On March 10, the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games feature 12 medal sets in Para alpine combined and cross-country sprint events. Athletes from Italy, Austria, Germany, and debutants like El Salvador compete for golds in skiing disciplines. Wheelchair curling semifinals and Para ice hockey matches round out the day's action.
The fourth day of the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games, held on March 10, brings a packed schedule at venues including the Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre and Tesero Skiing Stadium. Para alpine skiing advances to combined events, blending super-G and slalom runs, with medals in vision impaired, standing, and sitting categories for men and women starting at 09:00 CET for super-G and 13:00 CET for slalom.
In Para cross-country skiing, the sprint classic marks the discipline's debut, awarding six golds in sitting (1km track), standing, and vision impaired (1.5km) categories for men and women, with finals from 13:22 CET. Italian Giuseppe Romele, who won six World Cup sitting races this winter and competed in triathlon at Paris 2024, eyes a home medal after his Beijing 2022 middle-distance bronze. Germany's Linn Kazmaier, with a gold, silver, and bronze from Beijing 2022 cross-country vision impaired, returns stronger: "I can ski faster now than four years ago... now I’m much more mature."
Austrian siblings Johannes and Veronika Aigner pursue more alpine success in vision impaired combined. Johannes has two golds already, while Veronika, with a gold and silver, adapts to new guide Lilly Sammer after her sister Elisabeth's injury: "When the guide is a sibling... We're always singing in the room, dancing in the room. It's good."
Highlights include USA's Oksana Masters seeking to build on her biathlon gold in sitting sprints, Sweden's Zebastian Modin targeting vision impaired gold post-Brian McKeever's retirement, and Norway's Vilde Nilsen as standing favorite. El Salvador's David Chavez and Jonathan Arias make history as their nation's first Winter Paralympians, training on sand before limited snow practice.
Wheelchair curling mixed doubles semifinals pit China against Latvia and Republic of Korea's Hyejin Baek and Yongsuk Lee against USA at 14:35 CET, with Baek emphasizing teamwork after a 10-0 win over Estonia. In mixed teams, undefeated China faces Canada. Para ice hockey prelims see semifinalists USA versus improved China and Canada versus Czechia, per USA's Jack Wallace: "[China are] definitely a better team... we’ve got to come ready to go."
Kazakhstan fields athletes like Anna Grachova in women's vision impaired and Yerbol Khamitov in men's sitting.
