Menna Fitzpatrick says the prospect of a Video games on ‘house’ Italian snow is intensifying her want to cement her standing as Britain’s biggest Winter Paralympian.
The six-time Paralympic medallist, 23, wrapped up her Beijing marketing campaign on Saturday with a disappointing fourth-place end within the slalom.
Fitzpatrick got here into the occasion as defending champion from PyeongChang however after successful Tremendous-G silver and Tremendous Mixed bronze earlier this week, was unable so as to add to her tally in a boiling Beijing.
The Macclesfield star sits two medals away from Jade Etherington as Britain’s biggest Winter Paralympic athlete and believes there’s no higher place than Milan-Cortina 2026 to additional prolong her hegemony.
Fitzpatrick mentioned: “It’s superb to have the document and I’m tremendous, tremendous happy with that. It’s not one thing I am going on the market to attain – it’s superb to have that title however it’s not a focus and I simply go on the market to ski my greatest.
“I’m positively going to strive [to get to 2026] – I’ll get within the health club, get some actually good coaching in over the following 4 years and see what occurs.
“It will likely be nicer to have one thing nearer to house and have household and pals there – it would just about be house snow as we practice rather a lot in Europe. I’ve simply acquired to get the hearth within the stomach and keep on coaching laborious.”
Fitzpatrick has loved a strong if not spectacular week in China as she didn’t emulate her thrilling haul of 4 medals scooped at PyeongChang 2018.
Her earlier Tremendous-G bronze was improved right into a silver, her Tremendous Mixed silver was lowered to a bronze whereas elsewhere, Fitzpatrick was unable to grab a slalom podium and in addition failed to fireside within the big slalom, the place she got here second in Korea.
A mistake on the primary run in Saturday’s slalom proved deadly as she left herself with an excessive amount of to do within the second and Austrian sisters Veronika and Barbara Aigner sped to gold and silver.
Slovakian star Alexandra Rexova was third as Fitzpatrick missed out on a medal however simply 0.55s.
Fitzpatrick, who competed with new information Gary Smith at these Video games after ordinary companion Katie Visitor examined constructive for Covid-19, added: “The entire expertise has simply been superb.
“We had a very good begin to the week, some nice velocity competitors and acquired rather a lot stronger going into the technical occasions.
“Sadly, we simply missed out on a podium at present, however we did some nice snowboarding and total it’s been superb.
“We went out, loved it and gave it a go however I made a mistake on first run. We made up for it on the second however it wasn’t fairly sufficient.
“I’ll have a little bit of a break over the following few months then reassess.
“There are many issues up within the air in the mean time with what occurs subsequent, so we’ll take it because it comes and begin coaching within the health club once more quickly.”
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