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With the sixth place in the Slalom Levi, the thirty year old from Lancashire get the best result among the narrow piles of Britain in the last 15 years.
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Better than him in the men's field, has made only Alain Baxter for the 2000/01 season closed the season all''undicesimo place in the ranking of the World Cup specialties and whose best result, a fourth place in Are, was accompanied by three more performances in the top ten. By far the British ski masculine even reached the podium away December 13, 1981 with Konrad Bartelski second in Val Gardena.
Little known to the masses, Dave Ryding is far dall''essere a Carneades; has participated in the last two editions of the Olympic Games, finishing in seventeenth place the Slalom of Sochi, but above all it is imposed, first British, in the ranking of specialties of Europa Cup in 2013 and finished in second place in the next two years putting people behind as Kristoffersen or Mattias Hargin. Last season he played ten slalom World Cup scoring points in nine.
The sixth of Levi, after closing the first round in fourth place, is not a bolt from the blue although Ryding, visibly pleased after the race, admits both an upset: "I'm ecstatic. Sure that no one expected a British in the first six! I was skiing well in training but I went better than I could expect. I had to worry about keeping the concentration before the second race, I was aiming to get into the 15 and sixth place is outstanding. "
At the base of his choice for skiing, unusual for a subject of Elizabeth, a family of enthusiasts, "If I wanted to go on vacation with my parents I had to learn to ski. I started to take two lessons a week but because it amused me, I had the 'competitive spirit "in mind. For the 'Dave teenager it became the second home Samoëns, a ski resort dell''alta French Savoie, whereas now its base is in Austria where he spends much of his time between races. Year after year, workout after workout, Ryding is now in the twenty-first position in the world ranking and you can bet that we will hear about him.
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Slalom Male Levi (FIN)
HIRSCHER Marcel
MATT Michael
MÖLGG Manfred
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