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Who are the top ten all time best British ski racers?

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nbt, that list was just Olympics, not WC. That 2nd is obviously the best individual result in alpine racing (excluding speed skiing Wink ).

For WC standings, this FIS page gives filtered output for overall standings, year by year, but there doesn't seem to be a way for looking at tabulated historical individual performances grouped by nationality.
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GrahamN, thanks for clarifying, I did wonder Smile
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If we are going for ´future´talent, then its Ed Drake, check out the amount fo WC guys he beat at Reiteralm earlier this month. Very Happy
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....Don't forget Dave "Rocket" Ryding for future talent!!! Very Happy
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What about David Lilly? He finished 5th in the 1987 Austrian Champs...with a start number of 227!
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As this thread has recently been bumped, I just thought I'd mention that the first Wengen Lauberhorn combined (ie downhill and slalom) winner in 1930 was Bill Bracken . Unfortunately, the British haven't been too successful in the Lauberhorn races since then. Madeye-Smiley
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I'd say Divina Galicia, She competed in the Winter Olympics for Britain in 1964 in Innsbruck, in 1968 in Grenoble and in 1972 in Sapporo, and in the latter two occasions was the captain of the British team, furthermore she returned to the Winter Olympics in 1992 and competed for Britain in the speed skiing event. She held the British Speed Skiing Record of 125mph from 1995 until 2007 when it was broken by just 1mph by Caitlin Tovar who sadly died just a couple of days later, Divina managed 2 World Cup Podiums in Downhill plus 6 DH top 10's, 9 GS Top 10's and even a Slalom top 10, In The winter Olympics in Grenoble in 1968 she managed a very creditable 8th in GS, at the World Championships in 1970 she managed a 10th place also in GS and in 1972 at Sapporo she managed to achive 7th in GS and 15th in Slalom.

By the way her best year was probably 1968 where the FIS ranked her 11th overall female skier, 6th in DH and 10th in GS
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and after that (or perhaps at the same time) she drove race cars to a very high standard, driving then current F1 cars against the then F! drivers, but in non championship FIA sanctioned races....quite a gal!
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rungsp, and then a career in truck racing...
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and didn't she have a go at land speed record once? Or am I imagining that?
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Emily Sarsfield ... seems like she may be one to watch!
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letelemarker, fingers crossed Very Happy
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I think Emily was the first ever British female skier to win a Europa Cup... Not bad going!
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letelemarker, good luck to her but you're getting carried away - she finished 32nd in the world last year in skier cross. There were only 45 skiers ranked.
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She finished 14th in World Cup last season
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letelemarker, no 32nd. She did finish 14th in a World Cup race (Grindelwald) and she was 19th in the World Championships. Currently ranked 30th on the FIS points list for skier cross.
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A 14th finish in World Cup is a good result in my eyes!
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Alain Baxter but for a levo rotated bloody inhaler would have won an olympic medal, slalom where turns count and he was the best Brit I've ever seen turn a ski.
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Some stats on British xc skiers in the olympics. The best (on % behind winner) is our present leading xc skier Andrew Musgrave, with Andrew Young in 8th place who is probably our no 2 xc skier at the moment. Which makes Mussy our best xc skier ever.



Olympics Year Athlete Distance Style Time Time behind % behind Rank of winner winner British Olympians
Vancouver 2010 Andrew Musgrave 15k Free 36:32.4 02:56.1 8.73% 1
Calgary 1988 John Spotswood 15k Classic 45:47.3 04:28.4 10.83% 2
Vancouver 2010 Andrew Musgrave 1.5k Sprint Classic 03:58.4 00:23.9 11.12% 3
Vancouver 2010 Andrew Musgrave 30k Pursuit 24:07.9 08:56.5 11.89% 4
Albertville 1992 Dave Belam 25k Pursuit 13:48.0 08:10.2 12.45% 5
Squaw Val 1960 John Moore 15k Classic 58:35.0 06:39.5 12.82% 6
Sarajevo 1984 Mark Moore 30k Classic 40:22.2 11:25.9 12.85% 7
Vancouver 2010 Andrew Young 1.5k Sprint Classic 04:02.2 00:27.6 12.87% 8
Albertville 1992 Dave Belam 30k Classic 33:15.6 10:47.8 13.09% 9
Sarajevo 1984 John Spotswood 15k Classic 46:53.7 05:28.1 13.20% 10
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So much for the table code!!
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Alain Baxter
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Surely for consistency it has to be Martin Bell. Can you imagine us having a downhill racer at the moment constantly pushing for top 10 places ?
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It must be Esme Mackinnon she won gold in both the Slalom and Downhill events at FIS Alpine World Ski Championships Toofy Grin
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livetoski, in 1931 but, yeah.
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I think David Ryding has a lot of potential
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