Winter Paralympics daily guide: 10 golds to be decided on final day

The Winter Paralympics has featured almost 660 athletes from more than 50 countries competing for 79 gold medals at Milan-Cortina.

Competitors have taken part in six sports - Para-Alpine skiing, Para-biathlon, Para-cross-country skiing, Para-ice hockey, Para-snowboard and wheelchair curling.

Neil Simpson and guide Rob Poth won Great Britain's first medal of the Games on Tuesday, clinching silver in the men's alpine combined.

Here is your guide to what is happening on Sunday's final day of action.

All times GMT and subject to change.

Medals: 10

Medal events: Para-Alpine skiing (men's slalom visually-impaired, standing, sitting); Para-cross-country skiing (women's 20km interval start visually-impaired, standing, sitting; men's 20km interval start visually-impaired, standing, sitting); Para-ice hockey (team).

Para-skier Neil Simpson and guide Rob Poth will be aiming to finish their Games on a high in the men's visually impaired slalom on the final day of the programme.

Run one starts from 08:00 with visually impaired skiers followed by standing and seated, with run two to come at 12:00 in the same order.

Simpson was ninth in this event in Beijing but he and Poth lie fourth in the World Cup standings.

Giacomo Bertagnolli of Italy is defending champion and would like nothing better than to end his home Games with another medal, but Johannes Aigner of Austria is always a danger. France's Hyacinthe Deleplace and Poland's Michal Golas have shown good form in World Cup races this season.

Simpson and Poth will be joined on the start line by fellow Britons Sam Cozens and Adam Hall, who will be hoping to learn more lessons at their debut Games.

It will also be a learning experience for Dom Allen in the standing division, where France's Arthur Bauchet will be aiming to retain his title and Russia's Aleksei Bugaev could be among the big dangers. Norway's Jesper Pedersen will hope for back-to-back wins in the seated event.

The Para-cross-country skiing programme comes to an end with a test for both male and female athletes over 20km.

This is the first time women have raced over the distance at a Paralympics and it will be a brutal examination for everyone at the end of a busy schedule.

Scott Meenagh goes for GB in the men's seated division in his final Paralympic race before retiring but China's defending champion Peng Zheng and world championship silver medallist Pavlo Bal of Ukraine could be among the frontrunners.

American Oksana Masters won her fourth gold medal on Saturday, making it her most successful single winter or summer Paralympic Games, and she bids to extend that record in the women's seated event.

Her compatriot Jake Adicoff won silver over the distance in Beijing in the men's visually impaired event and the current world champion is aiming to win his fourth gold in Italy, with Zebastian Modin of Sweden possibly his main rival.

Norway's Vilde Nilsen and Canada's Natalie Wilkie could be the ones to fight it out in the women's standing event having finished one-two at the World Championships while Russian Anastasiia Bagiian will be going for a clean sweep of golds in the women's visually impaired event.

As expected, the United States and Canada will do battle in the Para-ice hockey final at 15:05 which brings the curtain down on the sporting action at these Games.

The two nations have dominated the sport for many years, with the US going for a fifth title in a row on the back of winning their seventh world title last year.

Canada's most recent Paralympic gold came in 2006 but they did win the 2024 World Championship.

The Games will come to an official end with the closing ceremony at the Cortina Curling Stadium from 19:30, with time to celebrate and reflect on the sporting action.

Winter sports attention will switch after these Games to French Alps 2030, which will be the 15th edition of the Winter Paralympics.

They will take place from 1-10 March 2030 - 38 years after the Albertville 1992 Paralympic Winter Games.

France is a Paralympic Games stalwart, having been part of every Winter Games since the first edition in 1976 and also hosting the 2024 Summer Games.

The six sports that were part of this year's programme will all be in again with plans to split the action between Nice (curling and Para-ice hockey) and the French Alps (Para-Alpine skiing, Para-biathlon, Para-cross-country and Para-snowboard).

Bobsleigh had applied for inclusion but was not successful and will now have to hope it is included in the programme for Salt Lake City-Utah in 2034.