FORMER Bournemouth schoolgirl Jennifer Kehoe and Menna Fitzpatrick have become Britain’s most decorated Paralympians of all time.

Para-alpine ski guide Jennifer, 34, and visually-impaired skier Menna,19, won gold in the Paralympic slalom on the closing day of the games in Pyeongchang on Sunday.

It was Great Britain’s only gold medal during the games.

The pair had already won two silver medals and one bronze earlier in the competition.

British Army officer Jennifer has been released from her military duties for two years to train as a full-time athlete and guide.

Jennifer said: “Words don’t even cover what we’re feeling right now, it hasn’t properly sunk in. We left everything out there on that hill, we fought right to the very end.”

Fitzpatrick, whose day did not start as she may have hoped when a ski boot fell on her head, told Paralympics GB’s official website: “This morning, I didn’t have the greatest start, you wouldn’t have thought it was our day.

“I was exhausted after this whole period of racing. The nerves and the emotion were just overwhelming so that didn’t make for a great start.

“We just sang songs and danced and it made me feel a lot better and it seemed to work. We may have been dancing in the start gate!

“We just needed something to make us giggle, and that calmed me down.”

Farkasova led by 0.66 seconds after the first run, but Fitzpatrick’s second attempt saw her eclipse the leader by 1.32 seconds for a total time of one minute 51.80 seconds.

Jenifer’s brother David Kehoe, who also went to school in Bournemouth became a celebrity in his own right, by wearing a Union Jack onesie every day to cheer on the duo.

Menna has just five per cent vision and was born with congenital retinal folds and has no vision in her left eye and limited vision in her right eye. She learned to ski at the age of five.

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.