Ryding seals best British World Championships result since 1934

Two in top-20 as Brits impress in Saalbach

Dave Ryding secured Britain’s best Men’s Alpine World Championships result for more than 90 years with a stunning sixth place in today’s Slalom World Championship race in Saalbach.

13th at the turn, Ryding’s second run combined the Brit’s trademark technical skill and racing instinct, putting down a marker than only five could better and delivering the sixth fastest second run in the field in the process.

Skiing in his ninth World Championships, Britain’s greatest Alpine skier proved his pre-race assertion that he felt able to deliver a best ever World Championships performance correct, and once again showed that he belongs among the world’s pre-eminent Alpine skiers.

Earlier, Britain had qualified three racers in the top-30 after excellent first run performances from Ryding, Laurie Taylor, and Billy Major, with the latter proving fourth fastest in the second run field to move up ten places from 25th to a final position of 15th. Taylor, meanwhile, was unfortunate to record an early DNF in his second run.

The races concluded an epic Championships which saw a swathe of outstanding performances, with Roy-Alexander Steudle impressing in the Speed events, before Ryding, Major, Taylor, alongside Reece Bell and Vici Palla achieved historic results in the concluding weekend’s Slalom action.