Aron Fahrni with gold coup at the Para Snowboard World Championships

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He is the man who, despite his disastrous ski lift accident as a six-year-old, has never lost his passion for snow sports. And now Aron Fahrni (24) is the man who is the snowboarding world champion.

The Berner from Oberthal with the disabled left arm races to world championship gold at the Para-Snowboard World Championships in La Molina, Spain. Fahrni wins the final in the Dual Banked Slalom discipline, a parallel race with banked turns, in a hundredth thriller, 0.01 seconds ahead of Mike Minor (USA).

“It was the best photo finish. In the end, we both felt that he had won and I have already congratulated him,” says Fahrni at the Swiss Paralympic Games. But it’s a Swiss gold grab. And Fahrni already won silver in the boardercross on Saturday.

Fahrni only joined last winter

It is the Bernese’s second participation in the World Cup. Last year he did not finish on the podium as a rookie in Lillehammer. This time he travels back as historic world champion, as a Swiss parasnowboarding world title has never been won.

Fahrni is only at the beginning of his career. When national coach Silvan Hofer discovered him as a possible World Cup driver in a J+S course, he only called Hofer a year later and announced his interest.

Then, when Fahrni fell in love with a PluSport training camp, the umbrella organization for sports for the disabled, he started his career last winter and almost qualified for the Paralympics in Beijing.

The graduate bachelor of the University of Bern (sports science) will start top sports from April and will concentrate entirely on snowboarding for the time being.

In the Women’s Dual Banked Slalom there was no more medal after Romy Tschopp’s boardercross silver, the bidder from Basel finished fourth.

Source : Blick