The French star looks set to successfully defend the five world titles she won in 2013 after an overall time of 2:03.17 saw her taking gold in the super combined standing, ahead of German silver medallist Andrea Rothfuß and bronze medal winner Anna Jochemsen of The Netherlands, who finished in 2:09.58 and 2:12.52 respectively at the Canadian resort.

"I just take so much pleasure one more time," Bochet said.

"I just do my skiing and at the end we will see if I can defend them all."

The men's standing gold went to Russian Paralympic champion Alexey Bugaev, with a time of 1:54.56, as Austrians Markus Salcher finished in 1:56.04 to take silver and Matthias Lanzinger clocked 1:56.96 for bronze.

Another athlete claiming her third gold medal of this year's World Championships was Australia's Melissa Perrine, with guide Andrew Bor, who clocked a winning 2:14.8 to secure the super combined visually impaired title.

The silver medal went to Russian Paralympic champion Aleksandra Frantceva and guide Semen Pliaskin, with a time of 2:16.95, while the bronze went to Danelle Umstead of the United States, guided by her husband Rob, after they clocked 2:19.11.

Miroslav Haraus secured gold in the super combined visually impaired ©Getty Images


The men's equivalent saw Slovakia's Miroslav Haraus and guide Maros Hudik win their first world title in a time of 1:59.81, ahead of Russia's Ivan Frantsev and guide German Agranovkii and Spain's Jon Santacana and his guide Miguel Galindo, who finished in 2:01.35 and 2:03.32 respectively.

"Today the race was great, the conditions were also great," Haraus said.

"The first run of super-G was a little bit harder than Thursday (March 5) but I am really happy I won.

"I have been working hard and waiting a lot but finally it came."

The women's sitting class saw the rivalry between Germany's Anna Schaffelhuber and Austria's Claudia Lösch come to a head as Lösch topped the podium with a time of 2:04.79 ahead of Schaffelhuber, who claimed silver with 2:06.10.

American Laurie Stephens secured the bronze medal in 2:17.78.

Gold in the men's equivalent went to Germany's Georg Kreiter, who clocked 1:56.84, ahead of Austria's Roman Rabl in 1:57.70 and France's Frédéric François in 1:58.39, who clinched the silver and bronze medals respectively.

The action continues tomorrow with the giant slalom races.

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