ninth January 2024
GB’s biggest alpine skier, Dave Ryding, can be again in motion on the traditional World Cup race assembly in Wengen this Sunday after a disappointing consequence final weekend. NEW
Ryding completed in twenty first place within the slalom at Adelboden, describing his efficiency as “fairly terrible” and saying he’ll strive for higher in Wengen.
However, regardless of failing to make the highest 20 in Adelboden, Ryding’s spectacular leads to the primary two races of the season imply he’s hanging on to 3rd place within the males’s slalom World Cup standings.
He was 4th within the opening race in his ‘house’ resort of Gurgl, Austria.
It adopted considered one of his well-known second run costs the place he shot up the leaderboard from fifteenth spot.
His mixed time over the 2 runs was simply a centesimal of a second off a podium place.
The Rocket adopted that up with a superb third within the evening slalom in Madonna di Campiglio within the Italian Dolomites.
It was his seventh World Cup podium.
So, the 37-year-old has had two nice outcomes and one not so good, by his excessive requirements.
His third place within the present slalom standings is precarious.
He’s only one level forward of Norwegian Timon Haugan who’s mendacity fourth and eight factors forward of one other Norwegian, Atle Lie McGrath in fifth.
It’s nonetheless early days.
There are 9 extra slalom races between now and the top of the season.
They embrace Kitzbühel, a really completely happy looking floor for Ryding.
He has podiumed on the Hahnenkamm thrice, making sporting historical past in January 2022 together with his memorable victory.
Dave Ryding wins the Kitzbühel Hahnenkamm slalom, January 2022. Picture © Juergen Klecha
Three days after Kitzbühel there’s the Schladming evening slalom.
PlanetSKI plans to be among the many tens of hundreds of spectators within the Austrian resort to expertise the spectacle.
If you wish to know simply how particular the ambiance is, have a learn of this text by the PlanetSKI editor, James Cove, who was there in 2020.
However earlier than all that’s one other particular race weekend.
The Lauberhorn races within the Swiss resort of Wengen are finest identified for the velocity occasions, with the boys’s Tremendous G on Friday and Downhill on Saturday.
Ryding – together with fellow Brits Billy Main and Laurie Taylor – can be in motion within the slalom on Sunday.
Race Information:
It begins at 1,475m altitude on the Innerwengen mountain station on the Allmend.The utmost gradient is 36°The bottom gradient is 2°The common gradient is 17.2°The course is roughly 644 metres longThe top distinction is 190 metres
Ryding’s finest lead to Wengen thus far is eighth in 2019.
He was twenty first final 12 months.
Everybody at PlanetSKI can be cheering him on for an amazing consequence on Sunday and for the remainder of the season.
Remaining Males’s Slalom World Cups:
14 January – Wengen21 January – Kitzbühel24 January – Schladming4 February – Chamonix11 February – Bansko25 February – Palisades Tahoe3 March – Aspen10 March – Kranjska Gora16 March – Saalbach (WC Finals)
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