Disabled skiers known locally
A number of disabled New Zealand skiers who are performing well at the World Winter Games for the Disabled at Innsbruck in Austria are no strangers to the slopes of Turoa and Whakapapa ... they are frequent visitors during the winter months. Members of the NZ Association for Disabled Skiers, they have embraced this winter sport by using equipment specially modified to cope with the type and degree of their individual disablity. .. At the World Winter Games — the disabled
equivalent of the Winter Olympics — currently being held in Austria, Vivienne Martin of Lawrence in Otago, has won the gold medal in the women's giant slalom for the partially blind. She beat Connie Conley of the United States with Gabrielle Burghofer of Austria finishing in third place.
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Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 1, Issue 33, 7 February 1984, Page 7
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129Disabled skiers known locally Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 1, Issue 33, 7 February 1984, Page 7
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