Triple treat for skier Perrine

Paralympic skier Melissa Perrine has finished the 2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships with three gold medals after an outstanding performance on the Canadian ski slopes.

The first world championship gold of Perrine’s career came in the women’s visually impaired downhill, where along with guide Andy Bor she clocked a time of 1:45.80 to defeat American Danelle Umstead and Russia’s Aleksandra Frantceva.

From there the floodgates opened, with Perrine backing up the next day to win gold in the women’s super-G by over four seconds, before then going on to seal a triple treat of gold with a win in the women’s super combined.

“I’m really stoked. To win two world championship gold medals in two days is so cool,” Perrine said to the Australian Paralympic Committee

“We had a few issues in training earlier this week with some worrying sections of the course, but to have been able to put them behind me and to ski the way I wanted to ski has been really pleasing.

“It’s a good feeling, especially after the disaster I had in Sochi [at the Winter Paralympics last year]," where she endured three DNFs and one disqualification.

Despite not making a clean sweep of the five events she entered, Perrine also bagged a bronze medal in the women’s giant slalom, and will contest the women’s slalom tomorrow morning Australian time.