David Ryding
 David Ryding | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born |
5 December 1986 Bretherton, England |
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
| Weight | 163 lb (74 kg)[1] |
| Sport | |
| Country | Great Britain |
| Sport | Alpine skiing |
| Club | Kandahar Ski Club[2] |
David Ryding (born 5 December 1986) is an alpine skier from Great Britain. He competed for Great Britain at the 2010 Winter Olympics.[3] His best result was a 27th place in slalom.[4] His first points in the FIS World Cup were taken in the opening slalom race of the 2012/13 season, a 26th place in Levi, Finland on 11 November 2012.[5]
In the final Europa Cup Slalom of the season, held on 11 March 2013 at Kranjska Gora, Ryding needed a solid result to win the season long Europa Cup slalom competition. After a 27th best time in run 1, he posted the fastest time in run 2 to finish 9th, thereby securing the title, and becoming the first British skier to win the season title at the Alpine Skiing European second-tier.[6] Ryding competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics, finishing 17th in the slalom.[7]
He scored his second World Cup points finish in a 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[8] - 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.[2] Ryding finished the 2015 Alpine Skiing World Cup in 30th place in the slalom standings.[9]
Ryding started his campaign in the 2016 Alpine Skiing World Cup with a new personal best at the season's first slalom competition in Val-d'Isère, where he finished 12th.[2] 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 British skier in the history of the World Cup to qualify for the World Cup Finals, after Alain Baxter, Finlay Mickel and Chemmy Alcott.[10][11] He went on to finish 22nd in the slalom World Cup for the season.[12]
In the first slalom of the 2017 Alpine Skiing World Cup 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 skier since Alain Baxter took a fourth place in Åre in 2001.[13]
World Cup results
Season standings
| Season | Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 25 | 136 | 51 | — | — | — | — |
| 2015 | 27 | 99 | 30 | — | — | — | — |
References
- ↑ "David Ryding". Team GB. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
- 1 2 3 "Ryding Dave - Biographie". Federation Internationale de Ski. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
- ↑ "Profile". Vancouver 2010. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
- ↑ "Men's Slalom Results". Vancouver 2010. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
- ↑ "FIS Slalom Results Levi". Retrieved 13 November 2012.
- ↑ "Alpine Skiing World Cup". Fis-Ski. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
- ↑ "Dave's still Ryding high after 'kicking'". Lancashire Telegraph. 24 February 2014. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
- ↑ "Dave Ryding secures best British racing result in almost 5 years". Ski Club of Great Britain. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
- ↑ "Cup standings". Federation Internationale de Ski. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
- ↑ "Ryding reaches World Cup Finals". British Ski & Snowboard. 8 March 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Cup standings". Federation Internationale de Ski. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
- ↑ "World Cup slalom: Britain's Dave Ryding records career-best result". bbc.co.uk. 13 November 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2016.