David Ryding

David "Dave" Ryding ( born December 5, 1986 in Chorley, Lancashire ) is a British ski racer. He starts mainly in the technical disciplines slalom and giant slalom, four times British Champion and is since 2009 at World Championships and Olympic Games, as well as sporadically in the World Cup at the start.

Biography

Ryding lives in Bretherton in Lancashire. He played eight years old when his first ski race on artificial slopes and ran the first race at the age of 12 years on snow. In April 2002, he first participated in FIS competitions. In 2006 he was accepted British junior champion in slalom and giant slalom and in the British ski team. Ryding won in April 2007, his first FIS races and starts since December of the same year in the European Cup. For the first time in the European Cup he could score in November 2008 with the seats 19 and 18 in the indoor slalom in Amneville and Landgraaf.

In the years 2008 and 2009 Ryding was British slalom champion. In February 2009, he participated in the World Championships in Val d'Isere, where he was 41st in the giant slalom, but did not finish in the slalom. On 21 December 2009, launched Ryding in the slalom in Alta Badia for the first time in the World Cup, but fell just as in his second start in the slalom in Zagreb on 6 January 2010 in the first round of. In February 2010 he took part in the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver as one of four British ski racers. He was in the slalom course with 27 of the best of his country and came in the giant slalom at 47th place at the World Championships 2011 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, he finished 39th in the giant slalom, while he did not finish the race in the slalom. At the end of the season 2011, he was the third time British Champion in slalom and giant slalom for the first time.

In December 2011, Ryding scored his first top - 10 finishes in the European Cup, when he was in San Vigilio and ninth in slalom in Madonna di Campiglio seventh in the City event. In the season 2011/2012 he also took part again in World Cup races, but came in any of his four slalom start in the second half. This, he succeeded to the start of the 2012/2013 season, when he ranked 26th in the slalom at Levi won his first World Cup points on 11 November, 2012. Five weeks later he scored the third place in the event of City San Vigilio his first podium in the European Cup. With three other podium finishes, he decided the slalom standings of the European Cup for themselves.

Achievements

Olympic Winter Games

  • Vancouver 2010: 27 Slalom, Giant Slalom 47
  • Sochi 2014: 17 Slalom

World Championships

  • Val d'Isere 2009: 41 Giant Slalom, Slalom excreted in
  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2011: 39 Giant Slalom, Slalom excreted in

World Cup

European Cup

  • Season 2012/13: 1 slalom standings, 10 Appreciation
  • 2013/14 season: 2nd slalom rating
  • 7 podiums, including one victory:

British Championships

  • British Champion in slalom in 2008, 2009 and 2011
  • British Champion in Giant Slalom 2011

Other successes

  • 2 podiums in Nor- Am Cup
  • 3 podiums in the South American Cup
  • 13 wins in FIS races
Slalom skiing 2013 Alpine Skiing World Cup Winter Olympic Games FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011 Levi, Finland Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics Italy
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