In the final individual races of the competition Schoenfelder, who has an astonishing 22 Winter Paralympic medals, claimed a bronze after finishing in the men's standing giant slalom behind France's Vincent Gauthier-Manuel and Switzerland's Thomas Pfyl respectively.

"It was a perfect week for me and it was a good decision to come here again," said Schoenfelder who has claimed two gold medals in Sestriere.

"I thought about it after the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games, on whether or not I should come to Sestriere, and I remembered that I love this place and I love the slope here."

"It is the perfect way to retire."

In the women's visually impaired event, Britain's Kelly Gallagher and guide Charlotte Evans continued their fantastic form as she claimed a bronze medal, her second of the competition.

The 24-year-old from County Down in Northern Ireland, who made history earlier in the week history by claiming Britain's first ever World Championship medal in the sport, finished behind Slovakia's Henrieta Farkasova and Russia's Alexandra Frantseva.

In the men's visually impaired event, Spain's Yon Santacana with guide Miguel Galindo took the gold with a time of 2min 10.78sec.

Taking the silver and bronze from Slovakia were Jakub Krako with guide Dusan Simo and Maros Hudik with guide Radomir Dudas.

In the women's sitting event, Germany's Anna Schaffelhuber claimed victory with a time of 2:31.73.

Austria's Claudio Loesch picked up silver with the United States Alana Nichols securing bronze.

Britain's Anna Turney also competed in the event, and said that she was glad to take in all the experience for future use.

"I'm quite new to this, and although I fell over in the second run, I got back up and made some good turns," Turney said.

For the men's sitting event, Japan pair Taiki Morii and Takeshi Suzuki took the gold and silver medals respectively.

Coming in third was Switzerland's Christoph Kunz.

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