Veronika Aigner (born 13 February 2003) is an Austrian visually impaired para alpine skier. She won a gold medal at the

2022 Winter Paralympics The 2022 Winter Paralympics (), commonly known as Beijing 2022 (), was an international winter multi-sport parasports event held in Beijing, China from 4 to 13 March 2022. This was the 13th Winter Paralympic Games, as administered by the Inte ...

Career

Aigner competed at the

and won a gold medal in the

giant slalom Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline. It involves skiing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant slalom and slalom make up t ...

and

slalom To slalom is to zigzag between obstacles. It may refer to: Sports ;Alpine skiing and/or snowboarding * Slalom skiing, an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline * Giant slalom, an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline * Super-G ...

events.

Personal life

Aigner's twin siblings, Barbara, and

Johannes Johannes is a Medieval Latin form of the personal name that usually appears as "John" in English language contexts. It is a variant of the Greek and Classical Latin variants (Ιωάννης, ''Ioannes''), itself derived from the Hebrew name '' Yeh ...

are both visually impaired para skiers.

References

Living people 2003 births Austrian female alpine skiers Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2022 Winter Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for Austria Paralympic medalists in alpine skiing Visually impaired category Paralympic competitors Austrian blind people 21st-century Austrian women {{Austria-Paralympic-medalist-stub