Marilyn Cochran
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| Disciplines | Downhill, Giant Slalom, Slalom, Combined | ||||||||||||
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| Club | University of Vermont | ||||||||||||
| Born |
February 7, 1950 Burlington, Vermont, U.S. |
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| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||||||||||||
| World Cup debut | March 1968 (age 18) | ||||||||||||
| Retired | March 1974 (age 24) | ||||||||||||
| Olympics | |||||||||||||
| Teams | 1 – (1972) | ||||||||||||
| Medals | 0 | ||||||||||||
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| Teams | 3 – (1970, 1972, 1974) includes Olympics |
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| Medals | 1 (0 gold) | ||||||||||||
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| Seasons | 6 – (1969–74) | ||||||||||||
| Wins | 3 – (1 GS, 2 SL) | ||||||||||||
| Podiums | 15 – (9 GS, 6 SL) | ||||||||||||
| Overall titles | 0 – (8th in 1973) | ||||||||||||
| Discipline titles | 1 – (GS, 1969) | ||||||||||||
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Marilyn Cochran Brown (born February 5, 1950) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States.
The eldest of four siblings of the "Skiing Cochrans" family of Richmond, Vermont, she became the first American to win a discipline championship in the World Cup, triumphing in giant slalom at age 19 in 1969. The next year, she won a bronze medal in the combined at the World Championships.
Born in Burlington, Vermont, Cochran and her younger sister Barbara (b.1951) joined the U.S. Ski Team in 1967. She made her World Cup debut at age 18 in March 1968, a month after the Winter Olympics, with a pair of top ten finishes at the season's final stop in Aspen, Colorado. Brother Bob (b. 1951) joined the men's "A team" for the 1970 season and the three siblings competed on the World Cup tour through the 1974 season.
Marilyn was a three-time U.S. national champion during her career. In the 1969 season, she finished runner-up in the final five giant slalom races and won the World Cup season title. Cochran was the only American alpine racer with a World Cup season title until 1980, when Phil Mahre won the combined. She won the bronze medal in the combined at the 1970 World Championships in Val Gardena, Italy. Sister Barbara was fourth in that competition, but won a silver in the slalom, where Marilyn was sixth.
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