Christoph Kunz (C) of Switzerland celebrates winning the gold medal with silver medalist Corey Peters (L) of New Zealand and bronze medalist Roman Rabl of Austria. Photo / Getty Images.
Corey Peters was ''pretty blown away" after winning a Paralympic silver medal in Sochi, Russia yesterday.
The New Plymouth skier, competing in his favoured giant slalom sitting discipline, led the field after the first of two runs, but could not hang onto a .53 advantage over Swiss skier Christoph Kunz
and had to settle for second.
Kunz won in 2min 32.73s, with Peters, after managing the sixth best time on the second run, finishing on 2:33.20, while Austrian Roman Rabl won bronze in 2:33.31.
It was New Zealand's 28th Paralympic medal at their 10th Games and sixth silver.
The previous day New Zealand had managed three fourth place finishes - to Peters, standing skier Adam Hall and snowboarder Carl Murphy. Peters was the last New Zealander in action in Sochi on Saturday night and determined to make the most of it.
