Ryan Cochran-Siegle (born March 27, 1992, nicknamed "RCS") is an American

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alpine ski racer and a member of the Skiing Cochrans family. Cochran-Siegle competes mainly in the speed disciplines, despite initially being a

giant slalom Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding competitive discipline. It involves racing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in Slalom skiing, slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant sl ...

specialist. He also races in combined. He made his World Cup debut on November 26,

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; his Olympic debut was in

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, and he was the silver medalist in the

Super-G Super giant slalom, or super-G, is a racing discipline of alpine skiing. Along with the faster downhill, it is regarded as a "speed" event, in contrast to the technical events giant slalom and slalom. It debuted as an official World Cup event ...

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Career

Ryan Cochran-Siegle - Pista Stelvio - Bormio 28

Cochran-Siegle learned to ski at around the age of two, being taught by his mother

Barbara Cochran Barbara Ann Cochran (born January 4, 1951) is a former FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup Alpine skiing, alpine ski racer and Winter Olympics, Olympic gold medalist from the United States. Born in Claremont, New Hampshire, Cochran was the secon ...

, gold medalist in the slalom at the

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. After the 2010 season, he joined the U.S. Development Team, and one year later, he was promoted to the National B Team. He was the Nor-Am Cup super-G champion in 2011 and took a bronze medal in the super-G at the U.S. national championships. Cochran-Siegle made his World Cup debut in November

at the Lake Louise downhill, but failed to finish. A week later in

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, he scored his first World Cup points in a super-G at Beaver Creek, finishing in 29th place.FIS World Cup - Men's Super-G - Beaver Creek (USA) - 03.12.2011

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In 2012, Cochran-Siegle won the Nor-Am downhill and super-G titles and two gold medals at the Junior World Championships, in downhill and combined. However, his progress was interrupted in 2013 when he suffered injuries to his anterior cruciate and

medial collateral ligament The medial collateral ligament (MCL), also called the superficial medial collateral ligament (sMCL) or tibial collateral ligament (TCL), is one of the major ligaments of the knee. It is on the medial (inner) side of the knee joint and occurs in ...

s during the downhill portion of the combined at the

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. He returned to competition in the 2014 season, winning the overall Nor-Am Cup; he was second in the downhill standings and third in the super-G and giant slalom standings. Cochran-Siegle took the 2015 season off to recover from a

lateral meniscus The lateral meniscus (external semilunar fibrocartilage) is a fibrocartilaginous band that spans the lateral side of the interior of the knee joint. It is one of two menisci of the knee, the other being the medial meniscus. It is nearly circular ...

transplant, then returned in the 2016 season, when he made his World Cup giant slalom debut and took his first World Cup point in GS with a 30th place at

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. He finished the season with good results at the national championships at Sun Valley, where he was runner-up in the super-G and giant slalom and fourth in the combined. In

, Cochran-Siegle was a member of the

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and competed in four events; his best result was eleventh in the

World Cup results

Race podiums

* 1 win (1 SG) * 3 podiums (2 DH, 1 SG), 29 top tens

World Championship results

Olympic results

References

External links

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Ryan Cochran-Siegle
at the U.S. Ski Team {{DEFAULTSORT:Cochran-Siegle, Ryan 1992 births American male alpine skiers Living people Skiers from Vermont Alpine skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the United States in alpine skiing Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics People from Burlington, Vermont 21st-century American sportsmen