YANQING, Beijing, March 13 (Xinhua\/APP) –: Veronika Aigner won her second gold for her family at the Beijing Paralympic Winter Games on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old Austrian racer, who claimed the women’s giant slalom vision impaired on Friday, finished first in the slalom event on Saturday with a two-run time of one minute and 31.53 seconds, 1.71 seconds ahead of her 16-year-old sister Barbara. Alexandra Rexova of Slovakia took bronze in 1:36.31.<\/p>\n
This is the fourth gold the Aigner family won at the Beijing Games. Her younger brother Johannes Aigner took home another two in men’s downhill and giant slalom vision impaired.<\/p>\n
Ebba Aarsjoe won her second gold of the Beijing Games after winning the women’s slalom standing. The Swedish skier, who won the women’s super combined event on Monday, clocked a winning time of 1:31.76 over two runs in the slalom event. Zhang Mengqiu of China finished second with 5.64 seconds behind. Anna-Maria Rieder of Germany took bronze in 1:40.50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YANQING, Beijing, March 13 (Xinhua\/APP) –: Veronika Aigner won her second gold for her family at the Beijing Paralympic Winter Games on Saturday. The 19-year-old Austrian racer, who claimed the women’s giant slalom vision impaired on Friday, finished first in the slalom event on Saturday […]<\/p>\n
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