The USA's Evan Strong is the No. 1-ranked snowboarder in the world heading into the 2013-14 season, which will culminate with the discipline's Paralympic Games debut at Sochi 2014. © • Getty Images Find out top athletes to follow on the road to Sochi 2014 and the storylines behind their achievements.
With exactly 150 days to go until the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has unveiled the athletes who will be a part of its Ones to Watch campaign in the lead-up to and during the Games.
The Sochi 2014 Ones to Watch campaign will ultimately include 40 athletes, with the final selections coming following this month’s IPC Ice Sledge Hockey Qualification Tournament in Torino, Italy.
The IPC’s Ones to Watch initiative will showcase the top winter athletes around the world, with all of the selections having won medals on the international stage, in addition to strong appearances in the media.
Leading names in the campaign include Russian ice sledge hockey player Dmitry Lisov, French alpine skier Marie Bochet, American snowboarder Evan Strong, Ukrainian Nordic skier Olena Iurkovska and Canadian wheelchair curler Sonja Gaudet.
Bochet won five world titles last season on the slopes, Strong is ranked world No. 1 in his snowboard discipline and Iurkovska is a five-time Paralympic champion on the trails.
Meanwhile, Lisov helped Russia’s ice sledge hockey team qualify for their first Paralympic Winter Games and Gaudet is hoping to lead Canada to their third-straight wheelchair curling Paralympic title in Sochi.
For the complete list of Sochi 2014 Ones to Watch athletes, please click here.
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