Jake Adicoff
Sport: Para Nordic Skiing
Gold: 1 Silver: 3 Bronze: 0
Quick Facts
Birthday: May 16, 1995
Height: 5'9"
Age: 30
Hometown: Sun Valley, ID
Education: Bowdoin College
Biography
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: 2025 – gold (10km Classic Style - Visually Impaired - Men, 20km Freestyle - Visually Impaired - Men), silver (1km Sprint Classic Style - Visually Impaired - Men, 4 x 2.5km Relay Mixed - Mixed)
- Years of participation: 10km Classic Style - Visually Impaired - Men 2025; 1km Sprint Classic Style - Visually Impaired - Men 2022, 2025; 20km Freestyle - Visually Impaired - Men 2022, 2025; 4 x 2.5km Relay Mixed - Mixed 2023, 2025; 10km Freestyle - Visually Impaired - Men 2023; 18km Classic Style - Visually Impaired - Men 2023; 1km Sprint Freestyle - Visually Impaired - Men 2023; 2022; 4 x 2.5km Relay Open - Open 2022
- Medals: 11 (5 gold, 5 silver, 1 bronze)
- Gold – 2025 (10km Classic Style - Visually Impaired - Men, 20km Freestyle - Visually Impaired - Men); 2023 (1km Sprint Freestyle - Visually Impaired - Men, 4 x 2.5km Relay Mixed - Mixed); 2022 ()
- Silver – 2025 (1km Sprint Classic Style - Visually Impaired - Men, 4 x 2.5km Relay Mixed - Mixed); 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)
Quick Facts
- 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
