{"id":27936,"date":"2018-03-20T12:32:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T12:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=27936"},"modified":"2018-03-20T12:32:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T12:32:49","slug":"historic-gold-skier-fitzpatrick-pyeongchang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/03\/20\/historic-gold-skier-fitzpatrick-pyeongchang\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic gold for skier Fitzpatrick in PyeongChang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MENNA Fitzpatrick secured a historic gold medal for Team GB at the Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang as she won the Visually-Impaired Slalom on Sunday.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Welsh-based Fitzpatrick, who has only five per cent vision, and her guide, Jen Kehoe, beat Slovakia&#8217;s Henrieta Farkasova and Natalia Subrtova by 0.66 seconds in their final event of the games.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 19-year-old skier trailed the Slovakian pair by 0.66 seconds after the first run, but produced a stunning second run to topple Farkasova, who had won gold in every event she had competed in during the games.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Team GB have only won gold at the Winter Paralympics once before, when Kelly Gallagher triumphed in the downhill event in Sochi in 2014.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This victory took the pair\u2019s medal tally to four, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/03\/16\/fitzpatrick-secures-third-paralympic-skiing-medal\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">including two silvers and a bronze, <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0a feat made all the more impressive when looking at Team GB\u2019s overall haul of seven medals.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The British team reached their target of between six and 12 medals from UK Sport, and matched their predicted seven medals.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MENNA Fitzpatrick secured a historic gold medal for Team GB at the Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang as she won the Visually-Impaired Slalom on Sunday. 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