A FORMER Bournemouth schoolgirl is celebrating after winning three medals at the Winter Paralympics.

Para-alpine ski guide Jennifer Kehoe, 34, and her 19-year-old visually-impaired partner, Menna Fitzpatrick, secured their second silver and third medal overall of the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics in Wednesday's giant slalom event.

The pair claimed bronze in the women’s super-G on Sunday just 24 hours after failing to finish the downhill event. They also won silver in the super combined.

Jennifer, who attended Bournemouth School for Girls, said: "After the downhill, we just had a cup of tea and a chat with our sport psychologist who helped us think about all of the positives that we've had from this season.”

She added: “We’re generally quite consistent, it’s rare that we ever fall but it was a bit of a perfect storm of events – we were going very fast and a really difficult bit of the course where we hit a bump.

“That happens in ski racing but we went back to the beginning, reset and told ourselves we could do it.”

The pair matched their finish in Tuesday's super-combined event as they posted a time of two minutes 28.34 seconds over their two runs on Wednesday.

It was 5.34 seconds behind Henrieta Farkasova and Natalia Subrtova of Slovakia, who have won each of the four events so far.

Welsh skier Menna has just five per cent vision and competes in all five top class ski disciplines of slalom, giant slalom, super G, super combined and downhill.

A visually-impaired skier usually skis three to eight metres behind their guide, following the line of the skis and listening to the instructions given as they race down the course.

Jennifer wears an orange hi-visibility vest over her race suit to help Menna see where she is.

With Jen as her guide, the two women can reach speeds of more than 110 kilometres per hour.

Speaking on paralympics.org.uk, Menna said: "It felt absolutely amazing, you can really feel the acceleration from your skis and your bodies driving you forward, Jen was just going for it and the feeling was so good.

"It just doesn't sink in, when we get to celebrate we'll have a chance to realise what we've done, our families have done all the celebrating for us so far."

The women's visually impaired skiing concludes on Sunday with the slalom event.

Great Britain so far has four silver medals and one bronze.

The Winter Paralympics come to a close on Sunday.