Npc: | GEO |
Npcname: | Georgian Paralympic Committee |
Games: | Winter Paralympics |
Year: | 2018 |
Flagcaption: | Flag of Georgia |
Location: | Pyeongchang |
Competitors: | 2 |
Sports: | 1 |
Flagbearer: | Temuri Dadiani |
Gold: | 0 |
Silver: | 0 |
Bronze: | 0 |
Appearances: | auto |
App Begin Year: | 2018 |
See also: | (1988) |
Georgia sent competitors to the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The team has two people who are competing in para-Nordic skiing. One is a man and one is a woman.
Georgia leaves to go to Pyeongchang on March 6. Georgia, North Korea and Tajikistan are the three countries making their first appearance Winter Paralympics.[1] [2]
The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Georgia") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.
Temuri Dadiani | para-Nordic skiing | male | [3] | |||
Nino Sabashvili | para-Nordic skiing | female | LW12 | [4] |
Temuri Dadiani competes in three sports: cycling, wheelchair fencing and para-Nordic skiing. He competed in cycling at the 2017 Invictus Games. He has a Guinness World Record. It is for doing 44 push-ups in one minute.[5] Dadiani was in the military. While an officer in Afghanistan in August 2011, he was hit by a landmine. Doctors amputated both his legs.
Nino Sabashvili had a goal of winning a Paralympic medal. Her first sport is para-armwrestling. The sport is not on the program for the Summer or Winter Paralympic Games. She started para-Nordic skiing so she could compete in a sport that is on the program. She is very good at para-armwrestling. At the 2016 World Para Armwrestling Championships in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, she won two silver medals.