Yesterday in  , Spain at the  , the event delivered several surprises — including a major schedule change; the favorite in the women's visually impaired group failing to medal; one favourite in the women's sitting group who did not start and another who did not finish; and in the men's sitting group, a gold medal race won by less than a tenth of a second. Audio introduction in English of the visually impaired women's skiers The day started off on a different day than the discipline was originally scheduled for: it was supposed to take place tomorrow instead but the prediction of bad weather led to a date change. In the first event of the morning, the Women Super-G Visually Impaired final,  Alexandra Frantseva and guide Pavel Zabotin won the gold. Favourite from  , who had won the gold in the yesterday and was quoted as saying her goal was to win five gold medals in these Championships, failed to medal at all in the Super-G. Two  completed the women's visually impaired podium with yesterday's downhill bronze medalist Kelly Gallagher and guide Charlotte Evans picking up a silver medal, and Jade Etherington and guide John Clark, the bronze. Claudia Loesch from Austria won the gold in the Women Sitting category, ahead of Anna Schaffelhuber, silver, and Laurie Stephens from the , bronze. One of the favourites, Alana Nichols from the USA, Did Not Start the race, and another, Kimberly Joines from Canada, Did Not Finish it. However, arguably the race of the day was the Men's Sitting class. from  beat from France by only 0.01 seconds. The bronze went to another Japanese skier, Akira Kano.
Yesterday in La Molina , Spain at the IPC Alpine World Championships , the event delivered several surprises — including a major schedule change; the favorite in the women's visually impaired group failing to medal; one favourite in the women's sitting group who did not start and another who did not finish; and in the men's sitting group, a gold medal race won by less than a tenth of a second. Audio introduction in English of the visually impaired women's skiers The day started off on a different day than the discipline was originally scheduled for: it was supposed to take place tomorrow instead but the prediction of bad weather led to a date change. In the first event of the morning, the Women Super-G Visually Impaired final, Russian Alexandra Frantseva and guide Pavel Zabotin won the gold. Favourite from Slovakia , who had won the gold in the yesterday and was quoted as saying her goal was to win five gold medals in these Championships, failed to medal at all in the Super-G. Two Britons completed the women's visually impaired podium with yesterday's downhill bronze medalist Kelly Gallagher and guide Charlotte Evans picking up a silver medal, and Jade Etherington and guide John Clark, the bronze. Claudia Loesch from Austria won the gold in the Women Sitting category, ahead of Anna Schaffelhuber, silver, and Laurie Stephens from the , bronze. One of the favourites, Alana Nichols from the USA, Did Not Start the race, and another, Kimberly Joines from Canada, Did Not Finish it. However, arguably the race of the day was the Men's Sitting class. from Japan beat from France by only 0.01 seconds. The bronze went to another Japanese skier, Akira Kano.
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