South Korea's Paralympic team has achieved its best-ever performance at a Winter Paralympic Games at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Paralympics.
On March 11 (local time), South Korea added silver medals in cross-country skiing and wheelchair curling, bringing its total medal count to five (one gold, three silver, one bronze). This surpasses the country's previous best performance at the 2018 PyeongChang Games, where the team won one gold and two bronze medals. South Korea currently ranks 15th in the overall standings, exceeding its target of finishing in the top 20.
Kim Yun-ji (BDH Paras), the star of South Korean para sports, delivered a standout performance. Kim clocked 26 minutes 51.6 seconds in the women's 10km interval start cross-country skiing event, finishing behind "legend" Oksana Masters of the United States to claim silver. With one gold and two silver medals at these Games, Kim has set a new record for the most medals won by a South Korean athlete at a single Winter Paralympics. The previous record was held by Shin Eui-hyun, who won one gold and one bronze at the 2018 PyeongChang Games.
Later in the afternoon, another medal came at the curling venue. In wheelchair curling mixed doubles, the South Korean pair of Baek Hye-jin and Lee Yong-seok (both from Gyeonggi-do Sports Association for the Disabled) lost a hard-fought final 7-9 in extra ends against China's Wang Meng and Yang Jinchao, earning the silver medal. This marks South Korea's first wheelchair curling medal at the Paralympics in 16 years, since winning silver in the mixed team event at the 2010 Vancouver Games.