Following the Opening Ceremony at the Arena di Verona, the sporting action begins with events in Para alpine skiing, Para biathlon, Para snowboard and Para ice hockey, alongside new sessions of wheelchair curling.

Para alpine skiing opens the day

The day of competition begins at 09:30 CET with Para alpine skiing, featuring the downhill events across all women’s and men’s categories: vision impaired, standing and sitting.

Wheelchair curling: mixed team tournament begins

At 09:35 CET, the first matches of the wheelchair curling mixed team round robin get underway, with four games played simultaneously:

Great Britain – Slovakia
Republic of Korea – Latvia
United States – People’s Republic of China
Norway – Sweden

Para biathlon: sprint races on the schedule

Later in the morning, Para biathlon takes centre stage with a series of sprint races scheduled between late morning and early afternoon:

10:00 CET — Women’s sitting sprint
10:35 CET — Men’s sitting sprint
12:00 CET — Women’s standing sprint
12:40 CET — Men’s standing sprint
13:15 CET — Women’s vision impaired sprint
13:50 CET — Men’s vision impaired sprint

Para snowboard: snowboard cross seeding runs

From 11:00 CET, attention turns to Para snowboard, with snowboard cross seeding runs for several sport classes: women SB-LL2 and men SB-UL, SB-LL1 and SB-LL2.

Para ice hockey: three preliminary round matches

The Para ice hockey tournament opens with three preliminary round matches:

10:05 CET — Czechia vs Japan (Group B)
13:35 CET — People’s Republic of China vs Germany (Group A)
17:05 CET — United States vs Italy (Group A)

Wheelchair curling mixed doubles continues

In the afternoon, teams return to the ice for Session 5 of the wheelchair curling mixed doubles round robin at 14:35 CET, featuring the following matches:

Republic of Korea vs United States
People’s Republic of China vs Estonia
Italy vs Latvia
Japan vs Great Britain

Evening programme

In the evening, action returns to the wheelchair curling mixed team tournament, with Session 2 of the round robin at 18:35 CET.

The day will conclude with Para ice hockey, as Canada face Slovakia in Group B at 20:35 CET.