Day 6 of the 2022 Beijing Winter Paralympic Games saw a Scottish gold medal winner back on the slopes and the wheelchair curlers conclude their round robin fixtures.
Para Alpine Skiing
Banchory brothers, Neil and Andrew Simpson were competing in the visually impaired Giant Slalom and finished just out of the medals in fifth place after their two runs.
The duo, who won Super-G gold and Super Combined bronze earlier in the week, clocked 1:59.45 in the warm conditions.
“It was tricky,” admitted Neil. “It was a shorter distance than we are used to in Giant Slalom, certainly than what we’ve been training in the past season. The first run wasn’t ideal, we both were holding on to the ski too long and that costs you time each gate and builds up pretty quickly. The second run was better, there were some positives and something to work on.”
In the GS vision impaired class it was 5th place for Neil and Andrew Simpson.
Great effort again, boys ⛷⛷#ParaAlpine pic.twitter.com/cFCJ9OVI1E
— ParalympicsGB (@ParalympicsGB) March 10, 2022
Wheelchair Curling
ParalympicsGB’s Wheelchair Curling team began Day 6 of competition knowing that a semi-final place was out of reach and faced a tough test against reigning World Champions China at the Ice Cube.
China are favourites for the gold medal but the ParalympicsGB team of Skip Hugh Nibloe, Gregor Ewan, Meggan Dawson-Farrell and Gary Smith were more than a match for their opponents in the opening ends, leading 3-2 at the halfway stage.
However, China took the match to the ParalympicsGB quartet after the break and eventually secured their seventh consecutive victory of the round robin stage by 6-3.
ParalymicsGB’s Wheelchair Curlers’ played their final match at Beijing 2022 against a Latvia side that still had an outside chance of reaching the semi-finals. ParalympicsGB took control early in the match scoring three in the second end to lead 4-0. A fantastic take out with the hammer saw ParalympicsGB move into a commanding 7-1 lead at the halfway stage
Led by Skip Hugh Nibloe, they protected their lead in the last four ends to secure an emphatic 8-4 victory to finish with four wins and six losses in the round robin.
After the match Hugh Nibloe said: “We made shots from the start and put Latvia under pressure straight away and we perhaps haven’t done that in earlier matches. Gregor made the shots to put them under pressure and we got a couple of early steals.”
Tomorrow’s action from Beijing will see Shona Brownlee and Brett Wild competing in the Giant Slalom and Callum Deboys and Scott Meenagh take on the 12.5Km Biathlon.