The brilliantly talented Millie Knight is a British international skier and paralympian whose career to date has yielded four Paralympic medals and nine World Championship medals. She has won all of these despite being visually impaired — she has no more than 10% vision in either of her eyes. She made headlines in 2017 when she won 11 World Cup medals, seven of which were gold, in just a few months and then took four medals home from that year’s World Championships. Her most recent success was her bronze medal in the downhill competition at the 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing.

Knight was born in January 1999. When she was one year old, she contracted an illness that wasn’t diagnosed until she was three and which tragically resulted in her losing the majority of her sight by the time she was six years old. She first tried skiing when she was seven and was encouraged to take it up as a sport by Paralympian sit-skier Sean Rose, who had then just competed in the 2010 Winter Paralympics. Unable to afford proper training and a professional guide, Knight initially began racing with her mother as a guide.

In 2012, Knight began training with the British Paralympic development squad, and in 2014, just after her 15th birthday, she became the youngest British paralympic athlete to ever compete in a Winter Paralympics. She finished fifth in both of her events, and that experience, coupled with her remarkable development in the ensuing four years, helped position her to win her first medals in 2018.