Italy's Giacomo Bertagnolli snatched the visually impaired giant slalom gold medal away from Austria's Johannes Aigner in stunning style at the World Para Snow Sports Championships in Lillehammer in Norway.

France had the most successful day at the World Para Snow Sports Championships in Lillehammer, winning two Alpine combined gold medals.

Alpine skier Corey Peters has tested positive for COVID-19 ruling him out of the upcoming World Para Snow Sports Championships in Norway and causing a major setback to his preparations for the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games.

Nine athletes have been selected to represent Switzerland at the Lillehammer 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships.

Siblings Barbara and Johannes Aigner enjoyed success at the World Para Alpine Skiing World Cup in St Moritz.

The World Para Alpine Skiing World Cup heads to St Moritz in Switzerland tomorrow, with France's Marie Bochet arriving having made it a century of victories on the circuit in the women's standing events at Steinach am Brenner last time out.

Matti Suur-Hamari recovered from a disappointing first day to claim victory on home soil in the men's lower limb impairment category in snowboard cross at the World Para Snowboard World Cup in Pyha.

Jane Stevens has been named New Zealand's Chef de Mission for the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics, while two-time gold medallist Adam Hall is one of three confirmed Para Alpine skiing selections for the Games.

Britain's first-ever Winter Paralympic champion Kelly Gallagher has retired from skiing.

Sitting skiers are pushing for freestyle disciplines to become the norm in Para-skiing, as a group of athletes look to become pioneers in introducing the sport on a grander level.

Seefeld in Austria has been named as the host city for the 2022 Virtus World Skiing Championships.

World Para Snow Sports has announced a sponsorship and supply agreement with Ecoaims - a Finnish provider of shooting equipment for visually-impaired biathlon.

A World Para Snow Sports classifier course which concluded this month attracted almost 50 medical and sport professionals from 21 countries - twice the expected number.

Double Paralympic skiing champion Mac Marcoux has been named as the 2021 winner of the John Semmelink Memorial Award - the highest recognition in Canadian snow sport.