Guide skier

A guide skier is a person who helps skiers who cannot see by telling them where to go. They communicate by using a radio or talking to them. The guide skier can see.

Blind skier Jon Santacana follows guide skier Miguel Galindo down a mountain

Alpine skiing

Skiers can use more than one guide during a race type. The guide can only win a medal if they raced with the same skier for the whole race type. Like the skier, the guide has to have an IPCAS Licence in order to compete in races. Guide skiers need to follow to anti-doping rules.

Biathlon

Skiers follow the guide skier in the biathlon.

Sources

• International Paralympic Committee Alpine Skiing (2012). IPC Alpine Skiing Rules and Regulations (PDF). Bonn, Germany: International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
• Johnson, Robin (2009). Paralympic Sports Events. St. Catherines, Ontario: Crabtree Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-7787-4025-4.
• MacAuley, Domhnall (2007). Oxford handbook of sport and exercise medicine. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-856839-1. Retrieved 12 September 2013.