Canada's Lonnie Bissonnette won the first race at the opening Para Bobsleigh World Cup in Park City, Utah ©IBSF

Canada's Lonnie Bissonnette dominated the first race on Park City's 2002 Olympic course in Utah as the Para Bobsleigh World Cup season got underway.

Bissonnette, who won the first Para-bobsleigh world title in 2016, topped both runs to finish with a total of 1min 38.48sec.

Andreas Kapfinger of Austria took second place with a combined time total of 1:39.04, in front of Switzerland's Christopher Stewart, who clocked 1:39.51.

Britain's defending World Cup champion Corie Mapp had to settle for 12th place out of the 13 finishers with a time of 1:40.73 on the Salt Lake City 2002 track.

The opening Para Bobsleigh World Cup of the season is taking place on the Park City course in Utah that hosted events for the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics ©Getty Images
The opening Para Bobsleigh World Cup of the season is taking place on the Park City course in Utah that hosted events for the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics ©Getty Images

Latvia's Annja Krumina - the first woman to win a mixed-gender International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation race when she earned victory in the World Cup in Calgary in November 2017 - finished one place behind Mapp and was last on 1:41.72.

This is the fifth season for the mixed-gender Para Sport World Cup.

Para-bobsleigh heard in September that it had missed out on inclusion at the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics.

In Para-bobsleigh the sleds are monobobs started with a special automatic launch system.

Racing continues at the Park City course tomorrow.