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Marilyn Cochran Brown (born February 5, 1950 in Burlington, Vermont) is a former Alpine ski racer and World Cup champion. In 1969, she became the first American to win a discipline championship in the World Cup, triumphing in giant slalom. The next year, she won a bronze medal in the combined at the World Championships.
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Marilyn Cochran was the oldest child of the "Skiing Cochrans". She and her younger sister Barbara Cochran joined the U.S. Ski Team in 1967, the first season of the World Cup, and both competed until 1974. She was a three-time American national champion during her career. In the 1969 World Cup, she finished second in five straight giant slaloms and won the discipline championship, the first American to win a discipline title and the only American to do so before 1980. The next year, she won the bronze medal in the combined at the World Championships in Val Gardena, Italy, just edging her sister Barbara but giving the Cochran family two medals when Barbara won a silver in the slalom.
During her World Cup career, which ended at age 24, Marilyn Cochran won three World Cup races, two in giant slalom and one in slalom. She had 14 top-three finishes and 53 top-10 finishes. She also competed in the 1972 Winter Olympics, and the World Championships in 1974, finishing eighth in giant slalom. Cochran skied for the Madonna Mountain Ski Club and attended the University of Vermont.[1]
After her skiing career, Cochran married Chris Brown, who had been an All-American skier at the University of Vermont and eventually became a professor of mechanical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Their son Roger Brown, who graduated from Dartmouth College in 2004, was also an All-American, was the 2002 NCAA slalom champion and competed on the U.S. Ski Team. Their younger son Douglas Brown was captain of the ski team at St. Lawrence University, from where he graduated in 2009.[1]
| Season | Discipline |
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| 1969 | Giant Slalom |
3 total wins (1 slalom, 2 giant slalom)
| Date | Location | Race |
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| 13 February 1971 | Mont St. Anne | Slalom |
| 26 January 1973 | Chamonix | Giant slalom |
| 15 March 1973 | Naeba | Giant slalom |