The rescheduling of events to avoid warmer Beijing weather forecast for the weekend made for a busy Friday at the 2022 Winter Paralympics, with medals available in Alpine skiing, biathlon and snowboarding, and the para ice hockey and wheelchair curling competitions reaching the semi-final stages.
Britain’s Ollie Hill picked up the first ever ParalympicsGB medal in snowboarding. He went into his second run laughing and clapping as he knew his first run time of 1min 10.45sec was enough to have guaranteed him at least the bronze in the men’s banked slalom SB-LL2. With snow conditions deteriorating, like the majority of athletes he could not improve on his time, and so finished third. Sun Qi of China took gold, with Finland’s Matti Suur-Hamari second.
