Gold for Aussie Adaptive Alpine Team in Japan
Published Mon 06 Mar 2017
Melissa Perrine, guide Andrew Bor and Mitch Gourley have won gold in the giant slalom in Hakuba, Japan this weekend as part of the 2017 IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup.
The team travelled to Japan ahead of the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games Test Event later this week.
In the women's event, Perrine and guide BOR Andrew took gold with an impressive 1:57.80 time in the giant slalom, tailed by Henrieta Farkasova and guide Natalia Subrtova from Slovakia with silver, and Jae Rim Yan and guide Un So Ri Ko from Korea with bronze.
In the men's, Gourley took gold with 1:48.73 seconds after improving his time on the second of two runs (54.80 and 53.93) ahead of fellow racers Christoph Bernhard Schneider from Austria and Thomas Walsh of USA.
Victoria Prendergast competed well coming sixth.
In the Super G decided today, Mitch Gourley came 5th, while Perrine and Prendergast did not finish.
Up next for the team is the IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup Finals Olympic test event in PyeongChang, South Korea, 9-18 March 2017.