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    Paralympic champions kick off season

    07.11.2018

    Marie Bochet is one of the PyeongChang winners at Landgraaf Europa Cup

    a female Para alpine skier Eight-time Paralympic champion Marie Bochet is one of the stars of the Europa Cup in Landgraaf © • Getty Images
    By World Para Alpine Skiing
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    Marie Bochet, Jakub Krako and Jeroen Kampschreur are the three PyeongChang 2018 champions returning to the slopes for the season’s first World Para Alpine Skiing Europa Cup in Landgraaf, Netherlands.

    The two-day competition kicks off on Thursday (8 November) and will feature slalom events across men’s and women’s sitting, standing and vision impaired categories.

    France’s eight-time Paralympic champion Bochet will be the woman-to-beat in the standing class. She is getting ready for January’s World Championships in Kranjska Gora (Slovenia) and Sella Nevea (Italy), where she will be hoping to defend her three gold medals from Tarvisio 2017.

    Home crowd favourite Maaike Bennink will be competing with guide Dennis van Klaveren in the women’s vision impaired.

    The women’s sitting will see Netherlands’ two-time Paralympic wheelchair basketball bronze medallist Barbara van Bergen switching sports to compete against the likes of France’s Meije Bidault, USA’s Anna Beninati and Liechtenstein’s Sarah Hundert.

    One of the top male skiers set to participate in the year’s opening Europa Cup will be Slovakia’s five-time Paralympic gold medallist Krako. The 28-year-old, together with guide Branislav Brozman, will be one-to-watch in the men’s vision impaired.

    Great Britain’s James Luetchford, guide by his wife Alice, Australia’s Patrick Jensen, guided by Lara Falk; and Switzerland’s Thibault Trancart, guided by Manoelle Pauli, are among his rivals.

    PyeongChang 2018 champion Kampschreur will start as favourite in the men’s sitting. Netherlands’ 18-year-old alpine skier will try to make the best of competing on home snow and successfully kick off the season.

    France’s four-time Paralympic silver medallist Arthur Bauchet will participate in the men’s standing, arguably the most competitive event of all. He will need to be at his very best to beat Switzerland’s Robin Cuche and Thomas Pfyl.

    Live results will be made available on World Para Alpine Skiing’s website.

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