Paralympics GB scooped its first-ever winter gold yesterday when visually-impaired skier Kelly Gallagher and guide Charlotte Evans slid to Super-G glory.

The pair impressively recovered from disappointment in Saturday's downhill when they came dead last.

And the British team had even more to celebrate as Jade Etherington and guide Caroline Powell won bronze - their second medal at Sochi.

Gallagher and Evans were the first of six pairs to go down and had an anxious wait to see if their time would stand.

"It was really hard work coming from downhill into Super-G because they are similar speed events," Gallagher, the 28-year-old from Northern Ireland, said.

"I lost all of my faith in myself, in Charlotte, in our processes, in what we were doing and I was like, 'I only have a couple of hours to put this together, because we're going to be back on snow and we've got to race'.

"Charlotte said to me, 'You've got to make a decision to turn it around and forget about all the pressure that's on us' and it has worked out.

"We've had to do that so many times along the road when we have been training, whether I have been scared of something or I have been injured and physically hurt and mentally hurt.

"I can't stress how hard we've worked. It has been horrible and there have been days where I have said, 'What am I doing to myself? I'm not even enjoying my life,' but we have kept on going.

There was also joy for British wheelchair curlers yesterday.

Aileen Nelson's men turned around a 2-0 deficit in the first end to romp home 12-2 against Slovakia, who had gone into the game with three wins in three.

The British rink have three wins in four games and ahead of their games with Finland and Norway this morning.

Nielson told BBC Radio 5: "It shows if we play to our potential then other teams are going to have to play really well against us."