Jake Adicoff

Paralympic Experience

• 3-time Paralympian; 4-time Paralympic medalist (1 gold, 3 silver)
• Paralympic Games Beijing 2022, gold (4 x 2.5km Relay Mixed - Mixed), silver (1km Sprint Freestyle - Visually Impaired - Men, 20km Classic Style - Visually Impaired - Men), 6th (12.5km Freestyle - Visually Impaired - Men)
• Paralympic Games Pyeongchang 2018, silver (10km Classic Style - Visually Impaired - Men), 4th (1km Sprint Classic Style - Visually Impaired - Men), 5th (20km Freestyle - Visually Impaired - Men), 7th (4 x 2.5km Relay Mixed - Mixed)
• Paralympic Games Sochi 2014, 6th (20km Classic Style - Visually Impaired - Men, 4 x 2.5km Relay Mixed - Mixed), 7th (10km Freestyle - Visually Impaired - Men), 8th (1km Sprint Freestyle - Visually Impaired - Men), 14th (7.5km Sprint - Visually Impaired - Men)

World Championships Experience

• Most recent: 2023 – gold (1km Sprint Freestyle - Visually Impaired - Men, 4 x 2.5km Relay Mixed - Mixed), silver (10km Freestyle - Visually Impaired - Men, 18km Classic Style - Visually Impaired - Men)
• Years of participation: 10km Freestyle - Visually Impaired - Men 2023; 18km Classic Style - Visually Impaired - Men 2023; 1km Sprint Freestyle - Visually Impaired - Men 2023; 4 x 2.5km Relay Mixed - Mixed 2023; 2022; 1km Sprint Classic Style - Visually Impaired - Men 2022; 20km Freestyle - Visually Impaired - Men 2022; 4 x 2.5km Relay Open - Open 2022
• Medals: 7 (3 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze)
• Gold – 2023 (1km Sprint Freestyle - Visually Impaired - Men, 4 x 2.5km Relay Mixed - Mixed); 2022 ()
• Silver – 2023 (10km Freestyle - Visually Impaired - Men, 18km Classic Style - Visually Impaired - Men); 2022 (1km Sprint Classic Style - Visually Impaired - Men)
• Bronze – 2022 (20km Freestyle - Visually Impaired - Men)

Personal

Adicoff has been a cross-country skier since he was in the second grade...He was initially introduced to the sport in 2002 through the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation’s Junior Nordic Development team...Adicoff, who is legally blind after incurring chicken pox in utero, has experience in both alpine and Nordic skiing...Adicoff has spent most of his competitive career racing in an able-bodied field, having competed in two junior national championships in 2011 and 2013. It wasn’t until the made the 2013-14 U.S. Paralympics Nordic Skiing National Team that he fully shifted his focus to Sochi and the Paralympic Winter Games...He is a recipient of the 2011 U.S. Ski and Snowboard Dave Quinn Award, which honors athletes who exemplify the ideals of cross-country skiing, including a love of the sport, a strong work ethic, and overcoming hardship...Son of Sam Adicoff and Sue Conner...Has one brother, Willie...Hobbies include hiking, pottery and thrift store shopping.