Barbara Aigner (born 29 April 2005) is an Austrian visually impaired para alpine skier who competed at the

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

Career

Aigner made her debut at the 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships where she won the gold medal in the giant slalom event. Aigner competed at the

and won a silver medal in the slalom and a bronze medal in the

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

Personal life

Aigner's twin brother,

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 '' Y ...

, and older sister Veronika are both visually impaired para skiers. She and her siblings have the congenital cataract condition as well as their mother.

References

2005 births Living people Austrian female alpine skiers Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2022 Winter Paralympics Paralympic silver medalists for Austria Paralympic bronze medalists for Austria Paralympic medalists in alpine skiing Visually impaired-category Paralympic competitors Austrian blind people Austrian twins 21st-century Austrian sportswomen

External links

Barbara Aigner
at the

International Paralympic Committee The International Paralympic Committee (IPC; ) is an international non-profit organisation and the global governing body for the Paralympic Movement. The IPC organizes the Paralympic Games and functions as the international federation for nin ...

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