"VAN" (Sports Desk - 06.03.2026) :: The flagbearers for all 56 competing National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) at the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games have been confirmed. The full list of flagbearers can be found here in the marching order which is according to Italian alphabetical order. Please note that although each NPC has announced flagbearers, it was agreed with competing NPCs in August 2025 that volunteers will carry each nation’s flag during the Opening Ceremony in Verona as not all flagbearers are able to attend. All NPC flagbearers will feature in short films which will be played out during the Athlete Parade of the Opening Ceremony. The IPC will also publish a list of the athletes marching in the Opening Ceremony. List of flagbearers for the NPCs (listed in marching order according to Italian alphabetical order): 1. ANDORRA • Roger Puig Davi (Para alpine skiing) 2. ARGENTINA • Enrique Plantey (Para alpine skiing) 3. ARMENIA • Garik Melkonyan (Para cross-country skiing) 4. AUSTRALIA • Georgia Gunew (Para alpine skiing) • Ben Tudhope (Para alpine snowboard) 5. AUSTRIA • Veronika Aigner (Para alpine skiing) • Markus Salcher (Para alpine skiing) 6. BELGIUM • Maximilien Seeger (Para alpine skiing) 7. BELARUS • Lidziya Loban (Para cross-country skiing) 8. BOSNIA AND HERZIGOVINA • Ilma Kazazić (Para alpine skiing) 9. BRAZIL • Aline dos Santos Rocha (Para biathlon, Para cross-country skiing) • Cristian Westemaier Ribera (Para cross-country skiing) 10. BULGARIA • Stela Yanchovichina (Para alpine skiing) 11. CANADA • Natalie Wilkie (Para biathlon, Para cross-country skiing) • Tyler McGregor (Para ice hockey) 12. CZECHIA • Decided not to announce flagbearers. 13. CHILE • Nicolas Bisquertt (Para alpine skiing) 14. CHINA • Sitong Liu (Para alpine skiing) • Lijia Ji (Para snowboard) 15. REPUBLIC OF KOREA • Yunji Kim (Para biathlon, Para cross-country skiing) • Yongsuk Lee (Wheelchair curling) 16. CROATIA • Lucija Smetisko (Para alpine skiing) • Dino Sokolovic (Para alpine skiing) 17. DENMARK • Adam Nybo (Para alpine skiing) 18. EL SALVADOR • David Chavez (Para cross-country skiing) 19. ESTONIA • Decided not to announce flagbearers. 20. FINLAND • Nette Kiviranta (Para alpine skiing) • Matti Sairanen (Para snowboard) 21. GEORGIA • Termuri Dadiani (Para cross-country skiing) 22. GERMANY • Anna-Lena Forster (Para alpine skiing) • Jörg Wedde (Para ice hockey) 23. JAPAN • Aki Ogawa (Wheelchair curling) • Junta Kosuda (Para snowboard) 24. GREAT BRITAIN • Menna Fitzpatrick (Para alpine skiing) • Scott Meenagh (Para biathlon, Para cross-country skiing) 25. GREECE • Evangelia Nikou (Para alpine skiing) • Konstantinos Petrakis (Para snowboard) 26. HAITI • Ralph Etienne (Para alpine skiing) 27. ICELAND • Arna Albertsdottir (Para cross-country skiing) 28. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN •Aboulfazl Khatibi Mianaei (Para cross-country skiing) 29. ISRAEL • Sheyne Vaspi (Para alpine skiing) 30. KAZAKHSTAN • Nurlan Alimov (Para cross-country skiing) 31. LATVIA • Decided not to have flag bearers 32. LIECHTENSTEIN • Sarah Hundert (Para alpine skiing) 33. LITHUANIA • Decided not to announce flagbearers. 34. NORTH MACEDONIA • Zoran Jovanovski (Para alpine skiing) 35. MEXICO • Arly Aristides Velasquez Peñaloza (Para alpine skiing) 36. MONGOLIA • Dashdorj Tsegmid (Para cross-country skiing) 37. MONTENEGRO • Andrej Sibalic (Para snowboard) 38. NORWAY • Vilde Nilsen (Para cross-country skiing) • Jesper Saltvik Pedersen (Para alpine skiing) 39. NEW ZEALAND • Adam Hall (Para alpine skiing) 40. NETHERLANDS • Claire Petit (Para alpine skiing) • Jeroen Kampschreur (Para alpine skiing) 41. POLAND • Aneta Kobryn (Para cross-country skiing) • Michal Golas (Para alpine skiing) 42. PUERTO RICO • Orlando Pérez (Para alpine skiing) 43. PORTUGAL • Diogo Carmona (Para snowboard) 44. ROMANIA • Mihaita Papara (Para snowboard) 45. RUSSIA • Anastasiia Bagiian (Para cross-country skiing) • Alexey Bugaev (Para alpine skiing) 46. SERBIA • Luka Bilcar (Para alpine skiing) 47. SLOVAKIA • Miroslav Haraus (Para alpine skiing) 48. SLOVENIA • Tabea Dolžan (Para cross-country skiing) 49. SPAIN • Audrey Pascual (Para alpine skiing) 50. SWEDEN • Ebba Aarsjoe (Para alpine skiing) • Zebastian Modin (Para biathlon, Para cross-country skiing) 51. SWITZERLAND • Theo Gmür (Para alpine skiing) 52. UKRAINE • Liudmyla Liashenko (Para biathlon, Para cross-country skiing) • Pavlo Bal (Para biathlon, Para cross-country skiing) 53. UZBEKISTAN • Yulduz Makhmudova (Para alpine skiing) • Firdavs Khudoyatov (Para alpine skiing) 54. USA • Laurie Stephens (Para alpine skiing) • Josh Paul (Para ice hockey) 55. FRANCE • Cécile Hernandez (Para snowboard) • Jordan Broisin (Para alpine skiing) 56. ITALY • Chiara Mazzel (Para alpine skiing) • Rene De Silvestro (Para alpine skiing)
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