Great Britain's Menna Fitzpatrick will compete in the Winter Paralympics, almost three months after suffering a significant knee injury.

Para-alpine skier Fitzpatrick, Britain's most decorated Winter Paralympian with six medals, sustained the injury in training in December but opted against surgery in a bid to compete at the Milan-Cortina Games, which start on 6 March.

The 27-year-old and her guide, Katie Guest, are among the second wave of athletes named in the GB team., external

Fred Warburton and guide James Hannan, Sam Cozens and guide Adam Hall, Hester Poole and guide Ali Hall, and Dominic Allen also make the Para-alpine team.

Snowboarder Davy Zyw has been included and is thought to be the first snowsport athlete with motor neurone disease (MND) to compete at the Games.

"I'm stoked beyond measure. Every time I strap into my snowboard I count my stars," he said.

"The journey to get to the Games has been immense, but nothing is impossible."

Para-snowboarders Matt Hamilton and Nina Sparks have been added to the team, and Sparks will become the first female snowboarder to represent Britain at a Paralympics.

The first part of the team was announced in December.

The Games, which run until 15 March, will mark the 50th anniversary of the first Winter Paralympics.

Wheelchair curling mixed doubles is the only new medal event in this year's programme.

Britain won six medals at the 2022 Games in Beijing. That was one short of the haul from Pyeongchang 2018 and came from the biggest GB team at a Winter Paralympics since 1994 in Lillehammer.