Anna Schaffelhuber of Germany won on the opening day of the World Cup event ©Getty Images

Alexis Guimond and Alana Ramsay both secured Canadian giant slalom victories today as International Paralympic Committee Para Alpine Skiing World Cup action resumed in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia.

Teenager Guimond claimed a first World Cup victory in the men's standing division.

His time of 2min 05.61sec across two runs proved enough to beat Austria's Christophe Berhard Schneider.

He finished over two seconds behind in 2:07.70 as Australia's Mitchell Gourley clocked 2:07.74 for bronze.

It came in the final event before the World Championships get underway in Tarvisio in Italy next week.

Ramsay, a comparative veteran at 22, won her first World Cup giant slalom race with two leading runs for a total time of 2:19.45 in the women’s standing.

The Canadian has already secured a trio of podium finishes in technical events in 2016-17, showing her potential in the build-up to the World Championships.

Ramsay’s compatriot Erin Latimer was second, rounding off a strong showing for Canada in 2:23.47.

United States' Tyler Walker was among other winners today ©Getty Images
United States' Tyler Walker was among other winners today ©Getty Images

Sixteen-year-old Anna-Maria Rieder of Germany finished third in 2:25.15.

Italy’s Giacomo Bertagnolli continued his good form with men's visually impaired victory alongside guide Fabrizio Casal.

He won in 2:04.37 to beat Slovakia’s Marek Kubacka, second in 2:05.86, and Paralympic silver medallist team-mate Jakub Krako, third in 2:11.31.

Slovakia’s Paralympic champion Henrieta Farkasova was triumphant in the corresponding women’s event in 2:14.32.

United States' Staci Mannella and South Korea’s Jae Rim Yang were second and third in 2:28.52 and 2:38.69.

A rivalry between German Paralympic and world champion Anna Schaffelhuber and Austria’s points leader Claudia Loesch continued in the women’s sitting event.

Schaffelhuber won in 2:12.71 to beat Loesch in 2:20.37 and Germany's Anna-Lena Forster in 2:23.22.

Another American in Tyler Walker was the quickest in the men’s sitting in 2:06.11, pushing Japan’s worlds bronze medallist Taiki Morii into second in 2:07.22. 

Austria’s World Cup leader Roman Rabl was third in 2:08.21.