Visually impaired skier wins 4th medal at Paralympics

Canadian skier Brian McKeever won his fourth medal of the Torino Paralympic Winter Games Sunday, finishing second in the 20-kilometre visually impaired cross-country race.

Oleh Munts of Ukraine won the gold medal, finishing with a time of 56 minutes 55.9 seconds at the 2006 Paralympics in Turin, Italy. He was 11 seconds faster than McKeever.

"That was as hard as I could have gone," said McKeever, of Canmore, Alta. "I didn't have another 11 seconds in me. It's still disappointing to come in second. That's racing."

McKeever, who has less than 10-per-cent vision because of a genetic eye disorder, said his brother Robin – who acts as his guide – was battling a cold.

Bulgarian Vasili Shaptsiaboi claimed the bronze medal.

Earlier in Turin, McKeever won both the five-km and 10-km visually impaired cross-country skiing races. He also won a bronze medal in the men's 7.5-km visually impaired biathlon.

Russians take gold, silver in men's standing 20-km race

Russians finished first and second in the men's standing 20-km race.

Kirill Mikhaylov and Alfis Makamedinov were the first two skiers across the line, just ahead of American Steven Cook.

Earlier in the Games, Mikhaylov won a bronze medal in the men's standing 10-km race. Makamedinov won two silvers, in the standing 12.5-km race and the standing 10-km race.

Poland's Rogowiec wins women's standing 15-km race

Poland's Katarzyna Rogowiec won the women's standing 15-km race, crossing the finish line just ahead of Russian Anna Burmistrova and Ukrainian Yuliya Batenkova, respectively.

Earlier in Turin, Rogowiec won Poland's only other medal – a gold in the women's standing five-km race.

Russian wins women's visually impaired 15-km race

Lioubov Vasilieva of Russia won the visually impaired 15-km race while Bulgarian Yadviha Skarabahatava finished second and another Russian, Tatiana Ilyuchenko, placed third.

The medal was Vasilieva's third of the games. She also won a gold medal in the visually impaired 10-km and claimed a bronze in the visually impaired five-km race.