The 2018 Winter Paralympics have closed with a spectacular ceremony in Pyeongchang.
Skier Menna Fitzpatrick and her guide Jen Kehoe, who won Britain’s only gold of the Games, led the team into the ceremony in South Korea.
The pair were given the honour after they claimed victory earlier on Sunday in the visually-impaired slalom to become GB’s most successful Winter Paralympians of all time, thanks to their haul of one gold medal, two silvers and a bronze.
Millie Knight and guide Brett Wild also finished their Games on a high with bronze in the slalom to add to their two silvers from the downhill and super-G.
It meant the team hit their UK Sport medal target of at least seven medals for their biggest winter medal haul since 1984 and since Lottery funding was introduced in the 1990s.
Beforehand, there were concerns about ticket sales but the locals took the Games to their hearts.
The opening ceremony was attended by many spectators with disabilities and accessibility seemed well thought out in the majority of places.
As there was no alpine skiing at the Alpensia resort, which hosted the Olympic skiing and is located near the Olympic Stadium, the Games lacked a Paralympic park atmosphere.
But the crowds at the Jeongseon resort, about a 30-minute bus trip from the Olympic Stadium, were loud and colourful, particularly for the snowboarding.
And the Gangneung coastal venues for Para-ice hockey and wheelchair curling appeared to attract more families and school children.
Overall, more than 343,000 tickets were sold, which was 16,000 more than for Sochi in 2014, 100,000 more than Vancouver 2010 and more than double the total sold for Torino 2006.
One of the biggest cheers was saved for cross-country skier Sin Eui-hyun, who won South Korea’s first ever Winter Paralympic gold after claiming the men’s 7.5km seated race on the penultimate day of competition.
