Team Co-captain Gourley gets so close once again

Australian Paralympic Team Co-captain Mitch Gourley enjoyed his third top-10 finish at the PyeongChang 2018 Games but yet again, a first Paralympic medal for the Victorian has eluded him.

And for a second time in this South Korean campaign, he was in bronze medal position after his first run. It happened in the Super Combined on Tuesday – where he finished 5th – and it happened in the Slalom today – where he finished 6th. He also has an 8th from the Giant Slalom on Wednesday.

It seems the Paralympic gods are against Gourley getting a medal hung around his neck. He is a three-time Paralympian and in eight previous races in Vancouver in 2010 and Sochi in 2014, Gourley had three top-10 finishes.

He is the reigning world champion in the Super Combined from the 2017 IPC Para-alpine skiing World Championships in Tarvisio, Italy. He has seven gold medals from World Cup series racing. The quality is undeniably there but success seems so evasive at a Paralympic Games.

“I don’t think that anything that I did up there today was any different to what I do any other day of the year or any day in the cycle,” Gourley said.

WATCH:  After a sensational first run in the Slalom, Mitch Gourley was in contention for his first Paralympic medal however he was unable to replicate it for his second attempt and finished in sixth place.

WATCH:  What a week for Australia's Paralympic snowboarders! Simon Patmore won two medals from two events, while Ben Tudhope and Sean Pollard achieved an incredible top 10 finish.

Paralympian Patmore thanks Gallagher for being part of his journey

Dual PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic medallist Simon Patmore drew inspiration from Para-alpine skier turned Para-cyclist Jessica Gallagher, when he bit the bullet and decided he wanted to be a Summer and Winter Paralympian.

While there are many athletes who have switched sports within their seasonal Games – for example Dylan Alcott winning double gold in wheelchair tennis in Rio after winning gold and silver with the men’s wheelchair basketball team at Beijing 2008 and London 2012 – there have only been six Australian athletes in 42 years that have successfully jumped between Summer and Winter.

And only two have won medals in both – Patmore and Gallagher.

“I know how hard it is,” Patmore said, of converting a 200m sprint bronze at the London 2012 Paralympic Games, to gold and bronze in the snowboard cross and banked slalom respectively, at the PyeongChang 2018 Games.

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WATCH medal machine Melissa Perrine talk about her journey which started three Paralympic Games ago in Vancouver

A night on the South Korean coast to refresh Australia’s Paralympic snowboarders

The Australian Paralympic snowboard team headed off to the South Korean coastal town of Gangneung this week to give everyone a change of scenery between Monday’s snowboard cross and today's banked slalom at the PyeongChang Winter Games.

No call yet on Beijing 2022 Games by dual Paralympic bronze medallist Perrine

After breaking her Paralympic Games medal drought in PyeongChang, Para-alpine skier Melissa Perrine is undecided on whether to return to Asia in four years’ time for the Beijing Paralympic Winter Games.

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Perrine backs up her maiden Paralympic medal with another 24 hours later

Two Paralympic bronze in two days - Melissa Perrine is becoming a medal factory for the Australian Paralympic Team at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Games.

She has single-handedly increased Australia's medal tally by two-thirds with her efforts over 24 hours. Her two medals, combined with Para-snowboarder Simon Patmore's gold brings the Australian medal tally to three.

READ all about the woman taking Australia by storm!

Melissa Perrine is competing in her third Paralympics and has won her first two Paralympic medals in consecutive days. Find out more about her incredible story.

WATCH Melissa Perrine and sighted guide Christian Geiger talk about what it takes between them to achieve success on their path to PyeongChang.

"The stakes are higher, but the job is the same."

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Perrine finally cracks the Paralympic Winter Games podium

A near-perfect Slalom by Melissa Perrine and sighted guide Christian Geiger handed the NSW Southern Highlands skier her first Paralympic medal at her third Paralympic Winter Games in PyeongChang.

The Perrine-Geiger team were in 6th place after the Super G component in the morning, and then nailed the Slalom course in the afternoon to win bronze behind Henrieta Farkasova (Slovakia) taking gold, and Menna Fitzpatrick (Great Britain) the silver.

WATCH Australian Para alpine skier Shaun Pianta's path to PyeongChang.

The last member of the Australian Paralympic Team after he passed a medical test on his injured knee, Shaun and sighted guide Jeremy O'Sullivan have fought the odds to reach their goal.

Pollard takes a giant step on his new sporting journey

Four years ago Sean Pollard was an electrician in Western Australia, today he is a Winter Paralympian after completing his first snowboard event at the 2018 PyeongChang Games.

In between he had to face horrors very few have – and survived.

WATCH Paralympic gold medalist Simon Patmore speak about that gold medal feeling!

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Patmore enters Australian Paralympic history breaking a 16 year Winter gold medal drought

Simon Patmore is the boy from Nundah, Queensland who has now become a permanent fixture in Australian Paralympic history, with his breakthrough gold medal in the snowboard cross at the PyeongChang Winter Games.

The 30-year-old sprinkled a fair bit of that sunshine his state is famous for, by winning Australia’s first gold medal at a Winter Paralympics since Michael Milton and Bart Bunting did it at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games.

Commonwealth Games and Summer Paralympics help Patmore win gold in PyeongChang

Australia's newest gold medallist Simon Patmore would like to thank his Commonwealth Games and Summer Paralympics racing for helping him add a Paralympic winter medal to his collection.

The 30-year-old Queenslander's previous life, before snowboarding at the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games, was as an international sprinter.

He has the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games 100m T46 gold medal and the London 2012 Paralympic Games 200m T46 bronze to prove it.

READ more about Australia's golden boy and get to know more of his story before Patmore next competes in the Para-snowboard Banked Slalom on Friday March 16.

WATCH Australian Para-snowboard Coach Lukas Prem give you an insight into what the game plan was for Simon Patmore's gold medal winning performance.

WATCH Paralympic gold medalist Simon Patmore speak about what sets the Aussie Para Snowboard team apart from the rest.

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Survival test for Australia in the Super G at the PyeongChang Games

It certainly was a survival test at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre today as the Super G Para-alpine skiers experienced the warmest conditions yet at either the 2018 Winter Olympics or Paralympics, which made for poor quality snow.

The Spring-time weather created some havoc for the six Australian Paralympic skiers with only 50 per cent completing the run. Even the blue painted borders started to melt down the slope.

Badenhorst not budging despite double Games blow

She was the best snowboarder for the 2017/18 IPC World Cup season, so Joany Badenhorst is not going to budge from her new duties as chief cheerleader following the devastating leg injury that closed the competition door for her at the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games.

Badenhorst won an IPC Crystal Globe in February for banked slalom and sealed the overall Globe too, signifying she was the best performed athlete over the World Cup season just ended.

Patmore turns Summer into Winter

There’s only been six of them in 40 years, so Queensland’s Simon Patmore will enter a fairly exclusive club of athletes who have competed at both a Paralympic Summer and Winter Games when he takes to the snowboard cross course tomorrow.

WATCH Australian Paralympian Simon Patmore about what sets the Aussie Para-Snowboard team apart from the rest.

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