For his entire Paralympic career, four Games and a relay gold plus three individual silvers, Jake Adicoff had been precise about what was missing.

"I still don't have individual gold medals," he said before coming to Milan. "That's what I want."

On Tuesday at the Tesero Cross-Country Skiing Stadium in Val di Fiemme, he had it.

Adicoff and Wolter Win the VI Sprint

Adicoff won the men's visually impaired sprint classic alongside his guide Peter Wolter in para cross-country skiing's first events of these Games. The sport had not run yet at Milano Cortina 2026. Tuesday opened the entire cross-country program, with sprint-format heats and finals and every medal decided before afternoon.

In visually impaired events, athletes ski with a sighted guide who communicates through earpiece and voice, matching every turn and stride throughout the race. Wolter, a two-time NCAA All-American from Middlebury College, has guided Adicoff through sprint formats before. The partnership is built for exactly this kind of compressed, single-session bracket.

Adicoff made his Paralympic debut at Sochi 2014 at 18. He stepped away from competition and returned before Beijing 2022, where he won team relay gold as part of the U.S. mixed squad. Since then he has built one of the strongest records in visually impaired cross-country, taking four world titles including a sweep of the 10km and 20km VI events at the 2025 World Championships. The sprint is a distinct format from those distances. It demands short bursts of maximum speed rather than the sustained pace management that defines the longer courses he dominates on the World Cup circuit.

He won it.

The individual gold he named before the Games started is no longer missing from the record. He has five Paralympic medals now: two golds, three silvers, and the individual title distinguishes them.

Masters' Fourth Cross-Country Title

Oksana Masters won the women's sitting sprint classic with a 3-second lead over South Korea's Yunji Kim. China's Shiyu Wang finished third.

Masters was on the podium in biathlon at this same Tesero venue on Day 1, one of two Team USA athletes to medal in the morning's opening competition. Tuesday brought a different ask: no rifle, no range, no penalty loops. The cross-country sprint runs on a ski course only, and the sitting class results are determined entirely by who moves fastest over the snow. Masters covered it 3 seconds ahead of silver.

The win is her fourth Para cross-country gold across her career, extending a record that runs back four consecutive Games. She competes in both biathlon and cross-country here, two events that share a venue but pull on different skills. The biathlon rewards athletes who can manage their breathing and heart rate between sustained skiing and precision shooting under strain. The sprint strips that out and puts everything on the legs and the technique. Both have produced podium results for Masters at Tesero this week.

The two Team USA golds on Tuesday came from different career arcs. Adicoff won his first individual title after twelve years of Paralympic competition. Masters extended a multi-Games cross-country streak that already had three golds behind it. The same stadium, the same morning.

Para Alpine in Cortina, Curling in Pinerolo

The women's giant slalom ran at the Olympia delle Tofane course in Cortina d'Ampezzo, with visually impaired, standing, and sitting categories each completing two runs. Run 1 started at 4:00 AM ET; medals were decided in Run 2 beginning at 7:30 AM ET.

Steve Emt and Laura Dwyer, the first U.S. pair in Paralympic wheelchair curling mixed doubles, competed in the semifinals at Pinerolo as the bracket reaches its final rounds.

What's Next at Tesero

Adicoff holds world titles in the 10km classic and 20km freestyle, both still on the schedule at Tesero. Masters has individual cross-country distances and remaining biathlon events ahead. Tuesday was the first day of cross-country competition at these Games. The program runs through March 15, and both athletes have more races to go.