The dust has barely settled on Millie Knight’s second Paralympic Winter Games but already the Canterbury skier is targeting an elusive gold medal in four years’ time.

Knight and guide Brett Wild wrapped up their time in PyeongChang with a third medal, taking bronze in the slalom to back up their two silvers earlier in the week.

But with Menna Fitzpatrick and Jennifer Kehoe scooping gold in the same race, four years on from Kelly Gallagher’s historic effort in Sochi, Knight doesn’t want to feel left out.

Three medals out of ParalympicsGB’s total of seven far eclipses anything she could have hoped for but, with the top step of the podium thus far out of reach, there’s a nagging feeling the 19-year-old is not willing to give up.

“I’ll definitely be back again in four years, we’ve got to win that gold. It’s each step on the way but we’ll get back to training when we are back,” she said.

“I’m feeling pretty good at the moment. The season we have had has been really tough and coming away with three medals is absolutely wonderful.

“We were coming into these Games almost not expecting anything and thinking we would come out with nothing and so we’re delighted.

“Coming fourth in the super-combined was so tough but since then we worked so hard with our psychologist and we’ve had a lot of messages from back home that have spurred us on and changed our mindset.

“To be able to come back today and fight for our bronze has been brilliant.”

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Knight needed just 15 minutes of the Games to pick up the first medal, skiing to downhill silver behind Henrieta Farkasova – the two repeating the trick in the super-G soon after.

But from there things didn’t go to plan for ParalympicsGB’s flagbearer at Sochi 2014, the super-combined fourth place a blessing compared to seventh in the giant slalom.

It meant a big effort was needed in the closing slalom, stopping the clock in a time of 1:53.39, more than a second behind gold medallist compatriots Fitzpatrick and Kehoe.

Bronze was far from the desire prior to the run but, having overcome the difficulties of a serious crash just 12 months ago, guide Wild was keen to take everything into perspective come the final outing.

“We had a gameplan, we wanted to go flat out and we did and we left nothing on the hill so I’m chuffed to bits with how Millie has skied this week, it’s amazing,” he said.

“We would have been lucky to leave with one medal and I would have been happy to leave with one medal so to leave with two silvers and a bronze is phenomenal.

“I think the week on the whole has been absolutely brilliant. It was a hard dip in the middle and it took a lot for the sport psychologist to get us back but we bounced back and proved that mental resilience one again.

“I’ll take a week out when I get back to recuperate but then I’ll be back in the gym. That’s the plan.”

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