MILAN, Mar 12 (News On Japan) –
Momoka Muraoka secured a silver medal within the ladies’s sitting large slalom on March twelfth, the seventh day of the Milan-Cortina Winter Paralympics, bringing her profession whole to 11 medals—probably the most ever received by a Japanese athlete on the Winter Paralympics.
The 29-year-old alpine skier, who represents Toyota Motor, surpassed the earlier Japanese report held by alpine skier Kuniko Obinata.
Muraoka misplaced the usage of her legs in childhood attributable to a spinal twine sickness however has since established herself as one among Japan’s main Paralympic athletes. At the earlier Beijing Games, she received three occasions and emerged because the crew’s ace.
Her silver within the large slalom marks her second podium end on the present Games, following one other silver within the super-G. It can be the third consecutive Winter Paralympics by which Muraoka has received a number of medals.
Source: Kyodo