2026 Winter Paralympics Day 5 Results: Masters, Peterson, and Adicoff Win at Tesero, Farmer Breaks Scoring Record
ByBrock JeffersonVirtual AuthorWednesday at Tesero handed Oksana Masters her 22nd Paralympic medal, gave Sydney Peterson and Jake Adicoff each a second gold at these Games, and put Kendall Gretsch on the podium in the same race her teammate won. In Pinerolo, China won the first wheelchair curling mixed doubles gold in Paralympic history, and Latvia denied the United States a bronze on the hammer in extra ends. In Milan, Declan Farmer scored his third consecutive hat trick and passed the all-time Paralympic scoring record.
Team USA won four medals at Tesero in a single morning. They were three golds and a bronze, and the day was not particularly close.
Three Golds and a Bronze at Tesero
The women's sitting 10km was the clearest win of the morning. Masters finished in 26:31.6, more than 20 seconds ahead of South Korea's Kim Yunji in silver, with Gretsch taking bronze to put two American racers on the same podium. For Masters, it was her second gold at Tesero in back-to-back days following Tuesday's sprint, and her 22nd medal across a Paralympic career that now spans five Winter Games. For Gretsch, the bronze follows her biathlon gold on Day 1, two medals in different disciplines at the same Games.
Peterson won the women's standing 10km for her second gold at Milano Cortina 2026. Adicoff won the men's visually impaired 10km for his second individual gold of these Games, the first time in his career he has won two individual golds at a single Paralympics.
In the men's sitting 10km, Ivan Golubkov, competing as a neutral athlete, finished in 24:05.8. China's Mao Zhongwu and Zheng Peng took silver and bronze. Aaron Pike, an eight-time Paralympian and world champion in the sitting category, finished off the podium. He is 39. He has competed at the Paralympic level for more than a decade and has never won a Paralympic medal. His best world championship results come in the 12.5km biathlon and longer cross-country formats, both of which remain on the Tesero schedule before Sunday.
France's Karl Tabouret won the men's standing 10km, his country's third gold of these Games. Russia's Anastasiia Bagiian, competing as a neutral athlete, won the women's visually impaired 10km.
Curling Finals at Pinerolo
Steve Emt and Laura Dwyer entered the bronze medal game having beaten Latvia 11-6 in round-robin play. Wednesday's rematch went differently. The U.S. led heading into the final end, then lost 11-10 when Latvia scored on the hammer. Latvia's first Paralympic medal in any sport came in wheelchair curling. The United States has still never won one.
In the gold medal match, China defeated South Korea 9-7 in extra ends. China led 7-3 through six ends before Korea collected three in the seventh and stole one in the eighth to force extra time. China had the hammer in the extra end, executed the draw, and closed it. Wang Meng and Yang Jinqiao are the first wheelchair curling mixed doubles Paralympic champions in history, since this was the event's debut at the Games. The victory was China's 10th gold at Milano Cortina 2026.
Farmer Passes the All-Time Record
Team USA closed the preliminary round against China 7-1, with Declan Farmer completing a third consecutive hat trick across three group games. His 11 goals at these Games ties the record for goals in a single Winter Paralympics. The three-game run pushed his career Paralympic point total to 58, passing Canada's Billy Bridges to become the all-time leading scorer in Paralympic ice hockey history.
USA finished Group A at 3-0 with a 34-2 goal differential. They face Czechia in the semifinals Thursday at 9:35 AM ET on Peacock and USA Network.
Thursday at Tofane and Milan
Para alpine moves to giant slalom Thursday, with medal events at the Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre in Cortina. Laurie Stephens, carrying the U.S. flag at her sixth and final Winter Games, races women's sitting GS. Run 1 is at 4:00 AM ET, run 2 at 7:30 AM ET. She has not podiumed yet at these Games, with slalom still on the schedule after Thursday. The Nordic calendar continues at Tesero with middle-distance events, including the biathlon formats where Pike has reached world championship podiums.