OLYMPIC bronze medallist Jenny Jones (inset picture), Paralympic gold medallist Kelly Gallagher and her guide Charlotte Evans (on left of picture) and multi Olympic medallist Jade Etherington (pictured right) and her guide Caroline Powell have all been awarded the Ski Club of Great Britain’s Pery Medal in recognition of their outstanding performances and services to skiing.

This is only the second time that the club has awarded more than one Pery Medal in the same year. The joint award honours the on snow success at the 2014 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. It was Great Britain’s most successful Olympics for 90 years, equalling the medal count of the 1924 Winter Olympics (four medals) and the most successful Winter Games ever for Paralympics GB (with a total of six medals).

The Pery Medal was awarded not only to recognise the contribution the athletes have made to the success of competitive international skiing but for their ongoing contribution to the development of snowsports.

Ski Club President and BBC correspondent Frank Gardner OBE, who is pictured above with three of the winners, presented the Pery Medals at the Ski Club of Great Britain’s headquarters in Wimbledon Village, London.

Jenny Jones; Olympic slopestyle bronze medallist at the Sochi Olympic games and the winner of three X Games gold medals in a row, is the first British snowboarder to win an Olympic medal and also the first snowboarder to be awarded the Pery Medal.

Kelly Gallagher and her guide Charlotte Evans triumphed in Sochi finishing first in the visually impaired Super-G competition and winning the first ever gold medal on snow for a British Athlete at either the Olympics or Paralympics.

Jade Etherington and her guide Caroline Powell won silver in the women’s downhill skiing, combined and slalom, and bronze medals in the Super-G at the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games in Sochi.

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