WINTER SPORTS IN UKRAINE TOMACHINSKA VALERIYA WINTER

WINTER SPORTS IN UKRAINE TOMACHINSKA VALERIYA

WINTER SPORTS Skiing Skating Toboggan

Skiing sport: The snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a snowcovered slope while standing on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet.

The ski jumping is a very exciting sport. A long smooth hill is chosen. About one third of the distance down, a ramp two metres high called the hop is built and covered with snow.

The biathlon is a sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.

Snowkiting or Kite skiing is an outdoor winter sport where people use kite power to glide on snow or ice. The skier uses a kite to give them power over large jumps. The sport is similar to water-based kiteboarding, but with the footwear used in snowboarding or skiing.

Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates.

Hockey is played on a rink forty metres long by six players on each of two teams. It is very interesting, fast, and dynamic game. It is played with a puck and long straight sticks with an angle at the bottom. The team that scores the most goals wins.

Toboggan: Bobsled - sport in which teams of two or four teammates make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled

Ukraine medal of the Winter Olympic Games Athlete Sport Gold medals Year Oksana Baiul Figure skaiting 1 1994 Juliya Dzhyma biathlon 1 2014 Olena Pidhrushna biathlon 1 2014 Valentina Semerenko biathlon 1 2014 Vita Semerenko biathlon 1 2014