The 17-year-old secured both slalom wins in the men’s sitting events as the 2017-2018 campaign got underway with the Europa Cup in Landgraaf, The Netherlands.

Kampschreur won three titles at the 2017 World Championships in Tarvisio, Italy and the first leg of the new season featured slalom races held from Thursday and Friday, November 9-10.

He clocked one minute 20.74 seconds to take the first race, followed by France´s Yohann Taberlet in 1:26.24 and the Netherlands´ Niels de Langen in 1:28.04. 

Kampschreur returned the following day with another victory in 1:25.27, finishing well ahead of de Langen in 1:31.52 and France’s Frederic Francois in 1:34.72.

Austria´s Veronika Aigner, with guide Elisabeth Aigner, also kicked off the season with two gold medals, by winning the women´s visually impaired. 

She set a time of one minute 32.55 seconds in the first slalom event. 

Croatia´s Eva Goluza in 1:59.08, guided by Ana Zigman, and Norway´s Hanne Vadseth in 2:01.56, with guide Lorentz Peter Gedde-Dahl, completed the top-three.

Aigner in a time of 1:39.75 won the second race in comfort.

Russia´s Aleksandra Frantseva in  1:54.19 and guided by Semen Pliaskin, finished second with and Goluza in 2:05.92 winning bronze.

All Russian skiers competed as neutrals as an interim measure implemented by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) over their nation's failure to comply with international drug codes.

In the men’s visually impaired, Russian Valerii Redkozubov, guided by Evgeny Geroev, also celebrated two successes. 

He clocked one minute 24.29 in the first race, followed by Austria´s Gernot Morgenfurt in a time of 1:31.99 and guide Christoph Peter Gmeiner.

France´s Thomas Civade, in a time of 1:39.20, with guide Fabien Chambost, came in third.

It was an exact replica of results in second race Redkozubov setting a time of 1:31.43, ahead of Morgenfurt in 1:38.72 and Civade with 1:44.00.

The event also saw the return of France´s four-time Paralympic champion Marie Bochet, who won three golds at Tarvisio 2017 despite an injury-filled season. 

This week, the French skier tested herself in slalom, winning the first women´s standing race with a time of 1:29.48, followed by Dutch skier Anna Jochemsen with 1:41.32 and Russia’s Varvara Voronchikhina in 1:43.00.

Jochemsen, who could test Bochet for her Paralympic medals, won the second slalom race in 1:42.23. 

France´s Celine Deroualliere in a time of 1:57.87 and Switzerland´s Elena Kratter with 1:58.83 took the second and third positions, respectively.

In the women´s sitting, Switzerland's Stephani Victor, with a time of 1:47.29, won the first race, with Japan´s Yoshiko Tanaka in 1:49.42 and the Netherlands´ Barbara van Bergen, in a time of 2:01.54 coming in second and third, respectively.

Dutchwoman Linda van Impelen in 1:48.22 was the fastest in the second race, beating out Tanaka, in 1:51.15 and van Bergen with a time of 1:52.44.

There was more Dutch success also in the men´s standing. 

Jeffrey Stuut in 1:25.33 secured the first race ahead of compatriot Thomas Mulder, who finished in 1:26.79, and Russian Alexander Alyabyev with a time of  1:27.59.

France´s two-time teenage world champion Arthur Bauchet, in a time of 1:28.43, showed his class in the second race, edging Stuut, who finished in a time of 1:28.44, and Russian Aleksei Bugaev, with a time of 1:28.85.

The Europa Cup circuit will continue in Pitzal, Austria, from 7-8 December.