{"id":3021,"date":"2017-02-23T10:05:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T10:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2017-02-23T10:52:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T10:52:34","slug":"mike-burrell-training-kentish-alpine-skier-millie-knight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/mike-burrell-training-kentish-alpine-skier-millie-knight\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Sport&#8217;s Mike Burrell \u2013 training Kentish Alpine Skier Millie Knight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Kent Sport health and fitness instructor Mike Burrell shares the achievements of Paralympic\u00a0Skier\u00a0and Sochi flag bearer Millie Knight who he has been training with for the past eight months. Millie has gone from strength to strength in her personal training sessions as well as her skiing talents snatching up\u00a0quite a few medals along the way.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since December 2016, Kentish Alpine Skier Millie Knight has travelled to Switzerland, Austria and Italy, competing at the highest levels of Para Snow Sport in the Women\u2019s Visually Impaired category.<\/p>\n<p>Competing in more than 15 races and claiming seven Gold medals, including Team GB\u2019s <em><strong>first ever<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Para Alpine World championship.<\/p>\n<p>Due to a high-speed crash after winning that Gold that caused her to miss next race, Millie came back with guide Brett Wild to clinch four more Silver Medals against stiff competition from the rest of the field, particularly the impressive Slovakian duo, Henrieta Farkosova and her guide Natalia Subrtova.<\/p>\n<p>Millie returned to continue her training with myself here at Kent Sport for just two short weeks before heading off again. This time all the way to South Korea and Peyongchang where the 2018 Winter Olympics will be held, for testing. Hopefully leading to a place in the games themselves!<\/p>\n<p>The results are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>World Cup in Kuhtai, Austria.<br \/>\nSlalom \u2013 Silver<br \/>\nGiant slalom \u2013 Bronze<br \/>\nGiant slalom \u2013 Silver<\/p>\n<p>World Cup in St Moritz, Switzerland<br \/>\nGiant slalom \u2013 Gold<br \/>\nSlalom \u2013 Silver<br \/>\nGiant slalom \u2013 Silver<br \/>\nSlalom \u2013 Gold<\/p>\n<p>World Cup in Innerkrems, Austria<br \/>\nDownhill \u2013 Gold<br \/>\nDownhill \u2013 Gold<br \/>\nSuper G \u2013 Gold<br \/>\nSuper combined \u2013 Gold<\/p>\n<p>World Championships in Tarvisio, Italy<br \/>\nDownhill \u2013 Gold<br \/>\nSuper combined \u2013 Silver<br \/>\nSuperG \u2013 Silver<br \/>\nSlalom \u2013 Silver<br \/>\nGiant slalom \u2013 Silver<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Millie and her team visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/millieknight.co.uk\/\">http:\/\/millieknight.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information on Para Snow Sport go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disabilitysnowsport.org.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.disabilitysnowsport.org.uk\/<\/a> or for Para sport in general visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/paralympics.org.uk\/\">http:\/\/paralympics.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interested in personal training and beyond? Pop by the reception desk to discuss\u00a0the various appointments we have and after further detailing your targets we can recommend you the appropriate appointment.\u00a0To keep up to date and involved, follow UniKentSports on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UniKentSports\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or like us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/unikentsports\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Sport health and fitness instructor Mike Burrell shares the achievements of Paralympic\u00a0Skier\u00a0and Sochi flag bearer Millie Knight who he has been training with for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/mike-burrell-training-kentish-alpine-skier-millie-knight\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5725,"featured_media":3024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[174737,174735,174736,174734,174739,95614,174740,174738],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3027,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions\/3027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}