The female skiers take centre stage in Cortina with two giant slalom runs starting at 08:00, with the visually impaired division followed by the standing and seated skiers. Run two follows in the same order from 11:00.

Britain’s Menna Fitzpatrick won silver in the event in Pyeongchang but finished out of the medals in Beijing, where Veronika Aigner won gold.

Aigner has won three of the four World Cup giant slalom races staged this season, with compatriot Elina Stary taking the other.

Britain’s Hester Poole will be making her Paralympic debut aged 18 with guide Ali Hall.

But she will not be the youngest competitor in the field with American teenager Meg Gustafson, who is guided by her older brother Spencer, only 16.

Four years ago, Ebba Aarsjoe of Sweden was second after the first giant slalom run in the standing division on her Games debut but failed to finish her second run, leaving her bitterly disappointed.

Though she did win gold in both the slalom and super combined and bronze in the downhill, she will be keen to make up for missing out in this event four years ago.

This season she is leading the giant slalom World Cup standings thanks to a pair of wins in St Moritz, but France’s Aurelie Richard and veteran German Andrea Rothfuss will be among those to push her.

Aarsjoe comes from a sporting family – her uncle Johannes twice finished second in Europe’s Strongest Man and is a nine-time national champion.

In the wheelchair curling, the mixed team semi-finals take place at 09:05. It will be a quick turnaround for the semi-final losers, with the bronze-medal match at 17:35.

Briton Scott Meenagh completes his Para-biathlon campaign in the men’s sprint pursuit seated event (qualifying 09:15; final 11:45) in which missed shots mean a 20-second time penalty rather than a penalty loop.

Meenagh was seventh at last year’s World Championships and has had three top-eight finishes over the distance in this year’s World Cup races.

In the visually impaired races, Germany’s Leonie Walter and Oleksandr Kazik of Ukraine will be aiming to add the Paralympic title to their 2025 world crowns.

And in the standing division, Canada will be aiming for a double through Natalie Wilkie and five-time Paralympian Mark Arendz, with both landing World Cup wins this season.

In Milan, the Para-ice hockey semi-finals take place at 13:35 and 18:05, in which the sport’s big two – the USA and Canada – will figure.

The Para-snowboarders are back in action for their second event – the banked slalom.

Athletes race against the clock down a winding course with tight turns. Each athlete has two runs and the best decides their final ranking.

Nina Sparks will create history as Britain’s first female Paralympic snowboarder in the women’s LL2 event, which starts the day with run one from 09:00 and run two from 10:50.

Ollie Hill won Britain’s first Paralympic medal in the sport with bronze in this event four years ago, and he will go again in the men’s LL2 (Lower Limb) event from 10:06 and 11:56.

Compatriot James Barnes-Miller, who was ninth in Beijing, will aim to challenge for a medal in the men’s UL (upper limb) event but Chinese riders will again be the ones to watch (09:22 and 11:12).

Briton Matt Hamilton makes his Games debut in the same division while Davy Zyw, who is thought to be the first snowsport athlete with motor neurone disease (MND) to compete at the Games, is scheduled to be in action in his second event.

The women’s Para-Alpine skiing programme comes to an end with the slalom across the three divisions – visually impaired, standing and seated – with run one starting at 08:00 and run two from 12:00.

Briton Menna Fitzpatrick narrowly missed out on a medal in this event in Beijing, finishing fourth as Austria’s Veronika Aigner beat older sister Barbara.

Aigner will be favourite to retain her crown but will need to get the better of the likes of compatriot Elina Stary, who leads the World Cup standings, Italy’s Chiara Mazzel and Alexandra Rexova of Slovakia.

Briton Hester Poole goes in the second of her two events with guide Ali Hall, with the teenager hoping to gain more experience of top-level competition.

In the seated division, Germany’s Anna-Lena Forster will hope to power her way to a third title in a row in the event but faces two tough Chinese rivals in Wenjing Zhang – the 2022 silver medallist – and Sitong Liu.

The wheelchair curling tournament comes to its climax with the mixed team final at 14:05.

Four years ago, China retained their title when they beat Sweden 8-3 on home soil. Will they make it three in a row?

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 Paralympic programme.

Run one starts from 08:00 with visually impaired skiers followed by standing and seated, with run two to come at 11:00 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 a 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, and Fred Warburton and James Hannan, with Cozens and Warburton aiming 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 Pederson 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 the 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 seated division but China’s defending champion Peng Zheng and world championship silver medallist Pavlo Bal of Ukraine could be among the frontrunners.

American Jake Adicoff won silver over the distance in Beijing in the men’s visually impaired event and is the current world champion, 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.