Dave Ryding

David Ryding

David Ryding

March 2010
Personal information
Born (1986-12-05) 5 December 1986
Bretherton, England
Alma mater Runshaw College
Bishop Rawstorne Church of England Academy[1]
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight 163 lb (74 kg)[2]
Website daverydingski.co.uk
Sport
Country Great Britain
Sport Alpine skiing
Club Kandahar Ski Club[3]

David "Dave" Ryding (born 5 December 1986) is a World Cup alpine ski racer from Great Britain and specializes in slalom. He has competed in two Olympics, four World Championships, and won the Europa Cup. His best World Cup result is a runner-up in the slalom in Kitzbühel, his sole podium.

Career

Born in Bretherton, England, Ryding started competing on dry ski slopes at the age of eight and first skied on snow aged 12. His younger sister Joanna was also a competitive skier who won several FIS Races before retiring after a crash in 2011. He started competing on the Europa Cup in 2007 and made his World Cup debut in December 2009.[4][5] Ryding competed for Great Britain at the 2010 Winter Olympics.[6] His best result was a 27th place in slalom.[7] His first points in the FIS World Cup were taken in the opening slalom race of the 2013 season, a 26th place in Levi, Finland in November 2012.[8]

In the final Europa Cup slalom of the 2013 season at Kranjska Gora, Ryding needed a solid result to win the season long Europa Cup slalom competition. In 27th place after the first run, he posted the fastest time in run 2 to finish ninth and secured the season title. Ryding was the first British skier to win the season title at the Alpine Skiing European second-tier.[9] He competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, finishing 17th in the slalom at Rosa Khutor.[10]

He scored his second points finish in a World Cup slalom in Åre in December 2014, finishing 17th - the best World Cup result for a British alpine skier since Chemmy Alcott finished in the same position in a race at Garmisch in March 2010,[11] and repeated the feat with a 16th place in the Madonna di Campiglio slalom later that month and 24th, 25th and 28th positions in the Adelboden, Wengen and Schladming slaloms in January 2015.[3] Ryding finished the 2015 season in 30th place in the slalom standings.[12]

Ryding started his campaign in the 2016 season with a new personal best at the season's first slalom competition in Val-d'Isère, where he finished 12th.[3] He went on to qualify for the second run in every World Cup slalom up to the penultimate round in Kranjska Gora and became the fourth Briton in the history of the World Cup to qualify for the World Cup Finals, after Alain Baxter, Finlay Mickel and Alcott.[13][14] He finished 22nd in the slalom final standings.[15]

In the first slalom of the 2017 season in Levi, Ryding finished sixth after holding fourth place after the first run. This was his first top ten finish in a World Cup race and the best result for a British alpine ski racer since Baxter took a fourth place in Åre in 2001.[16] He followed it up with a second top ten finish at the Snow King Trophy race in Zagreb in January 2017, where he placed seventh.[17]

Later that month, Ryding gained his first World Cup podium, and a British record in the Hahnenkamm slalom on the Ganslernhang at Kitzbühel: after holding the lead after the first run, he finished in second place, behind Austrian Marcel Hirscher and ahead of his training partner Aleksandr Khoroshilov. Ryding became only the second British man to achieve a World Cup alpine podium, after Konrad Bartelski, who finished second in the Val Gardena downhill in 1981, and only the fourth Briton to take a World Cup podium (after Bartelski, Gina Hathorn and Divina Galica, who took top three finishes on the women's circuit in 1967 and 1968 respectively).[18] Ryding finished the season in eighth place in the World Cup slalom classification.[19]

World Cup results

Season standings

Season Age Overall Slalom Giant
slalom		 Super-G Downhill Combined
2013 26 136 51 — — — —
2014 27
2015 28 99 30 — — — —
2016 29 70 22 — — — —
2017 30 23 8 — — — —

Top ten finishes

Season Date Location Discipline Place
2017 13 Nov 2016 Finland Levi, Finland Slalom 6th
5 Jan 2017 Croatia Zagreb, Croatia Slalom 7th
22 Jan 2017 Austria Kitzbühel, Austria Slalom 2nd
24 Jan 2017 Austria Schladming, Austria Slalom 10th
31 Jan 2017 Sweden Stockholm, Sweden City Event 4th
19 Mar 2017 United States Aspen, United States Slalom 8th

World Championship results

  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 slalom  		Super-G Downhill Combined
2009 22 DNF1 41 — — —
2011 24 DNF1 39 — — —
2013 26 DNF2 — — — —
2015 28 DNF1 — — — —
2017 30 11 — — — —

Olympic results

  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 slalom  		Super-G Downhill Combined
2010 23 27 47 — — —
2014 27 17 — — — —

References

  1. ↑ Baybutt, Geraldine (30 December 2003). "David hopes to slay 'em on the Slalom". Lancashire Evening Post. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  2. ↑ "David Ryding". Team GB. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
  3. 1 2 3 "Ryding Dave - Biographie". Federation Internationale de Ski. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
  4. ↑ Riezinger, Birgit (15 February 2017). "David Ryding: Great Expectations". DerStandard.at (in German). Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  5. ↑ Reiter, Barbara (11 February 2017). "Dave Ryding: "Vielleicht habe ich mich unterschätzt"" [Dave Ryding: "Perhaps I underestimated myself"]. Kurier (in German). Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  6. ↑ "Profile". Vancouver 2010. Archived from the original on 8 April 2010. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
  7. ↑ "Men's Slalom Results". Vancouver 2010. Archived from the original on 8 April 2010. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
  8. ↑ "FIS Slalom Results Levi". Retrieved 13 November 2012.
  9. ↑ "Alpine Skiing World Cup". Fis-Ski. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
  10. ↑ "Dave’s still Ryding high after ‘kicking’". Lancashire Telegraph. 24 February 2014. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  11. ↑ "Dave Ryding secures best British racing result in almost 5 years". Ski Club of Great Britain. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  12. ↑ "Cup standings". Federation Internationale de Ski. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  13. ↑ "Ryding reaches World Cup Finals". British Ski & Snowboard. 8 March 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  14. ↑ M, Neil (6 March 2016). "JOB DONE! Ryding heads to St Moritz and the World Cup Finals". racer-ready.co.uk. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  15. ↑ "Cup standings". Federation Internationale de Ski. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  16. ↑ "World Cup slalom: Britain's Dave Ryding records career-best result". bbc.co.uk. 13 November 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
  17. ↑ "Moelgg enjoys first World Cup slalom win in almost eight years, GB’s Ryding secures top-ten finish". Eurosport. 5 January 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  18. ↑ "Dave Ryding records Britain's best alpine World Cup result for 35 years". bbc.co.uk. 22 January 2017. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  19. ↑ Mahon, Joe (20 March 2017). "Double medal weekend caps outstanding season for British skiing". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
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