Day 4 highlights (super combined) 2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships La Molina, Spain

Just two years after making his international debut in para-alpine skiing events, Austria's Matthias Lanzinger was crowned world champion at the 2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships in La Molina, Spain, on Monday (25 February).

The 32-year-old, who suffered a double-leg fracture at a FIS World Cup event in 2008 that led to the amputation of his left leg, was victorious in the men's standing class in the super-combined, the fourth event of this year's World Championships.

It was Lanzinger's third medal in La Molina after winning super-G silver and downhill bronze last week. After missing Sunday's slalom due to illness, he was delighted to make such a remarkable comeback. Lanzinger's time of 1:42.44 placed him ahead of Russia's 15-year-old prodigy Alexey Bugaev who, in winning silver, claimed his first international medal in 1:42.90. Bronze was won by France's Cedric Amafroi-Broisat (1:44.89)

The fourth day of competition at the Championships in La Molina saw 92 skiers compete in six classes of the super combined, a discipline that combines one speed and one technical event. In the morning, skiers competed in the giant slalom before the afternoon's slalom event decided the eventual medallists.

In the first event of the day, the women's visually impaired class, Russia's Alexandra Frantseva, together with guide Pavel Zabotin, took their second gold of the Championships, adding to the super-G world title they won last Thursday.

The 2011 world silver medallists recorded an overall time of 1:56.21 which was good enough to finish ahead of the Brit Kelly Gallagher (1:58.21) and Slovakia's Petra Kozickova (2:04.63) in silver and bronze respectively. Gallagher and guide Charlotte Evans have now won two silvers and a bronze in La Molina whilst it was 22-year-old Kozickova's first medal of the Championships.

Favourite for the event, Paralympic champion Henrieta Farkasova (guide Natalia Subrtova), was unable to defend her world title after crashing out in a training run this morning and sustaining injuries that will rule her out of the rest of the Championships. France's Marie Bochet put in a sensational second run to claim her fourth gold in as many events in the women's standing class. After the morning's giant slalom, Bochet was nearly a second and a half behind Germany's Andrea Rothfuss who led the field. However the 19-year-old skier showed exactly why she is now four-time world champion in La Molina with a storming slalom run to take gold in 1:55.32.

Rothfuss has to settle for her third silver in four events (1:57.25) whilst Canada's Alexandra Starker continued to make the most of her first major international Championships by claiming her second bronze (2:00.49).

Austria's Claudia Loesch, the winner of Thursday's super-G, took her second gold of the Championships with victory in the women's sitting class. Loesch's time of 2:04.29 was enough to beat Canada's Kimberly Joines into silver medal position by 3.22 seconds.

Bronze went to Germany's 2011 super combined world champion Anna Schaffelhuber (2:08.05). Spain's Jon Santacana and guide Miguel Galindo Garces fell for the second successive day in their second run, opening the door for Canada's Chris Williamson (guide Robin Femy) in the men's visually impaired.Williamson, a bronze medallist at the 2011 World Championships took gold in 1:43.47 to add to the super-G silver and downhill bronze he has already won in La Molina with guide Robin Femy. Silver went to Slovakia's Miroslav Haraus (guide Maria Zatovicova) in 1:45.02 whilst bronze was won by Sunday's slalom gold medallist Ivan Frantsev of Russia in 1:47.90.

The final event of the day was the men's sitting, which was won by Japan's Taiki Morii. The 33-year-old now has two world titles to his name -- super-G and super combined -- as well as a silver in the slalom. He finished in 1:44.74 ahead of his teammate Takeshi Suzuki (1:47.37) who came into the event as defending world champion. Bronze went to Austria's Philip Bonadimann (1:47.58) who took gold in Sunday's slalom.

After the fourth day of competition and 24 medal events, France lead the medals table with eight medals made up of four gold, two silver and two bronze.

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