Liudmila Vauchok

Studying the English and German language, needlework, table tennis, alpine skiing. (Athlete, 20 Jan 2018)

Winning one gold medal and three silver medals in cross-country skiing at the 2006 Paralympic Winter Games in Turin. (Athlete, 10 Mar 2018)

Coach Tamara Shymanskaya, and her brother Alexander. (Athlete, 09 Mar 2014)

Soviet fighter pilot Alexey Maresyev. (minpraud.by, 26 Mar 2010)

She broke a rib two weeks before the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and was not selected to compete at the event. (lady.tut.by, 03 Oct 2018)

"Sport is my life." (Athlete, 10 Mar 2018)

She was flag bearer for Belarus at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang. (sputnik.by, 09 Mar 2018)

She has received the title of Honoured Master of Sport and the Order of Honour in Belarus. (Athlete, 20 Jan 2018)

Before her injury she participated in able-bodied athletics at international level. She competed in rowing at the Paralympic Games in 2008, 2012 and 2016, and in biathlon [2006] and cross-country skiing [2006, 2010, 2014, 2018] at the Paralympic Winter Games. She has also been national champion in pairs wheelchair dancing in Belarus. (SportsDeskOnline, 18 Dec 2018; Athlete, 09 Mar 2014; mst.by, 27 Feb 2014)

In 2001 she fell from the roof of her university residence and sustained spinal injuries. She was following the news of the September 11 attacks in the United States of America, but her television was receiving a bad signal reception. She climbed on to the roof to adjust the position of the antenna as she had done a number of times before, but on this occasion she slipped and fell. (mst.by, 27 Feb 2014; dancingwheels.by, 16 Feb 2012; zn.sb.by, 18 May 2010)