Australia's Ben Tudhope has clinched a near-perfect start in his bid for a maiden Paralympics gold medal, qualifying as second seed in the snowboard cross.
Given two runs for Saturday's time trials, Tudhope finished the course in 51.26 seconds to qualify second for the LL2 round-of-16 at the Milan-Cortina Games.
He trailed Italian rival Emanuel Perathoner by 3.27 seconds, with China's Sun Qi finishing third-fastest in Cortina.
