British alpine skier Sean Rose won silver in the second Downhill race of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) World Cup Finals in Aspen, USA on March 2, 2010.

The result gives Rose an overall ranking of third in the 2009-2010 World Cup series and indicates that Rose is in excellent form ahead of the Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver which begin next week.

Middlesborough-born Rose, who now lives in Cambridgeshire, completed the run in a time of 1:14.11, just under two seconds behind the USA's Joe Tomkins who took advantage of competing on home snow to finish first.

Rose previously won gold in the Downhill event at the World Cup in Sestriere on January 30, 2010.

Rose will now compete in the Super-G and Super Combined events at the World Cup Finals. A total of 105 athletes from 17 different countries are competing in Aspen until March 5, and the Finals are the last competition of the 2009/2010 IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup season.

ParalympicsGB will send a team of seven skiers and five wheelchair curlers to the Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver. The Games begin on March 12, and run until March 21.