Ryan Cochran-Siegle missed out on gold at the 2022 Beijing Olympics by just 0.04 seconds. While Cochran-Siegel wasn’t quite as close in 2026, he did take silver again in the super-G.
This time, however, his performance was undoubtedly more impressive. Cochran-Siegle was the third skier to compete Wednesday with a time of 1 minute, 25.45 seconds.
While Cochrane-Siegel briefly led the race, a number of threats – including Switzerland’s Marco Odermatt – threatened to knock Cochrane-Siegel off the podium.
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It didn’t take long for the American’s results to drop, with Swiss Franjo von Allmen jumping into first place with a time of 1 minute, 25.32 seconds. However, as Odermatt approached, Cochrane-Siegel’s position was in jeopardy. Odermatt, who has won the World Cup super-G for the third consecutive year, is the favorite heading into Wednesday’s race. If Cochrane-Siegel’s skiing performs as everyone expected, he will drop to third place, while standouts such as Austria’s Raphael Hasse and Norway’s Adrian Smith-Segerstede will still miss out.
But Odermatt took a somewhat awkward turn midway through the race, causing him to lose pace for the gold medal. This seemed to make Odermatt lose interest in the game. After a strong first phase of the race, Odermatt lost more time after falling down midway and finally won the bronze medal in 1 minute 25.60 seconds.
That performance put Cochran-Siegel in a better position, with a few racers remaining. With Odermatt unable to beat Cochran-Siegel’s time, two other skiers needed to finish ahead of Cochran-Siegel to knock him off the podium.
While the odds are in his favor, that doesn’t guarantee Cochran-Siegel will medal. In addition to Haaser and Smiseth Sejersted, three other skiers – Austria’s Vincent Kriechmayr and Stefan Babinsky and Italy’s Dominik Paris – are ahead of Cochran-Siegle at the 2025 Super-G World Championships.
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Of the group, Hasse has dropped out of the medal conversation. He ran the course before Odermatt, with a time of 1 minute 25.89 seconds, which was not enough to win a medal.
With Hazell out, Cochran-Segal slowly watched the other major threats fizzle out. Smiseth Sejersted, Babinsky and Paris were no closer to the podium, and Kriechmayr was not a major threat, despite finishing in the top ten at one point.
With the field dwindling rapidly, Cochrane-Siegel’s place on the podium is clearly secure.
Allman’s position is also secure. He persevered and eventually won gold in the super-G. It was his third gold medal at the Milan Cortina Games, where Allmann finished first in the downhill and helped Switzerland win gold in the team all-around. Odermatt eventually held on and won the bronze medal.
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The medal is Cochran-Siegel’s second at the Olympics. He also narrowly lost to Matthias Mayer in the 2022 super-G in Beijing to win silver. Shockingly, Mayer retired later that year and did not compete in the 2026 Winter Olympics.
This story will be updated.