PARA ALPINE SKIING NEWS 

John Leslie and Michelle Salt will line-up alongside new team members Alex Massie and Daniel Shoemaker.

There was also an upset in the men’s standing races, as Russia’s Alexander Alyabyev took victory after Paralympic champion Alexey Bugaev failed to finish.

Austria’s Claudia Loesch and Matthias Lanzinger will race in super-combined, slalom and giant slalom races on home snow in Matrei.

Find out how the winner of five Paralympic gold medals at a single Paralympic Winter Games goes about preparing for competition.

Historic victories for American, Dutch, French and British riders at the para-snowboard World Cup in Aspen, USA.

Men’s Sochi 2014 medallists recreate podium at the para-snowboard World Cup as Heidi Jo Duce and Nicole Roundy are also amongst those to finish in the top three.

The public has until Monday 19 January to cast their vote from the six candidates.

On the final day of the IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup in La Molina, Spain, two Russian skiers completed the perfect week in slalom races.

Russian skiers also complete triple wins at the IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup, alongside podiums for France, Germany, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, USA and Canada.

Wins for Russian, Japanese, German and Spanish skiers in slalom events with just 50 days to go until the 2015 Worlds.

France’s four-time Paralympic champion sends a clear message to German Sochi slalom gold medallist Andrea Rothfuss at first World Cup of 2014-15.

Big name athletes including France’s Marie Bochet and Canadian Mac Marcoux will begin their World Cup campaign with just over 50 days to go until the 2015 Worlds.

French para-alpine skiing star looking forward to returning to the slopes where she won five world titles in 2013.

Markus Walser, Chairperson of the IPC Alpine Skiing Sport Technical Committee, conducted a site visit for the alpine skiing World Championships.

Nearly half of all gold medallists in para-alpine skiing at Sochi 2014 were under the age of 23, showing the sport has a bright future ahead of it.

Paralympic bronze medallist Amy Purdy shot to fame in the USA in 2014, creating more awareness for the Paralympic Movement – an achievement marked in the IPC’s Top 50 Moments of 2014.

Skiers have been competing in giant slalom events in Kuhtai, Austria, as they prepare for the 2015 Worlds.

Skiers tackled the slalom on the first day of the IPC Alpine Skiing Europa Cup in Kuhtai, Austria on Friday (19 December).

Japanese sit-skier Takeshi Suzuki won his first Paralympic gold at Sochi 2014, on the anniversary of losing his legs, and will return to the snow at the Europa Cup.

French para-alpine skiing star is more motivated than ever to continue dominating the women’s standing class in the 2014/2015 season