Fitzpatrick and Simpson add two more Winter Paralympics medals for GB

Great Britain have won another two medals in the 2022 Beijing Winter Paralympics. In difficult conditions, Menna Fitzpatrick claimed bronze in the women’s super combined visually impaired class, adding to the silver that she won with guide Gary Smith in the Super-G on Sunday.

Slovakia’s Henrieta Farkašová won her 11th Paralympics gold in the event, with Zhu Daqing of China taking silver as the hosts continued to dominate the medals table. Britain’s Millie Knight just missed out on the medals in fourth place.

The slalom stage of Monday’s combined events was delayed by half an hour, and saw a series of crashes affecting favourites across the events, including in the men’s super combined visually impaired class, where Neil Simpson, guided by his brother Andrew, finished on the podium with a bronze medal.

A crash by leader Hyacinthe Deleplace of France on the final slalom run of the competition left Italy’s Giacomo Bertagnolli the winner, and the British brothers in third.

Canada’s three-time defending champion Brian McKeever won the gruelling long-distance cross-country visually impaired event again to claim the 14th Winter Paralympic gold medal of a glittering career. It is the 42-year-old’s sixth appearance at a Winter Paralympics.

Ukraine’s Oksana Shyshkova won her second gold of these Games with victory in the women’s equivalent. She finished nearly a minute ahead of the rest of the competitors. Natalie Wilkie of Canada made it a double celebration for the Canadians with gold in the women’s cross-country standing long-distance.

France’s Cécile Hernandez had to win a court battle over her classification in order to be able to compete in Beijing after the International Paralympic Committee removed her LL1 class from these