Out of the 49 delegations who competed in Pyeongchang, 26 won a medal, which beat the record set at the 1994 Games in Lillehammer, while a record 21 won golds, including debut wins for Croatia, Kazakhstan and China, as well as the hosts. When they came over the finish line and it was red, I was speechless and it was such a proud moment, a dream come true.”

Team-mates Mille Knight and guide Brett Wild took bronze – their third medal of the Games, following silver in the downhill and super-G – as Great Britain hit UK Sport’s target of seven medals. They might have lost out on the final day to Britain's Fitzpatrick and Kehoe but with four golds and a silver, it was still a special Games for Slovak visually-impaired skier Henrieta Farkasova and her guide Natalia Subrtova. “I’m feeling pretty rough for him, he’s a good friend of mine, and you never want to win that way.”

McKeever, who carried Canada’s flag into the opening ceremonies, became Canada’s most successful winter athlete in history when he won the 20-kilometre race to open the Games.
The closing ceremony of the Winter Paralympics takes place with the United States team winning the medal table with 36 medals (13 gold, 15 silver and 8 bronze).