Overview
- Muraoka's runner-up finish in the women's giant slalom sitting gives her 11 career Paralympic medals, the most by any Japanese winter Para athlete.
- Germany's Anna-Lena Forster won the event, continuing a familiar rivalry with Muraoka on the sit-ski circuit.
- The giant slalom result follows her super-G silver earlier in the week, making her Japan's only medalist so far at Milano Cortina with two silvers.
- Her tally surpasses the 10-medal mark held by Kuniko Obinata, who leads Japan's delegation and watched the milestone at the Tofane course.
- Competing after months of recovery and a withdrawal from the downhill, Muraoka has raced cautiously and is slated to start the women's slalom sitting next.