IPC Para-Snowboard World Championships
23-28 February

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A skier competes in downhill

Paralympic.org caught up with the French 11-time world champion as she made her comeback from injury.

A picture of a man skiing on the slopes

The 25-year-old has watched hours of race footage to try and pin-point where he can improve to challenge for a medal in Tarvisio, Italy.

Group picture with skiers and man in wheelchair

Nations across four regions received alpine skiing and snowboarding equipment with aims to develop winter Para sports.

A Para alpine skier and guide make a turn round a gate.

The world’s best skiers will get to test themselves in Italy at the last major event ahead of the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games.

Melania Corradini

Giacomo Bertagnolli and Melania Corradini headline the team of seven athletes who will compete at Tarvisio 2017.

USA's Danelle and Rob Umstead raise the 2015-16 IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup globe for women's slalom visually impaired

The British alpine skier and guide Jen Kehoe are hoping to consolidate their progress.

Miroslav Haraus

The Slovakian super combined world champion is ready to ‘fight for the best results’ across all five alpine skiing disciplines.

Upper body of man in wheelchair celebrating with medal around his neck

Paralympic champion Kunz leads the five-strong team at the World Championships in Tarvisio

Sochi 2014 Paralympic Games - Alpine Skiing Medal

Forster defeats teammate Schaffelhuber in final competition ahead of World Championships.

Georg Kreiter of Germany competes in Men's Downhill Sitting at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games

The German alpine skier has one eye on PyeongChang 2018 as he looks to defend his two World titles.

Male alpine sit skier races down a mountain

Dutch, Austrian, German, Canadian Italian and Slovakian athletes all reached the top of the podium at the World Cup in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia.

Skier in orange and white ski suit, skis at speed down slope

A series of athletes also emerged onto the podium for the first time in Slovenia on Wednesday (18 January).

View on slopes in the sunshine

A host of world champions and World Cup leaders will line up for slalom and giant slalom in Slovenia from 18-20 January, ahead of the Worlds.

Anna Schaffelhuber

Germany’s five-time Paralympic champion is building towards the 2017 World Para Alpine Skiing Championships

Skier and his guide on a slope

With under one week to go until his home alpine skiing World Championships, the teenager talks of his hopes.

A picture of a woman skiing on a hedge.

Both skiers won the women’s sitting and visually impaired super combined respectively in Innerkrems, Austria, on Sunday (15 January).

Tarvisio

All speed and technical events at the last major Championships ahead of the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games will be shown fully live at Paralympic.org.

Christoph Kunz, Switzerland leans forward to take the gold

The Swiss sit-skier won the super-G at the World Cup in Innerkrems, Austria, beating New Zealand’s world champion Corey Peters.

Claudia Loesch

After weather conditions forced a change in the schedule, several athletes made it onto two downhill podiums in one day at the World Cup in Innerkrems, Austria.

Bibian Mentel-Spee holds medal high

Four alpine skiers and two snowboarders will run to become the Athlete Representative on the Sport Technical Committee.