Marilyn Cochran made her World Cup debut at age 18 in March 1968, a month after the Winter Olympics, with a pair of top ten finishes at the season's final stop in Aspen, Colorado.
11 Facts About Marilyn Cochran
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Marilyn Cochran was a three-time US national champion during her career.
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Marilyn Cochran was the only American alpine racer with a World Cup season title until 1980, when Phil Mahre won the combined.
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Marilyn Cochran won the bronze medal in the combined at the 1970 World Championships in Val Gardena, Italy.
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Marilyn Cochran won three World Cup races, two in giant slalom and one in slalom, and had 15 podiums and fifty top ten finishes.
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Marilyn Cochran competed in all three events at the Winter Olympics in 1972 in Japan, but with disappointing results: 28th in downhill, 20th in giant slalom, and a fall in the first run of the slalom, the race won by her sister.
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At the World Championships in 1974 in Switzerland, Marilyn Cochran finished eighth in giant slalom, and retired from international competition after the season.
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Marilyn Cochran married Chris Brown, an All-American racer at the university and later a professor of mechanical engineering at WPI.
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Marilyn Cochran was the 2002 NCAA slalom champion and competed on the US Ski Team.
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Marilyn Cochran was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 1978.
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Marilyn Cochran joined her siblings Barbara and Bob as members of the Vermont Sports Hall of Fame in 2014.