Ryan Semple

Ryan Semple
nation	Canada
birthday	October 21, 1982
place of birth	Montreal
size	183 cm
Weight	86 kg
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom , super-G , downhill , combination
society	Mont Tremblant Ski Club
status	resigned
End of career	October 2012
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut December 10, 2001  Overall World Cup 100th ( 2009/10 )  Giant Slalom World Cup 53rd ( 2005/06 )  Slalom World Cup 38th ( 2004/05 )  Combination World Cup 26th ( 2010/11 )

Ryan Semple (born October 21, 1982 in Montreal , Québec ) is a former Canadian ski racer who was particularly successful in the disciplines of slalom and super combined , initially also in giant slalom . He won the giant slalom classification in the Nor-Am Cup in the 2004/05 season , was among the top 20 three times in the World Cup and took part in three World Championships and two Olympic Winter Games.

biography

Semple learned to ski at the age of three and won his first race at the age of six. From the age of eleven he trained at the Mont-Tremblant Ski Club. He contested the first FIS races in December 1997 and individual starts in the Nor-Am Cup followed from February 1998 . From January 2000 he started regularly in the North American racing series and achieved his first podium in the slalom of Osler Bluff on March 9, 2000 . In the same year he was accepted into the Canadian national team.

On December 10, 2001 Semple made his World Cup debut in the slalom of Madonna di Campiglio . However, he failed in the first round and did not achieve any countable result in his few other World Cup starts in the next few years. The next podium in the Nor-Am Cup he achieved on January 5, 2003 in the slalom of Sunday River , which he finished seventh in the 2002/03 season in the slalom classification. In February 2003 he took part in the World Championships in St. Moritz and was 34th in slalom, but failed in giant slalom. He celebrated his first victory in the Nor-Am Cup on January 5, 2004 in the giant slalom on Sunday River. With another podium the next day he reached third place in the giant slalom classification in the 2003/04 season .

At the beginning of the 2004/05 season, Semple won his first World Cup points as the 25th of the Beaver Creek slalom . Two weeks later, on December 22nd, 2004, he achieved 16th place in the Flachau slalom, his best World Cup result for a long time. At the 2005 World Championships in Bormio , he reached 15th place in the giant slalom, but failed in the slalom. In the Nor-Am Cup he won the giant slalom ranking in the 2004/05 season without a win but with four second places and was fourth in the overall classification.

In the 2005/06 season Semple concentrated largely on the World Cup and started in the disciplines of slalom, giant slalom and super combination. However, due to many failures, he only achieved the points in three races. But he came to the team for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , where he failed both in the giant slalom and in the combination. From the next season on, Semple suffered from hip problems. In the World Cup he only started in the slalom and the super combination, but was only able to score in two super combinations. He finished the super combination of the 2007 World Cup in Åre in 19th position.

In April 2007 Semple underwent hip surgery, but had to take a two-month break in the 2008/09 season due to ongoing problems. In the winter of 2008/09 he was no longer part of the Canadian team due to a lack of good results and he had to do training and races at his own expense. Semple won two races in the Nor-Am Cup in the 2008/09 season and achieved second place in each of the slalom and super combination rankings with a further three podium places, making him a World Cup fixed starting place for the next season in these disciplines secured. These achievements were recognized by the Canadian Ski Association, but his return to the national team had to buy because he had already exceeded the age limit and had no World Cup points.

In the 2009/10 season Semple started again in the World Cup, although he only made it into the points twice, he achieved his best ever World Cup result with eleventh place in the combination of Kitzbühel . At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , he was the best Canadian in 15th place in the super combined. Also in 2011 Semple finished eleventh in the Kitzbühel Combined. A few days later, however, the 2010/11 season was over for him. During training for the World Cup descent in Chamonix , he suffered ligament injuries in his knee at the end of January. In the 2011/12 season, Semple again took part in Nor-Am and World Cup races until he had a serious fall on January 13, 2012 in the downhill of the super combined from Wengen . He then did not contest any more races and announced his retirement in October 2012.

successes

winter Olympics

• Turin 2006 : eliminated in giant slalom and combined
• Vancouver 2010 : 15th super combination

World championships

• St. Moritz 2003 : 34th slalom, eliminated in giant slalom
• Bormio 2005 : 15th giant slalom, eliminated in slalom
• Åre 2007 : 19th super combination

World cup

• 3 placements among the top 20

Nor-Am Cup

• 2002/03 season : 7th slalom
• 2003/04 season : 3rd giant slalom
• 2004/05 season : 4th overall ranking, 1st giant slalom
• 2008/09 season : 6th overall ranking, 2nd slalom, 2nd super combination
• 14 podium places, including 3 wins:

date	place	country	discipline
January 5, 2004	Sunday River	United States	Giant slalom
December 16, 2008	panorama	Canada	Super combination
January 7, 2009	Sunday River	United States	slalom

Junior World Championships

• Québec 2000 : 10th slalom, 40th giant slalom
• Verbier 2001 : 5th slalom, 19th giant slalom, 27th Super-G
• Tarvisio 2002 : 24th slalom, 17th combination, 35th descent

More Achievements

• 2 Canadian championship titles (combination 2004, super combination 2010)
• 16 victories in FIS races (13 × slalom, 2 × giant slalom, 1 × Super-G)

Web links

• Website for Ryan Semple (English)
• Ryan Semple in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Ryan Semple in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Ryan Semple in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile at the Canadian Ski Association ( Memento from October 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Uphill racer - Injuries and a lack of funding not enough to keep skier from his second Winter Games. Martin Cleary, The Ottawa Citizen, February 7, 2010, accessed March 18, 2010.
2. ↑ Big worries before the World Ski Championships: The Ösis are running out of drivers. Blick.ch , January 31, 2011, accessed on March 21, 2011.
3. ↑ Guay ready for Wengen downhill, Hélie, Semple did not finish super combined. ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Alpine Canada, January 13, 2012, accessed December 4, 2012. 
4. ↑ Canadian skier Semple Announces retirement. ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. sportsnet.ca, October 26, 2012, accessed December 4, 2012.