Australia's Melissa Perrine sixth in giant slalom as she prepares for Winter Paralympics farewell

Melissa Perrine has finished sixth in the vision-impaired giant slalom at the Beijing Winter Paralympics, while Rae Anderson was 10th on debut in the standing classification.

Among other results on day seven, para-snowboard star Ben Tudhope — who won Australia's only medal of the Games so far — finished ninth in the banked slalom.

Four-time Winter Paralympian Perrine and sighted guide Bobbi Kelly were sixth after a first run of 1 minute and 02.13 seconds, 8.05 seconds off leader Veronika Aigner and 4.09 seconds back from bronze.

But the Australian was unable to make up enough time on her second run to reach the podium.

Perrine and Kelly had to recover from respective back injuries and minimal competition and training opportunities over the past two years.

«I feel proud. We've had a tough season and we started off this season in some really bad shape, basically,» Perrine said.

«To fight to where we are now in a discipline that we've not done a lot of this year I couldn't be happier, honestly.

»We set out and did exactly what we wanted to do. We put in two solid runs out there. I couldn't be happier."

Perrine claimed bronze in the slalom and super-combined event at the 2018 PyeongChang Games.

She will look to close her Winter Paralympics career with a third career medal — and Australia's first para-alpine skiing medal in Beijing — in the slalom on Saturday.

Debutant Rae Anderson meanwhile was thrilled to crack the top 10 amid cold conditions and poor air quality.

She became the seventh Australian to compete at both the Winter and Summer Paralympics.

Anderson contested the javelin and discus at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio.

«At the end of the day, that was the main goal, to become a dual Paralympian,» Anderson said.

«It wasn't the