Adaptive snowsports team prepare for para-Olympic test event
Published Mon 06 Mar 2017
Australia's Adaptive Snowsports teams are headed to PyeongChang, South Korea for the International Paralympic Committee's World Cup Finals this week.
Going into the Snowboard World Cup Finals 8-13 March 2017, Joany Badenhorst, Ben Tudhope, Simon Patmore, Alex Handley and Sean Pollard will compete in Snowboard Cross and Banked Slalom events.
Competing in the Alpine Skiing World Cup Finals 9-18 March 2017 will see Mitch Gourley, Victoria Pendergast and Melissa Perrine with guide Andrew Bor looking to match their results from the World Cup giant slalom earlier this week.
"This season I'd set myself a goal of finishing top 8 in a snowboard cross worldcup race which I achieved when I finished 6th in lake Tahoe back in January." Pollard said.
"Now I am aiming for a podium finish, and of course to make the qualification for Korea in 2018" he said of looking to the World Cups.
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