Millie Knight

Millie Knight

Knight was studying for her GCSEs in tandem with her sporting career. She was enrolled at King's School in Canterbury; her first year studying there was 2012. Knight was inspired to take up the sport competitively when she met sit-skier Sean Rose, shortly after he had competed at the 2010 Winter Paralympics. Her mother was Knight's first sighted guide for financial reasons. The pair competed together in visually impaired (VI) races.

In November 2012, at age 13, Knight began training with Great Britain's Paralympic development squad. She raced at the Europa Cup in slalom and giant slalom.

2014 Paralympics Knight's debut Paralympics was the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi; She was the flag bearer at the opening ceremony for ParalympicsGB, carrying the flag at the Fisht Olympic Stadium, an honour Knight described as "a surprise". She competed for ParalympicsGB in the slalom on 14 March, completing both of her runs, and finishing fifth, and competed in the giant slalom on 16 March, again finishing fifth. carrying the Baton in Kent.

At Panorama, Knight took part in the two technical events, the slalom and giant slalom, as she was still too young to compete in the speed events. Winning a silver and a bronze i Britain's only two medals of the games.

The following season, Knight teamed up with guide Brett Wild. After initially meeting at a training camp in December 2015, the pair competed together at the World Cup finals in Aspen, Colorado, where they took two wins in the downhill and super-G and a third place in the giant slalom: this success convinced the pair to focus on the speed disciplines, which they felt were their strength. Knight and Wild subsequently took a silver behind Farkašová in the Super Combined and a second silver in the giant slalom.

After the World Championships in February 2017, Knight sustained a concussion in a crash at the World Cup Finals in March in South Korea. The crash took her out of action for six months. However, she was still crowned World Cup downhill champion for the season.

2018 Paralympics At the 2018 Paralympics in Pyongchang, South Korea, Knight took two silver medals on the opening weekend of the Games in the downhill and super-G,

2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships In 2022, she won the gold medal in the women's visually impaired super combined event at the 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships held in Lillehammer, Norway. She also won the bronze medal in the women's visually impaired Super-G event.