34 Facts About Dave Ryding

David Ryding was born on 5 December 1986 and is an English World Cup alpine ski racer who specialises in slalom.

Dave Ryding's best World Cup result was a victory in 2022 Kitzbuhel slalom, the first victory for any British athlete at that level in Alpine skiing.

Dave Ryding's younger sister Joanna was a competitive skier who won several FIS Races before retiring after a crash in 2011.

Dave Ryding started competing on the Europa Cup in 2007 and made his World Cup debut in December 2009.

Dave Ryding won his first British national senior title in 2008, defeating Alain Baxter, who was competing in his final British championships and whom Ryding described as his role model during his teenage years.

Dave Ryding competed for Great Britain at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Dave Ryding's best result was a 27th place in slalom.

Dave Ryding was the first British skier to win the season title at the Alpine Skiing European second-tier.

Dave Ryding competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, finishing 17th in the slalom at Rosa Khutor.

Dave Ryding 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.

Dave Ryding finished the 2015 season in 30th place in the slalom standings.

Dave Ryding started his campaign in the 2016 season with a new personal best at the season's first slalom competition in Val-d'Isere, where he finished 12th.

Dave Ryding 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.

Dave Ryding finished the season 22nd in the slalom final standings.

Dave Ryding followed it up with a second top ten finish at the Snow King Trophy race in Zagreb in January 2017, where he placed seventh.

Later that month, Dave Ryding gained his first World Cup podium, and a British record in the Hahnenkamm slalom on the Ganslernhang at Kitzbuhel: 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.

Dave 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.

Dave Ryding went on to finish 11th in the slalom at the 2017 World Championships in St Moritz, the best result for a British skier at a World Championships since 2005.

Dave Ryding finished the season in eighth place in the World Cup slalom classification.

At the 2018 season's opening slalom in Levi, Dave Ryding led the competition after the first run.

Later that month at the Kitzbuhel slalom, Dave Ryding struggled in the first run, placing 25th, but set the fastest time on the second run to climb up to ninth place.

At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyongchang, South Korea, Dave Ryding finished the first run of the slalom in 13th place before moving up to finish ninth after the second run, exactly half a second behind bronze medal winner Michael Matt.

Dave Ryding went on the finish the season 11th in the World Cup slalom standings.

Dave Ryding took one of the best World Cup results of his career so far in a slalom in Madonna di Campiglio in December 2018; after placing 27th in the first run, he set the fastest second run time to secure a fourth-placed finish.

Dave Ryding continued his good form at the Oslo parallel slalom on New Year's Day 2019, where he knocked out Hirscher in the quarter-finals for the second year running, before defeating reigning Olympic slalom champion Andre Myhrer in the semi-final.

Dave Ryding lost out in the final to Marco Schwarz after missing a gate, but his second place was the joint best World Cup result of his career so far along with his runner-up position in Kitzbuhel in 2017.

At the 2019 Alpine World Ski Championships, Dave Ryding scored a new Worlds personal best by finishing ninth in the slalom, setting the third fastest time on the second run.

Dave Ryding placed ninth in the slalom World Cup standings for the 2019 season.

Dave Ryding went on to take top ten finishes at Madonna di Campiglio, where he tied for seventh - his best result of the season and Schladming, where he finished eighth.

Dave Ryding opened his 2021 World Cup season at Alta Badia in December 2020, where he finished in tenth.

Dave Ryding took a third top ten finish of the season in Flachau later that month, finishing in seventh.

At the World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Dave Ryding crashed out of the first run of the slalom immediately after recording a deficit of 0.12 seconds to leader Adrian Pertl at the third intermediate time check, which would have placed Dave Ryding in second.

Dave Ryding took 12th place in the World Cup slalom standings for the season.

On 22 January 2022 Dave Ryding took his and Great Britain's first ever World Cup win, winning the slalom in Kitzbuhel on the Ganslernhang.