The competition was won by British athlete Amy Williams , who set Placing new course records Recording for the track on her first and third runs .

Williams , who had never before won a World Cup or World Championship event , became Becoming the first British athlete to win Getting a solo Winter Olympic gold medal in 30 years .

Training Education_teaching in the United States , Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên from Vietnam will potentially contest Competition to become the most bemedalled athlete with 12 events to be contested Competition .

On 18 March , Viviane Forest became Becoming the first Canadian athlete to win Getting a gold in both the Winter and Summer Paralympics Competition , by winning Getting the Women 's Downhill for Visually Impaired Influence .

The athlete 's oath was sworn Commitment by weightlifter Óscar Figueroa

The men 's race Competition was won by Kenyan athlete Dennis Kimetto in a world record time of 2:02:57 , breaking Destroying the previous record of Wilson Kipsang by 26 seconds .

Specifically , France , Belgium , Great Britain , Latvia , the Netherlands , and Poland `` already had a sports federation '' for the deaf , while Italy , Romania and Hungary each sent Sending one athlete despite having no such federation yet .

There were 147 male athletes , and only one female athlete : Hendrika Nicoline Van der Heyden , of the Netherlands .

The adjacent apartments were used Using as the athlete 's quarters and was converted Change into a `` BLISS '' housing Building project of First Lady Imelda Marcos .