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A woman in the wheelchair at the biathlon track

Andrea Eskau

Nordic Skiing | Cycling
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Andrea Eskau has an incredible track record across summer and winter sports. She is part of a select group of athletes who have won both Summer and Winter Paralympic titles.

On the snow, she recently won two golds, three silvers and one bronze across biathlon and cross-country events at the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games.

Two years before, the German had won gold in the women’s road race H5 at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Even though Eskau is facing a charge from up-and-coming skiers and cyclists, she still manages to continue adding medals to her trophy cabinet.

At the 2017 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships, she also landed on the podium multiple times, but it was Oksana Masters who stole the show with her first world titles.

After a cycling accident in 1998 that resulted in spinal injuries, Eskau became involved in Para sports as part of her rehabilitation. She began with wheelchair basketball, started competing in cross-country and biathlon in 2009, and also began wheelchair and handcycle racing.

As well as working as a psychologist, she has also served as the director of the Department of Sports for the Impaired at the Federal Institute of Sport Science in Cologne, Germany.

Results

Unit Date Rank
Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games (Vancouver, Canada)
Event Medal Unit Date Rank
Women's 10 km Individual Sitting Final Round 3
Women's 10 km Sitting Final Round 8
Women's 5 km Sitting Final Round 2
Women's 1 km Sprint Sitting Semifinal 6
Women's 2.4 km Pursuit Sitting Final Round 6
Women's 2.4 km Pursuit Sitting Qualification 6
Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games (Beijing, China)
Event Medal Unit Date Rank
Women's Road Individual Time Trial HC A-C Final Round 5
Women's Road Individual Road Race HC A-C Final Round 1
London 2012 Paralympic Games (London, Great Britain)
Event Medal Unit Date Rank
Women's Time Trial H4 Final Round 2012-09-05 1
Women's Road Race H4 Final Round 2012-09-07 1
IPC Nordic Skiing World Championships Solleftea (Solleftea, Sweden)
Event Medal Unit Date Rank
Women's Sprint - Classic Sitting Final 2013-02-25 9
Women's Long Distance - Classic Sitting Final 2013-02-26 1
Women's Short Distance Sitting Final 2013-02-28 9999
Women's Middle Distance Sitting Final 2013-03-01 4
Women's Long Distance Sitting Final 2013-03-03 1
Women's Middle Distance - Classic Sitting Final 2013-03-05 1
Paralympic Winter Games 2014 (Sochi, Russia)
Event Medal Unit Date Rank
Women's 6 km Sitting Final Round 2014-03-08 1
Women's 12 km Sitting Final Round 2014-03-09 9999
Women's 10 km Sitting Final Round 2014-03-11 9999
Women's 1 km Sprint Sitting Final Round 2014-03-12 6
Women's 12.5 km Sitting Final Round 2014-03-14 7
4x2.5 km Mixed Relay Final Round 2014-03-15 5
Women's 5 km Sitting Final Round 2014-03-16 1
2015 IPC Nordic Skiing World Championships Cable (Cable, United States of America)
Event Medal Unit Date Rank
Women's Short Distance Sitting Race 1 2015-01-24 3
Women's Long Distance - Free Style Sitting Race 1 2015-01-25 1
Women's Middle Distance Sitting Race 1 2015-01-27 6
Women's Sprint - Classic Sitting Race 1 2015-01-28 1
Women's Middle Distance - Classic Sitting Race 1 2015-01-31 1
Mixed Relay Final 2015-02-01 5
Rio 2016 Paralympic Games (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Event Medal Unit Date Rank
Women's Time Trial H4-5 Final Round 2016-09-14 2
Women's Road Race H5 Final Round 2016-09-15 1
2017 IPC Nordic skiing World Championships Finsterau, GER (Finsterau, Germany)
Event Medal Unit Date Rank
Women's Middle Distance Sitting Final 2017-02-11 3
Women's Sprint - Free Style Sitting Final 2017-02-12 2
Women's Long Distance Sitting Final 2017-02-14 4
Mixed Relay Final 2017-02-15 4
Women's Long Distance - Classic Sitting Final 2017-02-16 3
Women's Sprint Sitting Final 2017-02-18 4
Women's Middle Distance - Free Style Sitting Final 2017-02-19 2
Pyeongchang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games (Pyeongchang, South Korea)
Event Medal Unit Date Rank
Women's 6km Sitting Final 2018-03-10 6
Women's 12km Sitting Final 2018-03-11 2
Women's 10km Sitting Final 2018-03-13 1
Women's 1.1km Sprint Sitting Final 2018-03-14 2
Women's 12.5km Sitting Final 2018-03-16 1
Women's 5km Sitting Final 2018-03-17 2
4x2.5km Mixed Relay Final 2018-03-18 3
Prince George 2019 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships (Prince George, Canada)
Event Medal Unit Date Rank
Women's Middle Distance Sitting Final 2019-02-16 3
Women's Middle Distance - Free Style Sitting Final 2019-02-17 4
Women's Sprint - Free Style Sitting Final 2019-02-18 2
Women's Sprint Sitting Final 2019-02-20 3
Women's Long Distance Sitting Final 2019-02-21 3
Mixed Relay Final 2019-02-23 3
Women's Long Distance - Classic Sitting Final 2019-02-24 4
Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games (Tokyo, Japan)
Event Medal Unit Date Rank
Women's Time Trial H4-5 Final Round 2021-08-31 5
Women's Road Race H5 Final Round 2021-09-01 4