Marie Bochet won her 12th World Para Alpine Skiing World Championship gold in her first competition since breaking her leg ©Getty Images

France’s Marie Bochet completed a remarkable return from injury by claiming the women’s standing downhill gold at the World Para Alpine Skiing Championship in Tarvisio today.

The 22-year-old, who topped the podium four times at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, was racing for the first time in three months after suffering a broken tibula and showed the lack of preparation did not matter as she won the opening day’s competition in the Italian resort.

Germany’s Andrea Rothfuss finished second and Canadian skier Alan Ramsay claimed her first international medal by picking up the bronze.

Bochet, who already has 11 World Championship golds to her name, is aiming for five titles in Tarvisio with the super-G coming next tomorrow.

But she said she is trying to not get carried away with her early success.

"I take each day step-by-step," Bochet said.

"I just take this day and this medal and tonight I will talk with my coach and we will talk about the strategy for the super-G, because the super-G is a very difficult discipline and we don’t have training."

In the women’s visually impaired race, Great Britain’s Millie Knight won her maiden World Championship gold.

Millie Knight, centre with her guide Brett Wild, won the women's visually impaired title ©Getty Images
Millie Knight, centre with her guide Brett Wild, won the women's visually impaired title ©Getty Images

The 18-year-old, who was guided by Brett Wild, finished in front of Slovakia's Paralympic champion Henrieta Farkasova and her guide Natalia Subrtova.

Eleonor Sana of Belgium, guided by Chloe Sana, came third.

Anna Schaffelhuber of Germany won the downhill title, edging out Austria’s defending champion Claudia Loesch while Japan’s Momoka Muraoka finished third.

In the men’s visually impaired competition, Canadian Mac Marcoux defended his title with guide Jack Leitch, beating Paralympic gold medallist Jon Santacana Maiztegui and his guide Miguel Galindo into second place.

Slovakia’s Miroslav Haraus and guide Maros Hudik completed the podium line-up.

Paralympic gold medallist Markus Salcher of Austria picked up the men’s standing title in front of Canada’s Kirk Schornstein and The Netherlands’ Jeffrey Stuut, who was making his World Championship debut.

In the men’s sitting event, United States competitor Andrew Kurka came first with Corey Peters of New Zealand, the defending world champion, finishing second and Japan’s Paralympic title holder Akira Kano coming third.

The Championships are due to continue until January 31.