Alpine skiing
Representing Great Britain
Paralympic Games
	2014 Sochi	Downhill, visually impaired
	2014 Sochi	Slalom, visually impaired
	2014 Sochi	Combined, visually impaired
	2014 Sochi	Super-G, visually impaired
IPC World Championships
	2013 La Molina	Women's Super G

Jade Etherington (born 9 March 1991) is a British former alpine skier who, with her sighted guide Caroline Powell, won silver in the women's downhill skiing, combined and slalom, and bronze medals in the Super-G at the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games in Sochi. Their three silvers and a bronze at the Winter Paralympics made them the most successful female British Winter Paralympians of all time, and the first Britons to win four medals at one Paralympics. Because of her success at the 2014 Paralympics, Etherington was the British flagbearer at the 2014 Winter Paralympics closing ceremony.

Etherington has only five percent vision in both eyes and competes in the visually impaired category. Because of her impairment she requires a sighted guide, Caroline Powell. The pair have competed together since August 2013. After asking for a new guide through Facebook and after two other applicants pulled out, Etherington and Powell combined in April 2013.

Etherington was born in Chelmsford on 9 March 1991, to Amber, a Braintree District Council employee, and Andrew, a stockbroker. They lived in The Causeway, Maldon, but when Jade was seven they moved to Lincolnshire. She was born with glaucoma and Axenfeld syndrome, a visual impairment which can lead to blindness. She inherited it from her mother, Amber, who lost her sight at 14. Her three younger sisters also have the condition. Despite undergoing multiple surgeries as a child, by the age of 17 she began to lose her sight. She describes her vision as "very blurry with little focus", and she has a recorded five percent vision in both eyes, which puts her in the B2 classification.

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